The Smurfs are the titular main protagonists of the franchise of the same name.
Biography[]
The original name of the Smurfs in French is Schtroumpfs. Their name in Spanish came to Miguel Agustí, editor-in-chief of Strong magazine, where they were published for the first time in Spanish in 1969. For more than a month, he was looking for a name that could be conjugated until he remembered the character of Patufet, emblematic figure of Catalan folklore (and the name of a famous prewar children's magazine in Catalan) .2 Hence the name Los Pitufos, which would remain in the following Spanish versions2 (except in TBO, where they appeared briefly in the middle of the 70 renamed as Los Tebeítos).
The Smurfs made their appearance, as strict secondary, in the episode La Flûte à Six schtroumpfs, published in numbers 1047 to 1086 of the weekly Le Journal de Spirou, from the Johan and Pirluit series. In this episode, Pirlouit finds a magic flute that is later stolen from him and, needing to get another one, the wizard Homnibus sends the two friends to an unknown land, the Cursed Country, where the Smurfs live. In La Guerre des Sept Fontaines (1959), Peyo reintroduced the Smurfs in a prudent but anecdotal way. The Smurfs had a great success and with The Black Smurfs they inaugurated in July of that year a collection of mini-stories included with "Le Journal de Spirou".
In January 1960, La Flûte à Six Trous was released as an album entitled "La Flûte à Six Schtroumpfs" ("The Flute of the Six Smurfs"), proof of market trends.4 Peyo believed he could do without them in the next episode of Johan and Pirlouit, L'Anneau des Castellac, started in August of that year, 5 but the experiment was not satisfactory, since the sales of the episodes "with smurfs" exceeded those of "without smurfs ", as the editor pointed out. In Johan and Pirlouit's twelfth episode, Le Pays Maudit (1964), the Smurfs are omnipresent in the story, from beginning to end. They had become so popular that they would cause the almost total disappearance of "Johan et Pirlouit", due to its creator's lack of time to devote himself entirely to it. However, it was not until 1963, with the Smurf cartoon in C, that the Smurfs began to appear serially in "Spirou", as well as in publicity albums.
Trivia[]
- The average ordinary Smurf's age in human years ranges 18-35 age
- The phrase that a Smurf "is three apples tall" is actually a literal translation of the French idiom "Haut comme trois pommes", which means "Little person". In real life, a Smurf is most likely 7.5 inches tall.
- Unlike female Smurfs, all male Smurfs are bald.
- In the comic book, in the Smurfs' statements, the word "Smurf" is used so often that it can usually be found in every sentence and word spoken by a Smurf. To prevent the dialogues from being incomprehensible to young viewers, the use of this word has been limited in the television series .
- (Except Glammy, Marco, and Nat) None of the Smurfs have a real name
- In comic book and series in 2021 year, favorites food smurf' is sarsaparilla, but in cartoon in 1981 age, their favorites food is blueberries (in the language of the Smurfs blackberries).
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