Have a Very Smurfy Day
Written by Suzanne on March 18, 2010There’s a lot of smurfy news out on the intertubes these days. Looks like the 80’s animated series The Smurfs will be smurfing onto the big screen in 2011.
According to IMDb.com, Smurfs is in production now. The site lists actors Quentin Tarantino as Brainy Smurf, and Jonathan Winters as Papa Smurf. Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays play a couple set to have their first child when things get smurfy after they meet the little blue characters in Central Park.
George Lopez, and Katy Perry are rumored to have roles in the film. All together now, “I kissed a Smurf and I liked it.”
The role of Gargamel goes to Hank Azaria. He cracked me up as Kahmunrah in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Did you know that The Smurfs originated in 1958 as a comic strip by Belgian comic artist Pierre Culliford, also known as Peyo?
I have to admit I thought The Smurfs were born in the early 80’s just like Pac Man but it’s nice to know they have a cultured history.
From comics to animated series to Smurf toys in Target and now a movie in production. The collective conscious is smurfing blue. Enough of the Smurf language I know.
Let’s take a trip back to Smurf Village circa 1981. Poor Smurfette, she’s only three apples tall, blond and the only Smurfette in the whole village. Spring, or shall we say Smurfette Fever:
Visit the Official Smurfs site appropriately called smurf.com
Posted in Pop Culture
March 18th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Hey it’s the smurfs!
I haven’t watched the smurfs in a long time, but what I remember the smurfs is that they were fun to look at. They really didn’t need a plot or characters or anything, just them walking around would have been enough to entertain my young mind.
March 18th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
The Smurfs actually first appeared in another comic strip that Peyo did called Johan and Pewit about a prince and his squire that rode around the country side in serach for adventure. The Smurfs in their strip were so popular that they eventually got their own comic strip, and eventually replaced Johan and Pewit. Oddly enough, Peyo always considered Johan and Pewit his greatest creations.
Johan and Pewit was eventually worked into the Smurf cartoon as Johan and Pee Wee.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:18 am
@petemayo Smurftastic!
@Sam Tweedle thanks for the Peyo, Johan and Pee Wee info.
March 26th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Smurfs! When I was little, there was tis amazing dark ride that featured the Smurfs at King’s Island. It was so awesome. I miss it!