Don't you care about smurfs?

Also, wasn't she really butch (for a Smurf, which means on the Girly-o-meter she registered an 8 compared to Smurfette's 10 and Brainy's 500)?

there's a group of people in toronto putting little smurf figurines in the underground path in t.o, to cheer up the place and give direction (i think they're colour coded for north, east, south and west) i haven't seen any yet though.

Has anyone seen the original comic strip (from Belgium?) it was based on?

OMG!

Does my memory fail, or was there also a black (I mean ink-black, not of African descent) Smurf who was evil in the cartoon?

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I do remember The Black Smurfs! I read it as a little boy growing up. However, it was in French. There was a small section of my school library that had Dupuis comics (which were hardcover, so they're not really "comics"). I also seem to recall a French comic about barbarians, but it really didn't have any appeal to me (must be a cultural thing).

The Black Smurfs was eventually translated for the Smurfs TV show on NBC. Instead of being black, the Smurfs turned purple. The episode was the source of much anxiety for BBS Administrator Sassette, who remembers being transfixed to the screen in horror and amazement.

This is funny, because I never read the Smurf comics, and I clearly remember a black smurf appearing in the cartoon. Maybe they made a different version of the episode for Europeans?

Another quote from the same discussion:

However, there is an incredible sensitivity (one could argue rightly so) to anything here that would remotely appear to disparage African Americans.

To give you an example, there was once an eBay auction a friend put up, selling 2.0007 Angry Smurf (the black Smurf). My buddy received a nasty email explaining that the term "black" Smurf was unacceptable, and that the correct term was "African American". The email was an angry, vituperative rant.

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