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The Smurfs

TV·1976–1989·NBC·Children, Fantasy·27m·6.8·Created by Peyo

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The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centered on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) on October 23, 1958. The original term and the accompanying language came during a meal Peyo was having with his colleague and friend André Franquin at the Belgian Coast. Having momentarily forgotten the word "salt", Peyo asked him (in French) to pass the schtroumpf. Franquin jokingly replied: "Here's the Schtroumpf — when you are done schtroumpfing, schtroumpf it back..." and the two spent the rest of that weekend speaking in "schtroumpf language". The name was later translated into Dutch as Smurf, which was adopted in English.

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Don MessickDon MessickPapa SmurfPaul WinchellPaul WinchellGargamelLucille BlissLucille BlissSmurfetteDanny GoldmanDanny GoldmanBrainy SmurfAlan OppenheimerAlan OppenheimerVanity SmurfMichael BellMichael BellHandy SmurfHamilton CampHamilton CampGreedy SmurfBrenda VaccaroBrenda VaccaroScruple

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