The essential episodes of The Smurfs
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Smurfs — each pick states its reason.
- 01
The Smurfs help fulfill Dreamy's wish to travel to the stars by disguising themselves as Swoofs on another planet.
- 02
The Smurfs end up trapped in Gargamel's lair when they decide to get even with Jokey.
- 03
Gargamel hides in a magic mirror to catch some unsuspecting Smurfs.
- 04
A baby dragon has an insatiable appetite for the berries that Papa Smurf needs for his invisibility formula.
- 05
Brainy and Clumsy discover a badly behaving genie who's only nice when somebody says the magic words "pumpernickel pickle".
- 06
Gargamel disguises himself as a long-lost Sorcerer Smurf.
- 07
It's an ""all for one and one for all"" adventure, brought to you by the boys (and the angel) in blue.
- 08
Overgrown smurfmelon vines make for a new means of communication, and a new way for Gargamel to find the Smurfs.
- 09
Smurfette's orange horse friend returns when Gargamel floods the forest with magic beans.
- 10
Togetherness isn't always a good thing when Gargamel makes all the Smurfs get really attached to each other.
- 11
Grandpa Smurf returns to the village from a 500-year voyage around the world to restore the power of the Long Life Force Stone. Papa Smurf and a few other Smurfs help Grandpa Smurf find the purest sources of the four primal elements from around the world while the remaining Smurfs stay behind to search for the Long Life Force Stone.
- 12
The Smurfs encounter a loincloth-wearing Smurf in the forest, who turns out to be an infant lost in the forest 150 years ago and raised by squirrels.
- 13
Grandpa Smurf must save Nanny Smurf, who makes her first appearance here, from a disappearing castle.
- 14
The Smurfs That Time Forgot (1)
A baby dinosaur is brought into the present time and the Smurfs try to get him back by a magic key.
- 15
Gargamel's Dutch doppelganger puts a spell on Brainy that causes all his fellow Smurfs to spread nastiness when they take over Cupid's job.
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