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 == Porno popups? == 

 Can someone using IE or another browser that shows unrequested pop-ups check whether any of the external links pop up porno banners, or something? An anon claimed that she saw something like that happening, but I haven't been able to reproduce it. 

 == Communism? == 

 This article ought to include some treatment of the common allegation that the Smurfs were communists.  See  for a good example with some evidence.  Personally, I don't believe that the Smurfs were intentionally designed by Peyo to be communists, but I do think that he held left-wing values which ended up being expressed in the Smurf world.  I read all the original Smurf comics when I was a kid, and I distinctly remember that they explicitly disparaged money and greed.  Also, the Smurfs were constantly exhorted to work for the good of the community, and many clearly moralistic plotlines involved one of the Smurfs shirking his duties and disaster resulting.   

 == license of smurf logo == 
 Are we allowed to use the Smurf logo? Surely it must be trademarked/copyrighted to someone?    

 == Story comments, for consideration and possible inclusion: == 
 -An episode of the cartoon show revealed that Gargamel's hatred for the Smurfs began when he suffered an accident while still a student of magic, and believed a Smurf had caused it. In reality, it was caused by his own older self, who had traveled back in time. 

 -Smurfette was created by Gargamel, using a magic formula, as one of his traps for the Smurfs; originally, she was ugly and evil, but was later ""purified"" by Papa Smurf. Sassette was created by the ""Kid Smurfs"" using the same formula.  

 -The show created many original characters, including Laconia, a fairy who had lost her voice, and had to communicate by sign language. Obviously, she was introduced to create awareness of deafness among children. -Wilfredo Martinez 

 == Smurf Blue == 
 Smurfs are either blue because of skin pigmentation, blood color, or because they're little tiny Picts (though I can't exactly see them drinking from the skulls of butterflies).  If their blood is blue, they can't be using red hemoglobin.  Since silver tarnishes bluish, my guess is that their blood is silver-based.  This could make them valuable ingredients for Gargamel's magic, or to sell.  (This train of thought was inspired by the question ""what color does a Smurf turn when you choke it?"")   

 :Since silver tarnishes bluish, my guess is that their blood is silver-based. 
 :No, silver and oxygen turn black, copper makes blue blood, see hemocyanin. 
 :what color does a Smurf turn when you choke it 
 : Depriving a Smurf (and its blood) from oxygen will turn it and its blood colorless (white).  16:58, 2005 Jun 5 (UTC) 

 == Smurf Emmys == 

 The Smurfs cartoon series one a number of Emmy awards. Would anyone like to help me compile a list of nominations and wins? )   

 == what about the whole comics universe? == 

 the smurfs universe extends way past just cartoons! there were dozens of bande desinees about smurfs! (see: Franco-Belgian_comics) 

 == Smurf war == 
 About the comment that a war broke out on whether ""smurf"" should be used as a verb or a noun. As I recall it, from a swedish translation of the comics, the war broke out due to an argument if smurf should be a replacement for the first or second compound of a word, i.e. if a ""sledgehammer"" should be a ""sledgesmurfer"" or a ""smurfhammer"" etc... 

 == The word Smurf == 

 Is the word ""Smurf"" originally english, dutch or scandinavian? It's found in english, dutch and swedish, but it's unlike french Schtroumpf or german Schlumpf... When I look at old comics, I find that dutch used the word in 1969, and Sweden in 1975, so I begin to think it's a dutch word? 

 == anti-seminist and communist == 

 :There also have been allegations, correct or not, that the Smurfs were an allegory of capitalism and communism: the Smurfs, with their lack of any form of money, sharing of all goods and services, and their basic egalitarian ideals, are said to represent the ideal communist society, while their hated nemesis Gargamel, who plots to catch them and use them to turn base metals into gold, is said to represent capitalism at its worst. 

 :Along the lines of allegations of the Smurfs being Communist were also claims about hidden anti-semitic propaganda in t