'80s FADS
'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-29_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">These</a> <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2011-04-29_J_04a.jpg" target="_blank">characters</a> were created in Belgium way back in 1958, but hit it big in the U.S. in the 1980s'
the Smurfs