April Smurf's Day

April Smurf's Day is an 11-minute segment that aired as part of the third season premiere of Smurfs. It originally aired on NBC 17 September 1983.
==Summary==
Harmony Smurf blows his infamous horn to make an announcement of the annual April Smurf's Day event. Brainy Smurf hates that event, and easily catches on to such pranks. Not surprisingly, Jokey Smurf was the first to play a prank, leaving his infamous surprise package, and Brainy disposes of it in a barrel of rain water, extinguishing the dynamite. Then Brainy smells a flower which explodes in his face, and Jokey laughs and chants "April Smurf's Day!" multiple times. Brainy was none too happy, and remarked, "It's going to be a long day." Then, Papa Smurf makes his annual announcement while standing on top of a mushroom, and gives an example of a prank.
Meanwhile, Gargamel has planned his ultimate April Fool's prank on the Smurfs. He pours his potion which grows a bush with Smurfberries around his body (except his feet). He uses it to his own advantage for the purpose of kidnapping some Smurfs.
After it was learned that several Smurfs were abducted, Papa Smurf and some other Smurfs went to Gargamel's hovel and decided to play one last April Smurf's Day prank - to distract Gargamel and free the Smurfs from captivity.
After a successful rescue, Papa Smurf and the other Smurfs were flying on board Feathers. The Smurfs were relieved that they won't have to worry about such annual event for another year, but the Smurfs got the last laugh when a telescope put a ring around Papa Smurf's eye. 
==Notes/Trivia==
*Despite being an April Fool's Day themed episode, this episode was never aired in the month of April during its initial season. However, it was rebroadcast on 9 April 1988, during the seventh season.
*When Papa Smurf gave an example of a prank, he told the Smurfs, "Look out, a monster!" Surprisingly, he never said, "Look out, Gargamel!"
*"Needy Evil" was a rare original song in this series, since there is normally heavy usage of classical composers' works, such as Beethoven and others.
*This episode was aired as part of a rare Friday morning broadcast 25 November 1983, which pre-empted NBC's game show lineup for that day due to Thanksgiving. After the initial broadcast in September 1983, it wasn't aired on a Saturday until 25 February 1984.
*Coincidentally, the voice of Gargamel, Paul Winchell, has a daughter named April, who does voice work for some of the modern-day Scooby-Doo cartoons. Ironically, April Winchell's birthday is in January.
==External links==
*Smurfs Wiki: April Smurf's Day (episode)
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