The Smurfs is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest.
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20 Facts About The Smurfs
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The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo in 1958, wherein they were known as Les Schtroumpfs.
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The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which came to represent freedom during the modern era.
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The Smurfs franchise began as a comic and expanded into advertising, films, TV series, ice capades, video games, theme parks, and toys.
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The Smurfs shared more adventures with Johan and Pirlouit, got their own series and all subsequent publications of the original story were retitled .
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The Smurfs came across a sculpture of the Ox of Patufet and was inspired by the word Patufet.
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The Smurfs can walk and run, but often move by skipping on both feet.
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All of the original The Smurfs were male; later female additions are Smurfette and Sassette.
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The Smurfs is still broadcast on the Boomerang channel throughout the United States.
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The Smurfs television show enjoyed continued success until 1990, when, after nearly a decade of success, NBC cancelled it due to decreasing ratings and plans to extend their Today morning show franchise to create a Saturday edition, although they did not do so until 1992, two years later.
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The Smurfs had two cereals in the 1980s made by Post Cereals: Smurf-Berry Crunch cereal and The Smurfs Magic Berries.
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Two The Smurfs pastas, made by Chef Boyardee and DelVerde, were made in the 1980s as well.
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The Smurfs had a commercial in the 1980s for the Mexican snack cake company Marinela Submarinos with a rare version of Smurfette dressed in a red dress and her hair done in pigtails.
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Several years, the Smurfs were the children's act in the Ice Capades travelling ice show.
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In 1984, the Smurfs began appearing in North American theme parks owned by Kings Entertainment Corporation.
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The Smurfs have appeared in video games made for most major game consoles and for the PC.
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In 2010, the Smurfs expanded into the world of apps for Android, the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch with the game Smurf Village.
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In 2005, an advertisement featuring The Smurfs was aired in Belgium in which the Smurf village is annihilated by warplanes.
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In honour of their 50th anniversary in 2008, the Smurfs began a year-long "Happy Smurfday Euro Tour" in connection with UNICEF.
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The Smurfs visited fifteen European countries on the day of their 50th "Smurfday" in the form of publicly distributed white figurines.
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