Acht feitjes over de Smurfen

RDJ134 21 juli 2011 om 15:38 uur

Al sinds eind jaren vijftig zijn er hele generatie kinderen opgegroeid met de Smurfen, en binnenkort kan de nieuwe generatie deze altijd vrolijke blauwe wezentjes in de bioscopen gaan zien. Daarom heef de website Topless Robot nu deze lijst gemaakt met acht feiten, en wat blijkt de Smurfen zijn de bedenkers van de Zombie Apocalypse.


Started the Zombie Genre

In 1963, six years before George Romero filmed Night of the Living Dead, Peyo introduced a Smurfs storyline called Les Schtroumpfs Noirs, or "The Black Smurfs" (they changed them to "The Purple Smurfs" in the U.S. for the obvious reasons). In it, a Smurf is bit by an unusual stinging insect which spreads a virulent disease that turns its victims into angry, insane black creatures that hop around shouting "GNAP!" while also mindlessly trying to bite every smurf in sight to spread the plague. As the Smurfs try to contain the infection, the Smurf patient zero regains enough intelligence to disguise himself as a regular Smurf, infiltrate the village and further spread the Smurfy disease. And just when it looks like lone survivor Papa Smurf has developed a cure... he's goddamn bitten and transforms too. But luckily, he knocks the cure into the fire, where it explodes, curing everyone and bringing everything back to normal. Except in the original comics, where the first bitten Smurf never regains his normal happy outlook on life and becomes known as... Grouchy Smurf. Which is understandable. You'd be grouchy too if you almost brought about the Smurfocalypse.

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