When I was reading my Girlpower mag (June 2008) while taking a break from studying for my Bio paper 3, I came across this article where they are going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Smurfs. I was like "OMG, are you serious? The Smurfs are 50 years old already? You got to be kidding me." & all that kind of reactions. Talk about a very old cartoon which was created 50 years ago by Peyo (Pierre Culliford) in Belgium in 1958.
That's the creator of The Smurfs. Sadly, he died of heart attack in 1992 at the age of 64. However, his cartoons are still famous around the world today. The Smurfs started out as a comic strip & then turned into a popular TV series. The big rumour in Hollywood is that a Smurfs movie is being planned for 2010...can't wait! =D
The Smurfs were originally called Les Schtroumpfs in French- what a mouthful! Did you know that Smurfs are 3 apples high? Talk about short & small. They live in a lil' village full of mushroom-shaped houses & not only that, they turn yellow when they choke! The Smurfs never get older, so Baby Smurf will always be a baby & Papa Smurf will always be an old man! Here are some of The Smurfs characters below...
Papa Smurf. He is smart & is 542 years old! Now that's way too old & I wonder if someone can live until this long. Papa Smurf is the only Smurf who wears red, while the other Smurfs all wear white caps & white pants or in Smurfette's case, a white dress!
King Smurf. He is a regular Smurf whose actual name and position is never stated in the original adventure in which he is the titular main character. He simply assumes power in the absence of Papa Smurf and loses it when he returns. BTW, he looks cute & smurfarritic! =)
Smurfette (left), who is the only female Smurf until recently when Sassette Smurf (right) appeared in the village. Did you know that Smurfette was originally created by the mean sorcerer Gargamel to cause fights in the village? Luckily, Papa Smurf transformed Smurfette into the pretty & kind Smurf we know & love today. Both of these Smurfs look cute & smurftastic! ^_^
Gargamel, who is the evil sorcerer together with his cat, Azrael (named after the biblical angel of death). He is the Smurfnapper who captured a smurf which he needed as an ingredient for a potion to make gold (according to an old magic spell).
That's all I can "smurf" today 'cuz they are too many characters in there, but only can name a few of the special ones. You can click here to know more about this cartoon & the characters in there. *Sigh*, 2nd term exam is on this coming Friday where the original ones s'pose to start at (7/7) due to the Rainforest Music Festival on the (11/7) to (13/7). Won't be updating that often as I'll be very busy preparing for SPM BM oral & English oral, but I'll try to update about my KK trip as soon as possible after getting the photo disc from Joseph whenever I'm free. Toodles.