The Smurfs

7.5 / 10

22 min

Animation, Children

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7.5 / 10

43 votes

9seasons/427episodes/1981 - 2011

NetworkNBC

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Runtime:22 min1981 - 2011 (Ended)

Genres:Animation, Children

Network:NBC

The Smurfs is an American childrenseries which is aired on NBC. The series premiered on September 12, 1981.

The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) on October 23, 1958. The original term and the accompanying language came during a meal Peyo was having with his colleague and friend André Franquin at the Belgian Coast. Having momentarily forgotten the word "salt", Peyo asked him (in French) to pass the schtroumpf. Franquin jokingly replied: "Here's the Schtroumpf — when you are done schtroumpfing, schtroumpf it back..." and the two spent the rest of that weekend speaking in "schtroumpf language". The name was later translated into Dutch as Smurf, which was adopted in English.