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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 3 months ago

Fun fact: I sometimes watch the new stuff with my niece and they have many female characters now. The latest season even has a girl village next to the normal one and they regularly interact with each other but there are female only episodes as well. The normal village also has women, I'm not sure about the exact (gender) dynamics at play

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 36 points 3 months ago

So the new version passes the Bechdel test?

[-] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 3 months ago

no, but it does pass the Smurfdel Smurf

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

Yeah but one does have to question if segregation is actually progress

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's even funny the way the parent comment described it: a girl town right next to the normal town.

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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

No, the main village contains women but there is a small village with a young girl clique. Gargamel has his niece and nephew for a visit. Might be special for smaller kids. The episodes weren't that long online (they aren't anymore but older episodes are)

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[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 8 points 3 months ago

Wow! TIL. Also, maybe less surprisingly, I just found that EURIMAGES has it as a criterion, so I guess no public EU money for your movie project if it doesn't pass the test.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

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[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 53 points 3 months ago

They do not reproduce (setting aside Smurfette, who is technically a Golem) and they also do not die… they must be DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS.

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah didnt Papa Smurf make Smurfette with magic?

[-] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 30 points 3 months ago

Their enemy made smurfette with magic to seduce them

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 25 points 3 months ago

Yes, Gargamel made her out of blue clay, Papa Smurf did the “beautification”.

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

Thanks it's been over 40 years since I could tolerate the Smurfs. I tried watching it once as an adult and it was brutal.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Did you try watching the old cartoons or did you curse yourself with the newer movies?

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well...yeah, in the same sense that the bedroom is "where the magic happens." Did you think they meant literal magic lol? Papa Smurf definitely fucks bro.

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[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago

Prions

[-] Odo@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

Henchman 24: Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.

Henchman 21: Oh my God, you’re crazy! They’re so obviously mammals!

Henchman 24: Please! She’d be in estrus 24/7 if she didn’t lay eggs.

Henchman 21: Smurfs don’t lay eggs! I won’t tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They’re mammals!

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Goats have beards and they lay eggs

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

Monotremes

[-] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

HENCH 4 LIFE

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

Did Henchman 21 ever hear of the Bearded Dragon?

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 3 months ago

Insects have hair that serves several purposes, and birds can have feathers that resemble hair. Also there are mammals that lay eggs so there's that too.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 21 points 3 months ago

Numerically speaking, the virus wants to keep smurfette alive as long as possible.

This comic still gives me some kinda ick.

[-] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Parasites: Being Factories for more parasites, since 3.5 BYA or so (or when the first viruses emerged (viruses are parasites that kinda forgot how to do anything but parasitism))

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

This was covered back in '93 on usenet. Behold: Smuckfest!

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

This is ancient furry porn, isn't it?

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Huh. I'm not sure how far back furries go.

If not, it's certainly proto furry porn. Pretty sure it predates the formulation of Rule 34.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

What most people don't know is why Smurfs are blue. Well, the reason is because Smurfs only have sex once a year.

Face it: if you had sex only once a year, you'd be blue, too.

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[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Thanks I hate it.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

TFW the antagonist in The Smurfs was right all along.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Didn't he want to eat them or something? That sounds like a one-way ticket to a body horror ending...

[-] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

I think originally he wanted to use them to make gold

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

yep. that's the biggest tell that the Smurfs is about communism. in any other kids story the antagonist would either want to get rid of them or eat them, which is why most people just assume that's what he wants. but no, he wants gold. he's a capitalist.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

First book, he needs them to make gold.

Then it's just revenge.

Or so I remember.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I think you're right... I was just imagining him coming in with a flamethrower in ~~one~~ the last episode

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[-] jankforlife@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago

c/imsorryjon

[-] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

Years ago I found a page that reasoned that the whole thing is a communist propaganda (they have no money, share food etc), then SWITCH and they went on how the whole thing is a Nazi propaganda (the bad guy looks like an archetypical jew who wants to make gold of them, etc).

I can't find the original, but there's a lot of sites that claim one or the other

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

archetypical jew who wants to make gold of them

He also makes a golem from clay (smurfette)

New elmo tweet incomming, people

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the smurfs wear white hoods. Except the leader who wears red (like the klan)

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

He has wanted them fir different purposes at different times. In the US bersions he wanted to eat them very often.

[-] bobo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

This?

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago

First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario - It just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living... if you don't have a dick?

https://youtu.be/gTWjPHfXnUE

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

This is Sassette erasure and I won't stand for it! /s

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

There's just one little problem...

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 15 points 3 months ago

I do believe she eventually grows to the age of consent, but I could be wrong.

Of course, I was saying "only female" is Sassette erasure. I was not saying "only mating prospect" is Sassette erasure.

I was just remembering her from my childhood. I wasn't up on my Sassette lore. I found a reference that says she was created the same way Smurfette was, which surprised me.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

I looked it up and she was added in 1966 - Smurfette is a boomer. Incidentally I learned that they retconned in female smurfs starting in 2008. Also, here's my disgustingly necessary condemnation of rule 34.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurfette