La Schtroumpfette

The Smurfette (French: "La Schtroumpfette") is the second album of the original French-language "Smurfs" comic series. The story has also been made into an episode of the Smurfs animated cartoon show, where the only known significant difference is that Smurfette stays in the village for the rest of the show's run. Apart from the titular story, it contains another one called "La Faim des Schtroumpfs" ("The Hunger of the Smurfs").

Plot

The Smurfette

Gargamel wants to take revenge against the Smurfs for his humiliating defeat at their hands. He decides that the most horrible plan to destroy them would be to send them a female Smurf, who shall seduce them and lead them to their doom. He thus fashions her out of clay and dips her in a potion, creating Smurfette.

Smurfette is sent to the Smurf village, and the others befriend her, although she later proves to be annoying although good-meaning. She is very talkative, a bit bossy, overfriendly and hysterical. Smurfette looked like a boy smurf at first when the smurfs started she looked horride, except she has long black hair and wears a white dress.

Some Smurfs are sick of her, so decide to play a trick: they make her think she has become overweight (by rigging a scale, setting in a misshaping mirror, making her listen to some nasty talk...). Becoming depressed, she realizes that she is not pretty and Papa Smurf decides to help her: he operates "plastic smurfery" on her for days and nights, and Smurfette comes out with blonde hair, more delicate features, longer eyelashes, walking and acting much more gracefully.

The Smurfs all fall in love with her, and the days after, all try to seduce her through all means. The competition and jealousy eventually bring chaos and violence among the Smurfs, who are ready for anything to please her, even painting the dam of the river in color pink.

The last straw is when Smurfette forces Poet Smurf to open the dam for her, just so she could see the water spurting. It gets stucked open, and the village is flooded. Even when it is closed back, a lot of disaster has been caused and when Papa Smurf finds out that Smurfette is indirectly responsible, he tells her about how she has only brought trouble. Smurfette, angry, tells them she shall then go back to Gargamel. When he hears this, Papa Smurf orders her arrested and places her on a trial.

The trial proves to be quite biased, most of the Smurfs supporting Smurfette's innocence, Jokey Smurf (who is Smurfette's attorney) reminds that she has been able to seduce the Smurfs because of Papa Smurf, who made her attractive. Smurfette is eventually declared non-guilty.

Smurfette can't stand the Smurfs fighting each other for her anymore, so leaves the village indefinitely, leaving a message saying that she will be back one day (which she eventually does).

Although they are saddened by the event, Papa Smurf cheers them up by telling that they should get revenge on Gargamel, and give him a taste of his own medecine: they create a fat ugly human woman out of clay (such as Gargamel did with Smurfette) and send her to his house, where she desperately asks him for shelter, speaking in Smurf talk. The story ends with Gargamel running away from her, grumbling that he shall take vengeance.

The Hunger of the Smurfs

Winter is near and the Smurfs are gathering food. But days after the winter comes, the food storage is destroyed in a fire. To survivre, they are forced to leave the village and find a place where they can feed themselves. After long days journeying in the cold wilderness, they find a human castle where its lord is living alone after losing all his fortune. Trying to find remaining food, they stumble on a secret room of jewels. They share their discovery with the lord, who can then buy food for them. The Smurfs are then able to go back to the village.

Titles in other countries

* De Smurfin - Dutch/ Flemish
* The Smurfette - English
* La Schtroumpfette - French