So is that the Smurf that John Oliver voices?
Maybe they can do an all BBC remake. Judi Dench IS Smurfette! That guy from Downtown that everyone wants to fuck* IS Hefty Smurf! Alec "Papa Smurf" Guinness comes back from the beyond to play the role of a lifetime and stop everyone from thinking he was only ever Obi Wan Kenobe or Kenobi or whatever!
*British slang for "eat scones with and discuss favorite Jane Austen characters."
s/b Downton. I absolutely always do that.
I mean, I always assumed that The Smurfs did not take place in the US, since there seem to be castles, catapults, cauldrons and general medieval sensibilities (that start with C).
I had no idea what this post is about, not having seen a Smurfs cartoon in twenty-odd years and not remembering who Vanity Smurf is. So I googled and found the Smurfs wiki which explains, and is very careful to clarify that the events of the movies are non-canonical.
What sort of people write a Wiki like this? Do you think they have some kind of rivalry with the bronies?
Do the sharply dressed smurfs come from Quebec City?
Personally I think they should do a dark, gritty, "postmodern" reboot of the smurfs, like the recent Batman and Bond reboots.
What sort of people write a Wiki like this?
Employees of marketing firms specializing the "astroturf"-style ad campaigns.
The logistics of the smurf pie eating contest could only result in hard feelings.
Personally I think they should do a dark, gritty, "postmodern" reboot of the smurfs, like the recent Batman and Bond reboots.
Bouncy-shaped but painted a more sober color? Or grizzled and human-shaped but still sky blue?
When I was fanatical about The Simpsons, circa high school, my mom used to dismiss them as "yellow smurfs" which honest-to-god enraged me. Now I see the humor in it, though.
Personally I think they should do a dark, gritty, "postmodern" reboot of the smurfs, like the recent Batman and Bond reboots.
12: that was awesome.
Now they need a sequel in which the lone survivor obsessively seeks revenge.
I somehow catalogued Gargamel as the name of the cat, not the evil wizard, so now I think of Gargamel as a bad-ass name for a cat, which I guess it could be, if I got a cat and named it Gargamel.
Is 12 Robot Chicken? Because if not, their Smurfs parodies should also be linked by someone not at work.
Also Despicable Me 2 was really great. Haven't seen the first. Embarrassingly, my love of eastern European accents meant I can listen to Gru and get a bit dreamy about it.
Personally I think they should do a dark, gritty, "postmodern" reboot of the smurfs, like the recent Batman and Bond reboots.
"Avatar", I think it was called.
(Joke already made by South Park among others)
I don't feel the TV show was canonical either. The canon is in the original Peyo comics, in which Vanity plays a far smaller, and less problematic, role.
For example, in season 2, episode 1, they had a plotline where Bigmouth stole the magic egg from Gargamel, but in the real Smurfs, neither Bigmouth nor Gargamel were featured in the Magic Egg story.
I've now seen a few episodes of MLP:FIM with my kid and can see the appeal of Bronyism; there is something weirdly pleasant and soothing about the show. Still, I suspect that the core of "Bronyism" is more about finding a transgressive unifying principle for one's subculture rather than just unmediated love for Rainbow Dash and Pinky Pie.
Robot Chicken dark Smurfs parody, with "problematic" Vanity Smurf and Avatar. Peak thread, people.
Unmediated love for television characters seems challenging.
Except for the medium, there isn't much mediation.
I like the fact that each time the Smurfs were exported to a new country, some marketing guy had to come up with a name for the creatures that would have the same feel as "Schtroumpfs" did for the original Belgian audience.
"Smurf" in different languages, including proper HTML
In 1980's Poland there was a protest movement called Orange Alternative that would dress up as smurfs, paint themselves blue and shout slogans like 'We love the police' 'There is no freedom without smurfs' and other absurd slogans. The police and their political masters were unamused but rather confused.
Oh thank god. I was worried that 23 linked to a thread where all these ideas had been stitched together in the archives, only with more hilarity.
29: And now it's English football fans who dress up as Smurfs.
17: Haven't seen the sequel yet, but loved the original. The youngest girl with her unicorn was adorable.
Does anyone have experience using Vonage?
I have experience pronouncing it in my head, where it rhymes with "phonage" and is only said in heavy surferese, like "dude, get some vonage, brah".
Germans are elevated to the aristocracy through a process of vonnage.
My parents either have Vonage and after some initial adjustments got it working so well they don't mention it anymore or they dropped Vonage and now don't mention it anymore because they have a regular phone.
33: I don't have experience with Vonage. Tried Skype as a temporary substitute for a land-line once and it didn't work that well. One possibility to consider if you're otherwise comfortable with cutting the cord might be a femtocell (Verizon Network Extender, AT&T MicroCell, or whatever your carrier's equivalent is) to improve your home coverage.
I had Vonage for several years when I was a full-time telecommuter (in a company of mostly full-time telecommuters), and used it for regular meetings with my boss and my group, customer calls, endless impromptu Raindance meetings, etc. - probably several hours a week for a few years. It was just fine. I might worry about it being my only connection for emergency purposes, but a cell phone has sufficiently different failure modes that I wouldn't worry if I had both.
I've had Vonage for years. Been generally happy with it, although I don't understand why there isn't an option to go online to set up a blacklist of numbers I don't want to hear from.
We're in the middle of a move overseas and we've taken along our Vonage router. I'm hoping it works, because it would be awesome to be able to keep our US phone number.
34: no fuckin' way!? me too, brah! I don't know if it can provide all your totally cruce phonage, but I, like, don't care, and stuff.
How are you meant to pronounce it? Rhymes with tricotage?
Emphasis on the second syllable. v'NAZH. As in "dommage".