It was virtually impossible to escape from childhood in the 1980s
without owning at least one Smurf-related product. The Smurfs were
EVERYWHERE.
Although Papa Smurf and his posse of blue gnomes were first born
in a Belgian comic strip back in the 1950s, they reached the zenith of
their powers in the 1980s, when an NBC cartoon series and a
never-ending parade of figurines, plush toys and other merchandise made
them the most ubiquitous tiny creatures since the Munchkins. Despite
the fact that they used the word "smurf" so frequently that you kinda
wanted to smurf every last one of them where the smurf doesn't smurf,
these diminutive, super-happy characters were enormously popular. And
apparently Columbia Pictures thinks they can be again.
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