Looping the Hen

Not very smurfy at all

Although I firmly believe in the right of each person to say, think and (mostly) do what they like, it does not mean I have to agree with what they actually say, think and (mostly) do.

I remember the Smurfs. I liked the Smurfs. They made me happy many Saturday mornings. The misadventures of Gargamel and Azrael. The inappropriate cross-species crush I had on Smurfette. Papa Smurf was like the Lorne Greene of the Smurf community, stolid and grandfatherly. I had the Smurf video game for the Colecovision some time in 1981 or so; it was the most played game I had next to Venture and maybe Zaxxon. There were hushed rumors that if you jumped around in the right fashion you would unlock a secret scene in which you got to see Smurfette naked (or in other versions of the rumor, in compromising positions with another smurf)

So although I defend peoples' right to make such trash, I think it is a disgusting use of a beloved set of characters.

Icons have power, which seems to be the reasoning behind this video. However, some icons also provide a sense of safety and the remembrence of good times past, and it is a hideous injustice to use them just because you don't know how else to reach people.