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The Smurfs is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. The Smurfs was first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo in 1958, wherein they were known as 'Les Schtroumpfs'.

References to The Smurfs in The Simpsons

Characters

Picture	Character name	Reference
	The Happy Little Elves	The Happy Little Elves are a fictional children's program, often resembling a cross between The Smurfs, Snorks, Astrosnik, Teletubbies and Care Bears.

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
1	1	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"	Bart refers to The Smurfs Christmas Special.
11	4	"Treehouse of Horror X"	The names Comic Book Guy (as his supervillain alter-ego The Collector) wishes to be called are: Obi-Wan, Iron Man, Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Big Papa Smurf.
12	18	"Trilogy of Error"	When Homer was drunk at Moe's Tavern, he said that the Blue Man Group had total rip-off the Smurfs, and that the Smurfs suck.
17	17	"Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"	Homer called Vishnu "Papa Smurf".
12	18	"Trilogy of Error"	When Homer was drunk at Moe's Tavern, he said that the Blue Man Group had total rip-off the Smurfs, and that the Smurfs suck.
22	13	"The Blue and the Gray"
23	6	"The Book Job"	The trolls in The Troll Twins of Underbridge Academy replace many words with "trolly", a reference to The Smurfs.
25	1	"Homerland"	Papa Smurf appeared in Annie Crawford's mind, which lead her to take Lunatrix.
9	1	"The Serfsons"	Genital Snerfs are parodies of The Smurfs.
30	4	"Treehouse of Horror XXIX"	A Smurf appears in Lisa's hallucination.
30	15	"101 Mitigations"	The poster for The Happy Little Elves Movie is a reference to The Smurfs film, which starred Hank Azaria as Gargamel.

Games

Picture	Game	Reference
	The Simpsons Game	At the end of the level Mob Rules, Kang and Kodos use the word 'space' to replace certain words, a reference to how The Smurfs would say 'smurf' instead of some nouns and verbs.
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out‎	The Happy Little Elves Game is a parody of Smurfs' Village.
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out‎	In The Price of Donuts Pt. 3, after tapping on Comic Book Guy's exclamation mark: "Well there was this game called the Smurfs and...".

Books

Picture	Book	Reference
	The Simpsons Xmas Book	Bart refers to The Smurfs Christmas Special.

Comics

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #23	It Happens!	The Scrumfs is a parody of The Smurfs.

External links

Official website
The Smurfs at the Internet Movie Database
The Smurfs at Wikipedia

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