[UA] OT: Donnie Darko Smurfs

[Hammons, Jade]

Blerg.

The communist smurf joke was established in the 80's, it was a 'copier joke', that passed through school and workplaces in the days before e-mail brought it to the unwashed proletariat.

According to this joke SMURF stands for Socialist Men Under a Red Father. This is funny. Smurf is just their American name, and their name is spelt 30 different ways, depending on what language you speak.

The point, as the paper went on to state:

Papa Smurf has many features that link him to communism. First, he wears RED which is different than the other Smurfs, and represents the flag of the U.S.S.R. and the Red Scare. Second, his beard is strikingly similar to Karl Marx's, the founder of communistic ideals.

 All Smurfs wear a standard issue uniform, except Papa Smurf and Smurfette. The White trousers and cap are the only clothes worn by a Smurf.

 The Smurfs have a caste system where they are classified by their job and personality. They all do common good for all of the community and share totally. For example, Handy Smurf builds houses for all the Smurfs.

 There is no currency in Smurfland. Handy does all that work for no gain.

 Smurfs like Handy and Hefty (the soldier) are held in a positive light, while Vanity and Greedy are viewed negatively.

 Brainy Smurf, like Papa Smurf, is a symbolic character. The nerdy, always cynical blue being is the Smurf equivalent of Trotsky, Stalin's rival who questioned the political system in Russia. Neither Trotsky or Brainy were well liked in their homeland. Trotsky was banished to Mexico.

 Gargamel enters the scenario, too. The human-sized Smurf nemesis represents capitalism. His goal is to capture the Smurfs and turn them into gold. Hence, children associate capitalism with evil.

 The Smurfs have no church or religion which is a fundamental of Communistic politics as religion is banned.

However, the reasons for Gargamel chasing them were never absolutly clear, sometimes it was because they could turn iron into gold, sometimes because they were tasty, and often, in the original comic, just because it was the thing he did, without a reason at all.

So, some 80's joke turned into a 90's graduate students wet dream. Now you can find things like this on the web:
	"The cartoon was really created by the Russian government in order to indoctrinate the youngest members of western society with communist beliefs and ideals thus destroying their resistance to the imminent Russian invasion that was to occur when this generation (my generation) grew up."

wtf?

No, it was a joke, and like many jokes, as the years pass from it's inception it gains more currency as a Truth. Oh and don't forget to mention that Azrael supposedly stands for the prototypical fat-cat big businessman owned by/in the pocket of the Capitalist Jew Gargamel. I've heard that too. And lets not forget the the Wall fell and communism was 'defeated' the same year that the Smurfs was cancelled... wow. Maybe you're right, just like those idiots that keep sending me "Look at all the things Kennedy and LIncoln had in common" pages. No matter that half of it is made-up, and the other half is mirepresented or so mundanely coincidental that it's boring.

Or what about this quote?

	"While the British Musical Invasion was trying to debase American minds, one cartoon is accused of trying to spread communism and racist ideals to the free world. Smurfs, according to one theory is an acronym for Socialist Men Under a Red Father and are a model Communist society. The Smurfs' creator, Pierre Cullimore, was found to be a Communist Nazi with connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Both associations are supposedly depicted in the Smurfs. For example, Papa Smurf, the leader, is seen as the head of the clan. He wears a red hood while the other Smurfs wear white; the KKK leader, the Grand Dragon, wears a red hood as well. The blonde Smurfette is seen as a perfect Aryan, while the Smurfs' enemy, Gargamel, had characteristics of the common Jewish stereotype: large nosed, thrifty and dark-haired. Gargamel, in his constant search for money and gold, also represents the enemy of communism: capitalism. Lastly, in Smurf society, all the Smurfs are equal, again expressing the goal of Communism. Smurfs such as Handy, the worker, and Hefty, the soldier, are portrayed positively because of their benefits to Communist ideals. However, Brainy Smurf is constantly being thrown out of the village because he questions the ways of the Smurfs. In this way, Brainy Smurf is the Leon Trotsky to Papa Smurf's Joseph Stalin. "

	This is of course, made worse, by all the people on the web that have the golden gonads to claim that they and their friends were the first to 'realize this'.


Jade Hammons
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus




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Subject: [UA] OT: Donnie Darko Smurfs


Obligatory Donnie Darko ( http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/ ) smurf quote:

"First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was
sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf
village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed
her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen.
Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those
little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a
Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?"
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