I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee

a year ago by fossilesque to c/science_memes

lugal 96 points a year ago

Fun fact: I sometimes watch the new stuff with my niece and they have many female characters now. The latest season even has a girl village next to the normal one and they regularly interact with each other but there are female only episodes as well. The normal village also has women, I'm not sure about the exact (gender) dynamics at play

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Midnitte 34 points a year ago

So the new version passes the Bechdel test?

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goldteeth 54 points a year ago

no, but it does pass the Smurfdel Smurf

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DragonTypeWyvern 26 points a year ago

Yeah but one does have to question if segregation is actually progress

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exasperation 4 points a year ago

It's even funny the way the parent comment described it: a girl town right next to the normal town.

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lugal 2 points a year ago

I'm an uncle, not a parent
I wrote another comment somewhere else: the main village contains women but there is a small group of young girls with a separate village

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lugal 3 points a year ago

No, the main village contains women but there is a small village with a young girl clique. Gargamel has his niece and nephew for a visit. Might be special for smaller kids. The episodes weren't that long online (they aren't anymore but older episodes are)

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brucethemoose 2 points a year ago

Depends on the culture.

The Air Nomads were segregated in Avatar, but they were sexually progressive forever, and raised children communally. Stuff like that is fine.

I know nothing of Smurf lore, but they don’t seem like one of those repressive segregated cultures.

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PrimeMinisterKeyes 8 points a year ago

Wow! TIL. Also, maybe less surprisingly, I just found that EURIMAGES has it as a criterion, so I guess no public EU money for your movie project if it doesn't pass the test.

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BuboScandiacus 2 points a year ago

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grysbok 2 points a year ago

jail sign listing visiting hours for "men" and "girls"

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Odo 52 points a year ago

Henchman 24: Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.

Henchman 21: Oh my God, you’re crazy! They’re so obviously mammals!

Henchman 24: Please! She’d be in estrus 24/7 if she didn’t lay eggs.

Henchman 21: Smurfs don’t lay eggs! I won’t tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They’re mammals!

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Agent641 14 points a year ago

Goats have beards and they lay eggs

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ArcaneSlime 12 points a year ago

Monotremes

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butwhyishischinabook 7 points a year ago

HENCH 4 LIFE

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PrimeMinisterKeyes 6 points a year ago

Did Henchman 21 ever hear of the Bearded Dragon?

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Etterra 4 points a year ago

Insects have hair that serves several purposes, and birds can have feathers that resemble hair. Also there are mammals that lay eggs so there's that too.

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nightwatch_admin 52 points a year ago

They do not reproduce (setting aside Smurfette, who is technically a Golem) and they also do not die… they must be DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS.

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QuoVadisHomines 7 points a year ago

Yeah didnt Papa Smurf make Smurfette with magic?

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crmsnbleyd 30 points a year ago

Their enemy made smurfette with magic to seduce them

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nightwatch_admin 25 points a year ago

Yes, Gargamel made her out of blue clay, Papa Smurf did the “beautification”.

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QuoVadisHomines 10 points a year ago

Thanks it's been over 40 years since I could tolerate the Smurfs. I tried watching it once as an adult and it was brutal.

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Wizard_Pope 3 points a year ago

Did you try watching the old cartoons or did you curse yourself with the newer movies?

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ivanafterall 6 points a year ago

Well...yeah, in the same sense that the bedroom is "where the magic happens." Did you think they meant literal magic lol? Papa Smurf definitely fucks bro.

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Etterra 3 points a year ago

They're U-social parasitoids; one reproducing female, one fertile male, and a large number of sterile male workers. They infest human areas and manipulate them into protecting their nests. Gargamel tried to inhibit their spread by introducing a sterile female to this colony after an unknown event caused their breeding female to disappear. Likely the colony would have raided another colony for its female if they had located one, making Gargamel's intervention necessary to prevent them looking for a fertile replacement queen.

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Big_Boss_77 4 points a year ago

Prions

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Tomassci 20 points a year ago

Parasites: Being Factories for more parasites, since 3.5 BYA or so (or when the first viruses emerged (viruses are parasites that kinda forgot how to do anything but parasitism))

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YiddishMcSquidish 19 points a year ago

Numerically speaking, the virus wants to keep smurfette alive as long as possible.

This comic still gives me some kinda ick.

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Machinist 18 points a year ago

This was covered back in '93 on usenet. Behold: Smuckfest!

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ladicius 14 points a year ago

This is ancient furry porn, isn't it?

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Machinist 4 points a year ago

Huh. I'm not sure how far back furries go.

If not, it's certainly proto furry porn. Pretty sure it predates the formulation of Rule 34.

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gandalf_der_12te 7 points a year ago

What most people don't know is why Smurfs are blue. Well, the reason is because Smurfs only have sex once a year.

Face it: if you had sex only once a year, you'd be blue, too.

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zea_64 2 points a year ago

Everyone I argue online with is a Smurf?

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ivanafterall 1 point a year ago

Once they all get off, they just look like normal little wrinkly ballsacks for awhile.

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saltnotsugar 17 points a year ago

Thanks I hate it.

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snoons 17 points a year ago

TFW the antagonist in The Smurfs was right all along.

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Quetzalcutlass 17 points a year ago

Didn't he want to eat them or something? That sounds like a one-way ticket to a body horror ending...

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BlushedPotatoPlayers 11 points a year ago

I think originally he wanted to use them to make gold

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pyre 4 points a year ago

yep. that's the biggest tell that the Smurfs is about communism. in any other kids story the antagonist would either want to get rid of them or eat them, which is why most people just assume that's what he wants. but no, he wants gold. he's a capitalist.

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Valmond 6 points a year ago

First book, he needs them to make gold.

Then it's just revenge.

Or so I remember.

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snoons 4 points a year ago

I think you're right... I was just imagining him coming in with a flamethrower in one the last episode

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PrimeMinisterKeyes 2 points a year ago

Gargamel is willing to bite the bullet for the greater good.

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Quetzalcutlass 2 points a year ago

Gargamel would be patient zero of The Last of Us: Blue Edition.

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Etterra 2 points a year ago

He appeared in Robot Chicken and admitted that he was never all that clear on his motivations.

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BlushedPotatoPlayers 16 points a year ago

Years ago I found a page that reasoned that the whole thing is a communist propaganda (they have no money, share food etc), then SWITCH and they went on how the whole thing is a Nazi propaganda (the bad guy looks like an archetypical jew who wants to make gold of them, etc).

I can't find the original, but there's a lot of sites that claim one or the other

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BuboScandiacus 9 points a year ago

archetypical jew who wants to make gold of them

He also makes a golem from clay (smurfette)

New elmo tweet incomming, people

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SkaveRat 7 points a year ago

And the smurfs wear white hoods. Except the leader who wears red (like the klan)

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QuoVadisHomines 7 points a year ago

He has wanted them fir different purposes at different times. In the US bersions he wanted to eat them very often.

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bobo 3 points a year ago

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BlushedPotatoPlayers 1 point a year ago

Nah, much older (at least 10 years old), less resemblance to AI text.

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jankforlife 14 points a year ago

c/imsorryjon

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JackbyDev 13 points a year ago

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?

https://youtu.be/gTWjPHfXnUE

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bss03 11 points a year ago

This is Sassette erasure and I won't stand for it! /s

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ivanafterall 10 points a year ago

There's just one little problem...

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bss03 15 points a year ago

I do believe she eventually grows to the age of consent, but I could be wrong.

Of course, I was saying "only female" is Sassette erasure. I was not saying "only mating prospect" is Sassette erasure.

I was just remembering her from my childhood. I wasn't up on my Sassette lore. I found a reference that says she was created the same way Smurfette was, which surprised me.

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Etterra 3 points a year ago

I looked it up and she was added in 1966 - Smurfette is a boomer. Incidentally I learned that they retconned in female smurfs starting in 2008. Also, here's my disgustingly necessary condemnation of rule 34.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurfette

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Kyrgizion 5 points a year ago

The real smurfberries.

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Etterra 4 points a year ago

This means that Gargamel was heroically working to contain the infestation and researching a cure.

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monotremata 3 points a year ago

Honestly the idea that parasites all share a single, simple method of reproduction is the silliest thing in this comic. There's a cordyceps fungus that not only has a stage in an ant, it then swells and reddens the abdomen of the ant, takes over the behavior of the ant and forces it to climb to the top of a stalk of grass, and has it wave in the air until a bird mistakes it for a berry and swoops down and eats it. At this point it has a whole other phase of its life cycle inside the bird until it finally releases its spores in the bird's droppings.

(I probably have a few of the details here not quite right, as it's not my field of expertise, but it's along these lines, including the behavior modification and the two separate host species.)

There are so many kinds of parasites, and they do so many crazy things.

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 3 points a year ago

what happened to the shirt?

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Aliya 2 points a year ago

She is called smurfette in english o.o

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