AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 ----- BODY: **NEWSFLASH** What a crazy world this is! At the same time that UNICEF is encouraging kids to go to the store to pick up the free orange box to collect money instead of candy, the same non-profit organization is now in the spotlight for bringing back 1980's cartoons "The Smurfs." Oh yeah, if you were around back then you'll remember these annoying little blue people that lived in the woods and always danced and sang a happy tune. Everything was annoying about that cartoon from the theme song to the closing credits. For a while earlier this year, there was an attempt to bring The Smurfs back for a new generation of cartoon kids...it never really took off. The truth is, it's possible that after this week that might change. So, UNICEF borrowed the characters for a commercial that was intended to make a point, but got rejected in the U.S. The commercial begins with the smurfs singing and dancing around a campfire and having a jolly good time. Suddenly, without warning, warplanes enter the picture flying over the village and dropping bombs killing all The Smurfs except for "Baby Smurf", who's left as the sole survivor...weeping as the commercial ends. Now, I've searched long and hard for this commercial. I thought perhaps I could get a bootleg. No luck. All I could get were still shots of the beginning of the ad. I don't know what the big deal is and why the U.S. thought it just wasn't right. Heck, in the 1960's there was the infamous Lyndon B. Johnson "dandelion" ad which showed a little girl and a dandelion, when all of a sudden a flash of light and a mushroom cloud appear in the background. The Smurfs spot is more or less another anti-war message in the spirit of LBJ's political ad. I think it's great however 25 years too late. If you remember all the merchandise that went along with these guys paving the way for the next big thing, The Cabbage Patch Kids, a Smurf genocide really isn't a bad idea! THAT'S the way I see it today! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: "Holy Smurf! We're all going to DIE!"

Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

"Holy Smurf! We're all going to DIE!"

**NEWSFLASH** What a crazy world this is! At the same time that UNICEF is encouraging kids to go to the store to pick up the free orange box to collect money instead of candy, the same non-profit organization is now in the spotlight for bringing back 1980's cartoons "The Smurfs." Oh yeah, if you were around back then you'll remember these annoying little blue people that lived in the woods and always danced and sang a happy tune. Everything was annoying about that cartoon from the theme song to the closing credits. For a while earlier this year, there was an attempt to bring The Smurfs back for a new generation of cartoon kids...it never really took off. The truth is, it's possible that after this week that might change. So, UNICEF borrowed the characters for a commercial that was intended to make a point, but got rejected in the U.S. The commercial begins with the smurfs singing and dancing around a campfire and having a jolly good time. Suddenly, without warning, warplanes enter the picture flying over the village and dropping bombs killing all The Smurfs except for "Baby Smurf", who's left as the sole survivor...weeping as the commercial ends. Now, I've searched long and hard for this commercial. I thought perhaps I could get a bootleg. No luck. All I could get were still shots of the beginning of the ad. I don't know what the big deal is and why the U.S. thought it just wasn't right. Heck, in the 1960's there was the infamous Lyndon B. Johnson "dandelion" ad which showed a little girl and a dandelion, when all of a sudden a flash of light and a mushroom cloud appear in the background. The Smurfs spot is more or less another anti-war message in the spirit of LBJ's political ad. I think it's great however 25 years too late. If you remember all the merchandise that went along with these guys paving the way for the next big thing, The Cabbage Patch Kids, a Smurf genocide really isn't a bad idea! THAT'S the way I see it today!

posted by Dave Sypniewski at Wednesday, October 12, 2005

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