![]() Just a minor note, the Smurfs were created by the Germans.Many years later, I saw a Smurf T-shirt showing one of the little blue creatures exactly as tall as three apples next to him labelled “I Measure Up.” Since an apple is about 3 or 4 inches tall, I think 9 inches to a foot would be a good measure for a Smurf’s height. I remember seeing The Smurfs when I grew up, and I remember hearing in an early opening that the Smurfs were “three apples tall”.I’d like to hear someone’s opinion on this. Although, they didn’t actually drink blood. They turned purple and when they bit another smurf, they would turn them into a vampire, too. Does anyone remember those vampire Smurfs? I think they were “gnats”, with the g pronounced (guhnats). This would add to his sort of father figure/shaman/leader of the tribe image. And to add to the mushroom symbolism in The Smurfs, Papa Smurf seems to represent the Amanita muscaria mushroom, the red capped mushroom so often portrayed in “innocent fairytales” or any illustration using a mushroom at all. People are talking about Gargamel’s size, and traditionally bad characters tend to be misshapen in some way,and I think he is very short because that would fit in with the personality stereotype they are trying to produce (wily, crafty, sneaky, also he is hunched over all the time). Also, everyone’sAzrael would chase the Smurfs for some reason, and he was quite a bit larger than them. ![]() In regards to the Smurf issue, it’s always seemed interesting to me that Gargamel’s cat was named Azrael, which is the name of the Angel of Death.
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