I couldn’t imagine worse news. Can’t these people just leave something in my childhood unmolested by their greedy greasy capitalist palms? No. They just had to mine our childhoods for profit once again. It was bad enough when they made a movie of the Dukes of Hazzard (and they didn’t even let Coy and Vance get a cameo.) But this. This is over the line.
And guess what? They’re also making the A-Team into a movie.
Can’t they leave just one thing from my childhood alone? And you want to know the worst part? I’ve got five kids. I might actually have to go see this stupid thing because these kinds of things are like kid crack. They get a little and they want more. They’re going to see these smurfs on television or hear about them at school or they’ll just see some spoiled kid with a Smurf backpack and instead of striking him down for the good of the country which is the appropriate action, they’ll want to know more of these things you call Smurfs.
And it’ll get inside their cute little heads and pretty soon they’ll be arguing over which one gets to be Smurfette when they play Smurfs. But I’m telling you now. I like playing with my children but I will not be Gargamel. I won’t. I just won’t. I’m not smurfin’ kidding.
September 2, 2009 at 6:10 am
I'm surprised you would be a Smurf after all they were Soviet propaganda
September 2, 2009 at 8:04 am
Waiting for the PG-13 Cabbage Patch Movie marketed to women in their mid-30s.
September 2, 2009 at 8:09 am
They just can't come up with anything new. Same in music. Everything is sampling someone else's sound.
September 2, 2009 at 9:36 am
Surely you will be Papa Smurf!
September 2, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Renee,
I shudder to think why a Cabage Patch movie would be rated Pg-13. And all I can wonder is – the violence? Profanity? Or…adult situations? Ick.
James,
But there's no way any of them would be ok with being Gargamel. And someone's got to chase them.
September 2, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I was a dad when Smurfs became popular. I vaguely remember that the Smurfs theme song drove me crazy, sort of like "It's a small world." I could be wrong.
September 2, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Ha ha ha ha, "kid crack"! That is just hilarious, and so true!
Gargamel is the only decent character in the Smurfs, unless you'd rather be Azreal the cat?
September 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Well, if they screw this up, you can always go watch the Snorks instead…
-Chris M
September 2, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Homeschooling is a great way to keeps your kids from liking weird stuff that the public and private schoolkids like. Just a thought.
Suz. from Oklah.
September 2, 2009 at 4:02 pm
You might like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT-25VUsCiY
September 2, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Hey Matthew,
You don't have to see the "Smurfs Movie" in the theaters. To get out of it, just homeschool and get Netflix. Simple!
September 2, 2009 at 4:11 pm
The Snorks!!!
I thought I was the only one who remembered them…
…or the other Transformers
…or the Gummy Bears
OK, gotta get back to work. I could do this all day.
September 2, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Two things:
1) What day is Holiday 2010?
2) Not sure about the homeschooling thoughts–I've homeschooled for 17+ years now, and honestly homeschoolers get into some pretty weird stuff.
September 2, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Mike,
That song was pretty hilarious. Thanks.
September 2, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Anthony is correct. The Smurfs were communist propaganda. Papa Smurf wore the red-had of the party leader, they were all workers in a collective, and Gargamel was supposedly a Capitalist who wanted to "exploit" each Smurf/worker for their skills whenever he got ahold of them.
September 2, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I used to love the smurfs (might have to go see it). Enjoyed fantasizing about living in mushrooms with little beds and wooden chairs inside. Only one female (Smurf Et) though, so how do they reproduce? Maybe more like futuristic China or something.
September 2, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Hey FamilyMan,
The best part of homeschooling is that "weird stuff" you were referring to! While it doesn't get us excluded from locker room conversations, it does usually include knights in full armor and the family pet. Or some type of explosion and making sure that the baby is okay. Or something to do with the toaster and why we can't make inventions when its still plugged in. Or different colored pancakes each morning. Or making a Novena coincide with diaper changing.
No, I much prefer the weird stuff of homeschooling. Hehehe.
Speaking of which, does anyone know how much of a hole spackle will really cover in a wall? Hahaha! Just kidding Mike!
September 2, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I like the 'weird stuff' too! I like that my kids (even my oldest) still like to color and they love dressing up as Saints. They also can make anything out of legos. Any. Thing.
We still do some secular stuff. We like Star Wars and Indiana Jones (Clearplayed, of course) We have a Wii (the Wii fit is good for the P.E. requirement for school), but it is nice that they aren't worried about the lastest trends and fads.
Suz. from Oklah.
September 2, 2009 at 11:27 pm
While our home schooled kids don't know all the latest trends and such, the ones they do know about they tend to disdain and mock. They must get that from their father 🙂
I think my older three children may have seen a few episodes of the Smurfs, rerun on the cartoon network, years ago when I was too sick with the flu to care what they were watching as long as they were quiet. I'm sure when they see the movie ad they will laugh and mock and make their younger sibs ashamed to want to see the movie. That's how I'm hoping to get out of it.
September 3, 2009 at 12:04 am
What day is Holiday 2010?
That was my thought as well. I wonder which holiday they could possibly be referring to. Could it be Valentine's Day? Or perhaps Mother's Day? Maybe Easter? Independence Day? Labor Day? Halloween? Thanksgiving? Christmas? No, surely it's not Christmas, or they would have just said Christmas, right???
;-/