Animated Atrocities - Clumsy Luck
Show - The Smurfs (1981 Hanna-Barbera Series)
Season/Episode - Season 3, Episode 16b (airdate), 22b (production number)
Airdate - October 22, 1983
Writer(s) - Jim Arnold, John Bonaccorsi
Director(s)/Editor(s) - Ray Patterson (supervising director), Oscar Dufau, George Gordon, Carl Urbano, John Walker, Rudy Zamora
Other Notes - This Is Just A Cruel And Stupid. After Clumsy annoys Brainy and all the other Smurfs, they hold him hostage to keep the village quiet. But during a meteor shower, The Smurfs think that Clumsy has been killed by a meteor. It turns out that Clumsy is still alive, not knowing that he snuck out of the village the moment before his house got crushed. Brainy Smurf is downright unlikable in this episode and at his absolute worst. He locked his own best friend in his own home for seven years and believes that he is dead by faking sympathy, making him out-of-character. Even when he got tossed out of the village, he never learned anything from it. Clumsy didn't tell the others where he went after he came back to the village, resulting in them thinking that he was dead. Locking Clumsy up in his own house for seven years of bad luck is pretty sanctimoniously and servilely unrealistic for a children's show. This episode made poor attempts at comedy.
It tried to make Brainy in the right, when he really was in the wrong. Vanity is also downright unlikable as he want Clumsy to be locked seven years just because of his freaking mirror being accidently destroyed by Clumsy! Brainy Smurf immediately confirmed that Clumsy is bad luck just after he caused Baby Smurf to fly in the air and almost land on the ground. Why would he confirm Clumsy as bad luck over a simple accident?! Granted, this was intended to render with the superstitious claim of receiving bad luck from breaking a mirror (the reason for why Brainy claimed Clumsy became unlucky is because in the beginning, he accidentally breaks Vanity's mirror, which eventually gave Brainy the sole opportunity to claim Clumsy was converted into seven-year unluckiness. Most of the animation is rendered stiff and lifeless, typical for an early 80s cartoon. luckily Papa Smurf And Smurfette were likeable characters in this worst episode. Clumsy is the most likeable, alongside all the other Smurfs in the episode. Even Papa Smurf sheds a tear when he thought that Clumsy was gone, Homnibus is also a likable character. Smurfette also is likable and defend Clumsy from Brainy horrible plan to lock him for seven years, at such aside from Clumsy, she is the most likable along with Papa Smurf. The other Smurfs (except Brainy) are at least happy to see Clumsy back. Brainy got what he deserved at the end by getting thrown out of the village as punishment like he always does, and here he really deserved it unlike in some other episodes.
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