I love Aunt Linda.
My Aunt Linda is a hoot. And I don’t know if what she sent me for my birthday was a lucky guess, or if she has the memory gene (though I suspect the latter), but she sent me this:
As a child, Smurfs were about my favorite thing. I LOVED Smurfette. LOVED. And I had (have) this huge collection of little Smurf figurines. And a stuffed Smurfette. And one year I was Smurfette for Halloween. Smurfs are awesome. 
Thanks Aunt Linda!
I’m glad I’m going to bed soon. Now I have the Smurf song going through my head…
I was talking about Smurfs just yesterday! I was holding a book that had a Gargamel sticker on it and asked my class if they knew who Gargamel was. They didn’t. But when I asked them if they knew the Smurfs, many of them did.
Back in my smurfhood, the smurfs were not as smurfular as in yours. I didn’t smurf them on smurf.v. because… well, I don’t know, but I’m smurf I missed out on some smurftacular smurfing!
I didn’t like the smurfs. I remember fighting with my sister over watching the smurfs. She wanted to watch them, I wanted to watch something else, probably the Superfriends or something else.
Hefty, Handy, Smurfette, Papa, Gargamel, Asree-el the Cat….
And Vanity and Grouchy…
Also Lazy, Brainy, Clumsy. Did you know that there are over 100 smurfs in Smurf Village?
http://bluebuddies.com/help/smurf_names_and_list_of_the_smurfs.htm
50th Anniversary edition?? The Smurfs are that old??
They came to the US (widely) in the 80’s, but they’re a French cartoon.
What was the name of the witch in the Smurfs?
BTW
The Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced Smurfs to the world in a series of comic strips, making their first appearance in the Belgian comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on October 23, 1958.
d’oh! I stand corrected! I really thought they were French (but I didn’t actually do any research). My bad!
I LOVE your stuffed Smurf!! Aunt Linda rocks!!
I’m embarrassed to say that one of my favorite childhood cartoons was “The Archies”. I’m not embarrassed to say my other favorites were “Scooby Do Where Are You” (Rover here!), “The Bullwinkle Show–with Dudley Dooright & Fractured Fairytales, and of course Bugs Bunny. And, sheepishly again, “HR Puffnstuff”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-yLYz6ejqw&feature=related