Monday, October 10, 2005
SMURFY DOWN
Those commie Smurfs deserved to be bombed, writes James Morrow:
Everyone knows that the Smurfs are just cartoon-land’s version of the Viet Cong. Think about it:
They lived under a jungle canopy, where they lived a bucolic communal existence except when being tormented by their arch-enemy, Gargamel, who was always drawn with a vaguely Nixonian mien. (Gargamel always tried to go after the Smurfs in various flying machines, and even attempted defoliation if I recall my childhood viewing correctly).
Some of the main characters also further set up the analogy. Smurfette, for example, is nothing more than a blonde-haired, blue-skinned Jane Fonda: created by the evil Gargamel (that is, born in the evil U.S. of A.), went over to the other side and joined the Smurfs.
Among earlier comments on Unicef’s act of Smurficide:
* blogstrop: “Charly don’t smurf.”
* Susan Norton: “The fact there was only one female Smurf always seemed to me to be vaguely sinister.”
* Paul Zrimsek: “Only one female Smurf? The UN peacekeepers are going to have to take turns.”
* And Ernst Blofeld: “Making a smurf snuff film is totally bad-ass. Frankly, it gives me strange new respect for the UN.”