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Bonsai Beetle

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The bonsai beetle is an insect that appeared in the cartoon show episode "Papa's Big Snooze". It roams around in the secret garden of the Palace Of The Rising Sun and devours the foliage of bonsai trees, trimming them down to the trees' typical appearance in Japanese gardens.

In the episode, Brainy accidentally disturbed the slumber bug when he sat on its shell, which made him leap away in fear. However, he ended up catapulting Papa Smurf right into the slumber bug's path, causing it to bite Papa Smurf and to infect him with a potentially permanent sleep. The Smurfs then sought out the bonsai beetle at the secret garden, where it was being chased by Dojo the gardener. They accidentally almost caused the bonsai beetle to be squashed by Dojo, but Grandpa Smurf managed to revive him by using the pollen of a Pick-Me-Up Pansy, which Dojo had a sample of in his garden. Painter then lured the bonsai beetle into biting Papa Smurf's butt in order to cure him by painting a target around the village leader's tail, resembling the center of a Pick-Me-Up Pansy. The bonsai beetle remained on as Dojo's assistant in trimming the trees in the garden when the Emperor returned and saw how beautiful the trees now looked after the beetle did its work.

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