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Clumsy Smurf (original French name Schtroumpf Maladroit) is one of the main characters of the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show and the 2021 Smurfs cartoon show, and a supporting character of the Smurfs comic books.

Character

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His usual appearance

Clumsy can’t cross a room without falling flat on his face. He is constantly dropping things and tripping over his own feet. One might think Clumsy would be covered in casts and bandages, but miraculously, he never hurts himself. Sometimes his clumsiness even serves to get the Smurfs out of a bad situation.

There's is one good reason for Clumsy's two-left footedness: he's a chronic dreamer, filled with wonder and marvel at the world around him. And because he's so busy admiring his surroundings, with his head in the clouds, he forgets to pay attention to what's going on under his feet.

Clumsy is easily identified by the droop of his hat, as well as how often he's seen tripping and dropping things. In the comics prior to Smurfs: The Village Behind The Wall, Clumsy was not seen with a droop on his hat. Every time there is a competition of some sort, Clumsy is not considered to be a good player due to his clumsiness.

In the Sicredi & Smurfs web series, Clumsy was once more seen without the droop on his hat and was often seen with Brainy, Smurfette, and Hefty similar to the 1980s series, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and the first set of comic book stories part of The Girls' Village Collection.

Role In The Village

Being the klutz of the village, Clumsy doesn't really have a specific job. He does help out whenever the Smurfs are building or fixing something, but there are times his involvement could potentially cause a lot of trouble (like a severe physical injury).

In the 2021 series, Clumsy (alongside Dimwitty) work as part of the Smurf Village Fire Brigade.

Personality

Comic Book/2021 TV Series Version

As his name implies, Clumsy is very accident-prone. For example, in his comic appearances like "Can't Smurf Progress", he accidentally hits Brainy with a mallet while attempting to do annual reparations for the Smurfs' houses, while in the 2021 cartoon series episodes like "DRIIINNGGGGG!", "Kitchen Klutz", and "The Smurfs Show", he is shown to be inept on activities and jobs such as cooking, his job as part of the Smurf Village Fire Brigade, and playing cards. He dislikes being useless towards the other Smurfs whenever his clumsiness gets the better of him, and is determined on finding ways on looking useful, in episodes like "Clumsy Not Clumsy" and "Adventures In Smurfsitting".

Despite his flaws, he is overall the most empathetic, kind, and sensitive Smurf. He has also proven to be very heroic when the other Smurfs are in danger.

1981 TV Series Version

In the 1981 cartoon series, this version of Clumsy is an expy of Dopey/Dimwitty with his intelligence level being more on the simple minded and dumber side, contrasting to his mainline comic book/2021 TV series counterpart having the same intelligence level as the other Smurfs.

During the early development of the 1980s series, he tends to get mad at things that cause him to trip and fall, with the most notable example being the Season 2 episode, "The Kaplowey Scroll". In the intro sequence (the ones where the Smurfs run away from Gargamel), it takes Clumsy longer to get around the words "THE SMURFS".

Clumsy had a southern accent and was often seen with Brainy. Clumsy's main interest is collecting rocks and he has full boxes (and/or piles) of them in his house. He is often seen looking for rocks and even claims that he has a lucky one. He also gave a box of them to Nanny Smurf as a housewarming gift in "A House For Nanny". In the 1980s series, Clumsy's catchphrases are "Whoops!", "Golly!", "Gosh!", "Gee", and on some occasions, he says "Yup, yup" when agreeing with somebody. He also frequently stutters by saying "Uh".

He cherishes his friends and tends to go along with what other Smurfs are doing. Despite his clumsy nature, he loves to help out around the village.

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Live-Action Version

In The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, this version of Clumsy is soft-spoken, but still remains friendly and happy. He dislikes being left behind by the other Smurfs. He overestimates himself at times, and dreams of being a hero, which he becomes in the first movie.

Lost Village Version

In Smurfs: The Lost Village, Clumsy's personality is a bit more on the eccentric side. He often does or says things that result in eye rolls, eyebrow-raising, or (usually intended) laughter from his friends. He is also upbeat, yet jumpy and very prone to anxiety. His anxious tendencies are reflected in moments such as him having a panic attack in the tunnels, with his mannerisms being slightly similar to Scaredy. He is still brave and good-hearted.

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Relationships With Others

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Clumsy and Brainy.

Brainy Smurf

While he has no known "Best Smurf Friend" in the comics, in the 1981 TV series, however, Clumsy's best friend, is Brainy. Despite his rather vain personality, Brainy does think of Clumsy as a good friend, even if he won't admit it. Clumsy and Brainy are often paired up when they have to do something in the village, and whenever Brainy has a scheme, Clumsy is his partner. He acts in an assistant role to Brainy, carrying books for him, helping with potions, or listening while he talks. In the episode "The Smurfiest Of Friends", Clumsy states that he thinks Brainy is fun and implies Brainy shares jokes with him often. He seems to admire Brainy for his "intelligence", urging him to escape from the evil imp Buddy without him because "the world needs [him]" in the aforementioned episode. After they escape, Clumsy decides that he'd rather spend time with Brainy than with his other friends back at the village, even telling him that he loves him. He also thinks Brainy is brave and that he has good ideas, as shown in "A Bell For Azrael".

Brainy has been shown to care about their friendship and Clumsy's feelings. As stated in "The Masked Pie Smurfer", he secretly believes that Clumsy is "good for nothing" but still wants to keep Clumsy and his friendship happy.

Despite being Brainy's best friend, there have been instances where Clumsy is annoyed with him, such as in "King Smurf", "Soup A La Smurf", "The Magic Fountain", "Smurf Me No Flowers", "Born Rotten", "Smurf On Wood", and "Small Minded Smurfs".

In the 2021 TV series, they do not seem to interact much, and when they do, it is not always positive; in "The Smurfs Show", he is among the Smurfs that call Brainy "annoying", and in "Doctor Brainy & Mister Dumb", he threatens to break his glasses because Brainy (who had used a brain boosting spell which instead made him dumb) becomes Dimwitty's best friend. However, they are still on slightly better terms than most of the other Smurfs, as Brainy comforts Clumsy when he fears he will smell the forget-me-what flower in "Forget Me What?".

Dimwitty Smurf

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Clumsy dancing with Dimwitty in "Happy Smurfs Fools Day!".

In the 2021 cartoon show, he and Dimwitty interact a lot as they are part of the Smurf Village Fire Brigade. They are almost always seen with each other and are established to be best friends in "You're Fired!" and "Doctor Brainy & Mister Dumb".

However, Clumsy and Dimwitty have gone under a few conflicts with each other. In "Papa Times Two", they argue about who will drive, but the "fake" Papa Smurf confirms that Clumsy can drive, since apparently Dimwitty is too dumb, but according to him, Clumsy can't drive. In "You're Fired!", they briefly disband from the fire brigade due to an argument about each other's flaws but make up when they are jealous of Smurfette taking over for them. In "Doctor Brainy & Mister Dumb", Dimwitty spends more time with Brainy than Clumsy when Brainy had used a brain-boosting formula, but it instead made him stupid, making the Clumsy jealous. When Brainy drinks a potion that makes him smart again, Clumsy and Dimwitty become friends once more.

Smurfette

Smurfette is friendly and nice towards Clumsy as he is usually very sweet towards others. The two are good friends and Smurfette oftentimes shows a very protective nature towards Clumsy, namely when he's being ill-treated by the other Smurfs due to his clumsiness. As was seen during the “The Smurfic Games” episode wherein, Smurfette purposely picked Clumsy as her partner to show the other Smurfs that winning isn't everything and that having fun is all that matters. Similarly, in "Clumsy Luck" after Clumsy accidently damages Vanity's mirror for seven years of bad luck and Brainy announces that he’s bad luck and must be quarantined, Smurfette was one of the few Smurfs that stood up for Clumsy and claimed that that was superstitious nonsense and his bad luck was just the result of accidents.

However, she is not above growing angry with him herself if his clumsiness causes trouble to her personally. Such as if he breaks something of hers or gets her clothes dirty.

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Clumsy and Smurfette dancing in "Smurfily Ever After".

In the 1980s series, Clumsy, just like all the other Smurfs, displayed a romantic interest in Smurfette. Though Smurfette did not show any specific interest in any Smurf in particular, she did show Clumsy some affection and was one of the few Smurfs that she imagined possibly marrying in the episode "Smurfily Ever After".

His affection towards Smurfette was not necessarily absolute however, as he did also develop a small crush on Pansy, an equally clumsy Pussywillow Pixie. In the ending of the 80s series episode, "The Pussywillow Pixies", Pansy tries to kiss him only for the two of them to fall and bond over their klutziness. The episode then closes with a heart around them when she successfully kisses him on the cheek and he giggles bashfully.

At many times during the live action "non-canonical" Smurfs films, Smurfette cares a lot about Clumsy and occasionally worries about him. It is implied that she is his love interest in the 2011 and 2013 live-action films.

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Clumsy and Smurfette dancing in the 2021 episode "Clumsy Not Clumsy".

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Clumsy and Dimwitty annoy Smurfette so she will quit the fire brigade in "You're Fired!".

In the new canonical 2021 series, Clumsy displays a very minor attraction towards Smurfette, such as seen when he dreamily waves at her in the episode "The Smurfs Show" and in "Clumsy Not Clumsy" when after his name had been changed to Graceful due to the magic amulet Gargamel gave him, Smurfette dances with him and is impressed with his dance moves. Despite this however, he doesn't really seem interested in her as he did in the previous series and primarily views her as a friend only. He can even grow jealous of her, as seen in the episode, "You're Fired!" when he and Dimwitty grow envious of her outshining them as firefighters.

Papa Smurf

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Papa given Clumsy his trophy.

One of Clumsy's biggest supporters is Papa Smurf. He considers Clumsy's sensitivity and recognizes that his clumsiness is not (naturally) controllable, rarely getting angry at him for such accidents. Because of this, Clumsy is often defended by Papa, who also urges the Smurfs to give him a fair chance in everyday group activities, such as smurfball games. When Papa Smurf was given the news that Clumsy had presumably died in "Clumsy Luck", he sat on a mushroom and sobbed, mourning "[his] poor Clumsy". After it's revealed he is alive and well, Papa cries tears of joy and claims he's "never been so happy to see a Smurf in [his] life".

However, he is unenthusiastic about Clumsy being one of the rescuers that will save the Smurfs from danger in "The Majestic 5" and orders him to go somewhere where he won't destroy anything in "Flying Ace".

Chef Smurf

Clumsy and Chef have interacted before, though it depends on whether or not it is positive. In "Kitchen Klutz", Clumsy saves Chef's life and Chef decides to appoint Clumsy as the new chef. Throughout the beginning of the episode, Chef is very patient as Clumsy is new to the food business and does his best to assign him simple job. They're partnership, however, becomes strained when Clumsy reveals that it was him who accidentally pushed the giant boulder and Chef does not want to see Clumsy in his kitchen anymore. They're on good terms after that as Clumsy's new dish, which he made when Chef got knocked out with a rolling pin, and Chef allows Clumsy to cook again.

In both "Adventures In Smurfsitting" and "You're Fired!", Chef gets mad at Clumsy and Dimwitty for ruining his cooking (and calls both of them "good-for-nothings", although this was likely out of sheer frustration). In "Waffle Wednesday", Clumsy is a part of Chef's plan to end Lily's waffle business.

Handy Smurf

Clumsy is also seen frequently with Handy, though he can get frustrated with him. In "One Good Smurf Deserves Another", after Handy saved Clumsy from Gargamel, Clumsy wanted to repay Handy's kindness, accidentally causing trouble for him. Afterwards, Handy harshly told Clumsy to stop helping him and forget what he had done for him, hurting Clumsy's feelings. Seeing the other Smurfs glare at him for that, Handy asks Clumsy to collect wood for him, which Clumsy happily agrees to. Handy and the other Smurfs try to solve this problem by making instances where Handy can pretend to be in danger and Clumsy will save him, but it continuously ends with Handy saving Clumsy instead. The last plan involved Handy being caught by an (unknowingly beforehand) real monster, which Clumsy managed to rescue him from, finally making them even.

In "Flying Ace", Handy agrees to Clumsy's idea of flying and in the end, he lets Clumsy "fly" around his workshop.

Smurfstorm

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When Clumsy and Smurfstorm first met in Smurfs: The Lost Village, Clumsy explains who Gargamel was and when they ride Spitfire the Dragonfly is respected by Storm for his quick thinking and ability to ride the insect.

In "An Unsmurfy Friendship", Storm chooses Clumsy on her smurfball team.

Other Characters

He is very friendly to (and fond of) animals and even becomes friends with various clumsy creatures of the forest, such as a bird called the Hopping crane, a Pussywillow Pixie named Pansy, and a little monkey which he called "Chimpy". In Smurfs: The Lost Village, he is shown to befriend Spitfire the Dragonfly. In the episode "Fuzzle Trouble", Clumsy temporarily adopts a pet Fuzzle.

In the 2011 Smurfs movie, Grace Winslow confided with Clumsy that she too was accident-prone until she met her husband Patrick and encouraged him that he can be more than just his name.

Achievements

1981 TV Series

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Clumsy with his Smurfic Games prize.

During "The Smurfic Games", Clumsy was unwanted by the two teams of East and West, so Smurfette (upset by Clumsy's mistreatment) pairs with him to make a team of their own, with Clumsy as the captain and Hefty and Handy leading East and West, respectively. After 9 events, each team was tied with 3 games won, much to the shock of fellow Smurfs since Clumsy and Smurfette were the underdogs.

The tiebreaker then came: the Smurfathon. When Jokey set off one of his explosive "gifts", Clumsy just blocked his ears, letting Hefty and Handy get a head start. Both of them were then caught in a mishap along the way, and Hefty saves Handy, thus allowing Clumsy to unknowingly overtake. In the end, Clumsy wins the Smurfic Games, being the first Smurf to do so.

Ironically, Clumsy is one of the Smurfs who often ends up saving the others. While these rescues can sometimes be due to a fortunate accident, Clumsy is capable of some quick thinking on his own.

Predictable Smurfs (Clumsy wins a trophy)

Clumsy with his trophy

In "Predictable Smurfs", Clumsy saves the Smurfs from Gargamel during their annual Spring regatta and thus receives the winner's trophy as a reward (which Lazy has no objection to).

In "Clumsy In Command", Clumsy is given the opportunity to lead the expedition to gather purple Pandy root on Mount Majestic. He only receives the support (and team) of the Smurflings, as his fellow Smurfs are much too worried about the danger his clumsiness could cause on such a hike. Brainy argues that he should lead the expedition and Grandpa Smurf suggests making his own team, turning the expedition into a race.

Brainy's team think Clumsy doesn't have a chance at winning but fail to succeed in anything besides bickering with each other. When a boulder they attempt to climb on dislodges from its spot, the group is trapped rolling down the mountain until it comes to a stop. With quick thinking and rock-collecting knowledge, Clumsy and the Smurflings are able to stabilize the boulder and save Brainy's team. After both parties arrive back at the village, Clumsy receives a trophy, which he attempts to share with Brainy.

2021 TV Series

Despite their flaws, Clumsy and Dimwitty are able to do their Fire Brigade job well. They are the most knowledgeable about firefighting and can tell you whatever it is about their job.

In "The Majestic 5", he was one of the Smurfs who was a part of the rescue team to save the Smurfs from Gargamel. He and the other four Smurfs end up saving the day.

In "Flying Ace", he and Handy attempt to stop Handy's out of control plane. They successfully stop it before it crashes or one of them gets hurt.

In "I'm Off To The Circus!", he stops Gargamel and Azrael from stealing the Smurfs, who disguised themselves as acrobats. Clumsy, just learning about this, defeats them using his clumsiness.

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In The Movies

The Smurfs And The Magic Flute

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Clumsy in bandages.

In this movie, he appears for a brief moment with Handy Smurf as he has finished his latest invention. Clumsy touches some of his tools and ends up in casts when they hit him.

The Smurfs

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Clumsy tries out liquid soap and burps out a bubble.

In the 2011 Smurfs movie, Clumsy is one of the few Smurfs that travel through time to modern-day New York City. He is accidentally taken to the Winslow's' apartment by Patrick Winslow and tries to escape their dog Elway by hiding in the bathroom. Patrick's wife Grace rescued Clumsy from being in the toilet, though his presence scared her at first. Eventually the other Smurfs find him in the apartment and reason with them to let them stay with them long enough in order to open the portal back to their own time with the next blue moon. However, Papa Smurf, seeing Clumsy in a vision seemingly failing to catch a dragon wand, has Clumsy stay behind in the apartment with Grace while the others go look for a "stargazer". Clumsy only goes along with Grace in order to retrieve the other Smurfs who are holed up in Patrick's office, but upon reaching the FAO Schwarz toy store they depart and head inside to search for the "stargazer". Inside the store, Clumsy is mistaken for a toy by some girls and is brought to the cashier in order to scan him for a price tag.

Eventually, he is rescued and brought back home to the Winslows' apartment where he is told to stay put a second time. However, when Papa Smurf was captured by Gargamel in the magic bookstore, he told the other Smurfs with him not to come back for him, but since Papa Smurf never told Clumsy to do the same, Clumsy decided that he was going to rescue Papa Smurf, which encouraged the other Smurfs to do the same. During the final battle with Gargamel and the dragon wand, Clumsy leaps to grab it as it falls from Gutsy's grasp, but as he seemingly fails to grab it, he succeeds in doing so and saves the other Smurfs present by blasting Gargamel with the wand and causing him to land in a pile of garbage bags. By the end of the movie, Papa Smurf expresses how proud he is of Clumsy.

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol

Clumsy appears in The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol. He is one of the Smurfs shown opening their gifts (a new hat) from Papa Smurf. Later, in the vision the Ghost of Christmas Present (Brainy) shows Grouchy, Clumsy accidentally causes a chain of events that leads to the village Christmas tree bursting into flames.

The Smurfs 2

Clumsy appears in The Smurfs 2 as one of the main characters. His latest accident causes him traveling to present-day Paris with Papa Smurf, Grouchy, and Vanity to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel and the Naughties.

The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow

Clumsy appears in The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow. He, along with Hefty and Panicky, were stranded in the forest while pulling a cart of smurfberries that Panicky broke. Then Narrator appeared and told them the story. And in the end, the four Smurfs got chased by bats.

Smurfs: The Lost Village

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Clumsy is one of the main characters in the film Smurfs: The Lost Village, and part of a "Team Smurf" that also includes Smurfette, Hefty, and Brainy. He is the first Smurf to appear in the film, pushing a wheelbarrow of smurfberries into Smurf Village only to trip up. He later drops a vile of liquid created by Brainy's Smurfy Thing Finder based on an analysis of Hefty's strength which proves to have explosive properties. When the four friends later go Smurfboarding, Clumsy jumps into a barrel and rolls along instead of surfing; the group's subsequent encounter with a mysterious Smurf and Gargamel leads to them being grounded by Papa Smurf. However, all four later sneak out of the village in order to investigate a mysterious lost village of Smurfs they learned of due to Gargamel's magic.

After encountering a number of the strange plants and animals of the Forbidden Forest where the village is hidden, Clumsy and his friends are forced into a tunnel network due to Gargamel tricking a group of Dragonflies. Clumsy soon begins to panic, but he and his friends eventually make their way out of the tunnels, thanks in part to a rabbit named Bucky. That night, while sitting around a campfire, the four speculate on the nature of the mystery Smurfs, before taking a picture using Brainy's assistant Snappy. They then came to a river that they soon sailed on by building a raft, with Hefty providing Clumsy with a life preserver. Following another encounter with Gargamel, the group ended up in the river and fell over a waterfall and ended up washing up on the shore of a small lake.

Following an argument between his three teammates in which Clumsy briefly attempts to become involved, the four are captured by the Smurfs of the lost village, and soon learn a shocking truth: they are in fact Smurf Girls not created by Gargamel. After suffering through the initial curiosity-including swarming and prodding-of the female Smurfs, Clumsy is taken along by Smurfstorm on a flight on Spitfire to check on the whereabouts of Gargamel, who is revealed to be heading for the wrong landmark. During the flight, they are attacked by Gargamel's vulture Monty and Smurfstorm hands the "reins" to Clumsy despite his lack of confidence with regards to his flight ability. However, he proves to have a unique knack for flying, surprising both Stormy and he, and they make their escape from the wizard. Unfortunately, during this flight he reveals Smurfette's origins to a paranoid Stormy, who confronts Smurfette upon their return to Smurfy Grove.

The villagers of Smurfy Grove, an arriving Papa, Hefty, Brainy, and Clumsy were subsequently captured by Gargamel and taken back to Gargamel's castle to be drained of their magical energy. Fortunately, Smurfette, whom Gargamel had left behind, tricked the wizard, using her unique attributes to drain the magic out of Gargamel and back into the Smurfs. Unfortunately, the process caused her to revert to her original form of a lump of clay, which the Smurfs and Smurf Girls took back to Smurf Village in order to mourn. However, the inherent magic of all 200 Smurfs restored Smurfette to life, which Clumsy was the first to discover and celebrate. All the Smurfs then joined in a massive celebration.

Smurf Video Games

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Clumsy's hut in Smurfs' Village

Smurfs' Village

In the Smurfs' Village game, Clumsy is bought back to the village at Level 20 and often gives tasks. Clumsy has his own hut that has an almost collapsed roof, hence containing a mini game where he has to get some toolboxes to fix it. In this game, Clumsy often trips, so he will reward you 180 XP if you help him back up (you tap him when there is a red exclamation point above his head). Although, if tapped too late, he will not give the player any XP. His hut costs 30 smurfberries.

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The Smurfs 2: The Video Game

In The Smurfs 2 video game, Clumsy is a playable character from the start.

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The Smurfs: Mission Vileaf

Clumsy does not appear in this game. However, he is mentioned by Poet, with the latter claiming that he is not up to the challenge to stop Gargamel's Vileaf.

Smurfs Kart

Clumsy makes an appearance in the game as one of the twelve characters you can play. His special power is turning on the flashing light of his fire engine kart to overtake its competitors.

Appearances

See Clumsy Smurf/Appearances.

Trivia

  • He is one of the most recognizable Smurf characters, along with Smurfette, Papa Smurf, Brainy, and select others.
  • Clumsy is voiced by the late Anton Yelchin in the 2011 live-action movie and is the main protagonist. Unlike the 1981 series, he lacks a Southern accent. He does, however, have a Southern accent in Smurfs: The Lost Village, in which he is voiced by Jack McBrayer.
  • An unnamed Smurf known as "Schtroumpf avec la tete pres du bonnet" (which translates to "Smurf with his head near the hat" with the Smurf having a droop on his hat) in the 100 Smurfs Poster looks similar to Clumsy's 1981 TV series design, with the Smurf having a droop on his hat. Despite this, Clumsy Smurf did not make an official appearance in Smurf media prior to the animated adaptation of "The Smurfs And The Magic Flute" and would eventually receive a similar design bearing close resemblance to the unnamed Smurf in the 1981 TV series.
  • Clumsy is the only Smurf to have the honor in the Smurfic Games, the games based on the human Olympics.
  • In the Smurfs and the Magic Flute and the comic books (prior to "Smurfs: The Village Behind The Wall" onwards), his trademark attribute (the droop on his hat) isn't seen and can only be distinguishable when his clumsiness is identified.
  • In the comic book series and the 2021 TV series, he does not seem to be best friends with Brainy as they don't interact often. Instead, he is established to be best friends with Dopey as he is not portrayed as an expy of Dopey as in the 1981 TV series.
  • Clumsy and Dimwitty appear to live together in the 2021 TV series, living in the fire brigade house. However, Clumsy is seen in a separate house in "A Smurfy Christmas", likely meaning that they have two houses.
  • Clumsy can't do a cartwheel, as proven in "Sideshow Smurfs".
  • In the 1981 TV series, Clumsy often refers to animals using diminutives, such as 'mousy' and 'birdie'.
  • In promotional material and merchandise that followed the cartoon's debut in 1981, Clumsy was often depicted with what seemed to be an earlier design. This design depicts him with a backwards hat and nearly closed eyes, the original stock art using a pose seen on Lazy's model sheet as the base. A licensing sheet from the Wallace Berrie company also labels said art as both 'Dimwit' (implicating that his 1981 TV series incarnation is an expy of Dopey) and 'Clumsy'.
  • For various promotional material and some official licensed products for the 2011 and 2013 movies. Clumsy's live-action model is mostly used for unnamed Smurfs. Oddly enough, in older material for the first 2011 movie, there was an actual live-action model for a generic Smurf.
  • Dopey and Clumsy are often confused by comic book readers to be the same character due to their similar clumsy personalities, while others misinterpreted that Dopey is a forerunner to Clumsy due to the latter's 1981 TV series counterpart being an expy of Dopey had a similar personality to the actual Dopey. This is proven to be false as Clumsy and Dopey are portrayed as separate characters in both the comic books and 2021 TV series such as "Doctor Smurf" and "Smurf Heroes".
  • He, Papa Smurf, Grandpa Smurf, Baby Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy, Hefty, Handy, Greedy, Grouchy, Lazy, Vanity, Jokey, Painter, Wild, Sassette, Snappy, and Smoogle are the only characters who time traveled during Season 9 with the Time Scrolls.
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