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"Crying Smurfs" is a Season 6 episode from the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Papa Smurf spills some of his potion on an onion, making all the Smurfs to cry unstoppably.

Plot Summary[]

Smurfette wakes up due to Weepy's crying and asks him what the matter is. He tells her that one of her flowers is dying (although they look fine) and starts wailing. Smurfette consoles her friend, telling him that flowers can be replaced. Meanwhile, at his lab, Papa Smurf is demonstrating his new formula. However, something went wrong, and it explodes, sending him flying out of his house, just as Weepy sees him and goes to catch him just in time, only to have them both crash into a heap of logs. Papa Smurf thanks Weepy for saving him in time, but all Weepy can do in response to him is wail and blame his own accident of having Papa Smurf's roof blown to smithereens. Papa Smurf calms him down and tells him that it'll take a while for a roof to be fixed, but Weepy tells him that it isn't only one thing but another and walks away - still crying.

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Along the way, Weepy meets Hefty who is exercising as usual. Hefty gets fed up with the way Weepy has been crying all the time, although Weepy is unable to help it because he is worried about Smurfette's flowers and Papa Smurf. All of a sudden - one of the dumbbells Hefty is exercising with falls on his foot, which is seriously hurt. Farmer arrives and tells Weepy that he has to help Greedy for his salad, while Hefty walks away to sort out his injured foot.

Soon, the Smurfs starts to mend Papa Smurf's room, just as he finishes his new formula. Later, Weepy and Farmer arrive to find out where a certain smell is coming from, then Papa Smurf comes out showing a rose, which is the source of the smell. Farmer thinks it's the prettiest rose he has ever smurfed, then Papa Smurf asks Weepy what he thinks of it, when Weepy nearly collapses into Papa Smurf's hands, which spills his new formula into an onion! Weepy comments that it's simply wonderful, which makes Papa Smurf feeling pleased and he went off to test his formula on a smurfberry. Then Farmer and Weepy take some crops to Greedy for his salad, with Weepy carrying some basket of onions - still crying.

Greedy thanks Farmer and Weepy for their work and goes on to make his salad. However, as he is about to cut an onion to slices, a strong smell comes up to his eyes - causing him to start crying. Later as the Smurfs are called to have their salad by Greedy, Smurfette checks on Hefty to ask him if he would like to join in, which he responds they can go on without having him around. But no sooner after Smurfette and the other Smurfs have their salad, they all started crying too, due to the strong smell of the onion. Even Smurfette cries for her flowers, Poet's tears soak the poem he tries to recite, and Jokey cries so much, that his present gets all soak and unable to explode.

Soon, Hefty arrives to find the weepers at the village well, longing to smile again. Smurfette's response to him that it is too sad to talk about, and they continue crying - although they do not know that their tears fill up the well and start to flood the village. Hefty comments that he can't stand crybabies, and he also claims that a tough Smurf like him never cries. Meanwhile, Papa Smurf and Weepy arrive back at the village, only to find the whole place has been flooded with tears!

Soon, Papa Smurf realizes what has caused a problem, after he puts a glass on top of a strong-smelling onion. Weepy wails and blames himself over the accident while trying to hug Hefty, who tells him to smurf over it. Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs not to cry over 'spilled milk' and with a party consisting of himself, Grouchy, Handy, Hefty, and Weepy, go to find a slime pond outside Gargamel's castle to make his antidote. Weepy thinks the situation is terrible and bumps into Hefty, who tells him to get over it. Weepy cries that he wants to go by himself as it is all his fault, but Papa Smurf tells him that it is best for him to stay put, and he and the other Smurfs carry on walking.

They reach their destination and Hefty fills up the mud into the beaker glass, but as they are about to go back to the Smurf village, Gargamel was back with Azrael to catch them for his meal. They escape, dropping and emptying the glass in the process, and the two fiends chase after them through the woods, but luckily Weepy who has been following them has hidden in a bunch of grass, and as soon as they are gone, he goes to the slime pond to re-fill the mud for Papa Smurf's antidote. As the chasing continues, Weepy fills up the beaker with mud and goes back to find Papa Smurf - only to have find that Papa Smurf is nowhere to be seen. However, Papa Smurf and Hefty have heard Weepy, and realize he must have followed them. All alone and feeling disheartened, Weepy starts crying again, blaming himself for having Papa Smurf being eaten by Azrael. But he doesn't cry for long, as he sees the cat coming up from behind his back and runs off to hide in a bush. Azrael jumps into it and scrambles about inside, leaving the other Smurfs watching in horror as the cat chews Weepy's handkerchief in his mouth. Just as Gargamel comes to get his cat out of the bush, they all hide. As Gargamel asks his cat what he has got in his mouth, they both see Weepy who is still hiding from the bottom of the bush - still crying over his fate. Then Gargamel grabs him (causing Weepy to drop the antidote to the ground), and the two fiends walk back home to have their Smurf dinner. After they are gone, the Smurfs, who have missed what has happened, come out of hiding. Papa Smurf is relieved to find the beaker with the antidote refilled - and still left in one piece, and then realizes Weepy must have been responsible for this. Then Hefty finds Weepy's 'chewed' handkerchief and tells his friends that is what's all left of Weepy, causing Handy and Grouchy to start crying again.

Back at the village, the antidote is ready to stop the Smurfs' crying. Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs that if it wasn't for Weepy, he would never have finished his antidote. And Hefty admits he too thought they were goners. All the other Smurfs think Weepy was so brave. Meanwhile, at his castle, Gargamel prepares to celebrate his success and cook his dinner. Weepy overhears his comments of 'being a failure' and once again starts to cry, this time for Gargamel. Gargamel is surprised to see a Smurf express sympathy for him for once. Meanwhile, at the village, although the antidote has stopped the crying, the Smurfs are still mourning for their crying friend. Even Hefty feels a little teary in spite of himself, and Smurfette assures him that it's ok for him to cry if he feels so sad. But Hefty feels so angry that he decides he has to do something about it and goes off to find where Weepy's body has gone to.

Later on, back at his castle, Gargamel is so affected by Weepy's crying from feeling sorry for the wizard that he starts to cry as well, over the fact that no one respects him - including his fellow wizards, as well as his mother. Then Hefty climbs up a window of the castle and is shocked to see Weepy still alive! Gargamel and Weepy continue to weep together, until the wizard suddenly realizes he is crying with a Smurf and grabs him out of his cage to cook him for dinner. But as soon as the wizard is about to drop his little prisoner into his cauldron, Hefty jumps into a knife to send an onion flying into Gargamel's eyes, causing Weepy to fall to his fate - only to be rescued by the stronger Smurf just in time. Soon they both escape and head back to the village, while the evil wizard has his cauldron stuck on his head, ranting on failing once again.

After they both safely return home, Hefty tells his crying friend that when he thought Weepy had been a goner, he had felt bad about it- and finally bursts into tears! Smurfette tries to comfort him, while Weepy feels so touched that Hefty cares for him that he cries yet again, though this time from happiness. Then they are both still crying endlessly as Papa Smurf hands them their handkerchiefs to stop their teary eyes, commenting that they're one happy family again.

Trivia[]

  • Hefty has cried before; a few examples being "Smurf Me No Flowers", "Clumsy Luck", "Hefty And The Wheelsmurfer", "The Abominable Snowbeast", and "Smurfquest".
  • In the syndicated version, four parts have been edited out:
    • Hefty's dumbbell falls on his foot as he remarks Weepy for being a crybaby Smurf.
    • Smurfette checks on Hefty as Greedy calls the Smurfs out for lunch.
    • Poet's tears soak his poem before Hefty walks in to see the crying Smurfs.
    • Weepy asks Hefty if it is the good time to cry, as they both escape from Gargamel and Azrael.
    • The entire soundtrack was also sped up and is 2x higher than usual in pitch octave in the syndicated version of the episode.
  • Weepy, Hefty, and Papa Smurf are the only Smurfs to not be affected by Papa Smurf's formula.
  • Papa Smurf and Azrael are the only characters not to cry throughout the episode.
  • This is one of the few episodes in which none of the new characters that were introduced from Season 5 to this season (i.e., the Smurflings, Grandpa Smurf, Puppy, and Scruple) appear in.
    • Oddly, Brainy does not appear in this episode either.

Goofs[]

  • Throughout the entire episode, Hefty's tattoo is seen on both arms.
  • In one shot, as Poet is reading his poem about Weepy to the other Smurfs, Handy's overalls disappear.

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