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"Jokey's Medicine" is a Season 1 episode of the 1980s Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis

Smurfette, Greedy, and Lazy want to punish Jokey for his jokes.

Plot Summary

It's a normal day in the Smurf Village and Jokey enters into Greedy's kitchen giving him one of his "surprises". Greedy opens it, wondering what it could be, when it explodes on him, causing part of his cake to go splat on him. Jokey also gives his "surprises" to a few other Smurfs along the way, namely Hefty, Lazy, and Smurfette, who are none too pleased about finding out what they really are. Later on, as Smurfette, Greedy, and Lazy sit around the fire roasting smurf-kebabs and talking about Jokey's surprises, they start hearing scary howling noises coming from the forest and see a scary pumpkin face approaching them, causing them to quake in fear. However, the scary noises and pumpkin face are revealed to be Jokey playing another one of his pranks on his fellow Smurfs, and it only makes them angry enough for at least Smurfette to say, "One of these days, Jokey Smurf!".

Smurfette mad Jokey's Medicine

Uh-oh, Smurfette's not happy!

Jokey's pranks go a little too far the following day when Greedy and Lazy are carrying a log through the village and Jokey saws the log in half, causing Lazy to walk without looking into Papa Smurf's laboratory while he is busy with an experiment. Then Greedy becomes a victim of another prank when he finds a bunch of smurfberries lying on the ground to eat in the forest and Jokey causes Greedy to be catapulted into the air with a seesaw that he was standing near, only to land in a rowboat that Harmony and Smurfette were riding in. Finally fed up with the nastiness of Jokey's humor, Smurfette and Greedy decide it is time to give the village prankster a taste of his own medicine.

As Jokey goes out into the forest for a morning walk, he passes by a hole and hears laughter coming from it. He wonders what all the laughter is about and calls out to whatever in the hole is causing the laughter, but all he hears is more laughter. This makes him so curious that he goes down into the hole and runs down the tunnel where he sees a light -- until he sees a hideous Smurf shadow forming in the light. This starts to make Jokey rather worried even as the light goes out and he sees three pairs of eyes surrounding him in the dark, wondering what the mysterious beings want. Then the light comes back on to reveal that Smurfette, Greedy, and Lazy were hiding in the tunnel waiting to play a prank right back on him.

Jokey doesn't find it funny that he has become the butt of somebody else's prank. But as the three other Smurfs are laughing at Jokey's reaction, he notices Gargamel's cat Azreal is sneaking up behind them in the tunnel. He tries to warn his fellow Smurfs, but they think Jokey is just playing another one of his jokes on them -- until they hear Azrael directly behind them and realize for once Jokey wasn't pulling their leg. Jokey manages to escape as the cat chases the other three Smurfs down a tunnel until they find a plug they can open at a dead end and use it to escape. But Jokey realizes that his fellow Smurfs are in danger and so decides to misdirect Azrael long enough to get himself and the other Smurfs to safety.

However, the passage that the plug opens to leads them into Gargamel's castle, which at the moment they find empty until its owner returns and smells their scent, realizing that there are Smurfs in his house. Gargamel finds Smurfette, Greedy, and Lazy at the door trying to escape only to be stopped by Azrael blocking their exit. He scoops them up with his hand and drops them inside the stew pot, saying that it's fortunate that they came around lunchtime. Then Azrael catapults Jokey into the air with a mousetrap that catches his paw, causing him to be caught by the evil wizard.

Before Gargamel puts Jokey into the stew pot, the village prankster gives him a present he could open. Joining his fellow Smurfs inside the pot, Jokey tells them to get ready because the joke will be on Gargamel. As the four Smurfs peek through the pot's lid to watch, Gargamel opens up the gift box only to find it exploding on him. The four Smurfs use the distraction to escape from the pot, but then Gargamel turns his attention to the pot, saying that they still have four Smurfs for lunch, when he sees that all that's left in the pot is another present, which like the first one explodes on him. The Smurfs make it out of the castle and back into the woods, pleased that Jokey's pranks were put into effective use for getting them out of the clutches of the evil wizard. There's another explosion in Gargamel's castle and he groans. The Smurfs can't resist laughing at Gargamel and Azrael.

Back in the village, Smurfette tells Brainy about Jokey using his jokes on Gargamel, and while Brainy uses this opportunity to argue his case about whether the ends truly justify the means, Jokey decides to play a joke on Brainy by dropping one of his surprises on him. However, Brainy plays hot potato with the surprise until it ends up rising back into the air to blow up near Jokey hiding on the roof of a Smurf house. All Jokey could say to that is that it wasn't funny.

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Trivia

  • This is the first episode of the series in which Clumsy does not appear in and the only season 1 episode that does not feature him.
  • The beginning shot recycles footage from "The Smurf's Apprentice".
  • The scene where Jokey presents Hefty with a gift is very similar to the scene in "King Smurf". Jokey also says "I guarantee you’ll get a Big Bang out of it" just like that episode.
  • In the syndicated version, the ending of the episode is cut out; the episode simply ends with the Smurfs laughing at Gargamel.
  • The voices in this episode are slightly deepened.
  • Papa Smurf has a minor role, though unlike the other episodes, he only speaks offscreen. He is seen earlier in the episode eating a Smurf's cake.

Goofs

  • Greedy's napkin continuously disappears and reappears throughout the episode.
    • His hat also changes from a chef-based hat to an average Smurf hat for a few shots in Gargamel's hovel.
  • Hefty does not have his trademark tattoo.
  • Smurfs in certain shots are depicted with strange off-model proportions, specifically very short bodies or too-big heads.
  • During the scene where Jokey lets Lazy into Papa Smurf's lab, the door is open on the outside of the lab instead of the inside. In the next shot after Jokey's close-up, the sign saying "PAPA SMURF LAB" is visible.

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