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"Papa Loses His Patience" is a Season 9 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Papa Smurf's patience ends up in a bullfighter El Gargo, thanks to Brainy.

Plot Summary[]

The Smurfs arrives at a Spanish town. When they arrive, a chef walks pass a water fountain and the wind of the time crystals appear and the Smurfs all land on the fountain, except Greedy. He lands on a plate of food which the chef is holding. He feels the food is too hot and jumps off the plate. He lands near by two dancers. A dancer kicks him away and he lands on the fountain. Meanwhile, Grandpa Smurf tells the Smurfs that they should be arrived on the "Land of Toros" as Brainy said that Papa Smurf have failed to bring them home. When he finishes, Greedy lands on the fountain and hits Brainy. Handy tells Brainy that Papa had tried many times and pay a lot of effort on the time crystals as he picks up a crystal and gives it to Papa Smurf. Papa Smurf received the crystals and leads the Smurfs out of the fountains to a safer place to resemble the crystals.

As the Smurfs are finding a safer place, they go to a bullfighting stadium. They hide behind some barrels, and they saw a bullfighter (later known as El Gargo) was having bullfight training. El Gargo, the bullfighter is having a bullfight training with his cat. But he is so impatient that he trips himself with the bullfighting cloth. Meanwhile, his master Sir Don Señor Citizen comes to scold him and hot him with as to tell him he needs to be patient. El Gargo tries to defend himself, but Sir Don Señor Citizen keeps on scolding him and left with anger. El Gargo resumes his training again as two bullfighter enters the stadium. They saw El Gargo training and heard that he is going fight against the most powerful bull, they laugh at him.

El Gargo gets angry and argues with them, but his cat rushes into him and pushes him into the sky. He lands on the barrels at the entrance. Sir Don Señor Citizen comes again, he scolds and hits him again. Saying that he is hopeless unless he has patience.

Soon, the Smurfs find a safe place in the woods. Some of them are setting up the fire and preparing for a meal, Papa Smurf and Brainy are at the lakeside to resemble the time crystals. Brainy tries to help Papa Smurf on the crystals. He puts a piece of crystal to finish the whole set of crystals, the crystals collapses, and Papa Smurf has to resemble them again. Papa Smurf is furious as Brainy creates a trouble. He tells Brainy that resembling these crystals needs a lot of time and patience and he has made a mess. Brainy tries to explain to Papa Smurf and leaves there. He trips on a rock, and he also knocks down Papa Smurf's spell book and opens it. Brainy reads it and he finds out a way to make Papa Smurf to work more faster by making a magical potion.

Papa's patience is getting away
Papa's patience is getting away!

Brainy finds Papa Smurf when the potion is done. Papa Smurf knows that it will not be something good, but before he could refuse, Brainy has already spilled the potion on Papa Smurf's face. Papa Smurf asks Brainy what he is doing and at the same time, some kind of magical power hangs Papa Smurf in the air. The magical power carries Papa Smurf's patience away and drops Papa Smurf on the ground. Brainy found that he made another trouble, but it was too late. Papa Smurf turns impatient and grumpy. Brainy tries to explain but Papa Smurf blames at him and leaves him. Brainy tells Papa Smurf that he still has to resemble the crystals, but Papa Smurf is impatient that he breaks the crystals into pieces again.

Meanwhile, at the stadium, the bullfight competition is going to begin.  Unfortunately, the first bull in the competition is the most powerful bull in town, the bullfighters are very afraid and discussing who will go first. Suddenly, El Gargo appears and tell the others he will go first. The others laughs again as they think he is going to lose anyway. El Gargo is full of wills of fight but when the bull enters the stadium, he is also very afraid. Sir Don Señor Citizen is sitting on the spectator's stand, blaming at El Gargo that he has never seen a bullfighter as bad as him. The competition starts, and the bull sees El Gargo and his red cloth and runs towards him at the highest speed, El Gargo fails to dodge, and he spins when the bull passes by, making his red cloth covers his eyes and cannot see. The bull runs towards him again, collides with him, El Gargo is flown into the air and lands on flagpole with anger.

Suddenly, Papa Smurf’s patience entered to his mind. He became patient and fights with the bull again. While El Gargo enters the stadium again, everyone booed at him as he is too bad in bull fighting. This time, he successes by letting the bull crashed into the target. Both the audiences and Sir Don Señor Citizen are amazed, and everyone cheers for him.

El Gargo the patient
El Gargo has mysteriously become famous.

Brainy tries to escape but Grandpa Smurf stops him. Brainy admits that he makes a potion and makes Papa Smurf become impatience, He also suggests that the Smurfs should get back Papa Smurf’s patience as soon as possible. Papa Smurf leaves the Smurfs and enters the town. The Smurfs follows him.

In town, Smurfette sees an El Gargo’s poster. The Smurfs hears the people call him as “El Gargo the patience”. The Smurf cannot believe that El Gargo was called as “Patience”, they soon guess that Papa’s patience goes into El Gargo. Back to the stadium, El Gargo, keeps on winning. Papa Smurf wants to get his patience back. Handy has an idea and calls the Smurfs to work.

Handy soon builds an invention called the “Bull-O-Matic”, a robot bull. Papa Smurf sees that it is going to be done and drives it away. Handy tries to stop, but it is too fast to catch up. The “Bull-O-Matic” soon enters the stadium, and the other Smurfs arrive. At the same time, El Gargo has won most of the bulls in the stadium. The “Bull-O-Matic” suddenly passes El Gargo and he is surprised as the robotic bull can speak (Actually, Papa Smurf, the driver of the bull spoke instead of the bull itself), The bull soon heads to El Gargo. El Gargo falls down to dodge the bull. The bull rushes to El Gargo again and knocks him down. He is thrown into the air by the bull and lands on the bull’s belly. The bull kicks El Gargo to the target and he crashes into it. At the same time, Papa Smurf’s patience goes away from El Gargo. Papa Smurf gets the patience back. Everyone is dissatisfied with El Gargo’s performance at the moment, and they throw things at him. The defeated bulls see this and go for revenge, El Gargo finally runs away. The stadium is a mess as the angry bulls are running everywhere. Papa Smurf saves the other Smurfs and carries them away from the stadium by the robotic bull.

Papa Smurf comes out from the robotic bull and the Smurfs are happy to see Papa Smurf with his patience back. He thanks Handy for his help. At the same time, Brainy come and annoyed them and he is thrown away into a fountain by Papa Smurf. Brainy looks up to the audience by saying that it's so great to have a patient Papa Smurf back.

Trivia[]

Goofs[]

  • Greedy makes "smurfspacho" soup over a fire. Gazpacho soup is served cold.
  • In the shot of Papa Smurf assuming that his patience is in the hands of someone else, he speaks without moving his mouth.

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