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"Petrified Smurfs" is a Season 4 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Peewit travels to the Quarrel Castle to reverse a spell with which Brainy has turned half of the forest into stone.

Plot Summary[]

In the Smurf Village, Papa Smurf has been burning the midnight oil translating spells from ancient texts in his laboratory, and the one he's currently working on is a spell that will turn half the forest to stone -- a spell that he sees could be very dangerous, but one that he feels that he must transcribe even if it takes all night.

By morning, as Peewit rides out into the forest with his mount Biquette to chop down a tree for the king, Brainy is delivering a stack of books to Papa Smurf's laboratory, desiring to have the village leader be the first to read his latest edition of Quotations Of Brainy Smurf. He stumbles with his load upon reaching the door to the laboratory and sees that Papa Smurf is asleep at his lectern. Brainy decides to take a peek at what Papa Smurf has been working on the previous night and sees a transcribed spell that reads "ancient spell from the unknown, transform all of this to stone". Saying that he will believe it when he sees it, Brainy takes a quill from Papa Smurf's inkwell and recites the spell's incantation while tossing the quill into the air. Suddenly the quill turns to stone and lands on the ground broken, but just as it lands, the broken quill starts turning the ground under Brainy's feet to stone.

Papa Smurf wakes up to the sound of the broken quill and yells at Brainy, demanding to know what he has done. Brainy barely has any time to react when the spell's area of effect expands throughout the room, turning Brainy into stone. Papa Smurf says that only his friends at Quarrel Castle can help them now before he also turns to stone. The spell's area of effect then expands to the entire village, enveloping both Hefty and Clumsy just as the latter is watching the former doing weightlifting exercises. The area of effect eventually stops at the point where Peewit is chopping down a tree, with the young jester's next swing causing vibrations to course through his body when the axe's blade meets the tree.

Peewit then sees that half the forest has been turned to stone. Fearing the worst, he rides toward the Smurf Village and sees that it too has been turned to stone along with all the Smurfs in it. He looks inside Papa Smurf's laboratory to see that the village leader is also turned to stone, though he wonders why Papa Smurf is pointing toward a picture of a place that Peewit recognizes as "spooky old Quarrel Castle". He believes that Papa Smurf has left him a clue that he must follow up on, so he resolves to help Papa Smurf by traveling to Quarrel Castle even if it is haunted.

Upon reaching the castle's gates at nightfall, Peewit is greeted by Tharp the baby gargoyle, whom he first mistakes for a ghost. Peewit asks Tharp if he lives at the castle, saying that his friends the Smurfs have been turned to stone. Tharp becomes sad hearing about the Smurfs, which Peewit sees as meaning that the gargoyle knows about the Smurfs and is their friend. Tharp is eager to help Peewit out by showing who can help him, so the gargoyle takes the young jester inside the haunted castle, uncertain of who he wants to encounter in such a place. Peewit sees what he thinks is a ghost approaching him and runs for safety into another room, only to bump into what he thinks is another scary ghost. As it turns out, the two ghosts are actually Selwyn and Tallulah, the married sorcerer couple who live in Quarrel Castle, and true to the name of the place, they start bickering with each other about whose friend their nightly visitor must be when Tharp interrupts them, telling them that Peewit is his friend. However, the only thing that revelation does is start up another argument over who knew beforehand that Peewit is Tharp's friend.

Peewit interrupts that argument by telling Selwyn and Tallulah that his friends the Smurfs have been turned to stone by a magic spell and that they need the couple's help. Selwyn says that there is an old book called the Mystic Tome that may help solve the problem. Tallulah chimes in by saying that the book must be upstairs in the library, though Selwyn counters that by saying that it must be down in the cellar. This develops into an argument over who even wrote the Mystic Tome, which makes Tallulah feel so insulted that she turns Selwyn into a toad, leading to Selwyn turning Tallulah into an old bat. Peewit can only look at the couple and wonder if they ever stop quarreling with each other.

Realizing that he will have to look for the Mystic Tome without the help of either Selwyn or Tallulah, Peewit goes off with Tharp and tells the gargoyle that they should start their search for the book in the library and then work their way down to the cellar. As they begin their search, one of the pictures of the sorcerous couple's ancestors seems to come to life, morphing into a ghost, snickering to himself.

Peewit starts to feel hungry and asks Tharp if there's any food in the house to eat when he sees a full banquet laid out on a table in the castle's dining room. He picks up a drumstick and takes a bite into it, only to find that the drumstick itself is a spectral illusion. Then the ghost from one of the paintings appears in the dining room, asking Peewit if he could please pass the butter. This spooks Peewit to the point of running out of the dining room, leaving the ghost chuckling. In his flight from the dining room, Peewit falls through a trap door that opens beneath him and falls down into the cellar with Tharp joining him. Peewit decides that he will start his search in the cellar after all, but he doesn't get very far from his starting point when the ghost appears again, asking if he could give a hand. Peewit tries to flee but ends up tripping and falling on an open book right next to where he fell into the cellar.

Then, Peewit picks up the book and from briefly reading it realizes that it must be the Mystic Tome. The ghost tells Peewit that the Mystic Tome is his book, but Peewit refuses to hand it to the ghost and runs off with it, saying that he needs the book to save the Smurfs. The ghost tells Peewit to come back because he means to say that he was the one who wrote the book, but Peewit is too busy running for his life with the book to even listen to the ghost's pleas until after running up the stairs he bumps into one of the library's bookshelves and knocks the other books off it. Peewit looks at the mess of books on the floor and sees that he has lost the book, and now he needs to find it again even if it takes all night.

Tharp helps Peewit try to find the book again, tossing him one book after another for the young jester to check and see if it's the one, when the books start coming at him too fast for him to read. Peewit then sees the ghost appear again, saying that he was only trying to help. The ghost introduces himself as Selwyn and Tallulah's great uncle Fenwick Quarrel, saying that he isn't one of those ghosts that enjoys scaring people, and with a wave of his cane he makes the Mystic Tome arise from the pile of books. Peewit is glad that Uncle Fenwick can help, but Fenwick warns the young jester that the petrification spell must be reversed before sunrise or else the forest and Peewit's friends will remain in stone forever. Peewit says that he will cast the reversing spell right away, but Fenwick tells Peewit that the spell must be cast by two sorcerers simultaneously, which means that he must get Selwyn and Tallulah to cooperate with each other.

Speaking of which, the sorcerer couple are at the point in their ongoing argument that they decide that they are never going to speak to each other again. Peewit arrives in their bedroom to tell them both that they must recite the reversing spell together, but neither Selwyn nor Tallulah are willing to speak anything toward each other but insults. Peewit asks if the two could at least make up, for soon it will be too late. Tharp looks at a picture of Papa Smurf and weeps for the possibility of never seeing him alive again, which makes Tallulah's heart melt long enough to realize that she and Selwyn must put aside their bickering so that they can cast the reversing spell and save their friends. Selwyn agrees and so the two of them spend some time trying to apologize to each other before Peewit tells them that it's almost sunrise.

Standing on a balcony overlooking the forest, Selwyn and Tallulah argue over who's going to go first with the reciting of the reversal spell until Tharp barks both of them to attention. Then together they recite, "Razzle, gravel, stone, and strife, end the spell, bring stone to life!". Suddenly, a magical energy bolt strikes the forest, and immediately everything in it is unpetrified, including the Smurfs who were stuck doing whatever it is they were in the middle of doing when they were petrified. Brainy gets a scolding from Papa Smurf, telling him that sometimes it is better for him to not say anything, though Papa Smurf ends up having to listen to Brainy saying how he will be more careful with the things he says in the future.

Peewit makes his goodbyes to Selwyn, Tallulah, Tharp, and Uncle Fenwick as he rides off into the forest, thanking them for their help. But Peewit doesn't get very far away from the castle when he starts hearing Selwyn and Tallulah start arguing over whose friend Peewit is, which makes the young jester comment that it's no wonder the place is called Quarrel Castle.

Trivia[]

  • This episode marks the first appearance of Uncle Fenwick, who also appears in "Smurfing For Ghosts".
  • The ghost of Uncle Fenwick emerging from his portrait is similar to a scene from Ruddigore, a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, which featured among other things a haunted picture gallery of ancestors who come to life and terrify their living descendant.
  • This marks the first time Peewit appears without Johan. This does not count as a Johan And Peewit episode because of this.
  • This is one of the few episodes where the Smurfs aren't the main focus.

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