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"Smurfette's Rose" is a Season 5 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis

Smurfette asks Mother Nature for a blue rose, but the spell takes the blue color from her.

Plot Summary

Smurfette'sRose

Her excitement over seeing a blue rose has left Smurfette rather pale.

Smurfette and Vanity are out in the forest examining the wild roses growing on the bushes, with Smurfette asking Vanity if he's seen anything more beautiful than wild roses and Vanity answering that it is he himself. Vanity sees that Smurfette loves the variety of roses and suggests that she should pick some to bring home as a bouquet, but Smurfette says she could never pick wild roses because they're just too lovely. Then she sees a white rose and says how exquisite it is, though Vanity says it would have to be a blue rose in order to come close to his beauty. Smurfette at first scolds Vanity for voicing such a thought, but then it intrigues her as she has never actually seen a blue rose.

Meanwhile, the Smurflings are enjoying a day of swimming as Handy is watching over them and Baby Smurf while playing fetch with Puppy and teaching him how to sit. After Sassette swings down on a rope into the water, she realizes that she forgot to water Smurfette's flowers. Handy says that she'd better hurry and do it because it is now awfully hot, and Sassette says she'd be in hot water with Smurfette if she ever finds out.

However, as Smurfette and Vanity return to the village, her mind is focused on the question of why there can't be a blue rose. Vanity doesn't have the answer to that question, so he suggests that Smurfette should ask Farmer about it. She goes to ask Farmer and he says that she's asking for the impossible and that he himself has given up trying to cultivate such a thing 90 years ago. Smurfette goes to ask Poet about a blue rose, and he can only respond in poetry that he wishes he could give her what she wanted, which he follows with a suggestion that Painter could make a painting of a blue rose. However, Painter adamantly refuses to paint anything that is against its natural color, not even a blue rose for Smurfette.

The last Smurf that Smurfette turns to for the question about a blue rose is Papa Smurf, whom she hopes would give her the answer she desires. Alas, all Papa Smurf can tell her is that if Mother Nature had intended for roses to be blue, she would have made them blue, and that it's not good to set one's heart on something they cannot have. He suggests that she should go to her own garden and enjoy the flowers she already has. Smurfette sighs and realizes that Papa Smurf is right on the issue.

Unfortunately, by the time Smurfette reaches her garden, she sees that her flowers are dying for lack of water and that Sassette did not water them like she promised. As she tries to resuscitate them with her watering can, Sassette shows up and realizes that she is too late. She humbly asks Smurfette for her forgiveness in not keeping her promise, but Smurfette is too angry with Sassette to offer it and tells the young Smurfling to go back to what she was doing. After Sassette walks away in tears, Angel Smurf appears to tell Smurfette that she was a little hard on the young Smurfling, and Devil Smurf appears to tell her that Sassette needs to learn a lesson. Angel Smurf says that Sassette didn't mean to break her promise, but Devil Smurf says that finding a dependable Smurf is as impossible as finding a blue rose.

Devil Smurf's mention of a blue rose echoes in Smurfette's ears even as he and Angel Smurf depart, and by nightfall she pays a visit to Sassette to ask her forgiveness in being so hard with her. She tells Sassette that she's going to visit Mother Nature and asks the young Smurfling if she would water her garden the following day. Sassette is all so eager to do so and promises that she won't let Smurfette down. After Sassette goes back to sleep, Smurfette proceeds onward to Mother Nature's house, with Angel Smurf saying that going after a blue rose is not a good idea and is against nature, and Devil Smurf saying that a blue rose is very special, and that Angel Smurf has no imagination.

Inside Mother Nature's house, Smurfette asks the elderly guardian why there can't be such a thing as a blue rose, and Mother Nature says that there's just enough blue in the world to go around, and that if she creates a blue rose, then she would have to take the color from something else. Smurfette is so desirous to see a blue rose that she says she would do anything just to see a blue rose. Mother Nature decides that she would let Smurfette have what she wants, but she must promise not to cut it, reminding Smurfette that everything has a price.

She goes out into the forest where she finds the beautiful white rose she saw earlier and begins to recite the words Mother Nature told her to say when Angel Smurf interrupts to stop her from saying the words, telling her that it's wrong, and Devil Smurf appears to say that it's right. Smurfette dismisses them both and proceeds with the words: "Oh, Mother Nature, always right, I stand before this rose so white; I made my promise, my heart is true, delight my eyes with one rose blue.". Suddenly, the white rose turns blue while Smurfette's skin turns white, and the rose appears so beautiful in Smurfette's sight that she goes to tell the other Smurfs about it, not noticing that a bee is now following her. She knocks on Vanity's door, eager to bring him out into the forest to see the blue rose, and he greets her with a repulsed reaction, telling her that she has now turned white.

This makes Smurfette feel so sad that she goes into her house to hide herself. As the other Smurfs gather around Smurfette's house, they notice that not only that she now smells like a rose, but also bees have surrounded her house, attracted to her scent. They go to tell this to Papa Smurf, who then goes into Smurfette's house to console her and find out what she's done to herself. Smurfette tearfully says that it's all the fault of the blue rose and of Mother Nature, and then she blames herself. While Papa Smurf calmly has Smurfette tell him what she did from the beginning, the other Smurfs notice Smurfette's scent is now like all the roses in the world are in her house and begin to wonder what to do about the bees swarming around it.

Smurfette'sRosePromo

Promo for the episode on many DVD releases.

By nighttime, Papa Smurf looks into his books about promise spells and then by morning pays a visit to Mother Nature while the other Smurfs give Smurfette a netted garment she could wear to protect herself from the bees. Although she feels comfortable wearing the garment, she now expresses hatred of the blue rose, an emotion which Grouchy seconds. Mother Nature expresses sorrow for Smurfette's situation and offers to help get out of it this one time. So, Papa Smurf goes to tell Smurfette that if the blue rose dies on the vine, she will remain white forever, and that the only way she can be restored to her natural hue is to cut the blue rose and prick her finger with its thorn. Smurfette realizes that would mean she would have to break a promise, but Papa Smurf says that sometimes, if a greater good is at stake, a promise would need to be broken, and that the final decision is hers to make.

After nightfall, Smurfette starts off into the forest to see the blue rose one last time, but Sassette comes to ask if she would come with her. Smurfette at first refuses to let Sassette come, saying it's too embarrassing to have the young Smurfling look at her, but when Sassette promises that she won't, Smurfette allows her to do so. As the two female Smurfs stand before the blue rose with Sassette discreetly looking away, Smurfette feels guilty for telling Sassette about the stuff she said about never breaking promises, but Sassette understands. Smurfette proceeds with the words: "Oh, blue rose, blue rose, pity me; oh, Mother Nature, hear my plea; like sun and moon and evening star, we each of us are what we are. Please, Mother Nature, set me free, free of the promise I made to thee.". As she recites the words, the winds pick up slightly and a lightning bolt flashes in the sky, with the blue rose falling off its stem, pricking Smurfette's finger and causing her to turn blue again.

Trivia

  • Many foreign DVD releases (as well as the iTunes edition) carry the syndicated Smurfs Adventures repackaging of this episode, as opposed to the rest of the episodes, which remained uncut (although this episode also uses the modified Season 1 intro sequence and credits for foreign markets).
  • According to Gerard Baldwin’s biography, this episode was written to satisfy an NBC executive who wanted there to be a black Smurf.
  • In the syndicated version of the episode, the part where Smurfette, who is completely white all over, runs past Clumsy and Handy before retreating for her house has been edited out.
  • Smurfette gets angry at Sassette for the first time.

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