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"The Last Laugh" is a Season 2 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Synopsis[]

Gargamel has discovered a new method to eliminate the Smurfs - a powder that makes everyone can't stop laughing.

Plot Summary[]

Can't Stop Laughing

Jokey and Grouchy both got a serious case of the giggle fits!

As the story begins, Gargamel is busy brewing up something in his laboratory, which after adding all the ingredients causes an explosion, signaling that it is ready. He says that one spoonful of the formula he was preparing will wipe out the entire Smurf Village. He tests this formula out on his pet Azrael, and soon the cat is just rolling around on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. Gargamel sees that it works, and now he's ready to use it on the Smurfs.

Out in the forest, Jokey and Grouchy are picking berries off the vine near the river's edge, with Jokey wanting to see his fellow Smurf laugh and have a good time doing his job, and Grouchy saying that he hates fun and "things that are good for me". Jokey decides that he's going to do something that will make Grouchy laugh, so he hides behind a tree and tells Grouchy not to peek until he's ready. At this moment, Gargamel is busy spraying the forest with his "giggle glitter", and some of it gets on Grouchy, who starts laughing uncontrollably. Jokey peeks out from behind a tree, wearing a glasses-and-moustache disguise, wondering why Grouchy is now laughing all of a sudden. Then Gargamel pops up from behind a bush and sprays Jokey with the glitter, and soon Jokey is now joining his friend in uncontrollable laughter. Gargamel tells his cat that they should take these Smurfs home with them and watch them die laughing.

Jokey's and Grouchy's laughing fits cause them to fall into the river and get carried away by its current toward the waterfall, still laughing as they comment on their eventual demise, while they tried to fight by explaining the real truth. The Smurfs who are working on the Smurf River Bridge see the two Smurfs being carried downstream, with Clumsy thinking they're just waving hello and having a good time, but Brainy sees that they're in danger. He immediately gets on a hoisted log and tells Clumsy to lower away, and Clumsy just lets the rope go, causing Brainy and the log to drop into the river and get carried downstream with Jokey and Grouchy, who now grab a hold of it. Clumsy and the other Smurfs at the bridge pull on the rope attached to the log, straining as the rope slowly begins to break. But soon Brainy, Jokey, and Grouchy are pulled safely to shore, with the other Smurfs wondering why Jokey and Grouchy can't stop laughing.

Upon the Smurfs' return to the village, Papa Smurf examines the two laughing Smurfs and tries to get them to explain what happened. With some difficulty, they try to tell Papa Smurf that it was Gargamel who did this, which means that Papa Smurf needs to do something quick to restore Jokey and Grouchy to their normal selves. While he is busy working on a solution, the other Smurfs try some other methods to get Jokey and Grouchy to stop laughing. Harmony's suggestion of a really sad song, which he tries to play, makes his fellow Smurfs plug their ears until Greedy plugs up Harmony's horn with a cupcake. Scaredy suggests trying to scare it out of them like hiccups, and so Smurfette lets out a loud scream, but it also does nothing except give Scaredy a case of the hiccups.

Soon, Papa Smurf's remedy is ready, and he rushes out of the laboratory with it, holding its fumes up to Jokey's and Grouchy's faces so they could inhale it and hopefully stop laughing. It works, which makes the other Smurfs cheer, but now it makes the two Smurfs cry uncontrollably, so Papa Smurf has his little Smurfs help gather ingredients for another remedy to restore Jokey and Grouchy. After it is mixed, Papa Smurf rushes out of the laboratory with the remedy and has the two Smurfs inhale it like the first. Soon, Jokey and Grouchy both stop crying and are back to their normal selves, which makes the other Smurfs cheer.

However, Harmony sees danger approaching and alerts the other Smurfs. Papa Smurf sees that a glitter storm is coming, which means that Gargamel is intending to have the whole village laughing like crazy, and that they must prepare for it. The village leader calls for Tailor to bring his needle and thread, then has his little Smurfs bring all their bedsheets at once. As Gargamel's machine continues to spread the cloud of "giggle glitter" all over the forest, the Smurfs work as hard as they can to get the safety net done in time so that they could hang it up and hide under the canopy they created while waiting out the glitter storm. As the Smurfs all safely gather under the canopy before the "giggle glitter" starts falling onto the net, Papa Smurf has a plan that he intends to use the glitter with.

Soon, Gargamel is finished producing his clouds of "giggle glitter", and then he takes a net and an earphone with him as he goes out into the forest, waiting to hear the Smurfs laughing so he could capture them. Meanwhile, the Smurfs are hoisting up the net full of "giggle glitter" high onto the tree branches, with Papa Smurf telling them that they will lure Gargamel to that spot so they can drop the "giggle glitter" on him. He tells his little Smurfs to start laughing, which they do, but the laughter isn't very convincing enough to attract Gargamel's attention, and so he tells them to put some gusto into the laughter. Clumsy wonders what gusto is, and Brainy in his trying to explain it punctures the net with his forefinger, causing the "giggle glitter" to cover the Smurfs in the tree branches and have them laugh out of control. Papa Smurf thinks that the Smurfs are now convincing enough to attract Gargamel's attention, but as he hears the evil wizard getting closer, he realizes that they're under the influence of the "giggle glitter" and so ducks for cover while Gargamel captures them and takes them back to his laboratory for his evil purposes.

As Gargamel ponders what to do with the laughing Smurfs he has captured, he starts hearing more laughter outside his hovel and thinks that there are more Smurfs that were exposed to the "giggle glitter" that are just waiting to be captured. However, he does not know that the laughter outside his hovel is really Papa Smurf using a hollowed-out log as a megaphone to amplify his own laughter. And when Gargamel goes outside to capture the laughing Smurfs, he soon comes face to face with a very angry moose, and Papa Smurf riding on his head, telling the evil wizard that this time the laugh is on him. The moose then rides the treadmill powering the "giggle glitter" machine, and soon Gargamel and Azrael are both covered in it and laughing like crazy before the moose tears up the machine completely.

With the wizard and his cat incapacitated by the uncontrollable laughter, Papa Smurf frees his little Smurfs and has used the antidote Gargamel made up to restore them to normal. He leaves some of the antidote left in the bottle next to Gargamel before he and his little Smurfs depart, with Jokey saying that it's been a lot of laughs. Gargamel tries to open the bottle, but ends up breaking it, and says that until he can make some more, he and Azrael will be laughing for weeks.

Trivia[]

  • Despite Gargamel having no scene of morality, he'd be lucky to realize the only Smurfs who would be rather taught a lesson with his giggle glitter are Grouchy (for his rudeness and arrogance) and Jokey (for his annoyances and mischievous).
  • Despite Grouchy and Jokey laughing uncontrollably, they did try to fight it as their minds to remain intact, by explaining the truth.

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