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"The Magic Earrings" is a Season 3 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.

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Hogatha disguises herself as a princess to get the second magic earring she needs from Gargamel.

Plot Summary[]

When the story starts, Gargamel finds himself in a bind: he knows that his mother is coming to his house at sundown, and if he doesn't have a birthday present for her, he's going to be in serious trouble. As he heads out the door to go shopping for a present, he instantly greets a salesman there who's offering his wares to the wizard for a price, including something Gargamel can get for his mother. However, all Gargamel can offer the salesman is a single penny, which makes the salesman pack up his things and get going. Gargamel pleads with the salesman to at least sell something he could buy for a penny, and the salesman ponders his customer's situation before handing him a single earring from the pair that he has. Gargamel asks the salesman what kind of power the earring has, and the salesman simply says that he picked them up on sale as he departs.

The salesman then goes to Hogatha's place, where she finds herself flattered by the salesman's pitch before she notices the other earring that he is selling. She asks about the first earring in the pair, and the salesman answers that he sold it to Gargamel. After giving him a penny for the earring and sending the salesman on his way, Hogatha thinks of a way that she can get the other earring from Gargamel so she can use them to track down the Smurfs. She mixes up a formula that she spritzes on herself, and in a pink cloud she transforms herself from a dumpy old witch to an attractive young woman whose beauty is sure to knock the socks off Gargamel so she could get her hands on the other earring. Unfortunately, the new Hogatha is now too big for Harold to carry around in the air, barely getting her into the Smurf Forest where she has to find Gargamel's castle on her own.

Hogatha The Beauty
Meet the new look of Hogatha!
Hogatha The Beauty 2
Yes, she does look beautiful!
Hogatha The Beauty 3
Forget about Smurfs, Gargamel...go after her!
Magic Earrings Of Sonoria
Hogatha's got the magic earrings
Static Power
Shock me... make me hear better!
Something In My Ears
Harmony's playing even drives Hogatha crazy
Fish With Earrings
Where the earrings ends up

Smurfette is out picking flowers in the forest when she notices the beautiful form of Hogatha looking like she doesn't know her way through the forest. She thinks that this human is a princess and goes back to the village to tell Papa Smurf about her, fearing that something is going to happen to her. Papa Smurf says that they will go to follow the princess cautiously. Meanwhile, Gargamel is busy wrapping up his single earring gift for his mother, telling Azrael that one earring is better than none at all, when Hogatha makes her way to his door and makes the wizard so enraptured by her beauty that it makes him faint. She helps herself to the earring that's in the gift box, telling Gargamel that she's been looking for it ever since the salesman told her where that one had went, and thanks the wizard for his kindness before she departs, leaving him wondering who she is and where she came from.

However, her departure doesn't go unnoticed by the Smurfs, who tracked down what appeared to be a princess to Gargamel's place only to see her leave unharmed. As they continue to follow her, the woman transforms back to her original appearance as Hogatha, which not only confirms Papa Smurf's suspicions, but also makes him see what she was after: the legendary Magic Earrings Of Sonoria. With them, the witch would be able to hear the Smurfs from miles away and track them down wherever they are. Soon, Gargamel shows up again, and Hogatha transforms back into her beautiful form to keep the wizard from knowing what she was doing. Gargamel wonders what this lady is doing out in the forest on her own, and she looks at a bee's nest and says that he is out to gather wild honey. Although fearful of what she asks of him, Gargamel is willing to give the lady what she wants and climbs up the tree to get the honey from the bee's nest.

While Hogatha uses the distraction to head for the highest point in the forest so she could get good reception with the earrings, the Smurfs return to the village and gather all together in the storehouse, with Papa Smurf telling them to be very quiet whatever they do until he can find a way to outsmart Hogatha. Upon reaching the highest point, she recites, "Dangling baubles on each lobe, bring me sounds from around the globe"... and with a crackle of static electricity, she instantly picks up every sound in the world very clearly... even the sound of one single Smurf, Lazy, who's still outside sleeping and snoring away. As Hogatha homes in on that particular sound, Papa Smurf rushes outside to stop Lazy's snoring and to have Harmony play his horn so loudly and so badly that it forces Hogatha to run far away, since the earrings can't come off while they're picking up sound. She runs into the same place Gargamel does when the bees in the nest come after him -- right into the pond -- and as they both rise from the water, Gargamel sees that his lady love is really the ugly witch whose beauty formula had just worn off in water. This makes him so mad that he throttles her while a fish now wearing the earrings is hearing the two sorcerers struggle with each other.

The Smurfs cheer as they carry Harmony high above them, thankful that his bad horn playing was effective in keeping Hogatha from reaching them. Hogatha goes back home, feeling unwanted by the wizard whom she had fooled with her beauty formula. And Gargamel is left with no birthday present to give to his mother, who shows up at his door quite upset!

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