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"The Three Smurfketeers" is a Season 2 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show. It is one of two episodes that is actually an in-universe theatrical production.

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Synopsis

The Smurfs' theatre presents their adaption of The Three Musketeers mixed with events from Romeo and Juliet.

Plot Summary

The Smurfs have gathered around the Smurf Theater as the performers are preparing to stage the play The Three Smurfketeers, which Brainy announces and to which Grouchy says "I hate plays". Harmony goes on a little long with his trumpet solo which requires Papa Smurf to give him a very stern "SMURF UP!" Backstage behind the curtains, Handy and Painter are making the final preparations and Clumsy is practicing his sword swing, which ends up launching him into Lazy, knocking him into Brainy, who then bumps into Handy, who clutches onto the curtain rope, showing Smurfette still applying makeup to her face in front of the audience. With the curtains drawn again, Scaredy gets a little nervous about appearing on stage to introduce the play, but his fellow Smurf Hefty as one of the main actors encourages him, and Jokey pushes him right in front of the curtains. With a cue from Papa Smurf, Scaredy bravely makes the introductions, though Brainy has to come on stage to try having Scaredy say a few more words about Brainy's role in the production just before he and Scaredy get yanked off the stage.

Three Smurfketeers

It's one for smurf and smurf for all!

Soon, the curtain opens, and Brainy starts the narration. The story is about two noble families, Smurfingham who rules in the country, and Smurfington who rules in the town, eventually becoming bitter enemies. Farmer plays the head of the Smurfingham family and Painter the head of the Smurfington family. After a brief display of hostility between the two players, the curtains close and Brainy tries to recite further, but his narration gets blown in the wind, and his own ad-libbed elucidations get greeted by smurfberries thrown at him before he is pulled off the stage again.

The curtain opens again and this time the scene is inside the Smurfingham house, where Clumsy as the son of Smurfingham asks his father if he could go into town. Smurfingham refuses to let him, saying that he's a country boy and that he wants his son to stay away from the town of Smurfington. Smurfingham pounds the table to emphasize that he means business, but it collapses with just one single pound. The son of Smurfingham says that he doesn't want to stay a farmer all his life, that he wants to be sophisticated. Smurfingham tells his son that if the family way of life is "smurfy enough" for him, it should be "smurfy enough" for his son as well and refuses to talk any further about his son's desires.

The scene then switches to the father of the Smurfington family trying to do a portrait of his daughter played by Smurfette, but she refuses to smile for him. He gets upset and throws his pallet and brush to the ground, saying that her smile isn't smurfy. The daughter of Smurfington says that she doesn't feel smurfy about the thought of marrying Prince Scaredy and says that she wants to marry somebody she can truly love. She tells her father that he can't make her marry the prince, even if she is promised to him, but Smurfington insists that she will marry him. After the curtain closes, Smurfette appears on stage to whisper to the audience that she wants to go to the countryside and "smurf the flowers".

At this point, the play goes from the stage to a realistic setting as Smurfington's daughter meets Smurfingham's son out in the forest doing fishing while she is out picking flowers. They both introduce each other as Smurfette and Clumsy, but neither of them gets much farther than Smurfette offering Clumsy her hand when Smurfingham's Smurfs come galloping on frog back to warn Clumsy that there's a Smurfington nearby. Clumsy doesn't see a Smurfington, and now he doesn't see Smurfette either, though he does see the bouquet of flowers she left behind. After Smurfingham's Smurfs gallop off, Clumsy picks up the bouquet and takes it with him back to his father's house, contemplating on finding the fair maiden Smurf he had met and making her his "awful, wedded wife".

After making his way past the sleeping Smurfingham, who wakes up only after his son is gone, Clumsy gallops into town looking for Smurfette. He asks the townsfolk where he could find Smurfette, but they see he is a Smurfingham and slam the door in his face. He then goes into a tavern to ask the same question of some guardsmen, only they respond by drawing their swords. Clumsy sees that he is in deep trouble and cries for help, which at that moment is picked up by three Smurfs riding on frog back called the Three Smurfketeers. They charge in and fight with the guardsmen, only to get tossed out of the tavern. They charge in again and get tossed out again, this time with Clumsy. The guardsmen chase after the four Smurfs, who then get on their frogs and gallop off to escape.

Smurfette is in the tower, wondering where Clumsy is, when she sees him on frog back riding in the streets and calls out to him. Clumsy sees her and tries to respond when he gets thrown off his frog. He tries to toss the bouquet of flowers up to Smurfette, but she isn't able to reach them and they fall back down. Clumsy is about to pick them up when Smurfington's guards finally catch up with him, ready to capture him. The Three Smurfketeers realize Clumsy isn't with them and turn back to deal with the guards, with Jokey starting the whole fight with a bang from one of his "surprises". Clumsy manages to rescue at least one flower and tosses it up to Smurfette, who gratefully catches the blossom and starts plucking the petals off it, saying "he loves me, he loves me not". Clumsy catches the last fallen petals and realizes that she loves him, but he barely has time to celebrate when the Smurfketeers take him with them and ride off into the forest.

As Clumsy and the Smurfketeers watch Smurfington's Smurfs pass by on frog back, Clumsy tells the other three Smurfs that he is in love with Smurfette and wants to marry her. Greedy points out that she is the daughter of Baron Smurfington, but Clumsy doesn't care because he's in love with her. Hefty promises Clumsy that the Smurfketeers will help him get married to her, though he knocks Clumsy off the tree branch by slapping him on the back. Clumsy is so happy that he goes home to tell his father, but Smurfingham is incensed at the thought of his own son marrying a Smurfington and decides he's going to lock Clumsy up in his room so that he won't marry Smurfette.

As Clumsy ponders what he's going to do, Smurfette at this point is dreamily thinking about Clumsy when Baron Smurfington enters her bedchamber and tells her that she's going to marry Prince Scaredy tomorrow. She soundly refuses to marry the prince, saying that she's met a Smurfingham, whom she truly loves. Baron Smurfington rages at the thought of his daughter marrying a Smurfingham and tells her that she will either marry Prince Scaredy or she will marry nobody. Smurfette weeps, wondering what she's going to do, when the Three Smurfketeers pay her a visit, with Jokey offering her one of his "surprises". Hefty tosses the "surprise" out the window, where it lands for Baron Smurfington to open, while Smurfette explains her situation to all three Smurfketeers. She asks them if they could deliver a message to Clumsy, and Hefty promises that they will, and as the Smurfketeers leave, Smurfette tells them to bring Clumsy before the wedding.

At the Smurfingham house, Clumsy is in tears when the Smurfketeers come with a message from Smurfette, telling him to come tonight so that they could escape their families and elope. This makes Clumsy so excited that he follows them out the window and into town, where they meet Smurfette below the window of her bedchamber. She lets down a rope made of tied-up sheets for Clumsy to climb up, with the Smurfketeers warning him to be quiet as he ascends to the window. He reaches the window and extends his hand out to Smurfette, but in doing so he lets go of the rope and falls back down.

Hefty then sets up a seesaw to catapult Clumsy into the bedchamber through the window, where he lands on the chandelier before her father enters, wondering if his daughter's preparing for the wedding. She tells Baron Smurfington that she's going to marry Clumsy instead, and as the baron wonders who this Clumsy is, the chandelier breaks and Clumsy falls on top of him, introducing himself as a Smurfingham. This fuels the baron's rage and makes the Smurfketeers climb up the rope to go into action to save the couple, but it is all for naught as Baron Smurfington calls for the guards to take Clumsy away to the dungeon. Smurfette is in tears after her father leaves, wondering how she's going to marry Clumsy now. Hefty tells her not to fear, because he has a plan.

Later on, Hefty sneaks into the dungeon, wearing a disguise to fool the guards into thinking that he's Baron Smurfington. Using his imitation of a French accent, Hefty tells the guard that Clumsy is supposed to be taken to the luncheon, not the dungeon, and so the guard releases Clumsy and the two Smurfs escape. Then the real Baron Smurfington comes and finds that Clumsy has been released from his cell under false orders. He sends his guards out to go find the escaped prisoner, but none of them notice Clumsy hiding out with the Smurfketeers. They now wonder how they're going to get Smurfette out of marrying Prince Scaredy, and Hefty says that he has another plan.

The following day, Smurfette is taken to the chapel where Handy presides as the minister to marry her to her husband-to-be, the fearfully nervous Prince Scaredy. Smurfette says that this is the unhappiest day in her life as her father escorts her down the aisle to the altar, where Handy proceeds with the recital and is about to ask Smurfette if she is willing to take Prince Scaredy to be his lawful-wedded Smurf. Realizing that there is no way out, Smurfette says that she must. But before Scaredy can respond to the question of taking Smurfette to be his lawful-wedded wife, Hefty pulls Scaredy to the floor where he passes out and has Clumsy emerge in his place wearing the prince's crown and tie, saying "I do". After Handy pronounces them as "Smurf and wife", Clumsy falls over and reveals himself to Smurfette and to her father. Baron Smurfington tells his guards to capture Clumsy, but then the Smurfketeers emerge from under the altar to give the guards a fight while Clumsy escapes with his wedded wife. After a while, the Smurfketeers get thrown out of the chapel, with Jokey saying they certainly showed Smurfington's guards, and Greedy saying they should have stayed for the wedding cake.

At this point, the play returns to its stage setting as Brainy provides the closing narration, saying that with the marriage of Clumsy and Smurfette, the age-old feud between the two families came to a close. However, with Smurfington accidentally tripping over Clumsy's foot, the feud between the fathers starts all over and turns into a food fight before the curtain closes and the Smurfs in the audience cheer at the amusing yet happy ending.

Trivia

  • This particular story combines elements from The Three Musketeers with Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet.

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