Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

93 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by andsoitis
(pipelinecomics.com)

35 Comments

kabes

7 hours ago

Dutch catoonist Dirkjan revealed the real answer already years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dirkjan/s/zszexnXLRu

ezequiel-garzon

37 minutes ago

ChatGPT's translation:

Panel 1 Waiter: "Sir, I’d like to ask you to take off your cap in this restaurant." Smurf: "Take off my cap? You’re not asking me to take off my pants, are you?!"

Panel 2 Waiter: "That’s not the same." Smurf: "That is the same."

Panel 3 Cook (to waiter): "Let him put his cap back on." Waiter: "That’s maybe better."

ragebol

7 hours ago

+1 for Dirkjan, always. Another classic https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/

And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"

Vinnl

5 hours ago

I don't get that first one :(

bzzzt

4 hours ago

The smurf's being asked to remove his hat since wearing it in a restaurant is considered impolite. When being pressed the smurf says 'I don't ask you to remove your pants'. When it's revealed the smurfs genitals are under his hat Dirkjan's mate says 'maybe we should let hem keep his hat on'.

fvdessen

8 hours ago

This is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from the ceiling.

amiga386

3 hours ago

But the article does cover that. German gnomes (Kobolde, especially Hödekin) are usually depicted with pointy hats, or at least ones that curl backwards. The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.

dankwizard

7 hours ago

It's also certainly AI.

pgsandstrom

7 hours ago

What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?

Cthulhu_

6 hours ago

It's 2025, you can flip a coin and be correct half the time, and no consequences if you're wrong.

jama211

2 hours ago

Looks like there are consequences, they’re being called out, which is good

quietbritishjim

4 hours ago

I guess because it is full of guesswork and devoid of real factual research (at least for the main headline question). But it turns out that bloggers looking for content and lacking any skill are also capable of writing plausible-sounding slop.

jama211

2 hours ago

I wouldn’t call this article slop

dagmx

9 hours ago

Fun random fact, the tool used to animate the smurfs hats in 3 out of 4 CG smurfs films, was actually created for Doctor Manhattan’s junk for the original Watchmen film.

thirtygeo

7 hours ago

My wife did not appreciate this fun fact but I did

Jean-Papoulos

2 hours ago

I can't believe they re-colored the entire first comic to make the Smurfs purple and not black. That's hilarious

jesperwe

7 hours ago

Maybe the white on top of their heads IS their hair? And Papa smurf was old and bald and used a hat to blend in.

thedailymail

9 hours ago

Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata

pier25

8 hours ago

I don't know but their houses are definitely amanita muscaria.

Tade0

5 hours ago

Which makes sense as you want your house to be as inedible as possible.

I assume they have some method of keeping snails, woodpeckers and other animals resistant to the poison at bay.

bingo-bongo

7 hours ago

From a drawing perspective the hat is fairly simple (3-4 lines), looks good and quick to sketch - speed mattered when drawing lots of Smurf’s.

alex_young

8 hours ago

Idk about all that, but the Smurfs are probably commies right?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused...

29athrowaway

8 hours ago

The conspiracy theories I have heard:

- Gargamel is a priest, the smurfs are prosecuted by the church

- Papa smurf wears red and has a beard because of ideological reasons, the smurfs political and economic system resembles communism

- Smurfs represent the seven deadly sins/seven capital vices

    Lust: Enamored smurf
    Gluttony: Baker smurf
    Avarice: Greedy smurf
    Sloth: Lazy smurf
    Wrath: Grouchy smurf
    Envy: Brainy smurf
    Pride: Vanity smurf

animal531

3 hours ago

I have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats.

- Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose.

- Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.