Unicef bombs the Smurfs

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2005.10.08 | David Rennie

[B-Chan]

Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers
By David Rennie in Brussels

The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.

The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.

The animation was approved by the family of the Smurfs' late creator, "Peyo".

Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was shown on the main evening news. The reactions ranged from approval to shock and, in the case of small children who saw the episode by accident, wailing terror.

[B-Chan]

Woohoo! As mush as I detest the UN, I gotta admit that the thought of seeing a heavy, Curtis Le May-style incendiary aerial attack on Smurfland does hold a certain fascination. Read the whole horrifying story.

[B-Chan]

Please note that the source of the above excerpt is an article from the London Times, not the New York Times. I apologize for the error.

[bahblahbah]

Ugh, why am we paying for this propaganda? Make it stop now.

[B-Chan]

Sigh. Not the London Times, the UK Telegraph. Again, I apologize. It's late...

[Dont Mention the War]

Bwa-ha-ha! That crazy Gargamel and his nefarious schemes!

[weegee]

The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children."

Keep the UN out and maybe fewer orphans will wind up as sex slaves and prostitutes. The United Nations has a poor track record when it comes to sex scandals.

Julie Lamoureux, account director at Publicis for the campaign, said the agency's original plans were toned down.

"We wanted something that was real war - Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head -but they said no."

[endthematrix]

http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/index.html

There's plenty of garbage on the site. No smurf video. I do remember the mined soccer field video. That made FR a couple months back

[MadIvan]

I can't help it. I'm laughing at the idea of the Smurf Village being hit by incendiary bombs.

Regards, Ivan

[ItsForTheChildren]

Oh, the humanity smurfanity!

[raccoonradio]

Blue Man Group.

Commies:
http://www.iamlost.com/features/smurfs/commies.shtml

[CzarNicky]

"We wanted something that was real war - Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head -but they said no."

I would pay to see that.

[RGT]

It's very sad. I feel blue.

[Prime Choice]

The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children."

And when can we expect Unicef and the U.N. to produce a film of the Palestinian Smurfs using children as suicide bombers? HUH???

Oh...right...NEVER.

That frickin' tears it. It's damned time this crap be put to an end and the U.N. be forced out of the United States into the frickin' Gaza Strip. Those idiot jackoffs seem to love terrorists so much, I figure it's time they were made to live in the same land as them!

Stupid, pro-terrorist bastards.

[HHFi]

I can't help it. I'm laughing at the idea of the Smurf Village being hit by incendiary bombs.

As Oscar Wilde said about Dickens' description of the death of Little Nell, "It would take a heart of stone not to laugh."

[Hank Rearden]

Robot Chicken did a good job of illustrating a heinous bunch of serial killings in Smurfland. It was good to see the little blue buggers die in various horrible ways.

[Alien Gunfighter]

I can't believe no one else knows this...

[kb2614]

I'm going to be laughing all day long now. LOL

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[kb2614]

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[jocon307]

"...the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes."

About damn time!

[tlb]

They came for the Smurfs, and I said nothing for I was not a Smurf.

Then they came for Jem and the Holograms and I said nothing for I was not a Hologram.

But damn it, I draw the line if they mess with My Little Pony.