Friday, June 29, 2007
1980's Advertising At Its Best (Part 2)
How can we forget our tiny blue friends, The Smurfs!
I enjoyed watching The Smurfs growing up. The only thing you gotta watch out for when taking in The Smurfs is thier beating of a dialect which over uses the word "smurf" - as seen in this commercial. Noun, adjective, exclamation, you name it - they figured out a way to say it.
For example, the following line could be expected in any given episode: "Holy smurf, Papa Smurf! That's a smurfy-smurf-smurf idea! Smurf!"
Just beat me over my smurf head with a smurfin' brick!
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2 comments:
Hehe, thanks for the reminder. They are called "Schlumpf" in Germany. Over here there are still lots of T-Shirts for kids with the different "Schlümpfe" on it.
I loved them, too!
Have a smurf week :-)
Helen
Hey Helen,
Schlumpf, huh? That's great! I can only imagine what the theme song must sound like in German!
Isn't it interesting how children on totally opposite sides of the world in totally different cultures can still enjoy the same simple things in life - like a cartoon of little blue people?
Sometimes I like to think that's how God plays little games with us. Deep down inside, we're not so unlike each other!
Thanks for stopping by,
W
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