When I was a kid, I thought smurfs were green.

Posted by gopherbutter@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 18 comments

I really didn't know. Our TV display..showed them as green. I argued with kids at school. I knew they were green. There was no way to convince me otherwise. Such an odd thing to be sure of, when I was absolutely wrong. Are we sure they are not green?

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FeralBanshee@reddit

I mean, sometimes they were purple. GNAP!

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One-Annual8058@reddit

aw, you beat me to it

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Tott1337@reddit

When you're done with your Atari, make sure you put the switchbox behind back to TV

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Bigsisstang@reddit

Smurfs have always been blue.

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Kalena426@reddit

I was older when Smurfs came out...they're blue, you either had a TV that had a bad tube or colorblind....but seriously, they're blue

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chopper5150@reddit

Well, what color was the sky on your tv?

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Taodragons@reddit

God, I remember a bit....I don't think it was a commercial, but something like that. It was a smurf and he turned to face you and it showed him reaching out of the TV yelling "Smurfs are green! Adjust your contrast!"

I mostly don't do drugs so......I think it's real? lol

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blackhorse15A@reddit

There are four lights!

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baldfellow@reddit

Green smurfs make more sense anyway: These are small critters that stay hidden in foliage. By rights, I would expect them to be green and brown with various shades and patterns. Head canon: The blue is cosmetic dye. Or possibly a side effect of high smurfberry consumption. Which also leads to cognitive deficits like replacing words with "Smurf" without noticing. And infertility.

They are a lovely people, but their way of life is not sustainable. Their population is dwindling.

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putoelquelolea@reddit

I mean, even Gargamel would complain about "those miserable little blue imbeciles"

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Any_Pudding_1812@reddit

off topic a bit. but t australia we didn’t get colour tv until the mid 70s. Before that everything broadcast in black and white. anyway as a kid in the late 70s or early 80s when we had colour tv some films they broadcast the same old transfers they had from pre colour in black and white. wasn’t until i was an adult i realised the film THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR was in colour ! We laughed as kids at the film being in black and white as it just seemed dumb.

anyways.

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Mindless-Employment@reddit

Only slightly related: When I was in grad school I had a JVC TV that I'd gotten as a gift which immediately started to go bad when the 5-year warranty expired, like it was on a timer. I didn't realize how far gone it was until I spent months wondering why all of a sudden, every scene in every TV show was taking place at night and you could barely see anything.

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