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"Happy" Smurf
Sep. 25th, 2007 08:31 pmA number of years ago, at a flea market, I was rummaging through a box of slightly-battered Smurf figurines — mostly out of idle curiosity, really; I'm not particularly fond of the creatures.
One caught my eye. It appeared to be... doing something quite rude.
I bought it, of course.
I guessed that it had originally been holding a fishing rod, or something like that, in its lap. But without the fishing rod, given the positioning of the hands, not to mention that grin... well.
I find it amusing for several reasons. I'm not much for lewd / rude / crude humour, but this thing is just bizarre. And... someone had to have designed it. The implications are pretty obvious when the thing is seen without its "accessories". Someone clearly went to the trouble of getting it past the various levels of Smurf Approval Committees. It's a bit like Damon Knight's short story "Cabin Boy", which is kind of a shaggy dog story based on a short obscene verse, or the bit in Heinlein's The Star Beast about how "Lummox wished to continue, uh, raising John Thomases" — both jokes deliberately slipped past puritanical but naive/innocent editors.
This evening, I decided to do a bit of searching. The figurine was, indeed, originally holding a fishing pole. It's the "Super Smurf" model 40207, AKA the "Angler". You can find a decent picture of it here.
One caught my eye. It appeared to be... doing something quite rude.
I bought it, of course.
I guessed that it had originally been holding a fishing rod, or something like that, in its lap. But without the fishing rod, given the positioning of the hands, not to mention that grin... well.
I find it amusing for several reasons. I'm not much for lewd / rude / crude humour, but this thing is just bizarre. And... someone had to have designed it. The implications are pretty obvious when the thing is seen without its "accessories". Someone clearly went to the trouble of getting it past the various levels of Smurf Approval Committees. It's a bit like Damon Knight's short story "Cabin Boy", which is kind of a shaggy dog story based on a short obscene verse, or the bit in Heinlein's The Star Beast about how "Lummox wished to continue, uh, raising John Thomases" — both jokes deliberately slipped past puritanical but naive/innocent editors.
This evening, I decided to do a bit of searching. The figurine was, indeed, originally holding a fishing pole. It's the "Super Smurf" model 40207, AKA the "Angler". You can find a decent picture of it here.
