Brainy's Smarty Party (episode)

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"Brainy's Smarty Party" was an episode that appeared in Season 5 of the Smurfs cartoon show.

Summary

Every Smurf in the village seems to be getting an invitation from Brainy Smurf to attend his Smarty Party, "with food, games, and Brainy, Brainy, Brainy beyond your wildest dreams". Everyone, that is, except for the Smurflings, who wonder why they weren't given one. Vanity tells them that all they need is the secret password, which Papa Smurf guesses is "Brainy". Nonetheless, the Smurfs are excited enough to attend, and soon find themselves gathered around a party tent put up by Hefty and Handy who did so in exchange for unlimited dips in Brainy's indoor pool. Brainy instructs all his Smarty Party guests to form into a line, though upon seeing that Papa Smurf was nearby, he has the red carpet rolled out especially for him to be the first to enter. Papa Smurf appreciates the treatment, but says that he must go gather some rare roots for some secret experiments and that he will come by to Brainy's party later.

Upon entering the tent, the Smurfs see that all the decorations inside have Brainy's face on them: the balloons, the curtains, the chairs, and even an ice sculpture made in Brainy's likeness. Brainy then informs his guests that they must wear the Smarty Party tie in order to use the indoor swimming pool, which Grouchy grudgingly accepts. But Brainy notices some Smurfs who have crashed his party -- the Smurflings -- and immediately tells them one of the rules of his Smarty Party is that only those who are 150 years old can attend it. This makes the Smurflings so disappointed, they end up telling Papa Smurf about Brainy's Smarty Party rule when he encounters them by the pond throwing pebbles into it. Papa Smurf then tells the Smurflings about the time he wasn't invited to an old trolls party because he wasn't an old troll and many of his friends were. Though he was disappointed, Papa Smurf says that he learned how to have fun in other ways with his friends. This inspires the Smurflings to throw their own kind of party called the Outcast Party, where they can let anyone enter and have fun anyway they want to.

Back at Brainy's Smarty Party, Brainy interrupts the fun of his fellow Smurfs by telling them it's time for them to do the official Smarty Party dance called The Brainy, which he says from Rule #768 that all Smarty Party guests must do. However, when Jokey gives Brainy one of his exploding "surprise" gifts, Brainy kicks Jokey out of his party according to Rule #902, that no Smarty Party guests can play jokes on Brainy. Jokey sees another party tent nearby put up by the Smurflings and decides to go attend their party and have fun. Soon Grouchy also gets kicked out for hating to do The Brainy (though no Smarty Party rule has been stated for this violation), and also goes over to the Smurflings' party. Clumsy, who attempts to follow the steps to doing The Brainy, ends up knocking over a table of goodies, making a mess of his party host. Brainy angrily tells Clumsy he has violated Rule #3, that no Smarty Party guests can make Brainy look ridiculous, and so kicks his saddened friend out of his party.

This makes the other guests of Brainy's Smarty Party question the fairness of Brainy's Smarty Party rules, and decide that they are going to leave his party by violating the rules as well. Smurfette violates Rule #1 by sticking her tongue out at Brainy. Hefty violates Rule #2 by telling Brainy that he is an idiot. Greedy violates Rule #765 by taking Brainy's party food from his party. Soon every Smurf is leaving Brainy's Smarty Party to go over to the Smurflings' Outcast Party where they could have fun their own way.

Later on, Papa Smurf comes into Brainy's Smarty Party tent and sees that the only Smurf left in the party is Brainy, who tells him that all his guests have left because they didn't want to have fun his way. Papa Smurf tells Brainy that it's difficult to have fun if no one is allowed to be themselves, and suggests that maybe he should go over to the Smurflings' party where he could have fun with everyone else. Brainy at first feels that he couldn't do that because it would be admitting that he was wrong, but soon he swallows his own pride and goes over to ask to be invited. The Smurflings accept him just as he is and allow him to enter.

As all the other Smurfs continue to enjoy themselves in the Outcast Party, Papa Smurf decides to have fun his own way and takes a dip in Brainy's indoor pool. "Old trolls, smurf your hearts out," Papa Smurf chuckles as he dives in and relaxes.

Background Information

• This episode seems to establish that the actual age of the average male adult Smurf (not counting Papa Smurf) is around 150 years old. However, Brainy's Smarty Party rule that one must be 150 years old to attend it seems to only consider the Smurf's physical age and not his or her actual chronological age. The boy Smurflings, though only physically 50 years old, are still chronologically 150 years old, whereas Smurfette, though physically around the same age as her fellow adult male Smurfs, is chronologically only about a few years old, being a magically-created Smurf instead of a naturally-born one.