Smurfs Season 9
Season 9, which aired from 1989 to 1990, was a different season from all the seasons that preceded it, in that instead of its episodes taking place primarily in the Smurf forest and/or the Smurf Village, they now took place in various points of time and around the world, thanks to the time crystals that Papa Smurf had to assemble together without the use of a magic key that appeared in the first two episodes, "The Smurfs That Time Forgot" and "Lost In The Ages". Also, the cast of Smurfs characters that starred in the episodes were severely cut back to about seventeen, mostly with some primary characters that have been in the show since its beginning and with some that were introduced in the later seasons such as Season 6's Grandpa Smurf, Season 7's Wild, and Season 8's Smoogle. However, the season also began to show that the creative well for new stories and characters was running dry, as the Smurfs now ran into time-period variations of existing villain characters such as Gargamel, Azrael, Scruple, and Hogatha. Unfortunately, this shifting of the show's premise to time-travelling episodes signaled its doom, as this ended up becoming the final season for the cartoon show in general, and thus arguably was the season that made the show "jump the shark" in the eyes of certain viewers. Interestingly, part of this season's plot was used for the storyline of Infogrames' The Smurfs Travel The World videogame that was released in Europe on videogame systems of the 1990s. It was during this season that the Smurfs made their last appearance in a cartoon special, the cartoon crossover story "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue".
Episode Listings
The episodes that appeared in this season (in no particular order, except for the season premiere) include:
1. The Smurfs That Time Forgot (Season Premiere)
2. Lost In The Ages (Season Premiere)
3. Cave Smurfs
4. Hogapatra's Beauty Sleep
5. Mummy Dearest
6. Shamrock Smurfs
7. Karate Clumsy
8. Like It Or Smurf It
9. Papa's Big Snooze
10. A Fish Called Snappy
11. The Smurf Odyssey
12. Trojan Smurfs
13. Fortune Cookie
14. Imperial Panda-Monium
15. Smurfette's Green Thumb
16. Hefty Sees A Serpent
17. Phantom Bagpiper
18. Jungle Jitterbugs
19. The Clumsy Genie
20. Scary Smurfs
21. Sky High Surprise
22. Gnoman Holiday
23. Greedy's Masterpizza
24. The Monumental Grouch
25. Curried Smurfs
26. G'Day Smoogle
27. Grandpa's Fountain Of Youth
28. Big Shot Smurfs
29. No Reflection On Vanity
30. Papa Loses His Patience
31. Swashbuckling Smurfs
32. Painter's Egg-Cellent Adventure
33. Small Minded Smurfs
34. Bananas Over Hefty
35. Smurfs Of The Round Table
36. Wild Goes Cuckoo
37. Brainy's Beastly Boo-Boo
38. The Golden Rhino
39. Hearts 'N 'Smurfs
Characters Present In Season 9
The main characters featured throughout this season's episodes include:
- Papa Smurf
- Grandpa Smurf
- Baby Smurf
- Smurfette
- Brainy
- Hefty
- Handy
- Greedy
- Grouchy
- Clumsy
- Lazy
- Vanity
- Jokey
- Painter
- Wild
- Sassette
- Snappy
- Smoogle
Video Releases
- Magna Video Entertainment of Australia has released Smurfs: Time Travellers, which features episodes from Season 9.
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