This excerpt from today’s WSJ Evening Wrap is just too funny/sad/odd:
They became a smash hit TV series in the U.S. in the 1980s, but their latest TV incarnation is getting a mixed response. With the blessing of Peyo’s [the Smurfs’ creator] family, UNICEF has produced a 25-second advertisement in which the Smurf village is bombed and strafed by warplanes. The video begins with the Smurfs happily doing their thing, but ends with most of the village apparently slaughtered, with Baby Smurf left wounded and screaming amid the carnage. The cartoon is scheduled for wide airing in Belgium this week, but a sneak preview last week reportedly left several real-life babies crying, as well.
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