Smurfs - need information please

by AlphaOmega 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • AlphaOmega
    AlphaOmega

    Hello all,

    I am after some information about the "Smurf ban" of the 1980s...

    Does anyone have anything in writing / scans or mp3s (even hinted at) ???

    Thanks all

  • AlphaOmega
    AlphaOmega

    Oops,

    I'm not sure how this topic ended up in this category.

    I guess that it got a lot to do with me being a Newbie !!

    Smurfageddon ?

  • Mystla
    Mystla

    I don't remember anything in writing, I do remember an assembly where they mentioned "blue cartoon characters" that should be avoided

    Misty

  • SacrificialLoon
    SacrificialLoon

    I've seen this mentioned here before too, and I thought about posting the same thing. I was raised in "the truth", grew up in the 80's, and I watched the Smurfs almost every weekend. I never heard of them being bad before. I do remember He-Man being frowned upon though.

  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    I can't recall ever seeing anything in writing. The Smurf thing seems to be more JW legend than anything else. The stories circulated (generally prefixed by "A circuit overseer said...") about a smurf toy that got up and walked out of a Kingdom Hall. Sometimes he said something profane, sometimes he said something that a demon would be expected to say. But the story in one form or another seems to have reached almost every JW at some point.

    Dave

  • crazyblondeb
    crazyblondeb

    My stepdad, who was a MS, was told by the elder's during a meeting that the smurfs were demonized. That's when all the stories were going around. But I don't remember anything in writing. We were told we had to "follow the directions of the elders' at all times, no matter what the situation".

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I was an avid watcher of the Smurfs and never heard anthing anti-smurf in the cong or elsewhere...

  • fokyc
    fokyc

    Thread here from 2002, didn't seem to get anywhere then, no mention in Watchtower library

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/19896/1.ashx/Darn+Smurfs

    fokyc

  • LynnA
    LynnA

    I once heard two pioneers telling a sister she should toss out the box of Smurfberry Crunch cereal her kids liked because Smurfs are demonic. As if a breakfast cereal could possess her kids... what a lot of nonsense!

  • themonster123
    themonster123

    I'm too young to know about the smurf thing, but I do know that when I was a kid in the 90s, I wasn't allowed to have those troll things (kupees or so mething???) that were really popular...they were little plastic figurines with brightly colored hair coming out the top. I was always scared of those things cuz I thought they were demonized.

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