I was at the theatre last weekend to watch “The Smurfs”. I’m a big fan of the 80′s cartoon and the comics, so I was pretty stoked to see this new Smurf movie. Well, the movie is quite different from the TV show, and I wasn’t too impressed with it, but that’s not what this post is about. It’s about how I won a Papa Smurf stuffed toy before the movie!
So I was sitting in the theatre, waiting for the show to start, surrounded mainly by a bunch of kids and their parents. I noticed these two girls enter dressed as Smurfs, with the blue face paint and everything. I thought they were just a couple of huge Smurf fans, but it turned out they worked for the theatre. They announced that there’d be some trivia questions with prizes to be given away.
Papa Smurf!
The first question was,
“Can anyone name a Smurf?” A bunch of kids raised their hands, and one was chosen at random. The kid said, “Smurfette!” So they gave a poster to the kid.
Next, they asked if anyone knew the name of the bad guy. Another kid said, “Gargamel!” So they gave a poster to that kid, too.
Next question was, “What do Smurfs eat?” For some reason, this one stumped everyone. There were all kinds of guesses, but they weren’t even close to getting it right. Meanwhile, I was sitting there knowing exactly what Smurfs eat – Smurfberries, duh! But I figured I would just let the little guys and girls win the prizes and go home happy. Anyway, nobody got it right and they moved on to the next question.
“How tall is a Smurf?” Once again, kids were guessing and they had no clue what the right answer was. One kid even said, “One inch?” Please! So I was looking around the theatre, seeing all these tiny hands going up, but none of these kids were getting it right. Nobody knew how tall a Smurf was.
I couldn’t take it anymore, so up went my hand. They acknowledged me, and I was like, “Three apples high!” Bingo! One of the girls came up to my row and gave me the stuffed Papa Smurf! Everyone was looking at me, probably thinking, “Who is this guy?!” But I didn’t care, because at that moment, I was the Smurf Master!!
There was something oddly satisfying about destroying a bunch of elementary school kids in a Smurf trivia challenge, and I would not hesitate to do it again.
Smurf Master!