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Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)
- duxup 1y agoI'm proud that I managed to guess it, it's a Phrygian cap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap
- ggm 1y agodoes the bashed forage cap of the civil war era also pay dues to this?
- thedailymail 1y agoOr maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata
- pier25 1y agoI don't know but their houses are definitely amanita muscaria.
- Tade0 1y agoWhich makes sense as you want your house to be as inedible as possible. I assume they have some method of keeping snails, woodpeckers and other animals resistant to the poison at bay.
- cluckindan 1y agoAmanita muscaria is not inedible, it just needs to be processed correctly.
- IAmBroom 1y agoWhich is why I carry around a pocketful of snails.
- Tade0 1y agoI happen to know a person who experimented with eating dried caps and I don't think there exists a process that actually makes them harmless. Unless of course you're isolating muscimol, but I don't think that should count as eating the fungus. While liver damage is mitigated by the fact that the organ in question regenerates, nerves don't.
- cluckindan 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#Culinary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#Culinary
- ratelimitsteve 1y agoI happen to be a person who ate the dried caps directly and experienced not only no ill effects but no effects whatsoever several times.
- dagmx 1y agoFun random fact, the tool used to animate the smurfs hats in 3 out of 4 CG smurfs films, was actually created for Doctor Manhattan’s junk for the original Watchmen film.
- thirtygeo 1y agoMy wife did not appreciate this fun fact but I did
- cluckindan 1y agoYeah right.
- kjs3 1y agoI feel like there's more entertaining detail you're leaving out here.
- dagmx 1y agoNot much else tbh. It was just originally made to simulate a thing with an attachment at one point and that flaps around on the other. So his junk was the original because animators didn’t want to spend time animating it, but it naturally extends to floppy Smurf hats.
- kjs3 1y agoThat's totally OK, because "some slacker animators figured out how to use the same tool that animated Dr. Manhattans giant blue cock for the Smurf hats in that insipid Smurf movie" is maybe the best bit of useless information I've been gifted in YEARS. I told my wife and she looked at me for probably 45 seconds before saying "what is wrong with you?". Perfect.
- user____name 1y agoSounds like a joke. Spring rigs and soft body physics have been included in various cg animation software for decades at this point.
- alex_young 1y agoIdk about all that, but the Smurfs are probably commies right? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused-antisemitism-racism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused...
- 29athrowaway 1y agoThe conspiracy theories I have heard: - Gargamel is a priest, the smurfs are prosecuted by the church - Papa smurf wears red and has a beard because of ideological reasons, the smurfs political and economic system resembles communism - Smurfs represent the seven deadly sins/seven capital vices Lust: Enamored smurf Gluttony: Baker smurf Avarice: Greedy smurf Sloth: Lazy smurf Wrath: Grouchy smurf Envy: Brainy smurf Pride: Vanity smurf
- itintheory 1y agoSMURF - Socialist Men Under Red Father
- kergonath 1y agoMuch harder to do with the original name in French (schtroumpf).
- jansan 1y agoSmurfs are most probably bald, as discussed in this thread on a good old fashioned forum: https://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/1485.html https://bluebuddies.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/1485.... And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most probably wearing a wig.
- ivape 1y agoWhy is that website?
- whycombyourhair 1y agoThe world would be so much better if there were only facebook, instagram and youtube apps. But then again I'm a Grouchy Smurf. https://bluebuddies.com/smurf_fun/smurf_personality_test/smurf_personality_test.htm https://bluebuddies.com/smurf_fun/smurf_personality_test/smu...
- jansan 1y agoBecause that's where I found that discussion. Is there a problem with that website?
- variaga 1y agoSmurfette isn't an actual Smurf, she's a construct made by Gargamel (yes, this is actual Smurf canon), so presumably her hair is also some sort of construct.
- autoexec 1y agoI just assumed that Tailor Smurf (https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Tailor_Smurf https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Tailor_Smurf) made them
- fvdessen 1y agoThis is almost certainly completely wrong, the smurfs get their hat designs from the type of hats that gnomes and dwarves and goblins usually wear in germanic folklore, the most well known of all being the garden dwarves, whose design also inspired the dwarves in snow white. The design of garden dwarves is quite recent and apparently come from miners. The hats were filled with straw to protect the miner's head from the ceiling.
- dankwizard 1y ago[flagged]
- sbierwagen 1y agoNot AI. Indexed in 2020 by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000000*/https://www.pipelinecomics.com/beginning-bd-smurfs-hats-origin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201001000000*/https://www.pipe... Why GPT writing sounds like the median lazy blog post of five years ago is left as an exercise for the reader.
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- jama211 1y agoBut facts? That goes against the hive mind
- pgsandstrom 1y agoWhat, you think the article was written by AI? Why?
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoIt's 2025, you can flip a coin and be correct half the time, and no consequences if you're wrong.
- jesperwe 1y agoMaybe the white on top of their heads IS their hair? And Papa smurf was old and bald and used a hat to blend in.
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- kabes 1y agoDutch catoonist Dirkjan revealed the real answer already years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dirkjan/s/zszexnXLRu https://www.reddit.com/r/dirkjan/s/zszexnXLRu
- ragebol 1y ago+1 for Dirkjan, always. Another classic https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/ https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/ And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.renesmurf.nl%2Fimages%2Fsmurfstrip.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=79b6eb769421fb7a4ed7a102de462bf42e4cf2f6cb8cec381e916a3c801e2f64 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"
- Vinnl 1y agoI don't get that first one :(
- bzzzt 1y agoThe smurf's being asked to remove his hat since wearing it in a restaurant is considered impolite. When being pressed the smurf says 'I don't ask you to remove your pants'. When it's revealed the smurfs genitals are under his hat Dirkjan's mate says 'maybe we should let hem keep his hat on'.
- Vinnl 1y agoOh no I meant the Pranfeuri one. Edit: Typing that out me realise that I could just search for that word. Apparently it's just absurdist: https://www.reddit.com/r/learndutch/comments/17nvt4g/pranfeuri/ https://www.reddit.com/r/learndutch/comments/17nvt4g/pranfeu...
- stronglikedan 1y agoSo it's a plumbus!
- bingo-bongo 1y agoFrom a drawing perspective the hat is fairly simple (3-4 lines), looks good and quick to sketch - speed mattered when drawing lots of Smurf’s.
- floucky 1y agoThe Phrygian cap was also the mascot for the Paris Olympics https://www.olympics.com/fr/olympic-games/paris-2024/mascot https://www.olympics.com/fr/olympic-games/paris-2024/mascot
- animal531 1y agoI have bigger questions about their long-johns than the hats. - Why long pants instead of shorts? It does make them look more dignified, I suppose. - Why white, you know that's just going to stain the feet something terrible.
- Jean-Papoulos 1y agoI can't believe they re-colored the entire first comic to make the Smurfs purple and not black. That's hilarious
- javier_e06 1y agoThe first time I saw the smurf hat is in the 70s, on a 20 cents Mexican coin. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YIoAAOSwA7ZmQs6N/s-l1600.png https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YIoAAOSwA7ZmQs6N/s-l1600.png
- smakt 1y ago[flagged]
- nartho 1y agoRefer to the last line of the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- MisterTea 1y agoDeep breaths...
- theshackleford 1y ago> signed up for the first time to write this. Should have spent that time reading the guidelines champ.
- prepend 1y agoIt’s interesting to me. So I guess HN worked. Feel free to flag articles you don’t like. Maybe others will agree.
- sentinelsignal 1y agoActually happy to see something very niche that i was taught in school.
- artur_makly 1y agoSpeaking of Gnomes.. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLVGfItCRsm/?igsh=aDdmdWw0M3MxcTBr https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLVGfItCRsm/?igsh=aDdmdWw0M3M...
- eadmund 1y ago> Somewhere along the line in the French Revolution, they adopted the freed slaves’ head gear as their own symbol of freedom, but picked the wrong one. That’s just so typical of the French Revolution.