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The Smurfs: Season 9

40 episodes Premiered Sep 9, 1989 Updated Oct 5, 2026
Previously on The Smurfs

Season 9 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Smurfs Season 8.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 9 Episodes

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Season 9: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (37): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S9·E1 Mytharc

The Smurfs That Time Forgot (1)

Sep 9, 1989 · 23 min

A baby dinosaur is brought into the present time and the Smurfs try to get him back by a magic key.

S9·E2 Core

The Smurfs That Time Forgot (2)

Sep 9, 1989

A baby dinosaur is brought into the present time and the Smurfs try to get him back by a magic key.

S9·E3 Core

The Smurfs That Time Forgot (3)

Sep 9, 1989

While trying to get the dinosaur back, the Smurfs get trapped in time when they lose the key's crystals.

S9·E4 Core

Cave Smurfs

Sep 9, 1989

Brainy and Greedy encounter a prehistoric bird.

S9·E5 Core

Hogapatra's Beauty Sleep

Sep 16, 1989

In Ancient Egypt, an empress suffers from insomnia and it's up to Lazy to do his thing- sleep so she will get the idea.

S9·E6 Core

Mummy Dearest

Sep 16, 1989

Gargamel's Egyptian incarnation puts the Smurfs to work on building a monument for his cat pharoah Azra when they wake up a mummy that saves them.

S9·E7 Core

Shamrock Smurfs

Sep 16, 1989

An enchanted stew puts more than a little "Irish spring" into Greedy.

S9·E8 Core

Karate Clumsy

Sep 23, 1989

Clumsy does chop-sockey to an evil ninja rat.

S9·E9 Core

Like it or Smurf It

Sep 23, 1989

Brainy's version of Double Dare gets dangerous on a volcanic paradise.

S9·E10 Core

Papa's Big Snooze

Sep 23, 1989

Papa Smurf goes beddy-bye when a Japanese bug bites him.

S9·E11 Core

A Fish Called Snappy

Sep 30, 1989

Snappy does Mr. Limpett when he gets on a water sprite's bad side.

S9·E12 Core

The Smurf Odyssey

Sep 30, 1989

The Smurfs help Zeus' feeble son learn the ways of godhood on his quest for the Golden Fleece.

S9·E13 Core

Trojan Smurfs

Sep 30, 1989

When in Troy and Smurfette gets captured by an heiress who thinks she's a doll, the Smurfs do what the Greeks did.

S9·E14 Core

Fortune Cookie

Oct 7, 1989

Jokey puts some messages of his own inside the fortune cookies.

S9·E15 Core

Imperial Panda-Monium

Oct 7, 1989

The Smurfs must rescue a child emperor of China from Gargamel's Oriental self, who wants to usurp the throne.

S9·E16 Core

Smurfette's Green Thumb

Oct 7, 1989

Smurfette gets pricked by a magic plant in Babylon and turns whatever she touches into a plant.

S9·E17 Core

Hefty Sees a Serpent

Oct 14, 1989

Nobody believes Hefty's story about a serpent until Gargamel's Scottish counterpart captures them.

S9·E18 Core

Phantom Bagpiper

Oct 14, 1989

Smurfette becomes a horse jockey to help a Scottish ghost rescue his kidnapped horse.

S9·E19 Core

Jungle Jitterbug

Oct 14, 1989

Vanity gets some dance in his pants, which helps bring rain to a South American village.

S9·E20 Core

The Clumsy Genie

Oct 21, 1989

Clumsy trades places with a genie in Baghdad, and now he has to cure the Sultan's cold or else!

S9·E21 Core

Scary Smurfs

Oct 21, 1989

The Smurfs get turned into monsters after nibbling on a gingerbread house in Germany.

S9·E22 Core

Sky High Surprise

Oct 21, 1989

A band of baby bandits in the desert steal the time crystals.

S9·E23 Core

Gnoman Holiday

Oct 28, 1989

Julius Geezer of the Gnomans wants Smurfette as his wife, and Lazy has to fight a Gnoman gladiator to save her.

S9·E24 Core

Greedy's Masterpizza

Oct 28, 1989

Painter is no longer the only Smurf who can create a "masterpizza!"

S9·E25 Core

The Monumental Grouch

Oct 28, 1989

Grouchy has a change of heart in Rome when his likeness is taken for granite.

S9·E26 Core

Curried Smurfs

Nov 4, 1989

Gargamel's Far East counterpart finds and sells the Smurfs to the Rajah for his private zoo.

S9·E27 Core

G'day Smoogle

Nov 4, 1989

Does Smoogle find his long-lost cousin Marsupilami down under? Well, actually he finds his own ancestors down under, so who knows?

S9·E29 Core

Big Shot Smurfs

Nov 11, 1989

Greedy and Brainy are caught up in a civil war between two groups of tiny people off the coast of Spain.

S9·E30 Core

No Reflection On Vanity

Nov 11, 1989

Vanity mistakes an icicle for a missing key crystal while the real missing key crystal is about to set adrift into the sea in Antarctica.

S9·E31 Core

Papa Lose His Patience

Nov 11, 1989

Is Papa Smurf getting as hot-tempered as those bulls chasing them around in Spain?

S9·E32 Core

Swashbuckling Smurfs

Nov 11, 1989

The Smurfs become unwilling shipmates for a parrot pirate.

S9·E34 Core

Small-Minded Smurfs

Nov 18, 1989

A headhunter in the jungle is doing shrinky-dinks with the Smurfs' heads.

S9·E36 Core

Smurfs of the Round Table

Nov 18, 1989

It's up to the Smurfs to restore honor to Camelot and wrest control of Excalibur away from Morgan Le Fay.

S9·E37 Core

Wild Goes Cuckoo

Dec 2, 1989

A Swiss clockmaker uses Wild Smurf in his next cuckoo clock.

S9·E38 Core

Brainy's Beastly Boo-Boo

Dec 2, 1989

An African storytelling stick in Brainy's hands turns his fellow Smurfs into wild animals.

S9·E39 Mytharc

The Golden Rhino

Dec 2, 1989

A greedy trader steals both Prince Bakari's golden rhino and a golden Brainy.

S9·E40 Mytharc

Hearts 'N' Smurfs

Dec 2, 1989

Gargamel's Dutch doppelganger puts a spell on Brainy that causes all his fellow Smurfs to spread nastiness when they take over Cupid's job.

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