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Where did the Smurfs get their hats (2018)

47 andsoitis 18 9/11/2025, 12:52:32 AM pipelinecomics.com ↗

Comments (18)

kabes · 30m ago

Dutch catoonist Dirkjan revealed the real answer already years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dirkjan/s/zszexnXLRu

ragebol · 18m ago

+1 for Dirkjan, always. Another classic https://dirkjan.nl/cartoon/20231004_3677623503/

And this one always gets me too: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw... with the "Jesmurfa's witness"

fvdessen · 1h ago

This 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 · 47m ago

It's also certainly AI.

sbierwagen · 32m ago

Not AI. Indexed in 2020 by the wayback machine: 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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pgsandstrom · 31m ago

What, you think the article was written by AI? Why?

autoexec · 1h ago

I just assumed that Tailor Smurf (https://smurfs.fandom.com/wiki/Tailor_Smurf) made them

bingo-bongo · 16m ago

From 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.

jesperwe · 1h ago

Maybe the white on top of their heads IS their hair? And Papa smurf was old and bald and used a hat to blend in.

duxup · 5h ago

I'm proud that I managed to guess it, it's a Phrygian cap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap

ggm · 4h ago

does the bashed forage cap of the civil war era also pay dues to this?

dagmx · 2h ago

Fun 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 · 1h ago

My wife did not appreciate this fun fact but I did

thedailymail · 2h ago

Or 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

pier25 · 1h ago

I don't know but their houses are definitely amanita muscaria.

alex_young · 2h ago

Idk about all that, but the Smurfs are probably commies right?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused...

29athrowaway · 1h ago

The 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

jansan · 1h ago

Smurfs 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....

And my unopular opinion is that Smurfette is most probably wearing a wig.