• Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nlEnglish
    23·
    12 days ago

    They do not reproduce (setting aside Smurfette, who is technically a Golem) and they also do not die… they must be DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS.

  • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Henchman 24: Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.

    Henchman 21: Oh my God, you’re crazy! They’re so obviously mammals!

    Henchman 24: Please! She’d be in estrus 24/7 if she didn’t lay eggs.

    Henchman 21: Smurfs don’t lay eggs! I won’t tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They’re mammals!

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Insects have hair that serves several purposes, and birds can have feathers that resemble hair. Also there are mammals that lay eggs so there’s that too.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    First of all, Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel’s evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario - It just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s the point of living… if you don’t have a dick?

    https://youtu.be/gTWjPHfXnUE

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        First book, he needs them to make gold.

        Then it’s just revenge.

        Or so I remember.

      • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        I think you’re right… I was just imagining him coming in with a flamethrower in one the last episode

      • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        He appeared in Robot Chicken and admitted that he was never all that clear on his motivations.

      • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        Huh. I’m not sure how far back furries go.

        If not, it’s certainly proto furry porn. Pretty sure it predates the formulation of Rule 34.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    This means that Gargamel was heroically working to contain the infestation and researching a cure.

  • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    Honestly the idea that parasites all share a single, simple method of reproduction is the silliest thing in this comic. There’s a cordyceps fungus that not only has a stage in an ant, it then swells and reddens the abdomen of the ant, takes over the behavior of the ant and forces it to climb to the top of a stalk of grass, and has it wave in the air until a bird mistakes it for a berry and swoops down and eats it. At this point it has a whole other phase of its life cycle inside the bird until it finally releases its spores in the bird’s droppings.

    (I probably have a few of the details here not quite right, as it’s not my field of expertise, but it’s along these lines, including the behavior modification and the two separate host species.)

    There are so many kinds of parasites, and they do so many crazy things.