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How Did This Get Made?

Matinee Monday: The Smurfs

How Did This Get Made?

Earwolf

Film Reviews, Comedy, Tv & Film, So Bad They’re Good, Bad Films, Bad Movies, Comedy Movies, Movies, Movie Reviews, Film

4.823.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week Paul F. Tompkins joins Jason, June and Paul to breakdown the 2011 kid’s movie The Smurfs. They discuss the unnecessarily smurf-complicated language, the awkward casting, and ponder "was Azrael the cat the best actor in this movie?" and Paul introduces the first ever Second Opinions segment! If you’ve got a child’s heart, or had to drag your children to see this movie, you’ll enjoy this episode! For more Matinee Monday content, check out Paul's Youtube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CwY39OY22_1eFqUNTyIFA HDTGM IS GOING ON TOUR! For more info visit https://www.hdtgminfo.com/ HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgm Paul’s Discord: https://discord.gg/paulscheer Check out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm EST Subscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: listen.earwolf.com/deepdive Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooled Check out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.com Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgm Where to Find Jason, June & Paul: @PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter Jason is Not on Twitter

Transcript

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0:00.0

They're blue, they're two apples high, and they're in New York City.

0:04.2

We saw the smurfs, so you know what time it is.

0:06.8

Hello people of Earth and welcome to How Did This Get Made?

0:28.6

As always, I am joined by Jason and June both who are not in studio, so say hello.

0:35.6

How's it going?

0:38.6

What's up smurfs?

0:40.6

Sorry.

0:41.6

So you'll see there might be, this is the first time we're two of the guest hosts are not in studio,

0:45.6

but we have some fantastic in the studio.

0:48.6

The amazingly talented hilariously funny, Paul F. Tompkins.

0:52.6

Well hello everyone, including listeners.

0:57.2

So we don't normally do kids movies, but this one looked spectacularly bad.

1:05.6

And so we decided to do the smurfs.

1:07.6

Now I was trying to figure out how to describe it, and I think this clip right here kind of

1:13.2

does a great job.

1:14.2

So this here are smurfs, are mythical creatures from Belgium, also known as strokes.

1:19.4

Yeah.

1:20.4

And they're documented by pale.

1:27.6

You guys come from a magic forest where you live in oversized mushrooms, you're being chased

1:33.2

by an evil wizard and you're trapped in New York until there's a balloon moon.

1:37.6

And you like to use the extremely imprecise term smurf for just about everything.

1:42.0

Smurf?

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