On this day in 1958 a Frenchman (go figure) introduced the world to Smurfs. From that day till this the world has been covered in the blue darkness.When the blue darkness engulfed the United States in 1980, I was old enough to be immune to its obnoxious brain sucking horror. However, my two baby sisters were not. To this day certain shades of blue, and any song with "la, la" in lyrics sends them back to the darkness they knew as children.
We can only hope that our children will not have to bear the emotional scars that come with horrific Saturday morning television. There have been other scares to be sure such as the Barney epidemic, and the Power Ranger plague of the early 1990's. Thankfully, neither reached the cataclysmic rage of the Smurfs.
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