Gargamel Gets Fed Up; Uses WMD on Smurf Village

When I first saw this, I thought Smurfette was passed out with her arse in the air after yet another right gang-smurfing. Sometimes you don't have the energy to roll over. We've all been there. But this is actually a scene from a bizarre UNICEF commercial and what you're seeing is Smurfette's dead body, a traumatized Baby Smurf at the edge of a bomb crater, and other smurfs running for the hills while their village is blown to bits and burned. Apparently, the commercial's purpose is to show the horrors of war, particularly the plight of ex-child soldiers in Africa. UNICEF decided to stray from its more conventional ads using real life images of children playing and laughing in order to shock people by destroying images from their childhood in horrific ways. UNICEF did such a good job of traumatizing the masses that the commercial can only be shown after 9 p.m. to avoid scaring children and hypersensitive adults. Maybe in the next ad, we can watch Bugs Bunny and the crew giving the Tiny Toons a right proper rogering in a Thai village to show the horrors of the child sex trade. I bet Yosemite Sam is a real tomcat.

The clip finishes with the written message: "Don't let war destroy the children of the world," followed by a call for donations.