The Return of the Purple Smurfs

The Return of the Purple Smurfs is the twenty second episode of the Smurfs season 10, which show the reappearance of the purple Smurfs.

Plot
The episode starts at the Smurf village, Papa Smurf tell his little Smurfs that they have to build a bridge to cross the River Smurf, so they begin to work, of course, they were having dificult due to Fooly's stupidity, Brainy with his endless explanation and Jokey's pranks, Joey, Moxette and the Pixie trio were helping as well, when they became out of wood, Papa Smurf tells to Pansy and a unnamed Smurf to go to the forest to gather some wood, they did what he ordered them to, as they were cutting some trees, a Purple Fly swoops down and bites the Smurf's tail, turning him into a "Purple Smurf!".

Pansy came back flying away from the purple Smurf and tells Papa Smurf by saying "The Smurf was bitten by a fly and then became purple with a mean looking face and only says Gnap!", Papa wondered "Oh no! I can't believe its happening again!", he tells them the Smurf was bitten by a purple fly, which make all the Smurfs to gasp, not knowing about that, Joey asks "What do you mean bitten by a purple fly again?", he tells Joey, Moxette and the Pixie trio, that long ago, before he met them, Lazy was bitten by a purple fly and turned into a purple Smurf, he was trying to find the cure, while many Smurfs were being bitten by the purple Smurfs and turning into one, until he found the cure that it is a "Tuberose", it was a hard battle, until he became the last Smurf, was then bitten and turned into one, luckily an explosion of tuberose's pollen turned all the Smurfs back to normal.

Papa Smurf tell to his little Smurfs to capture the Purple Smurf, as well to find the tuberose, three Smurfs, Clumsy, Forgety and Fooly, were searching for the Purple Smurf, Forgety notices him behind him, but forgot what he was suposed to do, then was bitten by him and turned into one, Clumsy tries to catch them but he accidently trips on a tree root and got bitten, Fooly turned around and say "Bite Fooly whenever you want!", which they did and he turns into a Purple Smurf.

Meanwhile Joey, Smurfette, Moxette, Hefty and the Pixie trio were searching for the Tuberose, when they notice four Purple Smurfs, going towards them, Joey manages to knock them out by use his suplex and tied them up, Hefty decided to take them to the village, while arriving in the village, the Purple Smurfs broke free from the ropes and bite Hefty, much to Papa's shock, one by one the Smurfs are being bitten and turning into Purple Smurfs, he hides Baby Smurf, inside of a basket, he tries to warn Grandpa and the Smurflings, but he came too late, they were already bitten and turned into Purple Smurfs, Grouchy tries to run away and hide behind a bush, but the leader sneaks up and bites him, before transforming he says "I hate Purple Smurfs!".

Meanwhile, Joey and co', were searching for some tuberoses, Moxette notices three tuberoses and says "There they are, the tuberoses!", they get and go back to the village, as they arrived, they became shocked to see the entire village was Purple Smurfested, saving from Papa Smurf who was the only one to still be normal, when suddenly Purple Handy and Painter appear from behind and bites Joey and Smurfette's tail, Joey says "Oh no! i'm going to turn into a purple Smurf!", but nothing happenned to him while Smurfette turn into one and bites his tail, but nothing happened, which Papa Smurf say "Amazing! it seems you're immune agaisnt this due you are human from inside!" which Moxette wants to know about what he meant by that, but he let for later, as they have first to finish this crisis, they went to his laboratory and make some tuberose's pollen.

As they went outside, the army of Purple Smurfs were aproaching and the fight begins, they were spraying pollen at them and turning them back to normal, the cured Smurfs join in the fight, until when they became out of pollen, Papa Smurf tells them for a retreat to his lab, as they entered, the leader was already inside and bites, Papa Smurf, Moxette tells Joey to go ahead while Joey say "But what about you?", she tells him to not to worry and that she'll be fine, so Joey go find the antidote, while Moxette distracts them by mimicking their "Gnap" noises, Joey knowing that she will not hold them for any longer, he notices a torch hanging agaisnt the wall, remembering about Papa's story, he throws the pollen at the torch, while Moxette got bitten by the leader and turns into a purple Smurfette,

Then suddenly, an explosion happened and the pollen covered the entire village, all the Smurfs turn back to normal, Papa Smurf was happy that peace have returned and everything is back to normal, when Moxette say "almost!", they noticed the Smurf was with a mean looking expression, which he asked if is grouchy, but then the Smurf starts to complain by saying "Grouchy!? how can you mistake me to Grouchy!? and why Smurfs are all wear white clothes!", Papa Smurf says "That's the result when you are a Purple Smurf for too long", he complains about Purple Smurfs, Moxette asks "What do you mean, about Joey being human from inside?", having no choice, he tells her that Joey is actually a human who was turned into a Smurf and lost his memory and tells her that she has to keep that in secret.

Next day, it was a peaceful day at the village, but not so long when Jokey plays a prank by painting himself Purple, causing panic making the Smurfs thinking a new Purple Smurf crisis is about to break out, however the prank backfires when Handy starts to ask around about who was the one who stole his purple paint, a paint that never comes off, meanwhile the Smurf (now named Complainer), starts to complain about Jokey always pranking everybody, thus ending the episode.

Background Information

 * The scene where Jokey paints himself Purple is based on the one page gag of the comic version, with only two differences, while in the comics the black paint was changed to green and word "Gnap" was changed to "Gnash", while in the cartoon, he painted himself purple and still says "Gnap".
 * First appearance of Forgety and Complainer Smurf.