Reporter's Inside Stories: An Interview With Harmony

Reporter: For today's installment of Inside Stories, I'm going to be smurfing to a Smurf who's pretty much a legend in this village, but not in the way that most Smurfs want to be. He's one of the Smurf musicians whose, uh...talent in music is very unique, to say the least, which is perhaps the reason he's mostly smurfing announcements instead of having anybody listening to his music. If you haven't guessed which Smurf I'm talking about, it's our beloved fellow Smurf Harmony, whose favorite instrument is the trumpet. Today we'll be finding out why he continues in his attempt to play beautiful music long after most Smurfs would prefer him to stop trying.

(Reporter meets up with Harmony near the outskirts of the village as he is playing a very out-of-tune piece of music which makes Reporter hold his hands over his ears.)

Harmony: Ah, why, hello there, Reporter. Care to listen to my latest musical masterpiece? I'm sure you're going to like hearing it.

Reporter: Maybe later, but right now I'm here to smurf an interview with you. You never seem bothered by the fact that most Smurfs just don't find your music very...appealing.

Harmony: Honestly, I do feel disheartened that my fellow Smurfs always think my music playing is the worst. I know what they're smurfing whenever they have to listen to me play, and they would wish that I would stop trying to smurf out music.

Reporter: But you never stop trying to play music, Harmony. I just wonder why.

Harmony: As my own Papa and Mama Smurf would say, if you've got the music in you, then you might as well play it, and I always feel like I've got the music in me, so I can never deny myself in that regard. It's just unfortunate that my brother Singer is a better singer than I am, and yet it doesn't stop me from wanting to sing just like him.

Reporter: Yeah, that's a real shame, all right. He's got the talent for singing, and you just, uh...

Harmony: You can say it, Reporter. I'm used to hearing everybody saying that Harmony can't smurf a tune in a bucket if he tried, which is why most Smurfs don't want me to even smurf in a chorus with them. The only one who really wants to hear me sing is Farmer, and that's because my singing and music playing is so bad that it smurfs on the rain. I think that's what also happened with our good friend Peewit when his friend Sir Johan won in a jousting tournament smurfed by the good King Audric.

Reporter: You and Peewit certainly smurf one thing in common. How do you handle having to put up with your fellow Smurfs smurfing you their, uh...honest opinion about your music?

Harmony: By knowing that someday I'm going to smurf beautiful music, no matter how long it smurfs me to do it. That doesn't mean that I won't face rejection, though, as I did when I tried to be part of the Village Smurphony Orchestra at the time that Papa Smurf smurfed his Smurphony In 'C' and nobody wanted to hear me play in it. That was also when Gargamel smurfed me this magical instrument called the shazala-kazoo that smurfed everyone into a deep sleep that one of the evil wizard's books says they can never awaken from. I proved that wrong when I smurfed the shazala-kazoo into the fire and then smurfed everybody up with my horn playing.

Reporter: And everybody was so grateful to you that they decided to have you smurf in the orchestra...though only if they smurfed earplugs so they didn't have to hear you play. What about the time when you smurfed an entire orchestra that was smurfed by that ghost Plagiaro the Ghostwriter?

Harmony: I wanted to smurf a great orchestra for my fellow Smurfs to hear so that I could smurf the applause I was hoping to smurf. I just got so frustrated that I couldn't smurf more than a few notes, which was when Plagiaro decided to help me out by smurfing me a whole orchestra that he said I could smurf as my own just by signing a contract. How I regret ever smurfing that contract now, because I would be smurfing my life away in his ghastly nightclub entertaining his spirits for all eternity.

Reporter: So Papa Smurf and the others smurfed to your rescue by smurfing Plagiaro to trial about his "original symphony" and proved that he was basically smurfing music from other musicians and claiming it to be his own original creation.

Harmony: I could never thank my fellow Smurfs enough for smurfing to my rescue, Reporter, even though I felt so ashamed that I lied about my symphony. That inspired me to smurf my own music, which is what I've been smurfing ever since, even for the Spring Day Pageant when Poet smurfed this Orb Of Inspiration from Allura the enchantress.

Reporter: Everyone thought that your music during the practice for the pageant sounded like you were smurfing too much of the acorn brew, Harmony.

Harmony: (laughs) I have to admit it as being very true. I was so not myself when I was smurfing the Orb Of Inspiration, and it took Hefty to destroy the orb and Empath to smurf me out of that witch's dark chamber for me to see what that orb was smurfing to me, that I shouldn't rely on dangerous magic for any sort of inspiration and creativity.

Reporter: Which brings us to the fact that most of the time you get smurfed for doing announcements that Papa Smurf or some other Smurf has to smurf to the other Smurfs.

Harmony: It's either me or Drummer Smurf, though I think Drummer just wants to pound on the drums in a music band rather than smurf any announcements, but most of the time, it smurfs on me to alert the Smurfs of anything Papa Smurf or any Smurf has to say that's very important. Of course, when it smurfs to immediate danger, it's always, "Crazy, sound the alarm!", and away he smurfs with his very loud mimicking of an alarm horn.

Reporter: (laughs) Yeah, Crazy Smurf is very effective in that regard. Still, without him or you, no Smurf in the village would be left smurfing in it today. I wonder what it must be like for you to grow up in a family of musicians when you were a Smurfling.