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A Mere Truffle is the seventh episode in the second season of The Smurfs (1981).

Summary
The Smurfs love truffles, but the truffles belong to the Trolls who live next to Truffletroll Mountain and the lake where the Thing with No Name lurks.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This episode uses the word of "truffles" constantly in this episode as a poor attempt for a running gag. Nobody stops talking about it until the end.
 * 2) Poet and Harmony downright throw Grouchy out of the village when he says he hates truffles, implying that the Smurfs force one another to like what they like.
 * 3) The Smurfs go crazy over the one Truffle that Tracker brought home.
 * 4) The interruption of Papa's experiments happens three times in the same episode.
 * 5) Papa Smurf, while likeable as always, makes the nonsensical choice of splitting the one Truffle that Tracker got into tiny bits and pieces.
 * 6) "The Thing with No Name" is a very laughable name.
 * 7) Some poor gags, such as the quote "How dare you take our truffles, which we don't even eat!"
 * 8) The Thing with No Name's tentacles turned Brainy upside down and shook him, revealing that he had truffles stashed away personally in his pockets, which is rather greedy of him.
 * 9) Bad Ending: While Tracker's memory suddenly returns, he tells his fellow Smurfs that they must be off to collect truffles, going on and on about how wonderful truffles are when he gets catapulted out of the village, leaving him to wonder what they have against truffles. Not only are the Smurfs mean-spirited, but are also hypocritical of what they like.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Good animation and voice acting as usual.
 * 2) Harmony sings very well in this episode, which unfortunately became a continuity error in later seasons.

Reception

 * It holds a rating of 7/10 on IMDB.