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"Paradise Smurfed" is the twenty-fifth episode in the first season of The Smurfs (1981).

Summary
Lazy, Greedy and Brainy find a place that is like paradise.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The beginning of the episode has Papa Smurf act out of character, as he angrily forces Lazy to fetch a pail of water.
 * 2) Lazy Smurf's adventure all turned out to be a dream, which is anticlimactic.
 * 3) There are inconsistencies with Brainy's character: At one point, he lays down on an oak tree, which is also out of character. Later in the episode, he is seen helping Greedy Smurf with the firewood.
 * 4) Rushed ending: Lazy decides to catch up with his work while the other Smurfs go to sleep, leaving Papa Smurf confused.
 * 5) This is a poor attempt at doing an Ants and the Grasshopper story with the Smurfs as substitutes, along with elements of Fantasy Island.
 * 6) There's no scene where Papa Smurf and the other Smurfs rescue Lazy from the magic river. It just ends with it all turning out to be a dream.
 * 7) Bacchus, Cicero and the cat turn evil and want to eat the Smurfs for dinner (making them copycats of Gargamel, Scruple and Azrael).
 * 8) Smurfette doesn't appear anywhere in this episode.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Good animation and voice acting.
 * 2) The plot was never brought up again after this episode.
 * 3) The dream ending bit was done better in "The Smurf Who Would Be King".

Trivia

 * As mentioned above, Smurfette does not appear in this episode.