Nothing is sacred to the UN. This 25-second ad showing the destruction of Smurf Village was done with the consent of the Peyo family, as part of a Belgian UNICEF fundraising campaign for the rehabilitation of former child-soldiers from Burundi.
This isn’t the first time the UN has reached for the radical depiction to get people to feel instead of think. Who all remembers the explosive soccer ad?
I also took a quick look over at Little Green Footballs to gauge the reaction of my fellow Lizardoids, and found this particular comment which stood out like a sore blue thumb:

“Just remember, when the smurfs start smurfing, there will be smurf to pay. Smurfs will be smurfing each other like there’s no tomorrow. While some smurfs will think this is smurficilious, other smurfs will smurf and smurf, until they can smurf the remaining smurfs in short order.
“Only the smurf survive.”

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