The Cursed Country (Johan and Peewit)

The Cursed Country is an episode of Johan and Peewit.

Summary
Johan, Peewit and the King help Hefty and Smurfette battle against Fafnir for destroying the village and rescue the imprisoned Smurfs.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) Unlike the previous season, this is the first one to feature Johan, Peewit and the King. It serves as the pilot for a new series of segments in the Smurfs series.
 * 2) Some of the scenes are taken from the comics, while most of them are fairly new material.
 * 3) Fafnir makes his only debut in the animated series. Prior to the Cursed Country, a mother and child dragon had made their appearance in "St. Smurf and the Dragon".
 * 4) The ending is one of the best parts of the episode where the King found out that Peewit still had the magic stick and knew it was a lucky guess, considered that the castle was flooded.
 * 5) Hefty and Smurfette were the only escapees that came to Johan and Peewit and told them what happened to their village. Unfortunately, some of it was in Smurf and the three humans decided to go look for the source of the problem.
 * 6) Clumsy was able to find snapdragons to create a brew, so Fafnir will be fast asleep.
 * 7) Good animation and voice acting.
 * 8) In the middle of the episode, Homnibus makes his official debut and eventually becomes a recurring character in The Smurfs series.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being the first episode of the Johan and Peewit series, it begins in the Smurf Village. Justified since the viewers wanted us to know what happened to the village before we got to the Johan and Peewit characters.
 * 2) Oliver was omitted when the comic books were adapted for television.

Trivia

 * As mentioned above, this is the first episode in the Johan and Peewit series of segments.