A lot of '80s cartoons have made their way onto this list.
The Smurfs franchise began as a Belgian comic in the 1950s, later to be adapted into French animated films and spawn a U.S. TV series.
Now, like many of the other franchises mentioned here, it's been rebooted for the computer-animation generation.
The little blue guys with the white hats mostly just have adventures and learn lessons from Papa Smurf, while trying to avoid the evil Gargamel.
But look a little deeper, and the connection is kind of eerie here.
The costumes are the most obvious parallel-- the hats bear a resemblance to those of the Ku Klax Klan, and their leader dons a red one, as the famed white supremacists do.
Their nemesis fits a few notable Jewish stereotypes, and his cat is named Azreal, who was the Hebrew Angel of Death.
It gets worse: one episode includes a Smurf attempting to make Smurfette his slave, and another is based on an original comic, Les Schtroumpfs noirs ("The Black Smurfs").
One could argue the creator was just a product of his time and country, but that doesn't excuse the American producers who followed the storylines, does it?
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