Saturday morning cartoons - The Smurfs

It is truly amazing what you learn when look up things on Google.  I looked up the Smurfs to see when they started and if they fit into my Saturday morning cartoon experience.  They did, they started airing in 1981 when I was 14, prime Saturday morning cartoon age.  I also discovered some things that I did not know about them.  They're Belgian, they were first introduced in a comic strip in 1958 and they were one of the most successful and longest running Saturday morning cartoons ever and oh yeah, they were communists.   Communists?  I just thought that they cute little blue people that kept me from having to clean the house on a Saturday.  I just hope that my card carrying member of the Tea Party mother doesn't read this, she sees conspiracies in TV everywhere, this may just send her over the edge.  By the way, this documentary is quite clever, I am hoping that it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek but.....