Love Too Smurf

Illustration of a blue-skinned character wearing a white hat, shirt and shoes and swinging a tennis racket. Black text on a yellow background.

Smurfs are woodland creatures created by Belgian writer and illustrator Pierre “Peyo” Culliford (1926-1992). First introduced in the comic series Johan and Peewit in 1958, the Smurfs quickly gained popularity, earning their own series in 1959 and a Belgian animated show that aired from 1961 to 1967. The Smurfs' big breakthrough came with their introduction to the American audience through the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Smurfs, which ran from 1981 to 1990 and firmly established the lovable blue characters in American pop culture. This particular button offers a playful pun. In tennis, "love" indicates a score of zero points, so "love two" means a score of 0-2 or 2-0, with the first number representing the serving player's score. The Smurf shown here is unnamed, as the total number of Smurf characters across entertainment platforms remains unknown.