("Hey, I've got a little surprise for you!" For Jokey, every day is April Fool’s Day — and why shouldn’t it be? “Who doesn’t like a good joke?” is his motto. Like the class clown who is always on, Jokey is continually trying out gags and pratfalls: wearing silly masks, dropping fake spiders, short-sheeting beds. When they work, he’s the one laughing the loudest. And when the others aren’t howling, he thinks it’s because they have no sense of humor. In Jokey's eyes, nothing is sacred and there's no inappropriate time for a good laugh. He does have quieter, serious moments, but they never last for long. Despite his often-mischievous side, Jokey is a nice guy and well-liked in the village. In "Gargamel's Dummy", he also acts like a big brother to the Smurflings, here by taking interest in watching Sassette and her frog in the final rehearsals for an upcoming talent show and offering advice. He also shows emotion is able to put priorities in order, such as with his love toward Baby Smurf, becoming deeply saddened when Baby is (temporarily) sent away from the village in "Once In a Blue Moon". However, when Jokey has been done wrong and falsely accused of causing trouble, he will be quick to defend himself and his honor. This happens in "Gargamel's Dummy", where he was hastily accused of vandalism and sabotaging other Smurfs' acts for a talent show by the other Smurfs. The actual damage was caused by a ventriloquist's dummy of Gargamel, which unknown to the other Smurfs had come to life thanks to the real Gargamel's spell, which he hopes will be used to destroy the Smurf Village. It is Jokey who sneaks into Gargamel's castle and grabs the counter-spell, which he uses to cause the dummy to fall harmlessly lifeless, and the other Smurfs realize Gargamel was behind the earlier trouble. Jokey’s all-time favorite gag is a gift box that explodes in the recipient’s face. He can’t get enough of playing that trick. And even though the other Smurfs know what he’s up to, they still can’t avoid it. That infernal box always ends up in someone’s hands! An endless source of sneaky ideas, Jokey is responsible for a lot of the troublemaking that takes place in Smurf village. Unlike his comic book/2021 TV series counterpart, it is noticeable that this version Jokey has shown no qualms of giving explosive presents to Smurfette in several episodes of the 1981 TV series such as "Jokey's Medicine" and "Bewitched, Bothered, And Be-Smurfed". Jokey spends his day giving the other Smurfs his exploding gifts or planning any new pranks. Jokey is also a "Master of disguise", taking up roles like "Don Smurfo" and "The Masked Pie Smurfer". Jokey just loves to play around with people, no matter how much he irritates them. When you get a look in his house, there are stacks of his exploding gift boxes everywhere.)

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