As the Smurfs collect their buckets and then go out into the forest to pick smurfberries, Gutsy follows Brainy to find out where he's been getting all the smurfberries for winning the contest.

He discovers that it's in a place called Smurfy Hollow, an area where the legendary Headless Horseman resides, where there's a secret patch of smurfberries growing plentifully.
"[5], The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow was met with positive reviews from critics.

Unable to fix the wheel, the three of them sit together around a campfire roasting smurfberries when Clumsy has the idea of telling a ghost story to pass the time. So I asked my production designer Sean Eckols to explore this idea and he delivered in spades. "[5], He also explained that Disney animator Mary Blair inspired some of the film's animation, saying: "Mary was the master when it came to mixing bold shapes & colors. By the end of the story, it is revealed that Papa Smurf created the Headless Horseman by using his magic to change an ordinary goat into a ghost. In Narrator's story, the Smurfs gather around for Papa Smurf to announce the Smurfberry Harvest contest in which the Smurfs who collect the most smurfberries will be awarded a medal. Which is why I really wanted to do this home premiere as a mostly hand-drawn production. The blazing primary color, stunning backgrounds and varied angles seem to be "making a case" for traditional animation.
He discovers that it's in a place called Smurfy Hollow, an area where the legendary Headless Horseman resides, where there's a secret patch of smurfberries growing plentifully.

By the time the contest ends and the Smurfs have appeared with their buckets for Papa Smurf to judge the winner, Gutsy shows up with a bucket overloaded with smurfberries and thus is declared the winner. Besides, given that Mary color-designed Disney's own take on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow back in the late 1940s, it only seemed right that Blair's work serve as an influence on Smurfy Hollow as well. This episode was very fun to watch with my family.

Narrator then joins the three Smurfs to tell his own kind of ghost story.

Realizing that he may be found out for cheating, Gutsy goes out into the forest alone to find Brainy, but is soon joined by Smurfette, who finds out from Gutsy that Brainy is in Smurfy Hollow.

GIVEAWAY. Which was this celebration of the original Smurfs comic books & comic strips that used traditional, hand-drawn animation as a way to harken back to all that strong line work and design. Unable to fix the wheel, the three of them sit together around a campfire roasting smurfberries when Clumsy has the idea of telling a ghost story to pass the time.