"Wedding Bells for Gargamel" marks the first appearance of Madame Lavinia, a marriage broker whom Gargamel's mother had hired for her son to marry the Maiden Andria, without success. She doesn't appear again until the Season 6 episode "The Prince and the Hopper", where she was hired by Lady Jasmine when she desires to marry Prince Theodore for his money.
The title "To Smurf a Thief" is an allusion to the film
To Catch a Thief (1955) by Alfred Hitchcock.
In "To Smurf a Thief", even though Tipper/Justin was adopted by Enchanter Homnibus, he is never seen again in the series.
There are elements from "To Smurf a Thief" that are based on the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist" (1839), such as:
- The criminal Shedlock represents both Fagin (who teaches children to pickpocket) and his violent associate Bill Sikes
- His protégé Kipper represents the orphan Oliver Twist
- Kipper stole an purse from Homnibus just like Oliver stole a valuable from a gentleman
- Homnibus decides not to press criminal charges against Kipper and take him under his care just like the gentleman did for Oliver
The enchanter Homnibus is depicted as a man who lives alone in "To Smurf a Thief" before taking in the young thief Kipper (whom he renamed "Justin"). In the "Johan and Peewit" and latter Smurf comic stories, he has a servant by the name of Oliver who does not appear in the cartoon series.