The Shmoogenheim Shmooseum!


Shmoos exploded! Crazes come and go and some are more explosive and more lasting, but all fade in time. Shmoos were big, much bigger than Al Capp ever imagined, but not so much that he was not able to take advantage of the massive public interest in the pudgy little somewhat phallic critters.


He had gone independent in the nick of time. Taking Li'l Abner away from the syndicate, he and his brothers formed their own company to handle the marketing, and then came the Shmoos and life was good Capp clan indeed.


Here are just some of the many many many Shmoo items I've gathered up from across the wilderness of the internet. 






























The Shmoos made a come back in the late 70's when Hanna-Barbera took a turn a trying to make them into TV stars on The New Shmoo Show.  He even went to Bedrock for a time. Weird. 

SATURDAY MORNINGS FOREVER: THE NEW SHMOO

And that's "Shmoo"  business everybody. This way to the Egress as P.T. Barnum once directed.

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