The Shmoo must be understood as nothing less than carnivore porn" just as pornography norms rape as the apotheosis of female desire, the Shmoo's self-immolation whitewashes the grotesque violence of the abattoir with a fantasy of meat-jouissance.
@factoryfarm Um...No. The Shmoo was pretty clearly intended as satire. The point is that the Shmoo represents unlimited plenty, but the rich and powerful consider it their enemy, because they thrive on scarcity. Keep in mind that Al Capp was making cartoons at a time when Americans actually knew what hunger was like, meat was still a luxury, and most people had never even considered the idea of animal rights. You're projecting your politics into an area where they don't apply. Nice try though.
@TheNationalfilmbored .. yes but satire can have more than one political/economic/social reading - perhaps because they must - the exquisite act of incandescent, spontaneous, erotic autolysis that lies at the real centre of the Shmoos' transgressive power: they are literally consumed by love. They die of desire to feed their flock. This is self-sacrifice as transcendence - the absolute unspeakable of rational analysis, if also the perennial matrix of human community.
it sounds like the NOA Weather Radio broadcast... you know... the one where you turn to the Weather Channel to find out the forecast and then realize, 3 hours later, that you still have no idea what the weather is going to be.
Al Capp had one effed up mind! I remember reading (or, at the age of 5, more like "looking") the comic strip when my father purchased the Sunday edition of the New York Daily News. What was the name of his detective character who resembled Dick Tracy?
What doesn't make sense is that the Shmoo is said to have many uses for it's meat and fat, yet it hasn't been verified whether they have a skeleton. This is obviously impossible as while cutting them open, you would notice whether bones existed, so it should have been verified several times over whether they have a skeleton or not.
Good point. But people contend that the Shmoo is boneless. It's just that the art of an alleged Shmoo skeleton is in dispute. Especially since a Shmoo physique would lend to the fact that it is boneless. Also the fact that the hide could be used as timber could mean that it's hide could act as a type of exoskeleton. But then to get the facts, we'd have to ask Al Capp or a Lil' Abner expert.
@Bertonator I was actually just thinking about the possibility of a shmoo having a skeleton, and I'd imagine that given how useful the rest of it's body is, if it DID have a skeleton, the bones would be make out of high quality building material, or if ground up, they might have medical properties.
@Bertonator Well, when they are, ask them how they can cut out the meat and fat and use it, yet not notice whether the Shmoo has bones or not. Myself, I like the Eeeeeshamoooo!
Al Capp created the Shmoo for the Lil' Abner comic strip in the late 40's, so Shmoo pre-dates Scooby Doo but the Shmoo solving mysteries with teens in the late 70's was a ripoff of the Scooby Doo concept.
Creepy ass voice
dammitotacon 20 hours ago
I want to make a confession on youtube! I have been married to a Shmoo for 18 years.
ranrio70 2 months ago
Emm...yeah...sure....Shmoo...exists.Leave...alone...the- bottle
Mahler1817 4 months ago
iv got a pet shmoo i found it at the local lake!
sk84darkstar2 4 months ago
I think they are a satire about eager to please people. The voice reminds me of Stephen Hawking.
lorisfairchild 5 months ago
Wikipedia copy pasta lol
floridakees 10 months ago
The Shmoo must be understood as nothing less than carnivore porn" just as pornography norms rape as the apotheosis of female desire, the Shmoo's self-immolation whitewashes the grotesque violence of the abattoir with a fantasy of meat-jouissance.
factoryfarm 11 months ago
@factoryfarm Wow. That's deep.
Bertonator 11 months ago 4
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TheNationalfilmbored 11 months ago
@factoryfarm Um...No. The Shmoo was pretty clearly intended as satire. The point is that the Shmoo represents unlimited plenty, but the rich and powerful consider it their enemy, because they thrive on scarcity. Keep in mind that Al Capp was making cartoons at a time when Americans actually knew what hunger was like, meat was still a luxury, and most people had never even considered the idea of animal rights. You're projecting your politics into an area where they don't apply. Nice try though.
TheNationalfilmbored 11 months ago
@TheNationalfilmbored .. yes but satire can have more than one political/economic/social reading - perhaps because they must - the exquisite act of incandescent, spontaneous, erotic autolysis that lies at the real centre of the Shmoos' transgressive power: they are literally consumed by love. They die of desire to feed their flock. This is self-sacrifice as transcendence - the absolute unspeakable of rational analysis, if also the perennial matrix of human community.
factoryfarm 11 months ago
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TheNationalfilmbored 11 months ago
stupid people would think this was real
RegretfulPonys 1 year ago
@RegretfulPonys They would indeed. Look what happened when Orson Welles did the War of the Worlds broadcast!
Bertonator 1 year ago
@RegretfulPonys This is real.
BeingOStupid 5 months ago
it sounds like the NOA Weather Radio broadcast... you know... the one where you turn to the Weather Channel to find out the forecast and then realize, 3 hours later, that you still have no idea what the weather is going to be.
punkaroos123 1 year ago 2
@punkaroos123 LOL It does, doesn't it?
Bertonator 1 year ago
it sounds like the NOA Weather Radio broadcast
punkaroos123 1 year ago
iam sorry ...BUT WHAT ON THE HELL is the shmoo
noaho0 1 year ago
bahahahahahahahhahahahahaahha!
krushmiss 1 year ago
he just read off the wikipedia page.
agm20121 1 year ago
Why is this being narrated by Stephen Hawking?
peacelord 1 year ago 3
@peacelord LOL Naw, just my good friend Sam ;^)
Bertonator 1 year ago
We are carry on the Legend naming our band after the new Shmoo :)
shmoomusic 1 year ago
nice videoxD
21Andra 1 year ago
Al Capp had one effed up mind! I remember reading (or, at the age of 5, more like "looking") the comic strip when my father purchased the Sunday edition of the New York Daily News. What was the name of his detective character who resembled Dick Tracy?
rolko52 1 year ago
@rolko52 That was "Fearless Fosdick."
Bertonator 1 year ago
LOL - made with Microsoft Sam on Windows I'm sure. ahhaa
kbm11213 2 years ago
shmoo is a menace to society.
ddubrul 2 years ago
What doesn't make sense is that the Shmoo is said to have many uses for it's meat and fat, yet it hasn't been verified whether they have a skeleton. This is obviously impossible as while cutting them open, you would notice whether bones existed, so it should have been verified several times over whether they have a skeleton or not.
WingThaiJ 2 years ago
Good point. But people contend that the Shmoo is boneless. It's just that the art of an alleged Shmoo skeleton is in dispute. Especially since a Shmoo physique would lend to the fact that it is boneless. Also the fact that the hide could be used as timber could mean that it's hide could act as a type of exoskeleton. But then to get the facts, we'd have to ask Al Capp or a Lil' Abner expert.
Bertonator 2 years ago
@Bertonator I was actually just thinking about the possibility of a shmoo having a skeleton, and I'd imagine that given how useful the rest of it's body is, if it DID have a skeleton, the bones would be make out of high quality building material, or if ground up, they might have medical properties.
battybuddy 1 year ago
@battybuddy Brilliant! 8^)
Bertonator 1 year ago
@WingThaiJ The people of Dogpatch weren't available for comment.
Bertonator 1 year ago 4
@Bertonator Well, when they are, ask them how they can cut out the meat and fat and use it, yet not notice whether the Shmoo has bones or not. Myself, I like the Eeeeeshamoooo!
WingThaiJ 1 year ago
I made up the name Shmoo back in the late 60's, somehow this person came up with the same name
WingThaiJ 2 years ago
Hiliarious!! Loved it!
BlueKyne 2 years ago
That is messed up. Sooooooo messed up.x]
landjbrown 2 years ago
steven spalding is the shmoo look alike
akgangsta75 2 years ago
Al Capp created the Shmoo for the Lil' Abner comic strip in the late 40's, so Shmoo pre-dates Scooby Doo but the Shmoo solving mysteries with teens in the late 70's was a ripoff of the Scooby Doo concept.
wolverineland 2 years ago
This is the same text M. Freeman use in Lucky Number Slevin,
All those TV-cartoons on youtube that look like the first "Scooby Doo" are remake *?
I thought the Shmoo was a real comic years ago?
TheShmoooo 2 years ago
Great job! Al Capp would be proud!
TVSeriesFinalecom 2 years ago
Hahahaha thats heaps funny. :D
xDizturbedx 3 years ago