The Legend Of The Shmoo

A 50's educational film-style mockumentary about the incredible, edible Shmoo.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Shmoo
• 50's
• educational
• film
• mockumentary

[factoryfarm]

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.

[Bertonator]

@factoryfarm Wow.  That's deep.

[RegretfulPonys]

stupid people would think this was real

[Bertonator]

@RegretfulPonys They would indeed. Look what happened when Orson Welles did the War of the Worlds broadcast!

[punkaroos123]

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.

[Bertonator]

@punkaroos123 LOL It does, doesn't it?

[Bertonator]

@WingThaiJ The people of Dogpatch weren't available for comment.

[dammitotacon]

Creepy ass voice

[ranrio70]

I want to make a confession on youtube! I have been married to a Shmoo for 18 years.

[Mahler1817]

Emm...yeah...sure....Shmoo...e­xists.Leave...alone...the- bottle

[sk84darkstar2]

iv got a pet shmoo i found it at the local lake!

[lorisfairchild]

I think they are a satire about eager to please people. The voice reminds me of Stephen Hawking.

[BeingOStupid]

@RegretfulPonys This is real.

[floridakees]

Wikipedia copy pasta lol

[factoryfarm]

@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.