Editing Shmoo (section)

==In popular culture==
* [[Frank Sinatra]], who was frequently spoofed by Al Capp in ''Li'l Abner'', has a line in the [[MGM]] musical ''[[On the Town (film)|On the Town]]'' (1949) about cops "multiplyin' like shmoos!"
* [[Florence King]] refers to owning a ceramic shmoo, which she threw out of her window after reading the books of [[Ayn Rand]].
* In the 1990 movie ''[[Book of Love (1990 film)|Book of Love]]'', the character Crutch wins a stuffed shmoo at a carnival.
* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'' television episode "Who Knew?", [[Colonel Potter]] (played by [[Harry Morgan]]) displays an inflatable shmoo toy in his office that he purchased for his grandson.
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' stories, an alien species known as the [[Bandersnatch (Known Space)|Bandersnatch]], also edible and intelligent, is described as being "smooth as a shmoo".
* In the novel ''[[The Forge of God]]'' by [[Greg Bear]], "Shmoo" is the name humans give to the race of [[robots]] that visits Earth, due to their similar shape.
* Some overlapping similarities exist between shmoos and [[tribble]]s—the multitudinous alien creatures featured in a 1967 television episode from the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original ''Star Trek'']]. Like shmoos, tribbles ''also'' reproduced at such an alarming rate, they threatened ecological disaster. However, [[David Gerrold]]—who wrote "[[The Trouble with Tribbles]]"—drew his inspiration from an historical event: Australia's environmentally destructive [[rabbit]] overpopulation.
* The characters Gleep and Gloop—two protoplastic creatures from the [[Hanna-Barbera]] [[Saturday morning cartoon|Saturday morning]] [[animated cartoon]] series ''[[The Herculoids]]''—were clearly inspired by (and are sometimes mistaken for) shmoos.
* French artists [[Etienne Chambaud]] and David Jourdan have written "Economie de l'abondance ou La courte vie et les jours heureux", a new adventure of ''[[Jacques le fataliste et son maître]]'' from [[Diderot]], based on the discovery by Jacques of the Shmoo.
* In the 2006 film ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'', the character known only as "The Boss" (played by [[Morgan Freeman]]) refers to the Shmoo, recounting its original features as a source of plenty (in a monologue taken from an old ''Li'l Abner'' comic).
* The [[Marxist]] political philosopher [[Gerald Cohen]] used the story of the Shmoo to illustrate his objections to capitalism in an episode of ''Opinions''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9WPQeow9c  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/yA9WPQeow9c| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=G. A. Cohen – Against Capitalism – Part 1 |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-02-02 |accessdate=2012-12-10}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' uses a statue of the Shmoo to replace the giant phallic statue from the film [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|''A Clockwork Orange'']] in the episode "[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]".
* The Shmoo is featured in "Bedrock Cops" as a friend and partner of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
* In all non-Japanese versions of the video game ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', there is an enemy monster called "Schmoo", an homage to the Shmoo. (In the original Japanese version, the monster is instead an ''[[obake]]'' called "Kyuu," an homage to the protagonist of the manga ''[[Obake no Q-tarō]]''.) Schmoos appear in the Forbidden Library and they have a rare chance of dropping the Crissaegrim upon death, one of the most powerful weapons in the game.
* During the Soviet Union's blockade of [[West Berlin]], Germany in 1948, candy-filled shmoos were air-dropped to hungry West Berliners from transport planes by America's 17th Military Airport Squadron. The commanders of the Berlin airlift had cabled Capp, requesting the inflatable shmoos as part of Operation: Little Vittles. "When the candy-chocked shmoos were dropped, a near-riot resulted...."<ref>''[[Newsweek]]'', 11 October 1948</ref>
* Shmoos invaded the [[1948 United States presidential election|1948 presidential election]], as challenger [[Thomas Dewey]] accused incumbent [[Harry S. Truman]] of "promising everything, including the Shmoo!"<ref>''Newsweek'', 5 September 1948</ref>
* Capp periodically reintroduced the Shmoos in ''Li'l Abner'', sometimes with significant variations. "Bad" Shmoos (called "Nogoodniks") debuted in a series of Sunday strips in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=264&ai=41615&arch=y&ssd=8/24/2002%2012:01:00%20PM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622011436/http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=264&ai=41615&arch=y&ssd=8/24/2002%2012:01:00%20PM |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |title=Bad Shmoos from The Scoop Archive, 24 August 2002 |publisher=Scoop.diamondgalleries.com |accessdate=2012-12-10}}</ref> The nasty cousin of the good-natured Shmoo, Nogoodniks were a sickly shade of green, and had "li'l red eyes, sharp yaller teeth, an' a dirty look". Frequently sporting [[5 o'clock shadow]]s, eye patches, scars, bandages, and other ruffian attributes—they devoured "good" Shmoos, were the sworn enemies of "hoomanity", and wreaked havoc on Dogpatch.
* In the ABC sitcom ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'', Beverley Goldberg endearingly refers to her children as Shmoos.
* The product of artist Mark Gonzale, [[Adidas]] sells a version of its Trefoil logo (termed the [[Shmoofoil]]), that is patterned after the Shmoo.