Editing Shmoo (section)

===Animation and puppetry===
Originally, shmoos were meant to be included in the 1956 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] ''[[Li'l Abner (musical)|Li'l Abner]]'' [[musical theatre|musical]], employing stage [[puppetry]]. Reportedly, the idea was abandoned in the development stage by the producers, however, for reasons of practicality. A variation of the character had appeared earlier as a [[marionette]] puppet on television. "Shmoozer", a talking shmoo with an anthropomorphic human body, was a recurring [[sidekick]] character on ''[[Fearless Fosdick]]'', a short-lived puppet series that aired on NBC-TV in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389616/fullcredits|title=Fearless Fosdick (TV Series 1952– )|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

After Capp's death in 1979, the Shmoo gained its own [[Animated television series|animated series]] as part of ''[[Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo]]'', which consisted of reruns of ''[[The New Fred and Barney Show]]'' mixed with the Shmoo's own cartoons; despite the title the two sets of characters didn't directly "meet" within the show. The characters ''did'' meet, however, in the early 1980s Flintstones [[spin-off (media)|spin-off]] ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Show]]''. The Shmoo appeared, incongruously, in the segment ''Bedrock Cops'' as a police officer alongside part-time officers [[Fred Flintstone]] and [[Barney Rubble]]. Needless to add, this Shmoo had little relationship to the ''L'il Abner'' character, other than a superficial appearance. A later [[Hanna-Barbera]] venture, ''[[The New Shmoo]]'', featured the character as an (inexplicably) shape-shifting mascot of Mighty Mysteries Comics, a group of teens who solve ''[[Scooby-Doo]]''-like mysteries. In this series the Shmoo could metamorphose magically into any shape at will — like ''[[Tom Terrific]]''. None of these revisionist revivals of the venerable character was particularly successful.