This friendly little creature is a Shmoo

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@mickysgirl4ever 11 жыл бұрын

I like Charles's line, "To form an opinion either way would be to imply that I cared." He had some great lines. :)

@whitleypedia 2 жыл бұрын

He's the absolute best :)

@MrErinholbert 2 жыл бұрын

Charles was terrific and I loved his relationship with Potter. They were so different but Charles respected him and Potter always gave Charles what he needed (he knew Charles was terrific surgeon and cared)

@dang1861 Жыл бұрын

He's like listening to Niles and Frasier

@EyeLean5280 Жыл бұрын

I love that Col Potter is every bit as intelligent as Winchester, but just with a very different background.

@14DaveHunter 2 жыл бұрын

Charles didn't know what a Shmoo was. But, He knew who Captain Marvel (SHAZAM!) was. He collected CM comics.

@joncarroll2040 9 ай бұрын

TBF Captain Marvel was the most popular super hero for a good chunk of years. That's why DC basically sued Fawcett (the original publisher) out of existence with a bogus copyright claim.

@WillScarlet16 7 жыл бұрын

Fun fact - David Ogden Stiers eventually got to play General Bullmoose in the stage musical version of 'Li'l Abner.' Shame he didn't get to punch a Shmoo.

@gourdguru 3 жыл бұрын

you don't know that. what happens backstage, stays backstage.

@hebneh 3 жыл бұрын

There weren’t any Shmoos in the play (or the movie),though. So you’re correct that if any Shmoo-punching occurred, it had to have happened backstage.

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

Even uh funner (?!😂) MASH co producer Gene Reynolds worked on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry RFD" with Ken Berry who played "Jubilation T. Cornpone" in a televised version of the same classic Musical! Also Peter Palmer from the original cast guest starred on an early Eighties MASH episode.😂📺B.W.

@legionaireb 3 жыл бұрын

The Shmoo was ahead of it's time. We need more things like that today.

@michael4576 3 жыл бұрын

We have improved upon the stoopid of the Aderpican! We now have 💩 Derp'da derp! 🥴

@alexanderprovenzano5347 Жыл бұрын

I'm only 23 years old, and I still grew up watching this show. I now own the full series on VHS & DVD. MASH for life!!! ^^

@vsgfilmgroup Жыл бұрын

The best use of Shmoo comes from Jason Yungbluth's "Weapon Brown" comic. A post-apocalyptic tale set in the comics pages, Shmoo was a substance generated by an enormous mutant cat / worm called the Garf. Shmoo retained its ability to change shape according to a person's whim, and be eaten accordingly. This was, of course, vital to survival in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of mutants and mayhem.

@jeramahia123 Жыл бұрын

What?

@erinwunder7187 3 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@noonedude101 2 жыл бұрын

"That is roughly comparable to being the finest ballet dancer in Galveston."

@blockmasterscott 7 жыл бұрын

"That is roughly comparable of being the finest ballerina in all of Galveston". God, I love Winchester lol!

@ronaldshank7589 3 жыл бұрын

You know, with all of the intelligence that Major Winchester possesses, he somehow can't find enough intellect to learn when to shut up! After he makes the ever-so-crass comment about the "Stupidity" of people buying these Schmoos, Colonel Potter's friendly tone towards Major Winchester instantly evaporates, seemingly into thin air! He very curtly dismisses Major Winchester, only to fail to notice that Major Winchester, perhaps taken by the sudden thought of being able to somehow profit from the new schmoo, begins to show interest in the little critters, if only for the sake of making a bit of money on the side. Major Winchester never was one to "play well" with others, but, if the right set of circumstances presented themselves to him, financially speaking, he was always willing to "play along" with anybody that was dumb enough to fall for one of his little schemes.

@santiagocato1881 3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap I live in Galveston

@musicom67 2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldshank7589 This plot and description sounds eerily familiar... Let's see... Big. Orange...

@NijimaSan 2 жыл бұрын

There were ballerinas in Galveston that were peeved when they heard this. 😄

@blockmasterscott 2 жыл бұрын

@@NijimaSan good comment. Made me laugh out loud. 🤣🤣🤣

@artytoons 6 жыл бұрын

Al Capp created the Shmoo for his L'il Abner strip in the 1940s...The Shmoo was a friendly creature who was accommodating...the Shmoo can lay fresh chicken eggs and give fresh cow's milk all in packed in cartons. Shmoos can die of sheer happiness when someone looks at it hungrily and tastes like steak when broiled and chicken when fried with no bones. Shmoo whiskers can be used for toothpicks and the eyes can be used as shirt buttons so there was no waste. Shmoos can reproduce like crazy and threatened the world's economy by giving everyone what they wanted. The military was sent to eradicate all of the Shmoos to save the world...but there were always survivors to reproduce once again in later stories. Hanna-Barbera adapted the Shmoo character for cartoons in the 1970s as a friendly shape changing creature like The Herculoids' Gloop and Gleep who aided teenagers in solving Scooby Doo-type mysteries and later as a police partner to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the 1980 Flintstones Comedy Show.

@Savagewolver 5 жыл бұрын

artytoons Comic strips were weird in the seventies and eighties.

@thedave7760 5 жыл бұрын

Ahh the Flintstones thats where I remember it from, thanks.

@skull8093 4 жыл бұрын

I actually remember seeing the shape shifting scooby doo varient on boomarang when I was in middle school. I saw maybe three episodes and then lost interest.

@rickyray2794 4 жыл бұрын

@@Savagewolver 70s and 80s? The backstory he just laid out was way before that, 40's and 50s most likely.

@madbrowniac7871 3 жыл бұрын

So Fred and Barney's Bedrock deal was actually The SchmooGazoo Revue?😏😂B.W.

@GraySt0ne 3 жыл бұрын

Some times that simple little thing is the only thing keeping people from insanity.

@americanfreedomlogistics9984 6 жыл бұрын

I like Winchester better than Burns... While Winchester was still a target for taunting by Hawkeye and Honeycutt he could actually roll with the punches and on occasion send some back as well.

@jogordon1530 6 жыл бұрын

American freedom Logistics Mash was a different animal with Frank. It was slapstick comedy with Burns and Hoolihan. With Winchester, Mash became more of a drama than comedy as the years progressed.

@Indurok 5 жыл бұрын

And better yet, he would occasionally get along with Hawkeye and BJ, and even join them in their shenanigans. And let's not forget the humane part of Charles. He's helped people on many occasions.

@johnmrenko9907 5 жыл бұрын

Your right, But Burnes had his moments Too 🤗

@markschroeder2578 4 жыл бұрын

Charles Emerson Winchester III was created to give Hawkeye and B.J. a challenge, which he did! You got to get up pretty early in the morning to outsmart Winchester. With Frank Burns you could sleep till noon! LOL!

@theradioman5182 3 жыл бұрын

Winchester is better than Burns because although Winchester is arrogant and a bit full of it, he is still a good person and a good doctor. Frank was a horrible person, being amerocentric and racist. Frank was also evidently a horrible doctor because he was teased ruthlessly about it.

@Summer_Reigns Жыл бұрын

Charles made the last few seasons of MASH worth watching for me.

@clairebowen6241 2 жыл бұрын

"Major, for a man with a Harvard education you sure don't have much knowledge of what's important."

@IvanIvanov-vy7pt 4 жыл бұрын

Agree with the Major about the "stupidity of the American consumer" though!

@musicaleuphoria8699 10 ай бұрын

I sometimes underestimate my ability to buy stupid s!@# too.

@wil8740 4 жыл бұрын

Two tings that I enjoyed growing up in the south as a kid-MASH and the Shmoo. A tremendous thank you for whomever posted this clip.

@davisphillips993 Жыл бұрын

“That is roughly comparable to being the finest ballerina in all of Galveston.” 😆

@jime6688 3 жыл бұрын

I actually grew up very close to the Dogpatch theme park near Harrison, Arkansas, so this always brings back nostalgia for me.

@anonymous-vr5gv 6 жыл бұрын

Does David Ogden Stiers even have an actual voice? I swear, that man is 90% accent. Talk about talent!

@Cykoid 6 жыл бұрын

watch one of his interviews his voice is very deep compared to charles

@robertbullard3324 5 жыл бұрын

Watch the movie Better off dead.

@nonotheteddybear1525 3 жыл бұрын

Watch Doc Hollywood. His role as mayor of a small countryside town where "you cant poop without someone knowing about it" was both hilarious and beautiful. His southern accent plus the Hawkeye level of antics in the film were amazing.

@Ducksoup67 2 жыл бұрын

He played in an episode of Star Trek TNG. It was interesting hearing his natural voice.

@MaidenUtah1 2 жыл бұрын

He’s narrated some audio books. He was pretty good.

@silentsnooper3307 Жыл бұрын

And the stupidity of the American consumer has broadened greatly in the years since.

@14DaveHunter 2 жыл бұрын

I still remember "The New Shmoo" cartoon, on Saturday mornings (late 1970's). Later, the character joined The Flintstones. He partnered with Fred & Barney, as Bedrock Police Officers.

@LB__1 2 жыл бұрын

"I guess I tend to underestimate the stupidity of the American consumer." Every entrepreneur should learn not to make that mistake when starting a business.

@Xylarxcode Жыл бұрын

Not limited to Americans, I assure you. Applies to everyone else in the world as well. Americans may be the most famous example, but they are far from the only one.

@trekgrrl3 8 жыл бұрын

LOL, "What does a Shmoo do?" Charles is such a cutie. Thank you, DOS for giving him to us.

@MrErinholbert 2 жыл бұрын

He sure was terrific and he is so missed.

@hawkeyepierce7035 2 жыл бұрын

Charles claims the comics are just a blur on the way to the financial section. But in another episode with the stuttering soldier, he claims to be a fan of Captain Marvel!

@walleras Жыл бұрын

Those comics weren't in newspapers

@csmith563 Жыл бұрын

Charles certainly Could Step in IT sometimes...

@dirtyharry5320 Жыл бұрын

1:07-1:20 This line has aged pretty well.

@fatdaddyeddiejr Жыл бұрын

There's so much true in this. I remember being in the Army and stationed in Germany. My brother and sister in-law were having so much trouble finding Power Ranger toys. But right there in the PX toy store. They had tons of Power Rangers toys. I had no idea who or what the Power Rangers were. So I asked my in-laws what ones did they want. So I bought what they wanted and mailed the toys off to them.

@scotthamp384 2 жыл бұрын

Potter: "This friendly little creature is a Shmoo" Charles: "A... a who?" I swear, Charles' reaction to the word shmoo is priceless

@VintageCarHistory Жыл бұрын

"What, I ask reluctantly, is a Dogpatch?"

@Ducttapestuff 11 жыл бұрын

Love the way that Charles punches it.

@Mousy677 3 жыл бұрын

"it is..." [cut to the shmoo] "...simple."

@michael4576 3 жыл бұрын

🥴

@mga2899 11 ай бұрын

Before Seinfeld had Newman, MASH had Winchester.

@Scavenger82 Жыл бұрын

Charles: "Col. what, may I ask, is that?" Potter: "You like it?" Charles: "To form an opinion either way would be to imply that I cared." Well, he cared enough to ask about it.

@seekingadventures8179 Жыл бұрын

I swear that doctor is Sheldon Cooper 30 years early.

@jogordon1530 6 жыл бұрын

How true! The American consumer will buy ANYTHING!

@lavalampluva55401 Жыл бұрын

the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948.

@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 2 жыл бұрын

"I happen to like it... that will be all Major!" Ha ha!!! The look of disdain on Sherman's face!!!

@dr4c0blade Жыл бұрын

And of course the years went on, and the Shmoo and Little Abner are now all but forgotten.

@hebneh 6 жыл бұрын

Shmoos DID do some stuff - they loved people and could be kept as pets, but they also would willing sacrifice themselves to be eaten, since they tasted very good (like chicken, I believe).

@johntapp1411 3 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding?!! I’d eat roots and berries LONG before I eat something that would allow me to do so. I don’t care if they tasted like the finest pheasant or rock Cornish hen. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get myself to eat a cute friendly shmoo.

@ChicoTunda 3 жыл бұрын

@@johntapp1411 I would eat my own leg before I ate a friend as good as a Shmoo

@thedude4840 3 жыл бұрын

What kind of comic was this?

@hebneh 3 жыл бұрын

@@thedude4840 "Li'l Abner" was a comic strip that ran in newspapers. It was about hillbillies, but it included a lot of political commentary. Eventually it lost popularity in the 1970s because the cartoonist who drew it became so right-wing.

@duckduckgoismuchbetter 2 жыл бұрын

@@hebneh How so? The cartoonist becoming "more rightwing", would have definitely made him and his creative output more popular. Conservatives outnumber Political Liberals by a vast margin in this country, and always have.

@45asunder1 Жыл бұрын

Damn, Galveston caught a stray there.😂

@10Peter25 Жыл бұрын

"I guess I tend to underestimate the stupidity of the American consumer." I take it Col. Potter was actually offended by that statement. LOL! 🤣

@alexshapsenzon254 3 жыл бұрын

that is True the stupidity of the American consumer has no bounds, even now, the useless crap people buy sometimes baffles the mind.

@MobileTech296 Жыл бұрын

Morgan Freeman’s character in Lucky Number Slevin spoke of Shmoo as a comic character he enjoyed as a boy. I always thought it was something made up for the movie, I never knew it was a real thing.

@taetannim3581 Жыл бұрын

Love both these characters! ❤❤❤

@2405therow 3 ай бұрын

This may very well be the best scene of the whole series.

@10tonhamster 2 жыл бұрын

Then when Winchester had to speak to a stuttering serviceman being bullied, that happened to like comics, the Doctor didn’t mock him and said he liked Captain Marvel. Either a continuity error.... or just a doctor with a caring bedside manner with his patients. I know which I prefer.

@sethsholtis5297 2 жыл бұрын

Well, Potter said the shmoo was from a newspaper comic strip, as opposed to a legitimate comic book. Maybe that's what it means. He reads DC Comics, but he doesn't read the funny pages.

@calkelpdiver 2 жыл бұрын

In that episode with the soldier who stuttered at the end you find out why Charles was willing to help him. His sister Enoria was a stutterer, as evidenced by the recorded message Charles played. Charles was a pompous ass and an elitist, but when it came down to it he humbled himself and was a decent person. The war changed him in a way that made him aware of what "common folk" dealt with every day. He was damaged by the war, but a better person came out of it.

@Dennycrane757 2 жыл бұрын

MASH was quite simply, the best comedy / drama ever made.

@jasonseiler5364 11 ай бұрын

Has it ever occurred to anyone that this is how abusive people treat human beings they don't like?

@kenwaid8239 Жыл бұрын

He’s lucky it was a schmoo their evil counterpart the “nogoodnick” would’ve punched back

@chrisburke6652 Жыл бұрын

Management vs Leadership in a nutshell

@danielcrowe8110 5 жыл бұрын

It's STILL a great show!!!

@spartan1010101 2 жыл бұрын

And still relevant, another decade, another stupid war fought for a million reasons.

@no288 7 жыл бұрын

i think when these two character' join the show, MASH got even better ; - )

@bobverick 21 күн бұрын

OMG, I never saw this episode. I love the Shmoo. Nobody I know remembers it.

@imamisfit445 Жыл бұрын

The invention of the weeble wabble.

@ryancoulter4797 3 жыл бұрын

As much as I love MASH there were episodes where the plot could’ve just as easily been set in an office or a high school or a summer camp.

@tammyt3434 2 жыл бұрын

That's part of the appeal. The characters are people like anyone else. Believable. Not everything that happens in a war zone could only happen in a warzone.

@jessicastiner2123 5 жыл бұрын

Colonel Potter: my guess is that when Winchester was a kid his idea of fun was reading a dictionary and reading the Wall Street journal 😑😑😑😑

@jerrykinnin7941 2 жыл бұрын

That's what I did. Plus cereal boxes toothpaste tubes shampoo bottles. Historical road markers and Rand McNally road maps.

@stephenwright8824 2 жыл бұрын

@@jerrykinnin7941 I did, and still do, read or try to read anything I recognise as having English-language print on it or in it. Forty-eight years I've been doing so, and only since 2015 have I ever had a reason to regret it at all.

@uhf001 Жыл бұрын

so that explains how Lowe Lyden got elected...

@blairbrown4812 2 жыл бұрын

@1:50 Charles briefly contemplates defecting.

@CrossmanTV1 8 жыл бұрын

To me Major Winchester was better than Frank Burns!

@Altair9678 7 жыл бұрын

CrossmanTV1 agreed, nm

@mrschoiminho 7 жыл бұрын

YES!!!

@clarenceleejackson1297 6 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%.

@ericholladay2900 6 жыл бұрын

Hands down

@robertbishop5357 6 жыл бұрын

CrossmanTV1 I don't know that he was better as much as he,was,a completely different character.

@user-iw2uw5ve7l Жыл бұрын

This is the blow up doll hey military this what the doctor ordered for some people

@luvr381 3 жыл бұрын

Like Winchester, I too am familiar with the taste of my foot.

@kingpin6989 2 жыл бұрын

Charles actually did read comics, he said as much to Walt Palmer, the soldier who suffered from stuttering he gave his copy of Moby Dick to. Charles: I'm all for losing oneself in the pure adventuresome fun of a first rate Captain Marvel. Palmer: You read Captain Marvel? Charles: Ever since he was a non-com. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9qRfrB5v63aYYk.html

@stephenwright8824 2 жыл бұрын

By _comics_ Potter was referring to newspaper comics. And Winchester understood what he meant by the "just a blur on the way to the financial page" quip.

@ThiagoSantos-bo8vu 2 жыл бұрын

Good times, HB!

@saphireroze001 9 жыл бұрын

I remember shmoo. he was on the Flintstones for a time.

@andrelebaron 8 жыл бұрын

L'il Abner.

@saphireroze001 8 жыл бұрын

+andrelebaron yes but hanna-barbara bought the rights to shmoo and made him into a tv show.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 4 жыл бұрын

@@saphireroze001 Yep! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcypdaWAzK2lqYU.html

@kwdrm1 12 жыл бұрын

Harry Morgan does it again !

@madbrowniac7871 3 жыл бұрын

When Colonel Potter said that about cartoons something called "Peanuts" was yet to arrive!🐶⚾️😂B.W.

@BrianRetro 2 жыл бұрын

Peanuts was in its early years when the Korean War was going on and may not have gotten the worldwide circulation until well after. I think it was a local strip that first appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (creator Charles Schulz was from Minnesota)

@madbrowniac7871 2 жыл бұрын

Brian John (BJ): I should've known that as a "Peanuts" Superfan. I defer to your greater knowledge of this true classic. As was and is "MASH".😊🐶⚾️B.W.

@KeithFroehlich07 Жыл бұрын

The Incredible New Shmoo likes you!

@GregNixon 5 жыл бұрын

I don't remember this scene at all and I thought I have seen all the Mash episodes. This must have been one of the scenes they cut out for more commercial space.

@cindygreene3353 3 жыл бұрын

It was the episode where Klinger tried to get Charles to invest in the hula hoop. Seeing the Shmoo made him change his mind about investing.

@ezradawn5077 5 жыл бұрын

14 years old here and have seen every episode and season of mash but what surprises me is how bad tv is compared to classics like grizzly adams because every story is the same now. So far i havent met someone my age that has gotten the reference "hot lips hullahan" 😭

@MasterArchfiend 5 жыл бұрын

26 and I have the same issue, especially with music. My sophomore class thought the song "American Pie" was about the same thing the movie of the same title was about when in reality the song is about the death of three famous musicians. I was stunned that none of my piers knew that. I'm always making references to old songs and shows, especially The Beatles and Hogan's Heroes.

@panchaliparbhoo3263 5 жыл бұрын

I would get it. I'm 14 too.

@lieffian 5 жыл бұрын

Sarah Keator I’m older but get the reference (27 at the time of posting) and I love all (well most) of the old shows including some of the radio shows like gang busters and only the shadow knows

@russs7574 2 жыл бұрын

No, but if you keep making that reference, you will eventually be hauled on the carpet at school because some Social Justice Warrior will complain that it's "sexist and demeaning to women." Watch it Ezra, the Comrades are watching.

@Rockroi75 Жыл бұрын

And I bet nobody noticed the lack of laugh-track. And I bet it was not missed either.

@ericjohnson9929 5 жыл бұрын

Cars without clutches.

@walthamp8978 Жыл бұрын

The Greatest Show there was

@patriciaschuster1371 2 жыл бұрын

I had a shoot when I was little. I loved Little Abner!

@patriciaschuster1371 Жыл бұрын

My older siblings had a shmoo.

@xcutegirlx25 11 жыл бұрын

I love mash so much!!!

@crittergirl675 6 жыл бұрын

It's so cute !😂😂😂

@carmelaszymanski8104 2 жыл бұрын

Liked this Video because there was NO LAUGH TRACK ATTACHED.. I KNOW WHEN TO LAUGH.. THANK You

@MaidenUtah1 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of reminds me of Slime, a best selling toy(?) from the late 70s/early 80s.

@heidivert830 Жыл бұрын

This is great😅

@tjmfishing 11 жыл бұрын

Car's without clutches hahaha, guess I'm old fashioned

@douglasames6495 4 жыл бұрын

My buddy and I recovered a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan with flathead V8 and automatic. It was the one of the very first cars with an auto made by GM! This car also had hydraulic power windows.

@tbonemagnum 6 жыл бұрын

RIP DAVID OGDEN STIERS

@Powerranger-le4up 9 жыл бұрын

"Who knew", it is from season 11

@markmiller3713 Жыл бұрын

Yes, green toothpaste! Scary!

@hungwilliam44 Жыл бұрын

That is comparable to being the finest ballerina in all of Galveston LOLOLOL

@affema1 Жыл бұрын

The Shmoo invited people to eat its boneless chicken like meat and it pooped chocolate cakes

@ricksimon9867 2 жыл бұрын

1:08 really makes you think. When they made this series, did they already know that those suburbs would eventually ruin the U.S.?

@shmooify 2 жыл бұрын

It’s all fun and games till the shmoo punches back

@joshgellis3292 Жыл бұрын

WTH is the red '60'?

@MH_Workshop 12 жыл бұрын

Best clip on youtube!!

@shoresean1237 3 жыл бұрын

It makes sense. Fred and Barney met the Shmoo, and so did Sherman and Charles!

@azurerainbow4637 4 жыл бұрын

When was the Shmoo introduced in the comics?

@russs7574 2 жыл бұрын

I liked both Frank Burns and Henry Blake, but Charles and Potter were both improvements. I still think Trapper vs. BJ was a push.

@BrianRetro 2 жыл бұрын

To me, Winchester and Burns are the toss up. I definitely take Potter and BJ over Blake and Trapper.

@HappyCynic Жыл бұрын

Is it a new Schmoo?

@Sqk. Жыл бұрын

What the hell? I literally just watched this episode about an hour ago, and I haven’t searched up anything related to MASH in ages?

@stimpy_thecat Жыл бұрын

Your smart TV ratted you out to KZfaq. Similar things have happened to me. It really sucks that we're living in an age where your TV is spying on you.

@donaldsedig7045 7 жыл бұрын

Quite, cute.

@pschroeter1 Жыл бұрын

Don't just love pompous people who show you how little they care about something, by asking a question about something they could just as easily ignored?