this is just too
ironic for words.
this is a
hanna-barbera cartoon that ran on
NBC from 1979 to 1980 on
saturday mornings (before my time, really, although i was born in
1980, so it's perfectly possible i could blame a lot of my
quirks on psychological
trauma due to seeing this show as a
baby). it featured a
comic strip...
thing created by
al capp, which doesn't resemble a
bowling pin so much as a
seal with legs. if you can't guess, its name was
shmoo. it's pretty damn stupid-looking.
shmoo's voice was done by
frank welker (on reflection, i wonder what sort of voice it could have possibly had?), and in the show he helps three kid
reporters investigating "cases of
psychic phenomena" for
mighty mysteries comics. so i guess it's sort of like
scooby doo. except shmoo is a shapeshifter.
the title got even funnier when hanna-barbera started mixing the episodes with those of the new
fred and
barney show-- eventually it was renamed to fred and barney meet the shmoo.
(this is all according to http://www.hotyellow98.com/tooncentral/toons/newshmoo.html)