The Shmoo wasn’t an original character though. He was originally a character found within the frames of Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip. Like The Partridge Family 2200 A.D., these cartoons ...
The graph tends to show shifting, rounded curves that resemble the lumpy, bubble-shaped shmoo character in the Li'l Abner comic strip series. The term is also a verb: "to shmoo" is to run the test.