The Shmoo is one of those things that was absolutely enormous within a very specific window of time and then basically disappeared off the face of the Earth in terms of relevance. From the 1950s all the way up until the early 1980s everyone knew the Shmoo, now nobody cares.
I don't think Spongebob even compares. I can't think of a single thing it added to the shared consciousness that's going to stick around in the way Sadie Hawkins Day will. It has turns of phrase that will stick around forever, sure, but it didn't ADD anything that I can think of.
Not that that's Spongebob's fault. There's more things and more big things at any given time, now, and they don't last half as long.
Yeah, Spongebob's contribution is mainly meme images perpetuated by and among millennials who grew up with it but its cultural influence is largely nil outside of that specific group. Li'l Abner was a diferent beast entirely and the better modern day comparisons would be to the Simpsons and Seinfeld in terms of their utter pervasiveness in American pop culture, especially in regards to popularizing terms, phrases, and concepts that are so ingrained that most people wouldn't think they were from TV shows. Stuff like schmooze or double whammy is to Li'l Abner what meh is to the Simpsons or double dip is to Seinfeld.
I think using the internet as a weather vain for how long something's cultural impact can last is a pretty bad example honestly. The early internet was full of Seinfeld and Invader Zim references, it's only been 20 years and those influences are already practically lost. We have no fricking clue what the internet's going to look like in 10, 20, 50, 100+ years out, for all we know "memes" might be considered passe.
>You Shmooze, you lose >We officially declare today to be Shmoo day >There's reasons to believe this mysterious structure was built by the Shmoos >THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SHMOO! ONWARDS, TO WAR! >We baptize this discovery as the Shmoo particle
Capp said that people started writing letters saying he was a filthy communist or a fascist pig, or that he hated farmers all around the world.
All because the schmoos.
He became a real reactionary later in life and, hilariously, he had a huge grudge against Charles Schulz when Peanuts' popularity overtook L'il Anber's. He begrudged that Schulz's dogshit little comics about a depressed boy with about 6 punchlines looked like a 5 year old drew it while his comics always had book quality art drawn with assistance from artists like Frank Frazetta
Especially because Capp was just as much of a shameless sell out. There was a L'il Abner theme park, movie and Broadway musical, fricking restaurants, his characters in TV and print ads.
>The Shmoo inspired hundreds of "Shmoo clubs" all over North America. >One school, the University of Bridgeport, even launched the "American Society for the Advancement of the Shmoo" in early 1949.
I can't remember where for the life of me, but I know for a fact I saw some old photo of a college with a big banner of the Shmoo out in front of it from what looked like the 1950s.
Because morons can't actually argue or don't actually want to, so they rely on whataboutism, association, distraction and flooding the zone with shit. The entire point is to be such a fricking moron that you frick off so they can continue to smear shit everywhere or get you to continue to respond and smear your own shit
A lot of people don’t realize that science is simply a series of processes to understand the world and while it’s fallible it is still the best way to understand the world.
Too many people think of science as a cult based on consensus because religion has them primed to believe that the world has an established way to be and things are unchanging.
So when science challenges (like you) what we believe they don’t question the facts, that just assume that it’s a bunch of egg heads making a claim and calling it true.
Because that’s what they do.
Several different fields have named things after the Shmoo because its basic shape resembles things in that field. Like certain types of fungus reproduce through polyps that look vaguely like the Shmoo or certain bits of old technology used to create magnetic waves that were pear-shaped and were named after it as well.
The Shmoo is one of those things that was absolutely enormous within a very specific window of time and then basically disappeared off the face of the Earth in terms of relevance. From the 1950s all the way up until the early 1980s everyone knew the Shmoo, now nobody cares.
Lil Abner fading into obscurity is like seeing SpongeBob fade into obscurity
Yup, remember that no matter how big something seems it's likely that it'll eventually disappear into total obscurity given enough time.
Tell that to Ea-Nasir
Likely anon, not inevitable.
Reminds me how Popeye's success into animation is what kept him afloat in the minds of people
I heard Capp hated the Lil Abner cartoons
So you say it's a good thing that happened?
I don't think Spongebob even compares. I can't think of a single thing it added to the shared consciousness that's going to stick around in the way Sadie Hawkins Day will. It has turns of phrase that will stick around forever, sure, but it didn't ADD anything that I can think of.
Not that that's Spongebob's fault. There's more things and more big things at any given time, now, and they don't last half as long.
>Sadie Hawkins
I'll be damned, I never thought of why it was called a Sadie Hawkins Dance before.
Sadie Hawkins Day is weird because it's become completely divorced from its origins and people act like Sadie Hawkins was a real person or something.
>people act like Sadie Hawkins was a real person or something.
they do?
Well they certainly don't know she was a comic strip character.
true, people don't know shit about the comic strip but they had Sadie Hawkins events at my school.
Yeah, Spongebob's contribution is mainly meme images perpetuated by and among millennials who grew up with it but its cultural influence is largely nil outside of that specific group. Li'l Abner was a diferent beast entirely and the better modern day comparisons would be to the Simpsons and Seinfeld in terms of their utter pervasiveness in American pop culture, especially in regards to popularizing terms, phrases, and concepts that are so ingrained that most people wouldn't think they were from TV shows. Stuff like schmooze or double whammy is to Li'l Abner what meh is to the Simpsons or double dip is to Seinfeld.
Sponge Bob can at least maintain some cultural cache through memes
SpongeBob’s success is much more international and as
said it pretty came at the exact time the internet became big.
Though honestly, I wonder if Lil’ Abner being owned privately while SpongeBob is the product of a multi-billion company contributes in any way.
There's also the Rural Purge in the 1970s that would have helped bury it.
>Rural Purge
I was aware of the glut of hillbilly stuff back then but I never heard of that before today. Interesting.
I think using the internet as a weather vain for how long something's cultural impact can last is a pretty bad example honestly. The early internet was full of Seinfeld and Invader Zim references, it's only been 20 years and those influences are already practically lost. We have no fricking clue what the internet's going to look like in 10, 20, 50, 100+ years out, for all we know "memes" might be considered passe.
>You Shmooze, you lose
>We officially declare today to be Shmoo day
>There's reasons to believe this mysterious structure was built by the Shmoos
>THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SHMOO! ONWARDS, TO WAR!
>We baptize this discovery as the Shmoo particle
Capp said that people started writing letters saying he was a filthy communist or a fascist pig, or that he hated farmers all around the world.
All because the schmoos.
I don't know if it's comforting or terrifying that politically poisoned pseud have always been sperging out against subtext they themselves invent
What was he actually, anyway?
An anti-farmer nazbol
He became a real reactionary later in life and, hilariously, he had a huge grudge against Charles Schulz when Peanuts' popularity overtook L'il Anber's. He begrudged that Schulz's dogshit little comics about a depressed boy with about 6 punchlines looked like a 5 year old drew it while his comics always had book quality art drawn with assistance from artists like Frank Frazetta
I want to read a documentary comic about Capp in the artstyle of Li'l Abner
only if it includes him trying to rape Goldie Hawn
>cucked by Charlie Brown
What a fricking loser
Especially because Capp was just as much of a shameless sell out. There was a L'il Abner theme park, movie and Broadway musical, fricking restaurants, his characters in TV and print ads.
>The Shmoo inspired hundreds of "Shmoo clubs" all over North America.
>One school, the University of Bridgeport, even launched the "American Society for the Advancement of the Shmoo" in early 1949.
I can't remember where for the life of me, but I know for a fact I saw some old photo of a college with a big banner of the Shmoo out in front of it from what looked like the 1950s.
Li'l Abner in general was a cultural giant of its day. Its effect on popular culture was probably comparable to Seinfeld's in the '90s.
Why does this board clump people together and assume that everyone in it likes the same things?
Because morons can't actually argue or don't actually want to, so they rely on whataboutism, association, distraction and flooding the zone with shit. The entire point is to be such a fricking moron that you frick off so they can continue to smear shit everywhere or get you to continue to respond and smear your own shit
God forbid people get annoyed with science after years of degen homosexuals using it to excuse repugnant behavior
A lot of people don’t realize that science is simply a series of processes to understand the world and while it’s fallible it is still the best way to understand the world.
Too many people think of science as a cult based on consensus because religion has them primed to believe that the world has an established way to be and things are unchanging.
So when science challenges (like you) what we believe they don’t question the facts, that just assume that it’s a bunch of egg heads making a claim and calling it true.
Because that’s what they do.
>Half the thread deleted
>Got a warning for calling someone a moron
Zamn who mass reported in here
Several different fields have named things after the Shmoo because its basic shape resembles things in that field. Like certain types of fungus reproduce through polyps that look vaguely like the Shmoo or certain bits of old technology used to create magnetic waves that were pear-shaped and were named after it as well.
So what you’re saying is the Schmoo was the original Among Us?
Still are. What else would they look like under those suits?
You homosexuals made science into a religion rather than a process of constant scrutiny and empirical observation.
how is that deleted comment still getting replies
No I didn't. Stop spouting off-topic shit and replying to deleted posts.
More like, "the Joo"
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