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.

Many of the Trump Administration’s proposed rollbacks of climate policies run counter to its own goals.

The shmoo is a friendly, fruitful, gourd-shaped animal that wandered into Al Capp’s Li’l Abner last summer (TIME, Sept. 13). Its Life & Times was simply a reprint of funny-paper strips ...

The New Shmoo is an American animated series based on the character from the Li'l Abner comic strip created by Al Capp. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC. The series aired in ...

The shmoo made Capp millions through sales of ... "Fearless Fosdick," his recurring strip-within-a-strip in "Li'l Abner," parodied "Dick Tracy" brilliantly, down to the crosshatching and ...