
A shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs but no arms. It has smooth skin, eyebrows, and a sparse moustache, but no ears. Its feet are short and round but dextrous, as the shmoo's cartoon adventures make clear. It has a rich gamut of facial expressions, and expresses love by exuding hearts over its heads.
* They reproduce asexually and are very prolific. They require no sustenance other than air.
* Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children.
* Shmoon are delicious to eat, and are so eager to be eaten that if a human looks at one with hunger, they will gladly immolate themselves, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a roasting pan, after which they taste like beef. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.) They also produce eggs, milk, and butter (no churning required.) Their fresh pelt is a perfect boot leather or house timber, depending on how thick it has been cut. Their eyes are ideal suspender buttons, and their whiskers are perfect toothpicks. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal.
* The frolicking of shmoon is so entertaining (such as their staged "shmoosical comedies") that people watching them feel no need to go to the movies or to watch television.