Ok, I am SOOO glad that someone else knows what a shmuzzy is!! My DS's favorite shows are Cyberchase,the Upside down show, and he was in love with the Discovery Channel's Tornado chaser show with the TIV to the point that we had to buy the series on DVD..strange mix! I lost my mind one day and bought a bag of large pom poms and glued wiggle eyes on them and the play scenarios he made up over the following months with those silly shmuzzy pom poms were hilarious. He pretends that imaginary shmuzzys like to turn things upside down and then it has progressed into the shmuzzys inviting over their friends the snurples which evolved into the creation of shmurples...no issues with creativity here :-)