If you've ever been to David Wonn's Unique Glitches site, then you may have seen this trick for A Boy and His Blob in the NES section. It's a hidden message you can find by using a glitch (please visit his site to find out how to do it!) Anyway, I've heard of programmers hiding their names or initials in games, but this one is very weird. It appears to be 5/6 of a limerick that has absolutely nothing to do with the game, whatsoever! Maybe, at one time the programmers had thought about using the Blob's different shapes to solve situations, such as a cat being stuck in a tree like the limerick suggests, but nothing like that ever came to fruition. You spend most of this game just searching for buried treasure. This glitch also allows you to run through the ending credits, the title screen, scrambled screens, and other bizarre things.

When I first heard about A Boy and His Blob, and learned it was about an amorphous creature who could change shape to help his friend solve problems, I couldn't help but think I'd heard about a similar concept before. Then it dawned on me! I used to love cartoons when I was a kid, and I vaguely recalled a rather short-lived cartoon about a creature called the "Shmoo". The Shmoo was also a white, amorphous blob-like creature who could change shape to help his friends solve mysteries and stuff. Don't believe me? Check out Yesterdayland.com's page about the Shmoo, look at the drawings and read the description of the show! And here's another picture of the Shmoo along with a picture of the Blob:

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