stackyFACTS
Culture & entertainment

Garfield was designed to sell merchandise

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

The lasagna-loving orange tabby wasn't born out of a desperate need to tell compelling stories; he was specifically engineered by his creator to be as broadly relatable and easily licensed as possible.

Garfield was designed to sell merchandise
STACKY / Culture & entertainment
One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Culture & entertainment →
STACKY FOR IPHONE

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.

Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.

Download on the App Store
ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →
Garfield has a canon home in Indiana
Culture & entertainment

Garfield has a canon home in Indiana

Despite living in an abstract void of tables and lasagna pans, the most famous cynical orange cat in history has a canon address. Creator Jim Davis grew up in…

Discover more
Teleshopping logos are just generic public trademarks
Culture & entertainment

Teleshopping logos are just generic public trademarks

That bright red seal of approval means absolutely nothing regarding quality. The iconic logo seen on thousands of random gadgets is completely open for public…

Discover more
A graphic novel is still a comic
Culture & entertainment

A graphic novel is still a comic

Desperate to convince adults that reading illustrated books was intellectually valid, the publishing industry adopted the term graphic novel. It means…

Discover more
Marvel and DC own the word superhero
Culture & entertainment

Marvel and DC own the word superhero

Try to name your independent vigilante comic after a generic hero, and you will get aggressively sued. Two massive publishing giants jointly own the actual…

Discover more
Peanuts characters never actually aged a day
Culture & entertainment

Peanuts characters never actually aged a day

Despite running for fifty years and referencing modern pop culture, the depressed bald child and his hyper-imaginative beagle remained trapped in a perpetual…

Discover more
Nicolas Cage actually named his second son Kal-El in a bizarre tribute to the birth name of Superman, perfectly encapsulating the chaotic energy of a man who once spent millions on dinosaur skulls and haunted mansions.
Culture & entertainment

Nicolas Cage actually named his second son Kal-El in a bizarre tribute to the birth name of Superman, perfectly encapsulating the chaotic energy of a man who once spent millions on dinosaur skulls and haunted mansions.

Nicolas Cage actually named his second son Kal-El in a bizarre tribute to the birth name of Superman, perfectly encapsulating the chaotic energy of a man who…

Discover more
StackyMore discoveries in the app
Download on the App Store