Garfield's sordid food-endorsements

Cory Doctorow 10:57 pm Mon Jun 6, 2005

X-Entertainment rounds up the shocking variety of crappy junk foods that Garfield was used to endorse, with hilarious commentary:

If there was anything more revered than those fruit rolls, it's these: Garfield's first and only brand of fruit snacks. These were a whole new kind of special, in flavors ranging from "Very Strawberry" to "1:2 Punch," with all of the pieces shaped like different characters from the show. Well, half the show. Ol' U.S. Acres got no love from the licensing blitz, despite the many times I stood in front of Jim Davis' house shouting "WADE DUCK IS THE BEST THING YOU'VE EVER CREATED AND DON'T EVER FORGET THAT." Perhaps my delivery was off.

While the fruit roll boxes had comic strips and other fun junk, the fruit snack boxes did not. Instead, there's an offer for kids to get their very own Garfield-branded personalized pencils. Imagine that: A writing utensil with your name on it! The only thing more amazing than personalized pencils is realizing that you once thought personalized pencils were amazing. That's one #2 you don't chew. The teaser ad values a set of twelve pencils at 8.98, which I'm only believing if they replaced the eraser tops with gold teeth yanked from dizzy boxers between rounds.

(via Fark)

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