Garfield - corporate whore?
"In the late 1980s, Garfield plush toys with suction-cup feet were so popular than criminals broke into cars to steal them and sell them on the black market. Davis, protective of his creation's unobjectionable blandness, knew he had to act fast before people began to hate Garfield. 'We accepted the royalty checks, but my biggest fear was overexposure,' he told Entertainment Weekly in 1998. 'We pulled all plush dolls off the shelves for five years.'"