Armageddon is one of the few DVDs I didn’t sell because Ben Affleck on the commentary track is relentless. Below is the clip of the commentary from where this tidbit of trivia came from. Please take a moment to witness the magic.
Portland has a Doctor Who themed bar/restaurant called The Tardis Room where they do all the stuff superwholock kids talk about like serve themed food and have trivia nights and according to almost every review its one of the worst places on earth
one morning i had the radio on on my way to school and it was one of the shows with those annoying djs who Just Wanna Be Your Friends (u know the type). and they were doing this dumb thing where one asked the other a random trivia question like every wednesday or whatever the fuck. and the dude literally asked “what is the biggest star in the universe”. and the chick was stumped for a bit because like. of course she was??? and she said she didn’t know and the guy was like THE SUN. DUH. YOU (1)/
/(2) IDIOT. and she was like. “no???” and after /a couple minutes/ of arguing back and forth about it he was like “well i OBVIOUSLY meant the SOLAR SYSTEM and you’re DUMB for not understanding what i MEANT instead of what i SAID” and i’m just sitting there like. my dude. how much of a goddamn IDIOT do u have to be. (and like he comes off good in this story but Make No Mistake, he definitely thought he was right and he definitely thought he was in the right.) (i’m salty) (can u tell i’m salty)
it says shaggy has absolutely no ambitiom whatsoever. even ghe damned dog has some sort of life goal and he wants to eat dog treats for the rest of eternity. shaggy doesnt give a Fuckk. fun Scoobe-Doo™ trivia for the whole family: shaggy is a fucking nihilist
See this book? This was published in 1998. I got it when I was 8 from my school bus driver for being really helpful on the route map for her first day, so this book has been in my possession for 19+ years. It’s very battered, but all the pages are still there, taped together, because the binding glue didn’t react well to the environment I lived in at the time.
Page 32 has a special “Bonus” spot for Lyman, with “updated” (for 1998) profile art
Oh, and also, if you know your Garfield Lore, then Lyman was Jon’s roommate until 1983, then left for an unknown reason, leaving Odie behind. He did appear in a Logo Box for Garfield’s 10th Birthday strip in 1988, as a cameo, but for the most part, Lyman has been absent for so long, they have continually rewritten how exactly Jon obtained Odie, ranging from adopting him from the same shop as Garfield, to adopting Odie a couple years into owning Garfield.
Except for
The popular 90s Garfield flash game, “Garfield’s Spooky Scavenger Hunt”, in which you can find Lyman chained up in a basement as a hidden eastern egg. He begs Garfield to give him some muffins to eat, then disappears after you leave the room and come back.
Garfield Lore is pretty messed up when you dig around.
If you like this sort of thing may I suggest Dan Bell’s Dead Mall Series where he walks around and films (mostly) old and abandoned shopping malls while giving trivia about why the places are abandoned. It’s extremely fascinating and relaxing.
Man at the bar on Saturday night, Craigville, Minnesota in 1937