If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Since the 1980s, bright orange parts of a novelty Garfield phone have been steadily washing up on the ...

Year after year, he came.Orange, plastic and hungry for lasagna, his self-satisfied face was stuck in a permanent grin. Sometimes he came intact. Other times, he was in pieces or badly coated in grime ...