Why do we love Garfield?

Remember flipping through the Sunday newspaper to find the colorful and witty Garfield comic strip? And if you were like me, you might have started flipping through the TV channels to find Garfield on the cartoon networks. But when the 2004 movie came out, titled, you guessed it, Garfield, did you start to wonder what was keeping you hooked all these years? Was it the obsession with lasagna and pasta, or Garfield's portrayal as a cynical gloomy glum? Maybe it was his teddy bear, Pooky, who seemed to hold him together, or Garfield's ability to bask in a good, long nap. As our demented side laughs at Garfield's lack of motivation and the cruelty he shows to Odie and sometimes the mailman, we at least have an idea of what an anthropomorphized relationship would be like with our cat, who might be wondering the same thing.