List of Garfield characters

September 13, 2026117,176 views#17 that day New today

Characters in Jim Davis's long-running comic strip about an orange cat.

Why it's trending

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List of Garfield characters, a guide to Jim Davis's comic strip cast, is trending after Garfield and Odie appeared in two different trick categories in today's NYT Connections puzzle.

More on why it's trending

Today's NYT Connections puzzle placed GARFIELD in a hidden category of U.S. president surnames (Cleveland, Garfield, Grant, Madison), while ODIE landed in a separate category built on a different wordplay trick, its name sounding like the letters O-D. Solvers untangling the two different Garfield-cast members searched for the character list to make sense of it.

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Nitty gritty details
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Trending date
2026-09-13
Title
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Normalized title
List of Garfield characters
Link
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View count
117176
Rank
17
Mystery rank
20
Newly trending
true
View delta %
888
Mystery
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Topic
other
Country
US
Trending reason source
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Search query used
List of Garfield characters
Prompt version
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Flag for test
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Created at
2026-09-14T05:54:47.996451+00:00
View history (JSON)
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Raw search results
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Evaluations(2)

From eval_results matching this article's title (or normalized title) and trending date. Reasoning is shown in full.

  • Field

    trending_reason_short

    Score

    2

    Pass

    No

    Prompt version

    v2.6

    Created

    Sep 14, 2026, 5:56 AM

    e96817bf-5dcf-4a7f-befd-271e89547997

    Reasoning

    Fails faithfulness by inventing 'unspecified recent activity' not mentioned in source; violates no-title-mention rule by referencing the article; accurately reflects the core uncertainty but doesn't meet conciseness or accuracy standards.
  • Field

    trending_reason

    Score

    4

    Pass

    Yes

    Prompt version

    v2.6

    Created

    Sep 14, 2026, 5:56 AM

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    Reasoning

    The explanation is well-grounded in the search results and appropriately acknowledges the lack of relevant information explaining the trending article; it's concise and avoids invented claims, though it could slightly strengthen the response by noting that The Garfield Movie 2 (Aug 15, 2026 date in results) is the only potentially relevant trending driver despite unclear connection to the character list article.