12 Mascots and Their Full Ridiculous Real Names
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When creating a brand name it’s great when you can make a recognizable face and name for your mascot. Sometimes one name isn’t enough for those people who obsess over the past and lore of a cereal’s cartoon ship captain. Here’s what gets printed on the driver’s license of these famous mascots.
![CRACKED.COM LARRY If you know that one of the Twitter creators is from Boston, and loves a certain basketball champion, you can probably guess why the bird is Larry.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/825439.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![CRACKED.COM JULIUS PRINGLE Not only does this mascot look like he runs an Italian restaurant in the suburbs, he has the name of an Olive Garden manager, too.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/825442.jpg)
Source: WYTV
![CRACKED.COM THE THING A nice and easy way to remember this mascot's name is to ask what many 90s kids have asked, What's that thing on Nabisco stuff?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/825441.jpg)
Source: Collectors Journal
![CRACKED.COM BARTHOLOMEW RICHARD FITZGERALD-SMYTHE And yes, if you're curious, the dead Mr. Peanut also has the same name. Even though Mr. Peanut and Baby Nut are two different people canonically.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/825440.jpg)
Source: Esquire
![CRACKED.COM MR. VERITABLY CLEAN Created by a fan voting campaign, the name reminds you exactly how clean your things will be once this bald guy gets a hold of them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/9/825449.jpg)
Source: International Business Times
![CRACKED.COM HAMILTON В. URGLAR M This name somehow seems incredibly lazy, yet also feels like way too much time was put into it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/825438.jpg)
Source: The Today Show
![CRACKED.COM MARTIN He's named after the advertising company who created him, but in Geico commercial lore he's had a book published with his name as The Gecko.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/8/825448.jpg)
Source: Hot Cars
![CRACKED.COM GRITTWALD G. GRITTINGTON His name makes it seem like he comes from a noble family and shunned his former life to live in debauchery with hockey fans in Philly.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/825445.jpg)
Source: The Review
![CRACKED.COM CAPT. HORATIO MAGELLAN CRUNCH The good captain was named after other famous captains and explorers who would also ruin your mouth with sharp sugar cereal if given the chance.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/825444.jpg)
Source: Delish
![CRACKED.COM BARBARA MILLICENT ROBERS Everyone's favorite nurse- model-programmer- equestrian doll has never actually been married but has the name of a rich thrice-divorced widow.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/825443.jpg)
Source: Britannica
![CRACKED.COM MR. SIX I apologize if I reminded you he existed. I'm doubly-sorry to inform you that he's named like a demon a child has in a horror movie.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/6/825446.jpg)
Source: USA Today
![CRACKED.COM CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT CHEESE Like Walt Disney before him, this rat had enough pride to name his kid entertainment empire after himself.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/7/825447.jpg)
Source: Insider