

In season 2, episode 14 of Speechless, JJ DiMeo demands a "Fudgie the Whale" cake for his 18th birthday.Įvery year for his birthday, the station manager at WFAN in New York, buys Boomer Esiason a Fudgie the Whale cake. The size of the cake was called into question by the shipping container, and referred to as "Fudgie the Dolphin." On The Dan Le Batard Show, Old Money Charlie ate an entire Fudgie the Whale cake as a 'Grid of Death' punishment. In response to the episode, Carvel posted on Twitter a picture of a money bag cake. In season 11, episode 2 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ( Cry Wilderness), during the invention exchange, Kinga Forrester and Max unveiled the Fudgie the Whale cake clock which included a money bag cake. The Carvel (franchise) brand would go on to host a promotional giveaway with cakes designed with characters and iconography from the show in 2018. ( " The Inamorata Consequence"), during the dinner precession of the Treaty of Tolerance Summit II, a Fudgie the Whale is present with the words "Have a Whale of a Summit" written in frosting. In season 7, episode 5 of The Venture Bros.

In season 8, episode 6 of The Simpsons (" A Milhouse Divided"), Homer buys Marge a Fudgie the Whale wedding cake with "To a Whale of a Wife" written in icing, much to her dismay and disappointment. In season 4, episode 11 of The Office, Andy Bernard states that his favorite type of cake is ice cream cake, and that he would like a "Fudgie the Whale" cake.
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In the animated FX series Archer, title character Sterling Archer praises the Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale cakes in several episodes, saying "Those guys at Carvel know what they’re doing." Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. It was even on The Office, Andy Bernard said “I want a Fudgie The Whale.” The beer was re-released in limited quantities in 2019 to coincide with Father's Day, and was again re-released in June 2021 for the same reason. In 2018, Captain Lawrence Brewing Company partnered with Carvel to produce, in limited release, "Fudgie the Beer", a stout flavored with the chocolate crunchies also used to make Fudgie the Whale. But Fudgie the Whale was usually promoted around Father's Day, using the slogan, "For a whale of a dad." įudgie was developed by founder Tom Carvel, with the assistance of his employee Kathy Dumas. The whale's tail would then represent whatever a character traditionally had on its head: the Easter Bunny's ears, or a Santa Claus' tassel. Development Īlthough the cake depicts the shape of a whale and was originally decorated as such, it was sometimes adapted for holiday uses by rotating it 90 degrees counter-clockwise so that the whale's body, now upright, could represent a face. It was developed by Carvel in the 1970s as an expansion of its line of freshly made products, along with Hug Me the Bear and Cookie Puss. Fudgie the Whale is a type of ice cream cake produced and sold by Carvel in its franchise stores.
