Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

  Wow, what can we say about this story from the CityStream show on the Seattle Channel except, thank you! They really took the time to examine how much deeply weird stuff we've done and talk to some amazing customers. You'll get to hear from Mark Pahlow, Shana Danger, and David Wahl about why they love Archie McPhee. Here some...

Last night at McCaw Hall, Seattle's most famous librarian, Nancy Pearl, questions Tom Hanks about his new book and thoughts on reading and literacy in general. Then, afterwards, he was nice enough to pose for a picture holding our Librarian Action Figure!   Picture by Ruth Dickey   Click here to get your own action figure!      

When our new Cat Head Squirrel Feeder came in, we needed a picture fast. After a few moments of planning we sprang into action. We hatched a plan involving taxidermy and a piece of string. As you can see below, you could never tell how we faked it...

The hilarious YouTube duo Rhett and Link decided to "review" Finger Sporks on an episode of Good Mythical Morning! The whole episode is really funny, but the Finger Sporks bit starts about 7 minutes in. You can watch below. Scroll down just see their Finger Sporks song/video.    Using Fingers Sporks on your "booty knot" is not an approved use. However, it...

David Wahl, our Director of Awesome, has worked at Archie McPhee for over 20 years. However, he also has a life away from us. In this case, The Humor Weakly interviewed him about all the people who park in front of his driveway.  It's a lot of people. And there's parking available not in front of his driveway, but they...

Last night the awesome Adam Savage posted a picture (by tweetsauce) of himself wearing our Finger Hands with an entirely appropriate E.E. Cummings quote from the poem somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond, "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands." Of course, the best celebrity Finger Hands picture of all time is "Weird Al" Yankovic advertising his...

    We had a great time when Boaz Frankel and Phillip Ross stopped by our store with their cool cargo bike to interview us for the Pedal Powered Talk Show. Normally we don't allow people to ride their bikes in the store, but we made an exception this time because it was also the interview desk. Check out their...

This Seattle Times profile from 2004 is one the longest and most in depth profiles that ever done of our owner, Mark Pahlow, and Archie McPhee. It is full of great Mark Pahlow quotes like: People are always attracted to other eras. I hate the word nostalgia, but I think there’s always this looking back to a point where you...

The A.V. Club  interviewed our Director of Awesome, David Wahl, about all the Archie McPhee bacon products. He spills everything from the first bacon products to our fat-marbled bacon single to the future of bacon. AVC: When did you start making bacon products? What were some of your earliest ones? DW: The earliest bacon product we made was in 2003—the bacon...

We love Atlas Obscura! So, when they asked if they could interview us about all the weird problems we've had trying to make cool novelties to share with the world, we immediately said yes. If you want to read about torpedos, biohazards and smoking babies this is the article for you! Here's a taste: But dealing in fringe products has...

This great clip from the late 1980s features our owner, Mark Pahlow, with Seattle comedy legend John Keister discussing Archie McPhee on Almost Live! It includes a few  great Mark Pahlow quotes: "We like to make people laugh, but we also think it's important to inspire and educate. " "We find people pretty squeamish about their internal organs and we feel they...

In October of 1990 KOMO did this profile of Archie McPhee featuring our owner Mark Pahlow. At the time we were located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle and have since moved to Wallingford. As always, the story is filled with amazing Mark Pahlow quotes: The first thing I tried to sell was a "how to have a child at...