There was a special trim-package called "Felix the Mira" offered at the time.[30] In Italy, Felix was called Mio Mao under Fascism, and was published by Corriere dei Piccoli. The cartoon My Life As a Teenage Robot features a diner called "Mezmer's" (named after Otto Messmer), and the doorway to the restaurant is a giant Felix the Cat head. In an episode of The Simpsons, Dean Scungio quotes from The Encyclopaedia of Animated Cartoons on the history of Felix: "A Felix doll became Charles Lindbergh's companion on his famed flight across the Atlantic."