For the first time since its inception in 1940, the popular confectionery brand introduced candy mascots, putting an end to the long-running mystery of who Mike and Ike really are.

As revealed in a new campaign directed by Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson, Mike and Ike are actually pink and green beans (played by Abby Vatterott and Yoshi Barrigas) who help people get through everyday dramas.

"What I loved about this campaign is that it takes those everyday moments we've all experienced and looks at them through the perspective of Mike and Ike," Thompson said in a press release. "They're funny, a little ridiculous and surprisingly relatable, which made them a lot of fun to bring to life."

But some fans were craving for the return of a familiar face: Zours—a sour varient of the fruit-flavored candy—that was discontinued in 2020.

"Should have brought back Zours," one Instagram user quipped, while another pleaded, "Please bring back Zours, no candy compares not even your sours."

Meanwhile, a third commenter bemoaned, "I doubt very many people asked for this. But we did ask for ZOURS. Stop playing with my heart. It’s been a long 6 years."

However, others were sweet on finally getting some backstory behind Mike and Ike.

"Do you need anyone for the other flavors?" a fan asked on Instagram, while a separate candy lover quipped that it only took "a couple decades of life to finally see a Mike and Ike candy ad."

Indeed, Mike & Ike created a frenzy back in 2013 when the iconic duo announced that they had broken up, with the candy's packaging crossing out either Mike or Ike's name. The supposed feud lasted for almost an entire year before the company announced that the pair had reconciled.

For more surprising facts about iconic mascots and animated characters, read on.

Many fans were left purrrrrfectly confused after this revelation.

While the news may have surprised some, Cook wasn’t the first to share this insight. As a matter of fact, Christine R. Yano—a professor of anthropology who penned the book Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific—had also previously confirmed that Hello Kitty isn’t a feline.

“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2014. “She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”

Other fun facts about Hello Kitty? According to Sanrio, she is five apples tall, weighs three apples, was born on November 1 (making her a Scorpio) and dreams of being a pianist or poet. 

Bill Farmer, who's provided the voice of Goofy for decades, explained why the Disney character can talk while Mickey Mouse's pet Pluto can't.

Goofy is "not a dog, but he's a canine," the voice actor said on an August 2024 episode of Popcorn Podcast with Leigh Livingstone and Tim Iffland. "So it's kind of like a wolf is not a dog but it's a canine—same thing. Goofus canis, that's what he is. Or, he's a MOG—he's a man-dog."

However, Pluto, he added, is a "regular dog"—a blood hound as it turns out.

You'll want to get to the (bikini) bottom of this discovery.

SpongeBob SquarePants' creator Stephen Hillenburg once revealed that Squidward Tentacles is actually an octopus—not a squid.

"This is Squidward the Octopus, SpongeBob's grumpy next-door neighboor," he shared in the 2005 Case Of The Sponge 'Bob' video resurfaced by BuzzFeed. "I like the octopus for this character because they have such a large, bulbous head, and Squidward thinks he's an intellectual so, of course, he's going to have a large, bulbous head."

But if you're wondering how Squidward can be an octopus when he has only six legs instead of eight, Hillenburg had an answer for that, too—noting "it was really just easier for animation to draw him" with fewer tentacles.

Blue From Blue's Clues Was Originally an Orange Cat

Break out your handy dandy notebook and jot this one down.

"One of the things that nobody knows is that Blue was originally a cat," the show's co-creator Angela Santomero said in the 2006 special Behind the Clues: 10 Years With Blue resurfaced by Mental Floss. "First his name was Mr. Orange and then we're like, 'Uh, maybe Mr. Blue.'"

But according to the special, Nickelodeon was already working on a series about a cat—leading animators to toss out the original idea and redesign Blue as a dog.

But as it turns out, Doug Funnie from the cartoon series Doug was almost named Brian. As for what led to the change?

"I just thought Brian was too fancy of a name," Doug creator Jim Jinkins told HuffPost TV in 2014, "So, I geared it down, and started calling him Doug. If you think about what that sounds like, it sounds incredibly average, and that’s what I was trying to do: express from that point of view.”

In Monsters, Inc.: An Augmented Reality Book, the name of Boo—the little girl who accidentally ends up in Monstropolis and befriends monsters Mike and Sulley—is revealed to be Mary Gibbs, according to BuzzFeed. And if the name sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the real-life moniker of the actress who provided the voice of Boo.

Need more proof? In the movie, there’s actually a scene where Boo is sorting through some of her drawings and fans can spot the name “Mary” scribbled at the top of one of the pieces of paper.

Speaking of names, while Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend is often called Minnie Mouse, according to the BBC, it was revealed in 1942 that her full name is actually Minerva.