Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Even though Socrates is serious about philosophy, he himself wasn't always taken so seriously. In a Greek comedy by Aristophanes called The Clouds, Socrates is a character who is consistently made fun of, both for his incomprehensible speech... and for his lack of showering.
According to Diogenes Laërtius, a Greek philosophical biographer from the third century CE, "Plato" was a nickname the philosopher's family gave him because he was on the, ahem, wider side ("platon" means "wide" in Greek). While this probably isn't true, it's fun to think about how popular these figures were even in the ancient world—and about how authors enjoyed making up silly anecdotes about them (source).
Just in case you weren't 100% convinced that Plato is a Big Deal, we've brought out some heavy artillery: philosopher A. N. Whitehead, who once famously said, "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato" (source). Talk about influence. Yowzah.