Classico sounds a bit like a jar of tomato sauce, but I suppose the man on the shirt is Italian, so it’s not completely ridiculous. I was never very big on Popeye, the super power up of spinach never captured me (the way a similar power up did on the Gummi Bears).. maybe it had to do with it being spinach. Also, let’s be fair, his girlfriend was not attractive and pretty annoying. Bluto can have her, as far as I’m concerned. Mario, of course, as I’ve well documented, is my guy. Well, he and his brother. I’m not sure if there’s a connection between being a sailor and being a plumber, and, similar to spinach, I was never a huge fan of mushrooms growing up, but I would rock this shirt for sure. (Available at Threadless)
Seriously.. that bear will mess you up. Smokey the Bear (apparently, he’s officially “Smokey Bear”, but that’s news to me) has always been at the forefront of the fight on forest fires. Yes, I enjoyed getting to write that. Anyway, I grew up with the image of him telling me that only I could prevent forest fires – which at the time I didn’t entirely understand. I realised that I was a child, and I wasn’t really sure why they would give me – a child who rarely ventured into the forest – all of this fire fighting power. At some point I suppose I came to the conclusion that Smokey was speaking to all children individually, but regardless of how he went about it, he did reinforce some bits of fire safety. Well, other than the phase most boys go through where they enjoy lighting things on fire. Fire is pretty cool. Oh, the shirt! Right. This violent and aggressive side of Smokey isn’t one I really remember, but if the man (or, I should say, the bear) wants to really hammer his point home to children who won’t listen, sometimes a wallop with a shovel is the only answer. Most bears would use their claws, but not Smokey – this shirt shows how civilized he truly is. (Available at Threadless)
Link! Link linking things! I can’t say there’s a kind of Legend of Zelda shirt that I would pass up (this looks to be Ocarina of Time era Link, no?), and this is no exception. A Link made of HTML links is something that speaks to two things I hold close. I know, you don’t have to tell me. (Available at Threadless)
Doctor Who shirt! Threadless has featured Doctor Who t-shirts in the past, but they often don’t pique my interest nearly as much as the show has always done. I do love this paisley-esque pattern of the TARDIS, though. I think it would make a lovely wallpaper, or as some of the commenters on Threadless suggested, bed sheets. Does that make your bed bigger on the inside? Oh, who cares. It’s a TARDIS shirt. I can be more than content with that. (Available at Threadless)
Aah! I almost missed a glow in the dark shirt, which as has been established in the past, are my favorites. The nice image of a dilapidated run down drive in theater on this shirt is transformed into a glow in the dark double feature of the past when the lights go out. Really awesome way to use the glowy ink, as the ghosts of a forgotten age when people used drive in theaters come to life in the dark (as ghosts are wont to do, I suppose). (Available at Threadless)
There’s not much description of this shirt that could quite do it justice, but I’m here to give it my best. A giant teddy bear fights a rabbit Godzilla style, wrecking a building with his massive stuffed punch? Like I said, it’s not doing it justice. I love the line art style, and again, really, any shirt that depicts a teddy bear breaking apart the corner of a building is a win. Also, bunnies. (Available at Threadless)
Oh, do I remember the xylophone toy from this shirt. I’m not sure any adults that might have been witness to me playing with it appreciated my musical skill as much as I did, but parents just don’t understand. Also, dinosaurs. If such a xylophone dinosaur ever did actually exist, I’m fairly certain they would have never gone extinct. After all, what better to do holed up in a cave waiting out an ice age than play your dinosaur? (Available at Threadless)
Zombies! Oh, I do love me some zombie shirts, as I think you might already know. Is there a more classic depiction of zombies than the zombie arms crashing through a previously boarded up window? I mean, I know we have to be hasty when we make our stand after the zombie infection spreads, or the living dead rise from their graves, or we reach the bar after acting/wandering our way through the masses, or however this whole thing happens. But really, wood boards? These zombies, if they are of the typical zombie archetype, will think nothing (get it?) of banging away at that 2×4 until it breaks open. And really, after settling down, what else is there to do but further reinforce your shelter? Look, I’m not a zombie expert by any means, but I’m pretty sure if I get taken down by the living dead, it’s not going to be because I only did an average job at clamping down the entrances to my bunker, that’s all. Still, this shirt is awesome, and not just because there are zombies threatening to emerge from your chest. (Available at Threadless)
Both “unicorn for breakfast” and “rainbow blood” sound like band names or movies or something. Maybe alternative indie comic books? Either way, the quite obviously fierce lion on this shirt has been munching on the most heavenly of treats – pure unicorn. I didn’t realise unicorns fell under the purview of the forest – the forest that said lions are the kings of. But a king is a king, and it’s good to be the king. I thought unicorn blood was silver, though? (Available at Design By Humans)
I can’t say I think a city is the best place for a giant gorilla to hang out. I’ve seen evidence that such practices don’t end well. It’s the sort of thing a mama and papa giant gorilla should teach a baby giant gorilla (yes, I said a baby giant gorilla, stay with me now) is best avoided. Nonetheless, on a hot summer day, I suppose there are some advantages, as we see on this shirt. For the ape that is, the helicopter pilot (and said helicopter pilot’s loved ones) probably feel differently – but this is a funny shirt, ethics and point of view don’t really come into play. (Available at Threadless)
All over shirt! As has been well documented on this site before, I do love all over shirts. Not so much math, though funny math like on this t-shirt is still enjoyable. Math with skulls and umbrellas and such is something I can get behind. And it’s not like I should say I hate math – I appreciate what it does and all that, I’m just not good at it. I do love those all over prints, though. (Available at Threadless)
Ouch! If even the Monopoly guy (Uncle Moneybags, if I recall .. nope, the interwebs confirm it’s Rich Uncle Pennybags) gets hit with the recession as is depicted on this shirt, we’re in a pretty bad state. I like that he still has his hat and dog, but I have to wonder about that iron. Seems like if he’s dire straights, he might want to worry about carrying around something a little more useful. Also, I don’t even want to ask about the car – I imagine at this point it’s a pretty sore spot with the poor fella. (Available at Threadless)
Even monsters need to snack? I suppose the (just) navies of the world would appreciate what this sea monster is doing on this shirt to defend the oceans, though I’m pretty sure Krackens are agnostic when it comes to which ships they attack. The enemy of my enemy is my friend .. but I’m not entirely sure that applies to Kracken attacks. Maybe the Kracken has a thing for Jolly Roger flags like bulls do for red capes (yes, I know the red part doesn’t matter)? (Available at Threadless)
Curling has pretty much captured the world by storm .. or at least, it does during the Winter Olympics. Otherwise I imagine it to mostly just take Canada by storm. Really, when we’re not in the middle of the Olympics, I can’t say I hear much about the sport, though I do still imagine a curler when I hear a other sports guys talking about an opposing team “coming into their house” – I know it’s supposed to reference their home stadium/arena/whatever, and how the home team should perform well in front of their own fans, but I can’t help but think of sliding curling rocks down the sheet (ideally) into the house. This shirt just shows what it might be like if animals performed this on their own, quite adorably I might add. I know Curling wasn’t originally designed to have a polar bear hurling a turtle down a frozen lake, but I also imagine those Scots (I think it’s Scottish folk that first curled, no?) would be happy to hear it’s been depicted as such. I also don’t completely understand what it’s doing on a shirt, but again, adorable + curling = don’t ask questions. Plus, there’s a result shot on the back of the shirt! Two sided print! The turtle hit the house! I do love those so. (Available at Threadless)
Well, this is just pretty awesome. Mr. Kermit appears to have visited the doctor, and his underlying bone structure looks remarkably like a human hand – I don’t remember this from my scholastic frog dissections. (Available at Design By Humans)
This is terribly dark and mysterious for a t-shirt! Veiled in this wash of deep blood red color, there’s what looks to be a lady on this shirt approaching some kind of structure or constructed something-or-another, just to see or not see a giant ghost-like being in the distance. Very creepy, very awesome. (Available at Threadless)
No, not the eclipse you’re thinking of. This shirt has the space kind of eclipse – you know, where a large object obscures the view of another? The amazing phenomenon and all that? Well, what if that was a burger. Simple shirt. Awesome shirt. Extremely awesome giant giant cheeseburger. (Available at Threadless)
What’s the plural of octopus? Octopi? Octopusses? I’m wading into lewd waters here, so I’ll stop there (get it? waters? because it’s an octopus? Ha!). Anyway, this singular octopus, avoiding my plural dilemma, has decided it’s time to disguise himself (actually, I’m not sure if he’s a him, but enough with the marine biology). What else but Bugs Bunny? I’m not sure it’s the most convenient – he needed a poor scuba diver (who appears to lose his oxygen tanks in the process) to be the character’s teeth – so at very least it’s a situational disguise. Still, if anyone other than Elmer Fudd is looking for an octopus, and they’re willing to look past an underwater rabbit, it might just work. (Available at Threadless)
I wouldn’t call the drawings on this shirt “ugly drawings” myself. I mean, they’re drawings of ugly people, mutants even, but the drawings themselves aren’t ugly, the people are. A nice play on words is always fun, but I kind of feel for the artist in this case. Anyway, I do love the shirt no matter its title, though perhaps I’m biased as I’ve already established my position on all-over printing on shirts (hint: it’s awesome). (Available at Threadless)
A mechanical owl operated by a mouse? I like it. I don’t think the owl on this shirt is meant to represent every owl and imply that they are all beasts operated by rodents – at very least I think owls would eat fewer rodents – but the king part implies that perhaps the owls are following a false leader. Though, in this case, they’d still probably eat fewer mice. So maybe this is just a fluke of a steampunk owl (it wouldn’t be the first time). (Available at Threadless)
