Category Archives: Pop Culture Designs

Design #47: Champions of Winning. Superb!

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This one comes from the “B” plot in episode 8 from season 22 called “In Marge we Trust”. When Homer and the kids visit the local garbage dump they stumble across a Japanese detergent box with what appears to be a picture of Homer on it. To find out where this oddity hails from, Homer and the kids follow up with a local Japanese man as to what it is, which leads them to call the Mr. Sparkle factory in Japan and ultimately leads to finding out that the character is a mash up of a fish and light bulb. When Homer calls Japan, the English speaking employee is showing wearing a poorly translated shirt with the slogan “Champions of winning, superb” on it. Now you can wear the shabby translation too.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #46: Peter’s “I Love Lois” shirt

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Continuing expanding my cartoon base I began browsing and watching some episodes of Family Guy and this is my first design. This shirt is from the 3rd episode of season 1 of Family Guy called “Chitty Chitty Death Bang”. After Peter loses reservations at a restaurant that Lois wants to hold Stewie’s birthday at, Peter frantically tries to explain himself. In his somewhat biased recollection of the event, he is shown wearing this “I Love Lois” shirt in an attempt to gain sympathy from his wife. If you’re named Lois this may be a great gift to your husband.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #45: Don’t wake me I’m working

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“Fat Man and Little Boy” is the title of episode 5 from season 16. In short, Bart begins a graphic tee shop with rude slogans and Homer starts fathering Lisa closer since he’s replaced by Bart as the breadwinner for the family. There’s also a Willy Wonka type character that commercializes Bart’s shirts. Needless to say this episode provides me much material for my shop as well since it’s focused around graphics tees. Here’s one that I don’t recommend wearing to work even as a joke.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #44: The Stonecutter logo

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This one is from episode 12 season 6 called “Homer the Great”. If you’re even a bit of a Simpsons fan you’ll know this episode as it’s a bit unique and one of the highlights of the golden era. Homer joins the secret society called the Stonercutters and due to no effort besides a birth mark he rises from rank 908 to rank 1 nearly overnight. Eventually he goes mad with power (albeit with good intentions) and the Stonecutters rebrand themselves as the “No Homers” club. During the episode there are numerous variations of their logo, but I chose to design one based off Number 1’s hat in this case.

Here’s the link to the product as a sticker, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #43: Alien Slurm logo

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In episode 4 of season 2 in Futurama called “Fry and the Slurm Factory” we see the Futurama gang win a tour of the Slurm factory where the delicious soft drink is produced. Unlike the story it’s satirizing the group finds the horrific secret of the drink while deviating from the tour and the usual absurdity ensues. At one point Zoidberg tries on a shirt that’s “a little tight around the thorax” and I decided to go ahead and make the alien logo into a design.

Here’s the link to the product as a sticker, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #42: I got toasted at Flaming Moe’s

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”Flaming Moe’s” is episode 10 from season 3 and is a golden era classic. So much so that one of my best friends (and Simpson fanatic like me) considers it to be his favourite episode. In short, Homer invents a drink called the Flaming Homer, Moe steals it and makes a killing selling it, and Homer exposes that the secret ingredient is children’s cough medicine leaving Moe to fall from grace and go back to where he started like many cartoon story lines. At one point Bart walks in wearing this design and Homer gets mad. I loved the idea of the gag that a 10 year old kid got toasted at a bar while Moe would simply allow it, most likely for the sake of profits over morals.

Here’s the link to the product as a sticker, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #41: Springfield Police “Cash bribes only” badge

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A while back I had posted a picture on my Instagram about some previous Simpsons drawings I made for my RedBubble shop. Someone in the comments asked for something related to the Springfield police department so I thought I’d look into it. While the Springfield police are shown quite often in The Simpsons, most of the time they’re zoomed out so their badges are just a small shape. After a little more digging, I found that in season 15 episode 16 called “The Wandering Juvie” the show does a close up of Wiggum’s badge with the motto “cash bribes only” so I felt it was a perfect fit.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #40: “ULCA” Yankee Cola

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This design comes from episode 23 in season 10 called “Thirty Minutes over Tokyo”. Homer ends up getting digitally robbed and the Simpsons are low on funds. To get some tips, they attend a seminar hosted by Chuck Garabedian on how to live on a budget. One tip was to get last minute vacation trips and the Simpsons end up in Japan. Arguably this episode aired around the time the quality of the show began to decline, but I still found it had some great jokes. At one point the waiter at a restaurant called “America Town” wears a shirt with the gibberish “UCLA Yankee Cola” on it so I went ahead and made it for my shop. Fun fact, UCLA actually copyright striked my design so I made a “ULCA” mock one instead so no, ULCA is not a typo.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #39: Barney the bully

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I’m going to confess I actually don’t know which episode this is from. And as per usual, I’m too lazy to look it up. It’s a pattern that Barney wears in high school at one time and I thought the colours complimented each other nicely and in a clashing fashion so I went ahead and made it as a pattern in my shop.

Here’s the link to the product as a pin, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.

Design #38: Everyman

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First appearing in season 21 episode 20 called “Homer the Whopper” Everyman is a superhero created by Comicbook Guy. His super power is that whenever he touches a superhero comicbook, he gains the abilities of the protagonist. In his first appearance, a movie adaptation is made with, of course, Home chosen to play Everyman. He gets a personal trainer and gets in shape, but eventually everything goes to hell as usual and he gets fat again. If you need a cheap esoteric shirt for a superhero at a Halloween party this is it.

Here’s the link to the product as a sticker, but you can view the design on multiple items if you’re interested.