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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 #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.