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Design #53: Homer’s Ambition

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In episode 5 from season 28, Homer listens to his ambition. Which is a mini Homer that lives in his head. Naturally his lifespan is short lived and dies by the end of the episode. But his ambition wears a sweatshirt with a big A on it so I decided to make it a design. I really didn’t watch this episode, but the short version is Krusty launches a new food product, Kent loses his job, and Lisa helps Kent get it back by exposing the ingredients in said food product. The main thing that stood out to me is that this episode is called “Trust but Clarify” which is an old Russian proverb that is noted in HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini series.

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

Design #52: I’m with Admiral Stupid

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This one is from season 9 episode 19 called “Simpson Tide”. Homer gets fired from his job (surprise surprise) and enlists in the navy. Eventually his group goes on a training exercise to simulate an enemy threat, and while it’s glossed over, he essentially kills his commanding officer which leads to him being captain of a submarine. My personal favourite part of this episode is Homer’s smug expression when he’s on trial for eating the population of the planet of the doughnuts. If that seemed out of left field it’s because it’s Homer’s dream sequence at the beginning of the episode which is entirely unrelated.

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

Design #48: Screw This

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This design comes from season 10 episode 2 called “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace”. Despite accomplishing much more than most people will in their lifetime, Homer has a crisis that he’s wasted his life. He becomes a bit depressed, then learns of Thomas Edison the inventor. In an attempt to living a fulfilled and meaningful life (again, despite a massive amount of achievements by this point) he follows Edison’s footsteps and tries his hand at being an inventor. When walking through the souvenir shop at the Edison Museum a shirt in the background is shown saying “Screw this” which I thought would make a perfect addition to my shop given my attitude towards most things in life.

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

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 #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.