Showing posts with label glarkware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glarkware. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

#145 Damnit, Jim!


This is another shirt from glarkware. If you are someone that has managed to miss the inception of what was one of the seminal sitcoms of our generation, this is a shirt that references the pilot of The Office. Judging by the shape of the mold this is a reference to the American version of the stapler in jello gag (the British one employed a ridged mold for the prank). I am a nerd.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

I'm gonna rock your body 'til Canada Day!


This is a shirt from glarkware. It can be found here. It's a reference to the greatest comedic episode of television ever produced, which is of course, the "Slap Bet" episode of How I Met Your Mother. This episode if also the first appearance of Robin Sparkles a teenage one-hit wonder from Canada known for her song "Let's Go To the Mall". The back has a bunch of tour dates held at Canadian malls.

Here's the music video:

It's just one of the most apt 80s parodies I've ever seen. It's also ridiculously catchy. The creators of the show are also musicians in their own right. [things you don't care about alert!] Their band The Solids wrote the show's theme song (the signatures ba ba ba bas are near the end of the song). They've produced several other songs for the show including a Robin Sparkles ballad and a song that Barney dedicates to his love for suits.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica





Today's shirt is from Glarkware which specializes in original pop culture themed apparel (mainly tv shows). This one is called "Number One Threat" which is a reference to the Colbert Report and features a giant bear terrorizing several famous American landmarks. You can find it here. Their shirts for the most part are pretty obscure in their references (Veronica Mars) but some are pretty obvious (Star Wars) and some are just balls out random (Bigfoot vs. Abe Lincoln).

Why?: I like bears. I called my big bro a bear because he was big and burly, partly because of this I nicknamed two of my little bros Chocolate and Vanilla Bear (also partly because of Scrubs). Plus Bear's just a fun word to say.