t-shirts with logos of fictional companies from tv shows or movies on them

like dunder mifflin or whatever. i see these all the time but i don't get these. they aren't funny or clever or unique or anything. what do they say about you as a person when you wear them? why do you wear them?

otoh i have trouble justifying wearing almost any t-shirt that has words or images on it so maybe it's just me

They say about the same as wearing a t-shirt with the name of the film/programme on, but usually have better logos.

whats the diff between this and wearing a band t

it says, "i like show? do you like show?"

whats the diff between this and wearing a band t

― Mr. Que, Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well obv everyone makes choices about what they feel ok providing free advertising to but there's a big difference between a small independent band and a tv show on a major network

it's a pretty small diff

well they basically say that the wearer is not funny or clever. but we're all unique aren't we

band t's (usually) aren't clever, are they ok to wear in your universe?

it's a pretty small diff

― Mr. Que, Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:15 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one has maybe a few hundred/thousand dollars to spend on marketing and the other has like millions but ok?

if you buy a band t at a show, the band gets all the money; if you buy a tv show t shirt the money's probably mostly going to the network with very little of it going to the creative people behind the actual show ... i don't know seems like a big difference to me

both are advertising tho

a better comparison would be wearing a tshirt with the geico gecko on it than wearing a band tshirt

I just got over my aversion to wearing shirts with words or images on them this summer. On principle, I hadn't worn anything like that in about 10 years. Now I've got a couple, one of which is this logo:

http://www.theporkchopexpress.com/storage/post-images/ThePorkChopExpress.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1296929157314

Close enough to what you're thinking? People wear all kinds of goddamn t-shirts. I guess it would kinda suck to have a Dunder Mifflin one (is that show still on?).

well obv everyone makes choices about what they feel ok providing free advertising to but there's a big difference between a small independent band and a tv show on a major network

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't even look at people's t shirts anymore, i usually ignore them.

Yeah, I couldn't tell you what most people wear? Probably some garbagey tshirt from a fun run or blood drive?

yeah so what's your point? people walk around with advertising for stuff on the front of their bodies. welcome to the 21st century.

xpost to n/a

would wear a tyrell corp tee

a Dunder Mifflin tee is more fun/funny than a Geico Gecko tee b/c it's meta obv

i don't have a big point other than i think they are dumb and i don't understand the mentality of the people who wear them? not saying anything big about advertising, that was your deal, i think we are all behind the basic undergrad concept of "EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISING" this is an ilx thread, not a thesis

http://s1.liquidblue.com/products/_Medium/MTN_103089f.jpg

thinking about getting this one for wintertime tee wearing purposes (not from a tv show, obvs.)

Band/tv show - creative endeavor that doesn't sell you anything directly.
Geico Gecko - not so much

band t is a better comparison

dude at work has a schrute farms mousepad and an aperture science tshirt

this phenomenon reached its horrific apotheosis with "Bubba Gump Shrimp Co"

^^ otm

http://www.feistees.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cntpk2.jpg

the mentality of the people who wear them is

"i dig jim and pam, that dwight is funny! now i will spend 25 bucks on this t-shirt."

vs.

"i dig vampire weekend's sweet sexy jams, I will now spend 25 bucks on this t-shirt."

if you buy a band t at a show, the band gets all the money; if you buy a tv show t shirt the money's probably mostly going to the network with very little of it going to the creative people behind the actual show ... i don't know seems like a big difference to me

I always assumed those t-shirts with fictional companies from TV shows profited only the t-shirt vendor, since the companies were nonexistant and probably not trademarked. Like I don't think NBC thought to trademark Vandelay Industries, etc.

It would still be their "intellectual property" though, wouldn't it?

assuming NBC didn't bother to trademark something is a game you don't want to play

yes

they don't have to trademark it i don't think

BTW, my guess is that copyright would extend to those things as well

yah, shit is automatic

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co

that's a real restaurant and not a fictional company, sadly

Copyright = automatic (although can be registered)
Trademark = not automatic, but can happen through usage in commerce even without registration

i meant copyright not trademark

I wd only do this for something real old, like The Albacore Club

Tshirts can be more subcultural identifier than anything. Check out all the teefury/woot sites that make an entire industry out of such shirts. It works akin to having a pin/button for a band on your jacket. Cleverness doesn't necessarily enter into it.

For example, would I wear a Weyland-Yutani shirt? Yes. Would I think such a shirt is clever? No.

my "Packard Sawmill 2x4s and 4x8s" shirt is awesome fuiud

people also just have dumb ideas in general for a t shirt

Copyright extends to a creative work and prohibits unlicensed "derivative works." Usually this includes stuff made based on characters from a fictional work, so I could see it also extending to fictional companies.

Fictional corporate personhood?

http://www.80stees.com/products/Star-Wars-Cantina-Band-Shirt.asp?utm_source=goog-merch&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=SWARS298

They should make one of these for the convenience store in the Wire with some kind of joke about burners

David Simon would be PISSED

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co

that's a real restaurant and not a fictional company, sadly

― dmr, Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I couldn't believe it when I found this out. There's one in Times Square, right? So weird.

But I mean didn't it come after the movie?

my pal - I promised I'd reacha huge audience for him

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanklemek-art/poison-dart-frog-t-shirt

Note: This is a collage made from multiple doodle pages.

Now I want a shirt with both of those on the same shirt.

no one should wear t-shirts with logos or writing on them, ever

this

i saw someone the other day wearing an otherwise plain white t shirt with this image of tifa lockhart on it:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/10381/527788-tifa_large.jpg

somehow he was making it work, tho, it was odd

hc nerd shirts are cool:

http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig10/10105983.jpg

but kindof in a different bracket imm

http://images.stylinonline.com/t-shirt-dungeons-and-dragons-fantasy-game-shr.jpg

no one should wear t-shirts with logos or writing on them, ever

nice idea on a message board, but it just doesn't work in reality.

i own a shirt i could legit be hated for i think

http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/isapi/designall.dll?rlvnet=1&realview=113980594307291406&design=9088c8a7-8b2f-4c0a-befd-d76cc8a72121&style=basic_tshirt_light&size=&color=brown&pending=false&pdt=zazzle_shirt&max_dim=512

do people ask you if you play tennis a lot?

Is that how you walk?

only when i wear that shirt

do people ask you if you play tennis a lot?

i actually live in fear of this happening and having to explain 'er no, actually it's from the novel by the deceased american writer david foster wallace', it is one of the reasons i do not wear this shirt much

Dude is in the middle of doing the Rerun dance.

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/35476_o.gifhttp://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/35476_o.gif

http://www.founditemclothing.com/t-shirts/gfx/repo-man-beer-shirt/repo-man-beer-shirt-lg.jpg

why is that printed on a heather grey shirt, even

with a stripe

man this fan-generated product design is BULLSHIT

heather grey tees are always a dud imo no matter what the design may be

I had a "WHATSAMATTA U" shirt in high school.

http://origin.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/14e/5/AAAAC4ftpPsAAAAAAU5VHw.png?v=1303426525000

i actually live in fear of this happening and having to explain 'er no, actually it's from the novel by the deceased american writer david foster wallace', it is one of the reasons i do not wear this shirt much

I received this shirt as a gift because the gifter knew I was a fan of that book; it was an awkward moment. I wore it a couple times around the house. I get more IA re the kind of person who would MAKE AND SELL a shirt like this than the kind of person who would wear it, though.

I received this shirt as a gift because the gifter knew I was a fan of that book; it was an awkward moment

ayup

I reckon about 90% of these are bought as gifts tbh

lol Walter I have this one
http://images.vendder.com/store/cinefilevideo/11132/jodorowsky.jpg

http://store.startrek.com/images/products/4/62951-20.jpg

I have this shirt! The screenprinting on it is super cracked now tho

In Little Otik, the father wears this plain white tshirt that says "U.S. BURGER" in red and blue. I don't know if that's a real/fake Czech burger chain or not, but I would totally wear it.

i want a cool battlestar t-shirt. i don't see any good ones online. gotta go to a mall or something.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/669/sterlingcooper434.gif

I'd wear this:

http://www.yoyodyne.com/yoyodyne.jpg

And, on a related note, this:

http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/v1/products/19167921/views/1,width=378,height=378,appearanceId=17/LEGO-Space.png

Are those from the big bang theory or something?

1.) buckaroo bonzai
2.) legos from the 1980s

these are cool:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Outland-Movie-Patches-Set-6-Divisions-2-S-H-/390234444036?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5adbc91104

i have an outland security badge that i got when i went to the grand opening of forbidden planet in nyc. i put my picture in it!

yoyodine is originally a Thomas Pynchon invention, I believe

that same person on ebay has swanky starship troopers stuff. like this handsome beret:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Starship-Troopers-Mobile-Infantry-Beret-/360456410647?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53ece05617

kingfish - I'd wear both those.

Yeah, Yoyodyne is Pynchon.

If we're expanding to patches, this:

http://starland.com/catalog/images/ptal06.jpg

http://www.scifistore.com/items/p/lspalogo.jpg

patches are secret kinda. geek morse code. thus cooler.

guess i don't see why this is a whole thread and not just a single post on the IA thread

― Mr. Que, Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in hindsight this is probably where i should have gone with this

yoyodyne is orignially pynchon, but the yoyodyne image above is from buckaroo banzai

I want a Hudson University shirt.

Always wanted Robocop, Alien franchise or Infinite Jest ones.

i would wear a 6000 sux t-shirt

or the family heart center

Dude just walked past me wearing an Isotopes baseball team logo.

As for sports jerseys, I would wear this one:

http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/533723546/-17-HANSON-brothers-SLAP-SHOT-movie-Charlestown-CHIEFS-jersey-Blue-any-size-Mix-order.jpg

Or

http://www.dorholtcustomsports.com/images/fletch_back.jpg

The latter one I actually have seen worn at a Blazers game

http://www.tshirtbordello.com/images/tyrell-shirt-l2.jpg

http://www.bayimprint.com/inc/layout/faber_college.jpg

http://www.ubertorso.com/product_images/uploaded_images/brtriplepack.png

Absolutely nothing wrong with these kind of shirts.

Except for Star Wars-related ones. Those should be confiscated by the gov't and burned IMO.

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