In Your Old-Timey Eyes

The romance of the moment was often broken when you had to stop and wind up the gramophone. (I Love the (Eighteen) 80's by Nathan Stillie at Threadless)

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Say Anything 2.0

Who Ya Gonna Telegraph?

That's Why They Call Them Crushes

Recessionopoly: Do Not Pas GO, Ever

Looks like times are tough for Rich Uncle Pennybags, he's sold off the car and is out on the street. Still, you'd think he'd be able to stay at Baltic Avenue - that place is a dump. (Recessionopoly by Carlos Rocafort IV at Threadless)

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From The Recession WIth Love

Omar's Coming! Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

First You Get The Money, Then You Get The Mountain

Realistic Cereal Mascots

You know, I can see why they decided to go with cartoon mascots instead. (Taste of the Wild by Philip Tseng at Threadless. Link via Shirtoid.)

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Cereal Mascots In Real Life

And God Created Sugar

The Breakfast Cereal Club

CSI: 8-Bit

Things really went to pieces after the first guy jumped. (8-Bit Investigation by Aled Lewis)

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CSI Disney

Donkey Kong In The Mist

The Tragedy Of Blinky, Pinky, Inky And Clyde

Cute Animals Smoking Cigarettes

C'mon kids, Bambi smokes it and who's cooler (and cuter) than Bambie? Ask a teenager, they'll get some for you. (Cute Animals Smoking Cigarettes by Andy Gonsalves at Threadless)

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Lights, Camera, Animals!

The Bambie Hunter & Taxi Rider

Hatchling Mutant Ninja Turtles

Pezidents Of The United States

These Pez dispensers are clearly not child friendly, especially the JFK dispenser. I love the George H. Bush dispenser though I'm sure the Japanese Prime Minister didn't find it as cute. (Pezidents Of The United States by Hillary White at Threadless)

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Fantastic Forefathers

Sweet, Sweet Candy!

Jackie Kennedy Is Out For Revenge in... Kill Oswald

This Is Not the Eye Chart You're Looking For

Of course this chart would be very difficult to read, what with it fading off to the to the horizon all the time. (This Is Not the Eye Chart You're Looking For by David Schwen)

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Rudolph The Red-Nosed AT-AT

The Living Dead Strike Back

When You Get The Force, Then You Get The Women

I Love It When A Menagerie Comes Together

I can't resist an A-Team parody, and a hyena as "Howling Mad" Murdock is inspired. Vote now for The Animal Team by Bocognani Florent, over at Threadless. (Link via Super Punch)

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Zombies Of Fortune

B.A. Bearacus

The Android Team

The Tragedy Of Blinky, Pinky, Inky And Clyde

Executed under the Jacobins Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, Blinky, Pinky, Inky And Clyde would forever haunt their executioner Monsieur Pac-man.

How They Died by Aled Lewis, up for vote at Threadless. (Link via pacalin & gamefreaksnz)

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I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghosts

Pac-Man's Last Supper

Wokka Wakka Wonka

The Tee Which Shall Not Be Named

What better t-shirt to wear to the premier of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows than John Tibbott's The Tee Which Shall Not Be Named? Well, it won't be ready to be worn by November 19 but you still have one day left to vote for this reference-apalooza shirt at Threadless. (Link via Shirtoid)

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Harry Potter And The Sin City Hallows

Yo Momma So Fat The Sorting Hat Put Her In All Four Houses
Pop Culture Target Practice

Arrrgmented Reality

Arr, that code either opens a treasure map or downloads everything piece of data on your phone when you scan it. (Arrrgmented Reality by David Schwen)

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Yar, Pirates!

Curious George Takes Manhattan

... And Then I Ended The World

Let's do the Time Warp (Again!)

It's astounding, time is fleeting

Madness takes its toll

But listen closely, not for very much longer

I've got to keep control

Some of films most loved time travellers all come together to make me relive every high school dance I ever went to. Next up, Billy Idol singing Mony Mony ending with slow dancing to Stairway to Heaven, except that part near the end where the song speeds up and nobody knows quite what to do. Good times!

(Let's do the Time Warp (Again!) by Ian Leino. Link via Shirtoid)

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The Man Machine

In The '80s Junkyard

Marty, We've Got To Get Wayback To The Future!

Yabba Dabba Dead

Happy 50th anniversary, Flintstones, we wouldn't have The Simpsons without you. But now they're gone — ain't I sentimental? (Mysterious Fossil by Nacho Diaz Arjona, via Shirtoid)

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Flinstones: Dino's Revenge
Modern Stone Age Architecture
The Dabba Don

Princess Peach In... Kill Bowser

"Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now."

I love the idea of Princess Peach raging against her captors — who needs saving now? From Eduardo San Gil's Threadless submission She Wants Revenge.

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Two Girls, One-Up
Tarantino Babies
Video Games: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

St. Donkey Kong At The Pearly Gates

That reckoning is not going to end well. So who would be the devil? Wario? Zero Lives Left by penneydesign is up for vote at Threadless. (Link via Shirtoid)

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Suddenly Last Supper
Arcade Expressionism
Good Guys In Bad Games

The Don't Care Bears

Even gray, scowling and wielding weaponry, these bears are unbearably cute. (Don't Care Bears by Alex Solis)

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Care Bear Carnage
It's Hard Out There For A Smurf
Birth Of The King

Video Games: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

You know all the characters you've defeated in video games? Yeah, it doesn't end well for them. (Let the Game Continue by Eduardo San Gil)

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Super Mario Bros: Mario's Mass Grave
In Soviet Russia, Tetris Builds You!
Choose Your (Video Game) Weapon

Ronald McDonald Purge

Oh sure, it implies that it was the food from McDonalds that made old Ronald toss it in an alleyway, but I don't think so. I've seen how that clown parties and it looks like he was into the same stuff as the pandas. Damn sanctimonious kid. (Not So Happy by Lora Zombie)

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The Wrath Of Old Big Boy
Ronald McBuddha
Super Sized Last Supper

Something Strange In Your T-Shirt Drawer

Two Threadless tees that I have previously featured have been printed this week and are now available for purchase, if that's the sort of thing you're likely to do.

Above: Something Strange, In Your Beverage by David Staffell.
Below: Zombies In Wonderland by Alice X. Zhang and Donald Lim

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Who Ya Gonna Telegraph? 
Pulp Fiction Wonderland
Through The Remixed Looking Glass