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Hey folks, Rob gave me the honor of judging this week's contest and I know I have said it before but you guys really outdo yourself with your entries. However, this isn't always a good thing. You see, so many of you submitted shirt ideas that were absolutely terrific they should be not only made, but cherished (and possibly framed). Dr. Doom chilling with the cast of E.R.? Oh hell yes. Paul Atreides as a spice-loving chef? I need that in my life right now. If this was a Best Nerd Shirt Ever contest, many of you would have won easily. But a ton of you guys submitted entries for shirts that were actually great instead of horrible.This posed a problem when it came time for me to judge. While your ideas were very entertaining, often they were with entries that were anything but the worst. With three shirts on the line, to be victorious you had to come up with a shirt that was so bad it crossed into a heretofore realm of awfulness/offensiveness/unpleasantness that only the most bold would ever dare explore. Fortunately, a lot of you were still up to the challenge.
Before we kick off this fashion freak show, Topless Robot would once again like to extend a very special thanks to the awesome folks over at Split Reason for sponsoring this contest. Whether you won, just got an honorable mention or didn't even place at all, you'll probably be able to find some nerdy apparel from them. Hit the jump and see what won!
Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
Kiefziel said:
Jar Jar Binks. Just an unmarked, uninjured, unmolested picture of Jar Jar Binks's face.
Simple but effective.
EShea said:
Picture of Joss Whedon. Above Caption: I'm A Need'en Whedon.
I'll leave it to you to decide what's worse, the rhyme or blind devotion to everything Joss does. **cough** Alien Resurrection **cough**
The racist ice cream truck twins from Revenge of the Fallen. Flashing gang signs.Christ, I can totally imagine this existing. And that terrifies me.
The Fame00 said:
Any shirt that the wearer has made to advertise their own blog, comic, nerdy property, that they plan only to wear themselves. Because only the truest of nerds would self-promote their own nerdiness at such a level.This bothers me as well for irrational reasons. Or maybe I'm just sad I don't have a TR shirt of my own. Grr.
CD said:
Current day Carrie Fisher, pre-Weight Watchers, in the slave outfit.You can just count the reasons such a thing would be wrong, couldn't you?
Grant the Jester said:
Black shirt, centered is a graphic of a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon with TARDIS windows and light on top. But it's one of those electronic shirts and whenever it senses a new wifi signal from a coffee house it plays the TARDIS engine noise and lights up.Nightmare or hipster fantasy? You decide.
Nostromo's Second Android said:
A picture of meowth bending over with a Pokeball where his butthole should be.Hope you guys weren't eating lunch when you read that one.
"ASS TO MEOWTH" written underneath.
mythbri said:
A long T-shirt that ends about six inches below the hips of the wearer, with a picture of a bare ass on the back approximately right where the wearer's would be. On the front of the T-shirt is printed the words "That's no moon."A cheap joke, but it works beautifully.
Giveumtheboot said:
You got Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect being Lifted off the ground by a beam of light while Towlie is down below looking mournfully upward. On the back it says "don't forget to bring a towel."The Hitchhiker's Guide to South Park? How unexpected! I suppose this could be interpreted as more awesome than awful for some of you, but hey, it's only an HM and not a shirt-winner, so get off my back!
David said:
A shirt that has the Twilight logo on it. Nothing else, just that.Fish in a barrel people. FISH IN A BARREL.
The Lewd Ood said:
A picture of Rob Schneider as Fergee in Judge Dredd and the quote "It's better than prison"Come to think of it, maybe "explanations for Rob Schneider's career longevity" would make a good contest idea.
The Amazing Rando said:
But...but...she's a fucking cartoon man!For my real entry I'm going to make a front-back combo shirt. On the front of the shirt is Cheetara riding her thunder-staff like a stripper pole with he breasts wrapped around the staff with the words "be honest you'd hit that". On the back of the shirt is the rest of Cheetara her legs are firmly wrapped around her staff with her camel toe in plain sight, this time it reads "I'd go bestiality for that."
whatsmyhouse said:
I Frak on the First DateHands up if you think using the word "frak" in daily conversation is a punchable offense.
Bazzinga said:
A Batman costume print T-shirt done in the style of the Joel Schumacher films complete with nipples.Again, I could totally see this being worn at Wizard World. And if memory serves, Bazzinga wasn't the only person who came up with this idea. You sick fucks.
Kellyanne said:
A picture of Jabba wearing the slave Leia get-up with the caption: "Jabba The Slut."Obvious yes, but mark my words -- somewhere deep in the bowels of Rancho Obi Wan this exists. The rest of the honorable mentions and the winners are on the next page:
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