Take the T-shirt I wore back on Day 102, mash it up with the cast of classic Pokemon and wallop, Day 276's fantastic Shark Robot T-shirt donation!
As you should be fully aware by now, the THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge loves a good pun, especially when the entire conception of a T-shirt design hinges on one. Admittedly, this Snafu Comic branded design available from the ginormous range of cartoon and gaming tees at Shark Robot didn't have to work too hard to connect the dots - the Squirtle is essentially a turtle to begin with (and also kind of a squirrel thing), but it's really gotten people talking all the same.
The attention to detail in this artwork is what really sells the concept. Typically, a Pokemon has two stages of evolution after birth, signified by a change of abilities and appearance. In this Shark Robot design however, a third stage in the creatures' development is depicted - a sort of younger 'teenage' stage that meets the intertextual criteria while making the creatures look cuter, albeit armed to the pointy menacing teeth.
Being as this tee came all the way over to me from America, it features a blatant disregard for the European censorship issues surrounding Michelangelo's nunchaku. The orange Squirtle in this design is seen prominently chomping on a slice of pizza as he flies through the air, though he is wielding the controversial weapons too, rending the title at the top of the T-shirt "Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles" and not the more child-friendly "Teenage Mutant Hero Squirtles".
Mashups, puns and pizza. What's not to like about this brilliant tee?
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