Butch Cassidy and the Spuddance Kid

May 14, 2007 11:56 AM

Hey Mouse Potatoes! What does this tshirt mean?

I saw someone wearing a t-shirt over the weekend that I can't figure out. Basically it boils down to an outlaw potato "holding-up" three other potatoes. I drew a picture of it on an online sketchboard so all of you visual types can see what I am talking about.

posted by idiotfactory to clothing, beauty, & fashion (13 comments total)

Some variant on "When potatoes go bad..." probably.
posted by nkknkk at 12:05 PM on May 14, 2007

Reminds me of the old Farside cartoon “When Potato Salad Goes Bad”, showing the same scene only with a bowl of potato salad doing the stick-up.

I know that doesn’t answer your question but it seems to similar to NOT be related.
posted by bondcliff at 12:06 PM on May 14, 2007

Potato gun?
posted by humblepigeon at 1:02 PM on May 14, 2007

Are you sure they weren't eggs? Something about a bad egg?
posted by The Bellman at 1:17 PM on May 14, 2007

I'm thinking "spud gun".
posted by teleskiving at 1:37 PM on May 14, 2007

Something about leaving no witnesses because potatoes have eyes?
posted by Ynoxas at 1:39 PM on May 14, 2007

Something about that song that goes "Ground control to Major Tom" because potatoes grow in the ground?
posted by ND¢ at 2:09 PM on May 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

It's just a funny drawing of anthropomorphic vegetables?
posted by turaho at 2:43 PM on May 14, 2007

Bad Tater.

Seriously, there may not be any deeper meaning to discern here. Nothing to figure out. Just funny potato drawings. Move along, nothing to see here...
posted by yohko at 4:04 PM on May 14, 2007

I thought it was a threadless tee, but I guess this is the one I was thinking of (nuts!)
posted by Chris4d at 4:32 PM on May 14, 2007

I'm going with The Bellman, I think it's eggs. One bad egg.
posted by piratebowling at 5:46 PM on May 14, 2007

D'oh, I just realized that that's just a recreation and the original drawing may have been more obviously a potato. Sorry for my previous (unhelpful) answer.
posted by piratebowling at 5:48 PM on May 14, 2007

Yeah, it was definitely potato action happening on the shirt - they were all brown and had "eyes".

I think it's just a stupid shirt meant to confuse and annoy the hell out of people that love puns.
posted by idiotfactory at 9:25 PM on May 14, 2007