silver and gold

My brother just opened up his very first CafePress store! His current design is a parody of the 24Hr Fitness design, called 24Hr Fatness. I have one of his shirts, and let me tell you something, Curly, it gets quite a response from the ladies.
I asked Jeremy to tell WWdN readers why he made the shirts, and here’s what he had to say:

I did it because I was tired of seeing the 24Hr Fitness employees walking around who were more out of shape than me trying to be all like “hey, you should join 24Hr Fitness so you can get into shape”. Yeah, whatever tiny, you have cheese on your lip.
I just hope that Cafepress leaves it up there, they have a thingy about not selling things that resemble other products. So we’ll see. If they sell and it gets taken down then I’ll do it my damn self! Jenn [his wife] and I are going to be working on a bunch more stuff too. Jenn has the “Party Monkey” and “Drag Monkey” line she’s been doing for fun for years.

Am I buggin’ you? I don’t mean to bug ya…
Okay Edge, play the blues…

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  2. Oh, you silly Wheatons you…
    Tell Jeremy there are loads of other places to go if CP takes him down–I’ve researched ’em before and can get the info together quickly.
    Peace.
    R

  3. Hahaha! I love it! Yeah, those fitness guru’s get a bit old. I always tell them ‘yeah, I’m in shape…round is a shape.’
    Wheaton Bros. Unite!

  8. U2’s the B-sides on their “best of” cd’s are great. See: Three Sunrises & Bass Trap [an instrumental].
    Wil, you and your brother should hit the local clubs, ala: The Bacon Brothers. ‘cept you’ll hit the Improv, Comedy Store, etc. vs. Coach House & Galaxy Theatre.

  9. wife and I loooove anything monkey-related, so of course PArty Monkey and Drag Mokey sounds right up our alley.

  10. Super cute! 🙂 But, what’s up with the “wilsbrother” as the link name? Is he not his OWN man? I think you should call your’s “jeremysbrother”. 😉

  12. Darnit Wil, you didn’t link us to Jenn’s stuff! I want to see it! If I had money I would buy it too! But just because I’m broke doesnt mean there aren’t other monkeys with money!!
    LINK ME BABY!!

  13. Wil’s not so little brother here… Thanks to all (12 of you so far) who have shown an interest in the shirts, monkey or otherwise. My wife has plenty of Monkey drawings that she will scan in and *VIOLA* shirts! I’ll have my bro pimp them as much as he can when they are available. Please continue to look forward to silly shirts that I hope you like.
    -Jere… Ooops, Wil’s Brother

  14. *snickers*
    Hmm maybe I should buy one of those shirts and wear it by the 24 hr Fitness on Lake and Cordova. . . last time they were outside to sign people up they didn’t take no for an answer and kept harassing me until I started to take a swing. Never watched a pudgy guy backpedal faster than I that guy did 😉
    Hmm thanks for the link Wil!

  16. Ha ha!! The reason behind these shirts is true, some of them ARE in bad shape. And because I never received my free 24Hr Fitness shirt because I signed family up, I’m thinking of buying and wearing it to my 24Hr branch as a form of retribution. 🙂 Additionally, this shirt reminds me of something “Spoofs LTD” would do — they create spoofs of lots of things (mostly in Filipino terms since that’s where the company’s at). Watch out, they may use your idea…

  19. Too. F’in. Cool.
    If Wil’s brother is reading this, I and my lard ass will happily model these shirts on my site in exchange for a freebie (whoring myself out to a celebrity’s brother, I can’t believe I’m sinking this low for free swag).
    Speaking of T’s…anyone else catch Paul Scheer sporting a Borg9 tee on the most recent BWE?

  20. anyone else catch Paul Scheer sporting a Borg9 tee on the most recent BWE?
    Really?! I met him at the Grand Slam con, and he has one of my Borg9 shirts . . . I didn’t expect him to wear it on TV, though! That’s WAY too F’n cool!!
    Anyone have a screencap?

  21. U2 Rules! 😀
    (But not as much as Wil. Which says a lot, since I’ve been in love with Bono since I was 12.)

  22. The shirts are fab, I may have to by one… it might motivate me to actually go to the gym to show it off. I love that his screen name is wilsbrother, that’s so cute! I must say, way to go Mr. & Mrs. Wheaton, your sons rock!

  24. That shirt is great but be careful! It looks a LOT like the real thing. You can have the big brutes of 24 Hour Fitness threatening copyright infringement.

  25. That shirt is great but be careful! It looks a LOT like the real thing. You can have the big brutes of 24 Hour Fitness threatening copyright infringement.

  26. that’s one of my favorite edge solos. sadly the cd version is shorter than the one in the film.
    if guitars had orgasms, then that particular solo means edge’s guitar needed a cigarette after the song.

  27. What will those silly wheaton boys think up next. Heres one for yah “STAR CRAP VI, THE FINAL CRAPPER”. And if you need the star trek font, i can always email it you guys.

  28. i want a wil n jeremy T….
    with a witty remark.. i doubt that will happen!
    Wil i love the way you geek out…
    Jeremy! Fatastic hun.. can someone post a link for Jenns? i luff munkehs and i want to check the T’s out..
    Maybe we should do a WWDN soapbox design a T comp… you know the photoshops that the boxers do… the winner gets it made into a T and we can all buy it!!
    hugs
    Andrea x

  30. hey wil, (and wil’s brother!!!!)
    jeremy, i think those T-shirts ROCK!! i can’t wait to see jenn’s stuff…i too love anything to do with monkeys!! ha ha ha…
    take care guys!
    rach

  31. That shirt is great but be careful! It looks a LOT like the real thing. You can have the big brutes of 24 Hour Fitness threatening copyright infringement.

  32. That shirt is great but be careful! It looks a LOT like the real thing. You can have the big brutes of 24 Hour Fitness threatening copyright infringement.

  33. That shirt is great but be careful! It looks a LOT like the real thing. You can have the big brutes of 24 Hour Fitness threatening copyright infringement.

  38. Just ordered me an XL t-shirt! No 24 Fitness out my way, but I think the shirt will get laughs just the same. Please post a link to the monkey shirts!!! I’m a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl, after all…

  41. Anyone have a screencap?
    Sorry, I don’t. But he does appear on the Best of Best Week Ever show at 5pm E/2pm P this afternoon (along with your thoughts on Liquid Ice).

  44. Hey Wil, your bro is as funny as you are! Oh, and the music geek in me loves the occasional song references here, in this case U2 from Rattle and Hum. “F*ck the revolution!” 🙂
    Also, thanks for keeping the Iraq casualty totals on WWDN. With people losing their lives daily, it’s probably easy for people to forget about it and accept it as the way of the world. We should never forget these people, and the countless Iraqi innocents who have also lost their lives in this mess, all dying needlessly thanks to lies told to justify a few people’s need for greed and revenge.
    On second thought, maybe the revolution isn’t such a bad idea…

  46. wilsbrother? How cheap! What a cheap, cheap way of trying to sell yourself as someone close to someone famous!
    HAHAHAHA, I love it so much!
    I think I might go register wilsreader, wilsfan and wilsstalker and see what I can sell. Keep up the good work Jeremy, glad to see that the sense of humour didn’t end with Wil. 🙂

  47. I’d be careful about resembling other products. My friend Vincent made a store at Cafepress selling Drama Queen t-shirts closely resembling the Dairy Queen logo. He got a cease and desist order from the home office of Dairy Queen, telling him to give them all profits plus penalties. He sent them a check for $14.99.
    Oh, and U2 rules!

  49. Satire and parody are protected under the consitution’s right to free speech. Hello? Ever heard of Garbage Pail Kids cards? What JW is doing is totally covered.
    Really cool idea for shirts. I hope you sell a ton.
    M

  50. Hey, they only come in small, medium, and large. What about the X*L sizes? That’s where the real fatness shows.

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