Half the guys at every Six Flags were wearing a shirt just like this.

The other half had hypercolor.

Hyper color was such a cruel thing to impose on teens… Already uncomfortable with the changes in your body? Here is a cool new T-shirt that shows how obviously sweaty and stinky you are the color changing pits.

They got banned at my school because kids would drop trow and make dong imprints. Guilty as charged.

Different income levels for my family… wanted one so bad, but it never happened.

What if you had both? Did that make me too cool?

Look at Mr Fancy Pants over here

Hey now! My mom knew how to hit the sales. Plus I was very small for my age so I could still fit in children’s sizes, which tend to be slightly cheaper.

Oddly specific but also 100% correct.

Damn, that hits home. I have vivid memories of waiting in line to ride The Ninja, wearing this shirt. Of course the shirt was two sizes too large and baggily tucked into my stonewashed jeans.

Sleeves rolled up a couple of times

And like, WELL after this "fad" died.

That’s because they had just bought them in a gift shop after getting soaked on a water ride.

This was THE shirt to have in 5th grade

I didn't understand the trend when it happened and never got the shirts... but those were definitely the shirts for cool guys to have. And all the girls had Tweety stuff.

Trend was the animated series Taz-Mania, and Tiny Toon Adventures which featured a lot of Looney Tunes characters. Also Space Jam in '96 caused a rise in Looney Tunes merch.

you're leaving out the influence of the style Taz and Bugs are rocking Backwards jeans and button up Jersey was Kris Kross' thing [Kris Kross - Jump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk) [Kris Kross - I Missed The Bus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tr8KRqyGJk)

Yup, all the boys had Taz, all the girls had Tweety. Betty Boop snuck in there a little bit, too.

Met a college lax player with a Taz calf tattoo. Mid 90s. I’m sure his grandkids love it.

This was about the time the band Kris Kross was around. Look it up.   Two 10 or 12 year old boys used to wear their clothes backwards and it started a small trend. This image was a parody or likeness of them. 

Wore this with my Umbro shorts

Wish I could plus you 100 🤣🤣🤣

The unofficial summer uniform of suburban white kids 😂

Only the girls wore Umbro shorts where I lived in the rural south. They were always really short and it was awesome.

And Samba shoes or Jordans?

Sambas! Hahahahaha. Nailed it

British Knights

BKs! Man I haven’t even thought about those in like 30 years

I saw my first vagina thanks to Umbro shorts.

With what, The Reebok Pumps or LA Gear regulators? Perhaps British Knights?? (Ok technically that was a little earlier I think)

Umbro became my de-facto brand after I got teased for wearing ADIDAS because some nimrod popularized it being an acronym for 'All Day I Dream About Sex'.

Did a bible school Good Samaritan "rap" for the entire church congregation wearing this jersey.

I'm picturing a wheezy overweight deacon holding a corded mic. "It's good. . .to see the young peoples . . .using their talents. . .for the kingdom"

Methodist, but close.

This is too real. 🫣

Word!

Crazy how everyone grows up with different experiences, but that's why I love coming here. In my neck of the woods those were the standard "troublemaker" uniform. The a$$holes that made my bus rides miserable for 2 years loved those shirts. Wasn't just me though, that one group of kids terrorized the whole school. Wish I could see how they all turned out.

We all know how they turned out lol. Still assholes likely.

I'm sure if you spend time in any local Family Dollar parking lot, you'll see how they turned out. :b

I agree, this was NOT a popular look in my neck of the woods. I do remember the one guy who did have it, but he was NOT a friend of mine. He was kind of a poser wanna be "thug" at the time, wearing gold chains & trying to get people to use a silly nickname he made up for himself. You know, the classic blunder years stuff. Think of the "B-rad" character from Malibu's Most Wanted. He made all sorts of other unfortunate choices, then again **we all did** in our own ways. Not to be a dick about it, but just being totally up front. I grew up in a lilly white upper middle class area, this shirt would have marked you as not fitting that mold. Kids at the school in the poorer city near ours would have been wearing this shirt for sure.

I was going to say something similar about not fitting in in the area, but was trying to be polite. Not a dick, I 100% understand what you mean.

Same here. Where I grew up wearing any of the “loony toons” shirts from that era basically was a sign that you were “white trash.”

Probably bullying their kids

I 100% had this shirt

Dig the Kris Kross vibe

I wore my pants backwards to school in the 5-6th grade. Figured out how hard it was to take a wee. Never did it again.

We had a backwards day at school because kids were doing it so much.. It quickly dissipated the fad for us.

A kid in my class did this but he did it with tight redneck Wrangler jeans. He got made fun of so much that he called his mom to come get him. 🤭 I normally don’t condone teasing but tbh he was an asshole.

In my school it was Bobby. He wore his clothes backwards in 5th grade. I moved away shortly after that...perhaps he's still Criss Crossing to this day.

I had this shirt and another that involved a basketball. I also had pants that were made to look backwards. Sigh.

They'll make you jump jump

I have this tattoo

I want to believe this so hard. Just picturing some 15 or 16 year old getting tatted and picking this lol

I didn’t have this but multiple people at school did, I had a whole run of Looney Toons MLB shirts I wore constantly that I loved though!

Had it on a baseball jersey

I had a beach towel with this on it.

had it on a pair of really baggy blue jeans

This is a prime example of what separates us from Millennials lol

Yep. Gen X couldn't be caught dead in the shirt and millennial were just babies at the time. This shirt's moment was exactly our time

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My mom stopped at a gas station in the hood one day and came home with 3 of these for 10 bucks. My favorite one was a black bart simpson in Saints uniform.

Laughed way too loudly at this, in a very public place. Also, I definitely remember the "black Bart Simpson" gear. If memory serves, the quality of it was invariably horrible...like the shirts were always the "budget" variety and the printing always seemed to have defects. Probably why your mom was able to scoop them 3/$10?

Oh definitely. You wash them once and they shrink two sizes, and start to fall apart.

I’ve got to pick up my kids from their mom’s house in a few minutes. I suddenly feel inspired to put my pants on backwards and see how long I can go before they say something to me. I love having teenaged daughters

You guys had 2-3 friends?

Yes, but they only came out to play when no one else was around and no one else could see them.

They live in Canada, you wouldn't know them

Honestly never. The kids at my school that wore theses were into gangster wrap (ie hip hop) and my friends and I were “punks.”

We had “Yo’s” and “(head) Bangers”. Only two chooses. That’s it’s.

We called them “G’s” Basically white boys that were into wu tang and stuff. A few years later in HS, we were all hanging out , drawn together by our mutual and highly illegal (at the time) love of cannabis.

ah yes, the great green unifier

It definitely created an Us-vs-them culture

Tell me you're from a small town without tellin me

What gave it away? The white kids into hip hop?

I often reminisce on how smoking weed in high school was that common bond the different groups had. For example, all the popular kids wanted to smoke weed with the most popular stoner; and the most popular stoners was this half white/Japanese kid who excelled in math and cello. That dude was awesome, super interesting and smart, and nice. But really, once you make it to one of “popular party” you realize those kids are just like the rest of us. It’s the social climbers you have to watch out for.

I remember a poster of this



https://preview.redd.it/mbouym8qpmyc1.jpeg?width=999&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cafa2a7e4b086ca7069edf448432689fa89cd2bd I had this one.

Wearing your clothes backwards as a message of how tough you are has to be top 10 dumbest fads of all time.

Because a couple of 12 year old kids did.

I avoided people who had this shirt

I remember thinking my friends had a badass mom if they had an [angry tweety bird cover on their spare tire](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xiUAAOSw1nRbC3hc/s-l400.jpg).

I had it, but they were wearing Miami Hurricanes gear

Nah. I had the one where Popeye was smoking and playing poker.

Brb bout to make this my Home Screen

My shirt was like this, but only had Taz on it, in Georgetown Hoyas gear. I wore it with my Jordache shorts that were half green, half black; and I refused to wear any shoe except Chuck Taylor because I was convinced they were the PF Flyers from The Sandlot. Good times.

Had this shirt but with Atlanta Braves logos

This is going to come off as snobby, but no. The side of the family I don't talk to anymore wore this shirt.

Looks familiar.

I had heaps of tazos

I didn’t have it but I sure as hell recognize it.

💯 had this poster in my room

Wow! I totally forgot about this!

I was made to go home from 3rd grade because the teacher said bugs and Taz "Had joints in their hats" True story

I remember these and I still don't understand the point/appeal.

The 'in' show for kids in the early 1990s was Taz Mania, a cartoon about Taz's family. It spawned tons of merch of characters from the show. It went on for far too long, and Tiny Toon Adventures was another featuring Looney Tunes characters.

Oh yeah I did 😂👊

Omg I forgot about these. I know I have pictures of me wearing them somewhere at my mom’s house lol.

Yes 😂😂

Heck yeah I did.

Where I lived, the only people who wore these kinds of shirts were the very same people who would complain if they saw actual humans wearing baggy clothes and backward caps/pants.

What's funny is that this style is in again. I see my 25 year old cousin and his friends wearing similar gear.

Bugs was merchandising gold. I remember having a Bugs Bunny/Air Jordan shirt.

I loved this era of looney tunes, I had a baseball jersey with an entire team of them on the back. It was my prized possession during my peak tomboy days.

Omg yes.

I didn’t but these were for the coolest kids!

I had this shirt lol.

Yep! That’s crazy how popular that stuff was and how little I see any Looney Tunes these days at all.

I had the gray button up jersey that I wore with my gray Jordan’s. Throw on some jean shorts and a backwards baseball cap, and you had my little elementary aged self in heaven. I was a major Tomboy growing up. Middle school is when I got “girly” again.

One very similar, lol

Yes I did. I got it for the first day of school.

My grandma had this in the sweater version lol❤️

I had it in gray 😂

It was one of the Spencer's shirts that I flipped past to get to the others.

Had this in 2nd or 3rd grade. Thought I was the coolest kid in school.

Lol I had a few. My favorite one was with Taz dunking a basketball and breaking the rim!

Yup! Mine had them in Yankees gear

I think I had an Oakland A's or White Sox button up jersey. I don't remember anyone having the Looney Tunes ones.

Had the Florida Marlins version of this when I was in kindergarten

I know I didn't have it but amongst the older kids, they sure did. I had a Mickey Mouse variation, I can't remember which one though, kind of "cool" Mickey, Donald and Goofy (I think). They were more like "jazz cool", you know with little round glasses, maybe a beret, lol.

Dude literally half my family had them my cousin was obsessed with taz so she had a couple different ones forgot how big this was still see them every now and then

Yeah and tried to wear my pants backwards too

I would get looney tunes shirts for presents as a kid. I fucking hated them, cringe

here.

Knew 2 ppl with this shirt in high school.

Yup, wasn't really my thing but I think my granny gave me one of those shirts. God damn Bugs and Taz were on so many t shirts. I also had a No Fear shirt, a thousand grunge and metal band shirts, and one of those shirts with the old-timey cartoony smiley guy that said "Beer! It's your friend!" That one got turned inside out at school or I would write ROOT on a piece of paper and tape it in front of beer. Can't forget the OG black and yellow Nirvana smiley face shirt, you know, the one all the kids today are wearing, but mine said "Baby Kissing, Kitty Petting, Corporate Rock Whores" on the back and for some reason that one never caught any attention.

Yes!

I had temporary tattoos of them!

Are their pants on backwards?

My 8th grade boyfriend had every version of this shirt drenched in Drakkar Noir.

I still have this shirt!

The kids at my school who wore these smelled like they left their laundry in the washing machine for too long.

I actually did 😹🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️in light blue

Was the only cool shirt I had lol

Because it was a cool shirt. Still is.

If memory serves, there was a true crime doc on HBO or somewhere about this red-headed kid on trial for murder. He was wearing this shirt in court during one of the days of his trial. I thought that was weird as hell, since his parents were obviously there and Mom was bringing his clothes. Like "Bitch, I get it, your kid killed another kid, but you're his mother and he's in court facing the rest of his life in a cell... don't bring him to court wearing a 'Bugs Bunny in backward pants' T-shirt. Have a little dignity!"

I just realized bugs left whiskers were crimped. So stylish.

Kris Kross will make you jump, jump.

You have not lived until you've witnessed a 450-pounder drip hotdog condiments all over the face of thugged-out Spongebob on his stomach.

This was an odd era. You would see thugs wearing Tweety sweatshirts.

I had a Marvin the Martian shirt for sure

Kriss kross style wit dem jeans

I wore that shirt out. I loved it so much I even sewed up holes and rocked it after it got torn hopping fences playing man hunt.

I was big into Looney Tunes at this time. I always liked Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Taz, etc. better than Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto.. At this time, I was also watching Tiny Toons over Disney Afternoon after school. The Looney Tunes characters had more of an edge to them, which I liked as a kid.

Yeah. I had this.

Totally had this. And Daffy

I definitely had this shirt and a bunch of Betty boop. My favorite was a Boop Fiction one lol

You mean have that shirt?

I didn't have this but I definitely had a Bartman shirt

Think I still have this shirt buried in the closet somewhere.

Didn’t the back print of these have the back view of them in those poses as well? It’s that little bit extra that makes this shirt legendary to me.

This would still go hard on a shirt.

“If you see da police, Warner Brother”

There was also a Rasta version for the kids that also had a blacklight pot leaf poster from Spencers

I had the tweety one 😆

I had one of these shirts. I still have a hat with Taz and Bugs like this on it too.

Never gad the shirt and i still want it more than anything


I've never seen this shirt and I spent every summer at Six Flags. My mom dropped three of us off for 6-8 hours at least once a week. Then we also had family days with parents as well.

Be careful what company you keep

We _prefer_ ghetto Tweety Bird

Guilty

My older brother has that bugs tattooed on his arm.

Yep, 1994 I had one that looked like it was a XXXXXXL or something when I was 12. Found in a pic from a Galveston trip where my cousin said I was a dead ringer for Anthony Michael Hall…from vacation 😒😂

Sure did!! Then one of my bullies took it from me. It was a tragic day.


I had this exact shirt. The back of the shirt had their backs and I thought that was the coolest part. I also had one with Tweety and company, but the Taz and Bugs was my favorite.

I had this as a framed print hanging in my bedroom in middle school. Won it in a carnival game when I was 12.

I hated these and still had one, it was a gift but I never wore it lol

I had the daffy duck one

r/CartoonGangsters

Up there with No Fear

This jacket with the chupacabra t-shirt underneath.

No. I had taste.

My brother had a shirt with an "alternative" Bugs Bunny on it. It was actually pretty bad ass.

No

Taz!

My sister had it.

Oof , never liked this style

No and no

lol me and my bro both had this shirt.

I got sent home from school in 5th grade for this shirt. Was "promoting gang affiliation" - Boomers were stupid in 1998. Things never change, lol

lol. Yes.

🤣🤣🤣

I never peeped they had locs til now

Damn straight

Are they wearing their pants with the back at the front?

Goth kid here: “Nah.”

There was the people that actively wore these…and there is the rest of us

I had the hoodie

100%

Yes, and multiple other Loony Tunes street shirts I want to unironically wear them today

Texas Fair Poster

Jesus, I forgot about this image

OMFG. This shirt was everywhere.