Lance (Eric Stoltz) lives the slacker, seventies-obsessed life (minus the heroin dealing) of Quentin Tarantino before his fame. Later in the film, he's still wearing the same Speed Racer shirt/bathrobe ensemble while eating Fruit Brute, a cereal that hasn't been produced since 1983! This wardrobe also serves as a record of the ubiquity of these shirts from 1993-1995, thanks to MTV's reruns.
2) Krazy Kat
and
3) UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent's (John Travolta) donning of these shirts lead to the following exchange:
Jimmie (Tarantino): They look like a couple of dorks.
Jules: Ha-ha-ha. They're your clothes, motherfucker.
They're falling apart, but I still own two of these shirts (1 & 3). The Speed Racer shirt was purchased at a cartoon T-shirt store in a back corner of the old Lane Avenue Mall. The store didn't last long. The Banana Slugs shirt was purchased in Santa Cruz, but not by me.
The Speed Racer shirt has some of the strangest label copy I've seen:
"X-Large.
Machine wash your 100%
cotton silk-screened T-shirt,
clean your room and don't
stay out past 11:00 without calling:
Stanley Desantis--the shirt's manufacturer.
Los Angeles, CA
P.S. Do not remove
under penalty of law"
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