Pikachu-Theo

Pikachu-Theo

What I could tell you about Pokémon I could write on the back of my hand. With magic marker. And I have tiny hands. Nonetheless, I know that it's a card game, a video game and a cartoon, that it gives Japanese schoolchildren epileptic seizures, and it 'stars' Pikachu. Pikachi is a yellow ball with a face and a tail. Theo Huxtable is none of the above. I thought it would be drop-dead funny to make up a Pokémon card with Theo on it.

But it wasn't really all that funny. Oh well.

Here it is Gameboy-sized:

 

 

 

 

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Uncle Sam-Theo

Uncle Sam-Theo

Okay, yet another variation on the 'take an iconic image and stick Theo's face on it' theme... this is, of course, the warmongering poster that has convinced countless Americans to trod off to their deaths. Here, then, it's Theo Huxtable inviting people to... well, I have no idea. To compose songs with Stevie Wonder? To wear a highly fashionable Gordon Gartrelle shirt?

As a side note, it's a God-awful job, really, with the result looking neither like Theo nor Uncle Sam. A horrid mess. Enjoy!

Messy but smaller:

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Monty Python Crushes Theo

Monty Python Crushes Theo

I love Monty Python. At their most ridiculous, they're brilliant, and at their most brilliant, they're ridiculous. It's got the exact sense of humour I prefer.

Monty Python movies and the Flying Circus often featured animations - usually quick little things to link different skits. One of the most iconinc was the big foot that comes out of the sky, crushing whatever is beneath it. Well, here's the big foot crushing our poor Theo. Wait for it.

Smaller, but no less sexy:

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Old Theo

Old Theo

Just a minor variation of the 'Baby Theo' I included a few months ago. Once again, I didn't really make this myself: it all comes from some website that I'll never be able to find now... one that lets you upload a portrait and have it doctored in all sorts of ways. In this particular case, it's a remarkably successful 'olding up' of our dear Theo. This is what Theo Huxtable will look like in a good... er, well, seen any pictures of him lately?

Here it is all tiny-like.

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Theo Thriller

Theo Thriller

Sob... Michael Jackson was still alive when I made this one. How sad. How prophetic. How lovely Theo looks wearing Michael Jackson's hair. Note the crass MS Paint alteration of the album title.

Postage-stamp avatar size ahoy:

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Theo Hope

Theo Hope

And just to be bipartisan... the other side of the 2008 American Election was the winning candidate, the one who understood the power of a good memetic image.

In years to come, people might actually forget the "Obama Hope" posters... at the moment though, even a year later, they're still fresh in everyone's memories - though the url I did this on is no longer fresh in my memory. It really wasn't my work at all. It was an online thing that did it for you. Still, I like to take credit where it's not due.

Avatar-sized for the masses:

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McCain / Palin / Huxtable

McCain / Palin / Huxtable

Hopelessly out of date, even while situated less than a year ago. My, how quickly the times change. I really like this particular juxtaposition: Theo seems the least plastic, synthetic, creepy person here. Those are two highly creepy people in front of our Theo, and Cliff would be angry as hell to see the company he was keeping.

Side note: do you think Cliff Huxtable was a Republican? It's a pretty tough question, one I never asked in the 1980s... but I do wonder.

Letterboxed avatar:

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Theo Buddy Christ

Theo Buddy Christ

Theo combined, mad-scientist-style with the Buddy Christ statue from "Dogma" - a movie I have, admittedly, not seen. But this Jesus' smiling, winking awesomeness fits in well with Theo's teenage brooding. Jesus was once a teenager too, you know. And perhaps wore flannel.

Avatar-sized:

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Theo 2009

Theo 2009

A simple little one made to commemorate the year 2009 - so, thus, made a good many months ago. A Theo 2010 would, of course, be equally possible, but who cares? Note that the Theo-head can get pretty darn tiny at 120 x 120: I have a lot of these pictures at higher resolutions, and in 75% of the cases they don't suffer for quality at the higher size. But for the sake of the other 25% that look like crap and only avoid being horribly amateurish when they're shrunk down postage-stamp size... I present them all tiny.

Okay, so I changed my mind. But here's the postage stamp.

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Theo Big-Eyes

Theo Big-Eyes

I include this one mainly because it more-or-less shows the iconic original in all its glory; I've modified it mostly by doing the anti-Woll Smoth: making those thoughtful eyes manga-big.

Here it is avatar-sized:

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