Thank You for Being a [Custom Card]

If the title of this blog post has already caused a certain TV theme song to play in your mind, I guess the cat is out of the bag. There's no need for me to provide any clues to help you figure out which subjects you'll find on the custom card I'm going to share below.

For those of you who still might need some clues, I'll say that a few collectors over the past couple of years have asked me whether I've created a custom card based on this particular TV show. I'll also say that I've never really watched it, but I do understand and appreciate how wildly popular it was when it aired in the 1980s—and how popular it still is. Folks just seem to love the sharp, sarcastic, needling humor of the four silver-haired ladies the show is centered around, not to mention the variety of their personalities and lifestyles.

So eventually I gathered some ideas and inspiration, and decided to put the iconic foursome on a card. 

That's right, it's The Golden Girls! If you're a fan of the show, who's your favorite character? Should I try watching a few episodes? Let me know.

 

And if you are indeed a fan, I think you'll appreciate this: I decided to create a custom design for the back of the card.

Similar to some of the other customs I've done based on television and film, I included a little stat line to this card that contains some interesting information. I didn't realize The Golden Girls kept going into the 1990s. That's a pretty good run!

So that was that. Another custom card was complete, and I felt good about it. 

 

But then I thought, Wait a minute, why stop there?

After all, Dorothy, Blanche, Rose, and Sophia weren't the only fab foursome to have cemented their place among the legends of sitcom.

How about these four?

Al: Can I get a "Whoa Bundy"?

Family (begrudgingly, all together): Whooaaaaa Bundy!

Now here's the card back.

Married with Children had an even more impressive run: 11 seasons, 259 episodes, and a whole lot of absolutely brutal (yet hilarious) takedowns and insults.

 

 

 

Woman: You'll be hearing from my attorney!

 

Al: Is that the law offices of Häagen and Dazs?

 

 

Heheh. Anyhow, after those two cards were finished, I felt like a third card was necessary. And even though I've already documented this next quartet on cardboard a number of times, I couldn't resist adding them to the set.

I think Jerry George, Elaine, and Kramer look quite at home on this 4-player design. It works well for the entire set, in fact. The word "sitcoms" fits comfortably into the pennant at the top left, and there's plenty of space across to the right for the name of the TV show. As for the character/actor names, I went with the standard practice of placing the character names first, and then the actor or actress name underneath.

 

Here's the back of the Seinfeld card.

Pretty good stats there, too.

 

So that's three more custom cards finished. This was a fun project, and I hope you're enjoying the new set.

 

Do you have a favorite show of the three? Favorite character? 

 

Share in the comment section, and thanks for reading!