Howard Stern’s Fartman costume, made well-known in the course of the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, is on the market.
“This was the precise outfit that was made for Howard,” notes the merchandise’s official eBay listing. “Howard wore this entire ensemble on the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards again when thousands and thousands of individuals truly used to look at TV for culturally defining moments.”
The outline notes that the outfit is made up of “prescription Fartman sun shades, Fartman cropped lengthy sleeve prime, cape, gloves, pants with uncovered rear finish, codpiece, leather-based boots, heavy-duty undergarment that the pulleys hooked up to and an ‘OK who farted?’ T-shirt.” Although the vendor insists the costume “is in excellent situation,” he does notice that it “has particular put on and tear.”
Photographs of the outfit might be seen under.
It was Luke Perry who welcomed Fartman, aka Stern, to the VMA stage in 1992. At that second, the radio host descended from the rafters, cloaked within the absurd superhero getup now being offered.
“I’m Fartman! Sure, behold essentially the most lovely of sights,” Stern proclaimed on the awards present, earlier than turning round to disclose his butt cheeks uncovered via two cutouts within the costume. “Is the digicam getting an excellent shot of my lovely ass?” Perry — gleefully taking part in together with the gag — would later seize Stern’s naked behind, earlier than each males offered the award for Greatest Metallic/Exhausting Rock Video (which went to Metallica).
Watch Howard Stern as Fartman on the 1992 MTV VMAs
Stern popularized Fartman within the ‘80s through his radio present and deliberate to create a characteristic movie across the character within the early ‘90s. On the time of his VMA look, a Fartman film appeared like a digital lock to be made, however disagreements with the studio in the end left the venture on the shelf.
Nonetheless, Fartman’s look on the VMAs turned a serious pop-culture second, celebrated in some circles and decried in others.
“It’s indisputably the number-one piece of Stern memorabilia in existence,” the costume’s itemizing declares, the vendor claiming to have obtained the merchandise straight from the shock jock himself. These within the Fartman costume higher have deep pockets, although: The present asking worth is ready at $173,870.
