# Bill Murray stickers on cars? What's up with that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942 "2017-04-07T01:57:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/1 "2017-04-07T01:57:47Z")
In the last year or so I started noticing small square white stickers on cards with a line sketch in black of what looks to me like Bill Murray with a thin moustache. What’s up with that? Is that image a promotion of some specific project of Murray’s? Or are people just all of a sudden feeling the need to show the world how much they like Bill Murray? Or is it not Bill Murray at all? Am I mistaking someone else’s image for Bill Murray? Fill me in. What’s going on here with these stickers? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/2 "2017-04-07T02:10:24Z")
Yes it’s Bill Murray. It’s thanks to a web site called theChive, which has grown increasingly obsessed with Bill and now sells those stickers, with Bill’s blessings. I don’t see a general explanatory article about it. Just kind of [Google it](https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+murray+thechive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=%22bill+murray%22+thechive) I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/3 "2017-04-07T02:11:50Z")
Oh. Somehow that seems like a bit of a letdown. Is the Chive something I should know about? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/4 "2017-04-07T02:25:10Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Oh. Somehow that seems like a bit of a letdown. Is the Chive something I should know about? Nah, it’s just an online “lad mag”. Viral videos and pictures of pretty girls. Empty internet calories. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/5 "2017-04-07T03:21:16Z")
Taking this to a new level. [![](https://i.imgur.com/ZJ366.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ZJ366.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![quimper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7c8e57/32.png) [@quimper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quimper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/6 "2017-04-07T12:43:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > In the last year or so I started noticing small square white stickers on cards with a line sketch in black of what looks to me like Bill Murray with a thin moustache. > > What’s up with that? > > Is that image a promotion of some specific project of Murray’s? Or are people just all of a sudden feeling the need to show the world how much they like Bill Murray? > > Or is it not Bill Murray at all? Am I mistaking someone else’s image for Bill Murray? > > Fill me in. What’s going on here with these stickers? No doubt inspired by Shepard Fairey’s (of Obama “Hope” poster fame) early 90’s Andre the Giant “[Obey](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0827/9097/products/ObeyIconhighres_large.jpg?v=1435265610)” sticker campaign. Imitation is highest form of flattery. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/7 "2017-04-07T12:50:52Z")
> [@quimper](#): > > No doubt inspired by Shepard Fairey’s (of Obama “Hope” poster fame) early 90’s Andre the Giant “[Obey](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0827/9097/products/ObeyIconhighres_large.jpg?v=1435265610)” sticker campaign. Imitation is highest form of flattery. It’s probably not worth quibbling about, but the Murray image doesn’t look to me like it was inspired by either of those. It’s simply a black and white line sketch. Anyway, having taken a quick look at the front my page of the Chive ant not having seen anything that calls out as a must-read, I’m now disappointed that Murray had given so much support in terms of his image to something not all that impressive. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/8 "2017-04-07T13:59:37Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Anyway, having taken a quick look at the front my page of the Chive ant not having seen anything that calls out as a must-read, I’m now disappointed that Murray had given so much support in terms of his image to something not all that impressive. The Chive’s readership numbers _are_ impressive. I have no doubt Bill Murray was well compensated. There’s also a quid pro quo thing going on. The Chive is probably one of the bigger pillars propping up his fame and recognizability at this point. I wonder how many twenty-somethings would know who he was otherwise? Murray’s heyday was in the 80s, and I’m not seeing a lot of young people wearing Chevy Chase or Rick Moranis tshirts. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/9 "2017-04-07T14:04:45Z")
Bill Murray’s job now seems to be just being a really cool guy. If he can monetize it, more power to him. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/10 "2017-04-07T14:16:40Z")
In many ways, Murray is more popular than ever. A couple of years ago, the New York Times had a good article on Murray’s rise as a kind of secular saint. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/the-peculiar-ascent-of-bill-murray-to-secular-saint.html?\_r=0](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/the-peculiar-ascent-of-bill-murray-to-secular-saint.html?_r=0) > [@](#): > > There are murals of Bill Murray that decorate the interiors of bars from Toronto to Sydney, and tattoos of the actor’s face inked onto the arms and calves of 20- and 30-somethings. Tumblr blogs celebrate his awesomeness. > > It’s clear that he has come to symbolize something. But what, exactly? > > “There’s a lack of pretense, a lack of phoniness that people respond to,” said Robert Schnakenberg, author of “The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray,” an A to Z of the actor’s life and career published in September. > > Zach Tutor, who runs one of the Tumblrs devoted to Bill Murray, went further, venturing to say that he embodies “the idea of living life to its fullest” and evokes “the sense of freedom that we all pursue.” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/11 "2017-04-07T14:30:23Z")
He’s one of the things (for whatever reason) that the hipsters have gravitated towards. So I blame them. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/12 "2017-04-07T14:32:23Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Murray’s heyday was in the 80s, and I’m not seeing a lot of young people wearing Chevy Chase or Rick Moranis tshirts. Even Groundhog Day was in the 1990s. And you must have missed Lost in Translation and Moonrise Kingdom among several others. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/13 "2017-04-07T14:45:33Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > Even Groundhog Day was in the 1990s. And you must have missed Lost in Translation and Moonrise Kingdom among several others. He also had a short-lived cameo in \*Zombieland \*(2009), and has earned Golden Globe nominations for _Rushmore_ (1998), _Hyde Park on Hudson_ (2012), and \*St. Vincent \*(2014), and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries _Olive Kittredge_ (2014). He is still very much in the public eye, both on-screen and in real life (the latter of which, as the NYT article linked upthread states, provides most of his hipster cred). ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/14 "2017-04-07T14:51:39Z")
Also the instant classic Very Murray Christmas on Netflix. He works when he wants to and plays the rest of the time. He’s like a slacker god. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/15 "2017-04-07T14:53:49Z")
[https://www.thechivery.com/products/bill-fucking-murray](https://www.thechivery.com/products/bill-fucking-murray) From the Chive. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/16 "2017-04-07T15:02:33Z")
Personally, I _will not ride_ in a vehicle that doesn’t have Bill Murray’s likeness affixed somewhere prominent. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/17 "2017-04-07T15:35:17Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Also the instant classic Very Murray Christmas on Netflix. He works when he wants to and plays the rest of the time. He’s like a slacker god. Oh, wow – I completely forgot about this. Murray’s Christmas special strikes just the right note for the season. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/18 "2017-04-07T15:53:11Z")
I know, right? It’s something everyone can watch at Xmas and actually be entertained. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/19 "2017-04-07T15:54:02Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Also the instant classic Very Murray Christmas on Netflix. He works when he wants to and plays the rest of the time. He’s like a slacker god. I tried watching Very Murray Christmas but gave up five minutes in. Maybe I should give it another chance. I really don’t think Murray needs this Chive connection for his fame or his reputation, but whatever, I guess. I like him enough that maybe I would have gotten a Bill Murray sticker just for himself (not for my car though), but definitely not now that I know it’s a Chive thing, something that I have no interest in. He has been in a solid number of movies in the last few decades. I don’t think he’s been coasting on his '80s fame. I love Broken Flowers, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Hyde Park on the Hudson, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, and Groundhog Day and I love Murray in them. His cameo in Olive Kitteridge was solid. I liked Grand Budapest Hotel, Darjeeling Limited, Coffee and Cigarettes, Ed Wood, and Monuments Men but had forgotten that Murray was in them. I hated Mad Dog and Glory and What About Bob. Stripes and Ghostbusters were a huge part of my childhood, but I can do without them as an adult. I never liked Caddyshack nor did I like Murray’s performance in it. It’s all just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942/20 "2017-04-07T16:00:27Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I really don’t think Murray needs this Chive connection for his fame or his reputation, but whatever, I guess. Free money, I guess. Gotta pay for those Cubs tickets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-murray-stickers-on-cars-whats-up-with-that/783942.md?page=2)