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The shirt from the hit series has become a "collector's item," as Richie calls it
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'The Bear' Season 2, Episode 1 featuring Ricard “Richie” Jerimovich wearing the "Berf" Shirt. Chuck Hodes/FX.
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There’s a moment in the premiere episode of The Bear‘s second season — now streaming on Hulu for Season Four — where Jeremy Allen White’s character Carmy addresses the T-shirt that Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Richie is wearing.
“Your shirt says ‘Original Berf,'” Carmy says about the tee. Richie responds that it’s a “printing mistake — a collector’s item.” Now in time for The Bear‘s Season Four premiere, fans of the hit show can still get their hands on their own “collector’s item” with the “Original Berf” tops.
Fan-made Merch
‘The Original Berf’ Tee
$16.79 $23.99 30% off
Available on sites like Redbubble, TeePublic, and Etsy, the Original Berf T-shirt, is, of course, a play on The Bear‘s on-screen merchandise to commemorate the restaurant’s previous name, the Original Beef of Chicagoland.
Earlier in the series, White’s character Carmy returned home to help run the shop after his brother Mikey’s death, but for Season Two, the show picked up where the finale left off, as Carmy, Sydney (played by Ayo Edebiri), and crew transform the Original Berf, er, Beef, into a fine-dining culinary establishment dubbed the Bear.
The Bear-inspired Original Berf T-shirt ranges in price from $16 to $34 at Redbubble, Etsy, and TeePublic, while supplies last. While Richie seems content with the T-shirt in the previous episode, fans who score an Original Berf top at TeePublic but want to exchange the tee for a different size can return their unworn purchase for up to 60 days, according to the brand’s policy, and Redbubble also offers free returns on orders that don’t work out.
Multiple sizes
‘The Original Berf’ Tee
$23
The Original Berf tee’s hardly the only way to show that you’ve binged The Bear — there’s a handful of gear you can shop online to show you’re a true fan of the FX series, including a typo-free Original Beef tee, plus a graphic tee that says “The Bear” and posters and mugs from the show’s official merch shop. If you’re still looking for more memorabilia, there’s plenty more fan-made merch on shops like Etsy and on Amazon.
One of the most talked-about TV events of the year, The Bear Season Four is now streaming on Hulu. Fans who haven’t caught up on the new episodes can watch the complete first three seasons on the streaming service, or sign up for a subscription starting at $9.99/month (Hulu With Ads) or $18.99/month (Hulu No Ads). If you don’t have a Hulu subscription, you can nab a 30-day Hulu free trial to watch all of The Bear right now while you wait for your new merch to arrive.
As Rolling Stone described in the Season Four review: “After an uneven third season, the FX sensation returns to tense, heartwarmingly chaotic, and satisfying form.”
“We made [The Bear] in a vacuum the first time around,” Moss-Bachrach previously told Rolling Stone in an interview. “I was really proud of it, but I had no idea if anyone would like it. I thought if anything, because I thought it was really good that probably meant that it was going to be a complete failure critically, and so that was just a total shock to me and to Jeremy and me and Ayo.”
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