The History of The Garbage Pail Kids: From Parody to Pop Culture
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2018
- On this episode we cover the history of the Garbage Pail Kids.
What started out as a parody of a doll line has turned into a pop culture staple parodying nearly everything else.
From the start at Topps through the lawsuits, the Garbage Pail Kids movie and animated show through today with more series, Funko Pops, pins and more.
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I became a candy dealer at school to finance my Garbage Pail Kids collection. It was surprisingly lucrative!
Lol, nice
I had all the cards and saw the movie in theaters. I'm 43 n still love em
Lucy Fuir I'm 43 and I still have mine. My kids love them.
I remember sweing the movie too! I used to collect the cards. Good times!
Yeah I'm 42 years old. Remember collecting them from the 4th Series onward. It was really hard to find cards from the 2nd and 3rd series, let alone the first.
Lucy Fuir The Garbage Pail Kids movie sucked so bad. That was one movie I am grateful my parents kept me away from. I saw it decades later as a thoroughly unamused adult. I would have thought it sucked at 8 years old even.
Captain Freedom
Yeah it was pretty bad. It's amazing what we as children were willing to tolerate back then.
Let me get this straight, a man rips a woman from her prized possession which she made herself, leaving her penniless. With her ideas of doll babies, makes a fortune. This fraud, sues someone else because their cards are taking money away from their products that isn't theirs in the first place.
Yeah. Hardcore a-hole.
She DID take a settlement check at some point. I'm sure it was ample.
That's American business for ya!
I know this is old but I'm so confused. From context I'm guessing someone from Coleco stole...I'm guessing Cabbage Patch Dolls leaving its creator penniless. Produces the dolls to a roaring success and then sues Tops for making a parody of said product...did I get it right? One question, what does her gender have anything to do with anything?
At any rate, you should take solace that while the doll marketplace made Coleco money...the gaming industry destroyed them (my area of expertise). The Colecovision might have been more powerful than any other gaming device out Atari wiped the floor with them in sales. It got even worse when they shipped the Coleco Adam as that thing was a rushed piece of junk. They stupidly sunk everything they had in that wasted venture and were eaten alive by the 1983/1984 North American game crash. Had they made it to 1985...Nintendo and Sega would have eaten their lunch. This is around the time I got my start as a lifelong gamer in 1986 with the Nes and Master System.
@@Sinn0100 how do you think it should have been written? Someone, rips a person of a prized possession and leaves that person penniless. Like that? You have to be kidding
Yep, that's business. "Businessman" is basically just a euphemism for "scumbag".
I loved these cards as a kid! They were big in the 1980's.
Agreed. These cards made the 80's kids HAPPY. That's all that mattered. I miss these cards and that stale, rock hard gum. 🤣 I'm 43 and will always remember these cards.
im 42. New Wave Dave was my fave.
Action Hamburger man was mine
I have that one!!
Ahh yes. Garbage pail kids, Masters of the universe, GI Joe, Atari, Colecovision we're great memories for me as a kid. I miss it dearly
80s had the best cartoons and toys! We had it all..gi joe..transformers..voltron..He man!
I still have my 📦 box full of 1986 Garbagepailkids cards.Wish they had a 80s cards convention.
Having these cards back then, was the first signs of edginess.. you’re defying the “law”. Lol
I had all of them.. great times.
All of them? No you didn’t. Nice fake
My mom was more pissed about finding my shoe box full of GPK than finding my stack of penthouse magazines lol
Penthouse hustler swank oui 😹 playboy👎
SAME!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Well damn 😳🤣🤣
Garbage Pail Kids was a meme before memes were cool.
areasevenpro Right?!! Lol...
Don''t you dare bring your goddamn memes into this holy place!
Imagine memes or what they would be called 50 years from now!
Garbage Pail Kids Are Not memes there Gross Out Cards Get it right Memes Are Stupid And The Garbage Pail Kids Rule
Nah
My uncle worked at a print factory that made Wacky Packages/Garbage Pail Kids/lots of other stickers and he would bring me full sheets of stickers. He also once brought me a whole garbage bag full of glow sticks. I guess they made those, too.
Justin M. Best uncle ever.
That is one of the most awesome things I've ever heard, Justin.
Awesome😄 I loved them!
Ahhhh, if only he worked at the US Treasury! lol
They are still being printed. I work for printing company that makes them now
7:35 Muppet Babies rocked.
No doubt. I loved that show. My comment was not meant to disparage M/B rather to point out the irony of characters that basically COULD have been GPKs themselves being used as the replacement for GPK.
Damn right it did
2021 and Muppets are now offensive
Couldnt stand that show
My mother actually got me the cards in 1985 I. Was 8. Those are some of the dopest cards
Holy crap that means you're 63 now
63? You aren’t good at math lol
@@wileecoyote5749 Wow, what's 2040 like? Do people still say "It's all good" like it means something?
They were an international hit too. They were massive at my UK school, kids would carry round collections like bricks.
One of the best parts of my childhood. ..and still gotem
dest151 Yup, me 2 bro...good times!! 😊
"Gotem"? You were born after the 80s, right.........?
dest151 #metoo
Yep! In a box somewhere...
GPK: The Movie is a blight upon the soul. I'm ashamed to say I saw it in the theatre first day of release. I'm even MORE ashamed that I currently own the DVD. What have I done with my life..
Blasted Heath terrible movie but i will still watch the whole movie if its on
I still buy them whenever I see them in stores. Always loved these growing up in the 80's.
i still wanna meet a parent that thought these were terrible. my brother and i got alot of them. and my mom thought that many were funny. she didnt collect any. but thought many were funny and laughed at em. im very happy that i had a mom that didnt freak out over every little thing in life.
I think my parents generally thought they were harmless. I mean, my mother didn't want to LOOK at most of them because they were gross or whatever, but she had no problem with me getting them.
N ROOD same here. My mother had no problem with me getting those cards. Then again, she had no problem with me reading Mad magazine and Cracked magazines either.
My mom wanted nothing to do with them. But I was one of the few kids that didn't like them so it never upset me.
N ROOD agreed my moms didn’t trip either .. it was just a silly kid thing.. I remember going to the corner store to buy packs to find that one card I hadn’t seen b4.. good times
We had our entire fridge covered in them
GarbagePail Kids. Monsters in my Pocket. Battle Beasts . Bogglins. Mad Scientist. He man . teenage mutant ninja turtles. Transformers and GoBots. Mask. Godamn i loved my childhood. Love your channel
42 and this brings back memories. I remember going to the mall and my dad buying a few packs for me in 1985.
Later in my 30s when I had some money I bought Adam Bomb, Blasted Billy, Nasty Nick and Evil Eddie in PSA 9 glossy. All of them have jumped up in value.
I can still hear my mom's voice berating - "those cards are gross." Man I loved being an 80s kid.
I collected them in grade school and for an art assignment we had to draw ourselves as a Garbage Pail Kid. I was "Junk food Josh" and had mine displayed beside the Principal's office just inside the front entrance of our school for everyone to see. Canada is way cooler... we scoff at controversy, then apologize for scoffing.
Lol
Damn crazy Canadians and their funny-colored money and their Bryan Adams!
In my class my teacher loves them and has been collecting them since 1985 we get to draw GPK.
That is *SO* awesome!! What a cool art teacher you had!
That's a perfect characterization. I think that attitude is what has made Canada a hotbed for arts & entertainment in their various forms.
I like the “they live” flash reference.
Adam wiggins I caught that to lol
Long live Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Ikr my favorite movie .
Enjoying these nostalgic videos. I'm 45, so I'm getting reminded of a lot of what we played with and watched.
What an incredible introduction. Those analogies painted a vivid picture and for a moment I remembered what it felt like to have a pack of garbage pail kids in my hand as a 10 year old. I DID feel rebelious and like I was carrying around something as dangerous as a pack of smokes. Well done.
These cards are some of the best memories of my childhood! I had wonderful summers trading them with my friends. And my mom got into them with me and my sisters and literally drove us to 7-11 one night at midnight, just to buy like 3 boxes of series three unopened.
I sold my collection some years after. And my mom is now passed on. But those memories were special. When they rereleased in the early 2000’s I started collecting again. And have never stopped since! I now have a large enough collection to start a small museum on them literally! And when we cleaned out my moms house when she passed away, I found some GPK cards and merchandise there she still had and it too is in my collection now!
I still have all stickers from the first 3 series except here in Australia they are called garbage gang.
I still collect them. Reacquiring my collection started slow but it's been picking up. I'm forever addicted to GPK. I love the originals but the newer series and various theme cards are great. I recently added the Stranger Kids, Oh the Horror-ible, and Chrome series 1 & 2 sets to my collection. There's also some interesting spin-off cards out there that I've been learning about and getting ahold of.
'A pack of smokes rolled up in their sleeve ready to throw down in a switchblade fight' IM DYIN! 😂😂😂
First series GPK were the best! Hardest set to complete back in 4th grade.
The first series also had the most "art style" art style. You can tell someone put some actually thought into the design and model placement, not just the gag.
I have unopened packs of series one.
Fred Neck
That's impressive Fred. I could never find even one first series card back in the day.
@@suckmyass7368 I got them as a tip for moving a sports card store. I was surprised to get them.
@@fredneck5209
Would you sell them?
I didn't know about court case. The ruling against them seems a bit odd. Parodies, by definition, don't exist without the source material. Weird Al always says he's legally allowed to parody any song he wants, but out of respect he asks for the artist's permission. And that's a direct line of one song to another song. This is a doll to a trading card. Oh, well. It's the 80s. I guess that explains it.
I'm guessing if they had done ONE card there would have been no issue. But they built an entire brand around it. Cards, cartoon, movie, toys...
What's really messed up is that Xavier, the so called creator of Cabbage Patch Dolls *Stole* the idea from a sweet lady who was hand making them for local children. She called them Doll Babies and they came with adoption papers. They took his ass to court and were forced to settle (he was a millionaire at this point). He stole the idea then sued someone else for parodying it!!
yeah i don't understand that either.
@@natalie8212 what a jackass
That judge is nuts to call a _trading card_ series piracy of a _doll set_ . Nevermind that GPK are so clearly parody _and_ transformative work. All the characters are created by Topps as the dolls didn't really have any, just a handful of variations in skin color and hair style. Only the basic design of the CBD is parodied with the cards and while they obviously would never have been created without the dolls, they didn't rely on the dolls' continued existence. They would've been just fine if the dolls went under in 1985. tbh I didn't even realize they were a CBD parody until years later cuz I never had (or cared about) the dolls.
These cards were the first in-joke between my friends and I, that we knew none of our parents or teachers would 'get'. In a sense, it was the very first stab at understanding what it was to be independent. Even though we were all still way too young to suddenly start living off on our own, goopy garbage pale in hand.
sXeblues Yea...no way parents were smarter than kids.....LMFAO
Of course a dude with a neck beard and fedora would have some life altering experience over a pack of topps cards.🙄
I distinctly remember the intense parental hatred of these cards. Between Motley Crue, and Garbage Pail kids, the world was going to end. Devilish.
Ratt was another band.
When I was was about 11, I had a bunch of random cards and didn't really know what to do with them. So, I decided to peel all the stickers and proceed to place them on the wall in my bathtub. Needless to say, my mom was pissed at my redecoration, but they stayed there for a few years. True story!
I wanted these cards so bad when I was a kid, all I could get was the SH***Y duplicates that older siblings had and didn't want LOL, good times.
OMG, I'm 6 years old again
Why your channel doesn’t have over 200k I’ll never understand, amazing work!
for real
And I never thought as a kid I would be part of their continuance as an adult. The next series will be out in September. Great video. Anyone that wants an even more in depth history with interviews with most of the people talked about here should check out the 30 Years of Garbage documentary.
Great vid Dan! I had no idea that they had so many series? I remember getting the first couple series and after the movie came out they just died off. They had product out there a lot longer than I thought.
More than anything, these cards are what warped my sense of humor and refined my love of really stupid puns. And I will always be thankful to their creators for that.
I still think of people's GPK names when I meet them (mostly through series 4 or 5 because that's when I bailed).
Meltin' Elton here! :)
I remember some characters having THREE names instead of just 2. My card, for example, Meltin' ELTON also had Crystal GAIL and Ig LOU. Same for Incomplete PETE / Puzzled PAUL / REESE Pieces. I'm sure there were plenty of other cards with 3 names.
I loved GPC. My friend’s mom hated them, didn’t know he had a stash of em, and she literally kicked me out of their house because I told her I had some GPC at home.
Never saw the movie.
Also, I dig this host dude. Did a great job. Want to see more!
And finally, shout-out to Joe Simko, a recent GPC artist who’s also done art for my boys GWAR!
I had that movie, AND Harry and the Hendersons on the same VHS tape. I watched them both HEAVILY as a kid. Still love em both!😅
You’ve been killing it with great content. Keep it up!
0:28 EEEEEEK!!! OMFG MAN!!
These pretty much some up my childhood.... loved these guys they were fricking awesome. I'm 45 now but if I COULD round them all up n buy them all over again. I totally would....
Happy happy joyful days!! Sigh... aaawwww the nostalgia!! 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖💖
I remember collecting all the wacky packages stickers. I filled up the picture book you could purchase, that contained themed drawings on the pages designed to compliment the stickers.
This was cool, very entertaining. Thanks for posting!
The factory I used to live across the street from used to print out the stickers for Tops. I had a
giant roll of Garbage Pail Kids stickers as well as the then WWF stickers featuring Hulk Hogan,
The Macho Man, Roddy Piper etc, before they were cut up and put into individual wrappers that
would sell in the candy stores.
My faaaaaaavorite. Had tons of 'em.
And is that a Richard Christy reference?
I had 8 different cards that were each my faaaavorite
I got collecting because of my Grandmother MAMA, she bought the cards at the gas stations i was young like 3 maybe now i still collected to this day. Great video
Solid "They Live" Easter egg, bravo!
Thanks for this. I still have quite a few of series 1 and 2.
Art Spiegelman really pushed for these line of cards, as they taught children a valuable lesson that people take for granted now: do not blindly follow fads. Now you could say that GPK were a fad themselves, but the message still kind of worked. Kids brought up in this era became a little more savvy when it came to corporate advertising. By the time the 90s rolled around advertisers decided to appeal to the anti-corporate and anti-authoritarian mindset of the kids in that era, and that "tude" lasted pretty much the entire decade... so if you have any fond memories of 90s 'tude products you have GPK to thank.
Great comment. Thank you.
Art Spiegelman is a legend!
that's awesome that Spiegelman had a subversive motive with the cards, man that makes me respect them and him even more. It's like "They Live" for kids or something lol
I still have complete Uk sets of series 2 & 3 and 100's from other series! The nostalgia i have for these are up there with any Video game or Toy in any of my collections!
Erase episode 8
slightly smaller & were 1 whole sticker, i have some from the US and they have a cut around the character art which is a bit of shame imo, are they all like that?
It was a wild time when Garbage Pail Kids hit our school. I remember doing someone's homework in return for a fistful of trading cards.
I never got my own name. Gooey Hughie was the closest match. :-(
That's a shame. With the amount of cards that have been produced I figured they would be straight up inventing names at this point
And thats before they were even invented and available....thats dedication
Streetwhore8te4 I know right
Man I loved these cards.... i wanted a two hour documentary but all you could find was 10 min worth of info... we need mooooore!
Easily one of your best videos gentlemen. The Garbage Pail Kids deserve some more modern day love.
Back in 2000 or so, Diamond Comics Distributors got their hands on sealed GPK boxes. Naturally, I had my comic book guy order some for me.
By that point, they were already 15 years old. The gum, which shattered if you so much as had negative thoughts, did not taste good.
I LOVE THIS!!! MEMORIES, ESPECIALLY ON THE BANNING OF THE CARDS IN SCHOOL !!!
I still have mount crushmore post card and a Russ Puss post card and 2 decks still not opened. These were great
Awesome. Very funny, especially the down with authority bit
My mom was cool with GPK until our pastor gave a sermon about them in church! I remember kids wouldn’t even play at recess during series 2, they’d just huddle in small groups looking at each other’s cards on the blacktop!
Limit of 4 packs per customer at 7-11 with a huge line of parents and kids every morning before school!
Everyone should check out the awesome GPK book that was released a few years back. Only series 1-5 is featured sadly, but a very nice little volume.
Great video! Thank you. I am still surprised to find only one Melissa card in all of the GPK series made, Meltin' Melissa. It's kinda fun tho too only having one. This is such a fun series to collect. I used to love walking to the store with a quarter as a kids to pick up a pack. Today I get the same feeling when I am going to the store to pick some GPK cards up or ordering the old cards online.
Loved this... Brought back memories....
When I was a little kid I didn't even think of Cabbage Patch Kids when I thought of Garbage Pail Kids.
Great memories. Good review!
who remembers feeling a certain way when you would see them actually peeled and stuck to something?
og "f it we ball" vibes
I was obsessed with these cards. Me and my friends collected all of them. We would set around at lunch and make fun of the teachers who never caught on to what we where doing. Even after are school band them we keeped bringing them. I put several on my locker and my trapper keeper. Those where good days. Being a kid in the eighties and nineties was fucking awesome.
was that a frame of a "They Live" alien face?
Paul Stiles
Yes
Sen Int ‘twas
This channel is awesome. I’m not a toy collector but I still find myself binging on this channel. I guess I just like a well put together bit of CZcams 👍
Thank you very much. Our goal from day 1 was to try to appeal to people outside of action figure collectors with an entertaining show that just HAPPENED to have a lot of toy related content.
Toy Galaxy you have achieved your goal my friend. The content is pure entertainment. So much so that I might even purchase an action figure ☺️
Digging your channel, looking forward to digging into more!
I used to have a big stack of those (mostly extras gifted to me by friends)...Mom hated them...not surprisingly, they were "lost" along with some of my other toys during the move in 1986...
I'm glad you did this video on garbage pail kids
I collected these in the 80's and when i saw them again for the first time in 2003 i did a double take. I couldn't believe Topps started making them again, to be honest the new ones are just as cool as the old ones, a lot them still have that artistic touch to them that made me love them .
My grandmother used to buy the cards for me . Amazing memories
Oh I remember the controversy, my grade school was one of the schools that banned them. That ban had no effect other than giving us our first sense of injustice when our teachers confiscated our cards, next they went after our MUSCLE figures and Casio game watches.
Still have my collection and actively adding as new series come out
An amazing property that I still love and collect. Topps has totally returned to that Cabbage Patch look with the last part of the ANS series, BNS series and the themed series. Long live the rebellion!
The animated series aired in my country (Trinidad & Tobago) !
Love this video I still have a card binder full of them that my little sister and I collected.
I still love and rewatch the movie all the time with friends and family
Thank you for the video!
Seeing those original cards sends me back in time.
When I was a kid these cards use to scare the shit out of me and the garbage pale kids movie really creeped me out. I literally hated them.
As a testament of their uniqueness I collected them as a kid in the early 90s in Argentina where I've never seen the Cabagge toys and found out they were a parody just now, watching this video! I could have testified in court for Topps!
Love this guy!!💪🏼💪🏼
Was obsessed with gpk in the late 80s. I remember most corner stores would sell them back then,they were that popular. I'll never forget the days of buying them with friends and comparing and trading cards. Still have tons of them somewhere in the basement
My dad introduced me to GPK back in 2005 (I was 5 then). Unzipped Zack is one of my favorites.
Garbage Pail kids and pogs were two kids things that were banned from our school when I was going to school late 80s to early 90s. (3rd to 8th grade)
Because of distractions and fights.
Spring of 1986! I had 2 big stacks of GPK! My friends & I were obsessed! ❤️'d them 😜 Growing up in the 80's was the BEST!!
I love this ❤️🤗 thank you. I loved collecting these also I was a big fan of scratch n sniff puffed stickers! Ahhhh, the 80’s ❤️
Wow. I had completely forgotten about Wacky Packages. I loved those as a kid.
I never got into GPK.
From what I've seen online there were 7 Aaron cards -
Armless Aaron - ANS5 - 15a
Barren Aaron - OS3 - 104b
Hot Aaron - ANS3 Scratch 'n Stink - S6b
Iron-Jaw Aaron - OS5 - 186a
Pumping Aaron - OS8 - 320a
Scarin' Aaron - ANS2 - 14a
Up In The Aaron - OS14 - 542b
The product that introduced a generation of kids to the Spencers Gifts store at the mall.
Spencer's was an adult gag / gift store, filled with office pranks, fake doggy doo, adult board games, etc. When Garbage Pail cards came out, they were considered too "raunchy" by a lot of toy stores to sell to kids, so Spencers saw an opportunity to sell them. With a sudden massive influx of younger demographic showing up to their stores, they had to quickly shuffle adult-oriented inventory to the back of the store and try to keep an eye on kids wandering around towards the back.
In the mall in the 80's, a young kid was mostly interested in the arcade, toy store, and maybe the book store if you were into D&D (book stores often had some small section of RPG's). But, when Garbage Pail kids came out, you quickly added Spencers to the list of stores you made through rounds through.
I was a latch-key kid growing up, so got comfortable being on my own early on. I'd ask my parents to drop me off at the mall on a Saturday, and spend my $10 allowance hitting the arcade, getting some lunch, then hitting the toy store and spencers for a couple of hours to buy trinket junk like garbage pail kid cards, and window shop for stuff I really wanted to ask for for my birthday or christmas. I was like 12yo then. Parents didn't give it a second thought dropping me off to wander the mall by myself or with a friend. The mall was filled with young kids and teens. Nobody worried about child abduction. I think back on that and realize how innocent yet crazy it was.
I had tons of them things, anyone remember how crappy the gum was? Still trying to forget. Lol
Big Tastey I remember the gum being stale and broken and something you probably wouldn't even want to put in your mouth..., But sometimes did anyway.
No, I don't. Probably because the white, powdery mind-control dust they always coated the gum with made me forget! :D
I don't remember any of the cards, but I remember the smell of the gum. The cards were covered in it, and you couldn't wash it off your hands...
My siblings and I got gifted a box of stickers of these things. Loved them and found them funny!
Wow I Loved These Wish They Would Bring Em Back
Atleast garbage pale kids have their own live action movie.
I had the cards too. I LOVED these things!!
that intro is the most accurate description of garbage pail kids ever. teachers threw away thousands of these. in elementary school after mine and a friends were thrown in the trash....we went dumpster diving at the school to get them back and found hundreds more. garbage pail kids was punk for children.