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@@69Jackjones69 I respect that viewpoint. It adds so much stress to life. However Counterpoint: There are worse things than pissing people off. Some things are important enough to risk it.
Fun fact: the creator of the garbage pail kids was one Art Spiegelman, who is best known for Maus, the harrowing graphic novel about the Holocaust and its lingering effects on his personal life and the lives in his community. Interestingly, there was a period of time he was working on both garbage pail kids cards and Maus simultaneously, which is kind of hilarious to me. Like, there's no better contrast between high culture and low culture than that.
@@aarondavis8943 Where Ricky solves the movie by just shooting everybody. Then, he bonds with the Garbage Pail Kids, because they're just as horrible as he is, and they help him kill Mother Superior.
@@StMozzer Ah, if you go on a strict regime of exercise and high fat / low sugar you can completely rid yourself of it before ending up with full blown type 2 diabetes.
Somehow I imagine him stiff in a ridiculuous non-volitive attire, a sailor or something like that, plastered hair an inmovile as formless guests encircled him in their madness
@@Hugsloth It was Jack Quid's episode (or however you spell his name). Plinketto number 10. edit: and it was about an argument over the frame-count of a scene of a bad cgi dinosaur eating a dude.
I remember my mom not allowing me to see this movie in theaters as punishment for getting into trouble. Little did anyone know that she was actually saving me from REAL punishment.
Mike's description of watching your first truly disappointing movie as a kid perfectly matches my experience with The Last Airbender. I was 12, huge fan of the Avatar animated series (still am to this day), I was squarely in the target audience and was hyped for the movie for months. I sat in the theater wanting to love it so much and it just let me down on every level. The humor, the characters I knew and loved, the mythology, everything that appealed to me about the series was either butchered or missing entirely. I'll never forget that feeling of utter disappointment I felt on the car ride home.
I think for me it was Stormbreaker. I really liked the book series it's based on, I think because it was 'kid spy' fare that took the 'spy' part really seriously--they all read like a pretty good pre-Daniel Craig Bond movie, just starring a teenager. But the movie... really did not work out, it felt like it was talking down to the audience in a way the books didn't, was obviously cheaping out in places, and shoehorned in a bunch of stuff that movies aimed at that demographic 'should' have but didn't really do anything helpful. You know a movie like that doesn't work when they cast Stephen Fry as the Q equivalent and even HE'S not really a highlight. I'd probably seen worse movies by then, but it's the first one I remember where I could feel my hopes getting dashed as it goes on.
I remember seeing it in the theater, when I would have been about 13. I couldn’t understand why it was set on Earth. Earth was only even mentioned once in the cartoon, and not even by name! And who are these human kids I don’t care about? Why are He-Man and Skeletor the b-story? When I hear people complain about movies now, I know they didn’t live through the 80s. Everything was such a disappointment. I got a flashback of this movie during the first Thor movie. You want to see gods and Asgard but you get some out-of-work scientists.
I can't imagine Mike as a child. I remember in his TNG discussion with Rich he mentioned running to go tell his mom that the Enterprise blew up, but my mind could not compute a young Mike, so instead I imagined Mike but scaled down 50%, stubble and all.
My best friend in school had a little sister that was stuck for 2 summers in a row in one of those "random old lady with a house down the street" day cares that would never fly in this day and age. He told me her and the other rotating group of about 30 kids either played in the back yard (which was nothing but hard packed dirt) in the blazing southern heat or had to sit in the tiny living room crowded around a 19 inch tv watching this movie on VHS over and over again. They were the true Garbage Pail Kids.
I went to one of those, the woman had a sadistic son the woman would leave us with that would abuse us (non sexually, atleast me). Things like hold sippy cups above our heads with a rope while we were extremely thirsty, or lock us in closets. One kid got mauled by their dog... My mom was oblivious to it all and I was too young to communicate this stuff to her or know I shouldve. Fun fact, daycares weren't a thing till boomers became parents. In my opinion, a very privileged generation that squandered this country for their own selfish gain.
This is a true 100% Garbage Pail Kids movie story of mine. So when I was a senior in high school (2001), a classmate of mine knew I was into the garbage pail kids trading cards, and she just so happened to say “hey, I have the movie on vhs if you want it”. I said “sure!” I had honestly never even seen it. Well, the next day, she brings it and of course I’m stoked about it. Later that day, I went to my drama class and it just so happened that we were just going to watch a movie that day. The selections they had for us to watch were played out at that point, and the students didn’t want to rewatch what they had. The teacher asks “does anyone have anything else then?”. The stars aligned that day because I had the GPK movie in hand after my classmate gave it to me that morning. I said “I got the Garbage Pail Kids movie”. So everyone was like “what’s that?” I hyped it up saying it was a funny gross movie even though I hadn’t even seen it. Well, we put it on…and I’ll never forget how bored and confused an entire classroom of students got, and even had someone say “wtf is this?”. I managed to show an entire classroom the GPK movie. Instant classic memory for me.
Fun Fact: One of voice actors for the Garbage Kids was apparently so disgusted with the final film, that he joined protests to get it withdrawn from theatres. That voice actor was Jim Cummings (Pooh, Tigger, Taz) & it was also one of his earliest films to boot.
There's no greater compliment after working hard to direct a major motion picture based on your vision than to be told you'd make a good Garbage Pail Kids director.
In the UK we call them rubbish bins. I always thought garbage pail was ultra American in the 80s. My parents were always complaining about Americanisation and my dad would make irritated noises whenever Garbage Pail kids were mentioned. I fucking... liked them for that
What's funny is that Americans don't say garbage pail either. We say trash cans. I think "garbage pail" was only chosen to kinda spoof "cabbage patch."
Hearing Mike talk about the childhood confusion regarding movies that you should love but don’t spoke to me. I was nine when Batman and Robin came out, and I saw it thinking, “I’m supposed to love this. It’s Batman. Why don’t I love this?” Then I saw The Phantom Menace when I was eleven, and that taught me to never be excited about any movie ever again.
This was basically my whole childhood. Stargate SG1 was a big one. Loved the early seasons. Hated the later ones. Could never articulate why other than very surface level criticisms. TV shows were actually the worst because they would slowly get bad, and it mess with your brain. Now as an adult I understand how changing of writers/directors, rushed production and other behind the scenes stuff works.
One thing they got wrong: You don't want Seth Rogan as your protagonist. That wouldn't work with _The Greasy Strangler_ director. You want one of the guys from _Beef House_ as your protagonist. And Tim & Eric could do a cameo as some bad guys.
My take on their origin would be that this toy store gets in a shipment of defective dolls. The store owner is like “I can’t sell these” and throws them in the garbage pail out back. Later on a shady character dumps a bunch of strange chemicals into that can and mutates those defective dolls into the Garbage Pail Kids.
Back in the 80’s some stores did sell Cabbage Patch Dolls that had defects. You could get them at a discount. All us boys absolutely hated Cabbage Patch dolls.
It's at least better than "the product is a product within the movie too, then comes to life and has opinions about iPhones", a trend Mike should not promote
"too young to pinpoint what's wrong but you know something is off" That hit the nail on the head. I felt that way about so many NES and SNES games. I would even question myself sometimes. "Why am I not enjoying this? It's a video game. It should be fun."
I remember the first time this happened with me, I received a transformers video game for the original DS, and It tutorialization was so bad that I had no idea what I was doing, it might have been a alright game if I had a guide but it was the first time I noticed failing of game design.
Yeah even as kids we have critical thinking, for me it wa the Bendy episode of Fosters home for imaginary friend, i always (as a kid again) felt a little empty watching it, angry even
I feel that way about modern entertainment. But we all know what's wrong with modern entertainment, so the real mystery we question is why is it ongoing and why aren't they improving on it?
That “something is off” feeling, I first got that as a kid when I saw ninja turtles 3. I remember my dad asking what I thought and I said “it was okay”.
Ditto. I remember my parents buying a bootleg VHS of it off the street, which blew my childlike mind to actually buy a movie that's still in theaters. But I remember being so bored and confused, asking myself why wasn't I enjoying this as much as the last two?
It's weird when you first realize that movies can actually be bad. I had that feeling with tmnt3 as well, so actually never bothered to see it in theaters. Actually to this day at 41 I STILL haven't seen the damn thing lol!
Now I wanna see and hear Jay's take on, "You Can't Do That On Television" because that was one of my favorite shows as a kid. It's awesome how a small show from Canada basically became the foundation of what Nickelodeon would become.
Nickeolodeon is STILL milking its ever-present slime gimmick, which it got straight from You Can’t Do That on Television. Sadly, no younger person today would know where it came from.
I knew a girl in Christian school, who collected Garbage Pail Kids cards, she had them in her hands at all times, no one else really cared about them but she was just constantly showing them and talking about them, it was like the only thing she cared about. One day I saw her just sobbing on the playground and I asked someone what she was crying about, the school had banned Garbage Pail Kids from the school grounds. She was Crushed Cathy after that.
I owned exactly one Garbage Pail Kids card, Dinah Saur (which was very tame by GPK standards) because they were banned (lol) from school. I literally hid it under my mattress like it was the most illegal contraband in the world. Yet somehow I got away with owning a number of the "Dinosaurs Attack" series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jay thank you for showing us the connection between the cinematography of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2, as well as educating us on Deborah Lee Carrington's filmography.
An important thing to note about the inappropriate sexualization of Tangerine is that her and Dodger were dating in real life. He actually helped get her this role. Then they broke up partway through the shoot.
A Brit here, just pointing out that nobody in the UK calls them "garbage pails", like ever. Never even heard of that term before. It's a bin here, or rubbish bin.
We used to use pail as in "Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail of water". But nah, we defo don't use 'garbage pail' we don't even use 'garbage' that's a Yank term. Agreed, it's a bin!
It’s true. Even as a New Yorker I knew it’s called bins over there. Pail is a term from the greatest generation era folks. My grandparents used to say pail once in a while.
Given that they were parodying Cabbage Patch Kids, they got close to "cabbage" with "garbage" and so needed something close to "Patch." "Pail" might be the best they could do.
I watched this in theaters back in 87. I was 7 years old. My dad dropped me off alone at the movies and left me there for 6 hours. So i watched it 3 times. Twice for free and i still felt ripped off. The 80's was a different time! I feel bad for the kids these days. They would never have the life i did.
what was your dad doing for 6 hours that was so important that he had to literally take you and leave you somewhere so as to be sure of no interruptions ? or is it not "what" but "who..." ??
Worth Mentioning: The Dude who wears the Aligator Mask is Kevin Thompson, who you may know as the Leprechaun in "Always Sunny" and one of JR Sebastians Toys in Blade Runner. The Dude who plays Foul Phil (Bobby Bell) and the woman who plays Messy Tessy (Susan Rossitto) worked together as those massive emperor penguins working for Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns" Susan and Debbie Lee Carrington (the one from Total Recall) worked together as the aliens from that one alien episode of Married with Children The dude who played Windy Winston was in Freaked, which you already know from Re:View, but also a stunt standin for Leprechaun 2, 3 and 4, working alongside Susan again. Susan was also a stunt performer in the Phantasm movies, alongside Larry Green who plays Nat Nerd in this. I want a biopic of these people meeting eachother and working together over the course of a career, seeing eachother grow and change, and seeing actors rights develop over the 1990s into now. Very interesting
The busted puppet head's animatronics being left in the movie almost makes sense in a way. "That's obviously wrong and broken." "Yeah, just like the characters are supposed to be! Maybe they'll think we did it on purpose?"
As a kid I was irrationally terrified of Garbage Pail Kids. If I'd see one of the dispenser things at the exit of a supermarket I would either try to run past it as fast as I could or close my eyes. Something about even looking at them filled me with an intense sense of dread
That reminds me of my brother. He was terrified of Chucky when we were kids and the video store we went to had a large Child's Play poster hanging up by the front counter, so whenever we went there, he'd always run past so he didn't have to see it 😄
@@Tronomics2000 My brother had the My Buddy doll that Chucky was based on and I was terrified of that thing. I used to lock it in our closet before bed.
I was similar about them even though I liked them, something about the horrible stuff happening to them while they just kept smiling was really off-putting to my tiny brain
When I was in 1st grade, my parents told me we were going to move, and that they found this nice house and they wanted me to go see it. I liked the new house, but I was apprehensive about leaving the city for this little town in the woods. So we drove through the town center, and sure enough, there is a comic book shop with a GIGANTIC Garbage Pail Kids poster in the window, so big that you could see it from the car. I vividly remember seeing that poster and getting all excited for my new home. It was the deciding factor!
It's... Genuinely nice they involved you in the decision. Growing up I moved multiple times to multiple cities in multiple countries. Felt like I might as well have been luggage! That was very sweet of your parents.
My mom forbid me from having GPK cards but I'd sneakily buy them anyway and hide them in my room. She would always find them and make me throw them away! 😤 I bought a pack of the new re-release cards (they suck) and she happened to see them recently and she is still angrily grossed out about them 30+ years later. GPK triggers something in moms, it's crazy.
I remember that moment in the movie where they hand-wave the rest of the Garbage Pail Kids as having been murdered off-screen. Even at 7 years old, I 1) totally understood that it was because they couldn't be arsed to make potentially dozens more costumes just for the last handful of minutes in the movie, and 2) was gobsmacked at what a cheap and unnecessary cop-out that was. I knew, I *knew* that would be a hot talking point in this video. I was rubbing my hands together in anticipation.
I sort of wish Red Letter Media had more money because every time I hear Mike, Jay, or Rich describing how they'd make one of these bad movies better I like what they said and want it to happen.
The three of them should totally be producers on some projects. They often workshop genuinely better versions of things than what we actually get, just in a single afternoon shoot. I want their Gremlins 3 idea! Their Ghostbusters Afterlife rewrite would have totally worked as an actual sequel with the right tone.
They made a bad movie. It was alright. Some scenes were hilarious but very few were played out. It was something I watched. Not sure I would watch again. I would give Space Cop 2 a shot when they release it in 20 years.
@@JacobSantosDev This is why I think they would really shine as producers. Get a creative director that has all his shit together already with making a good movie and directing actors, then have Mike, Rich, and Jay play a producer or executive producer type of role in the making of one of these 80’s tongue in cheek reboots. Because I’ll admit, Space Cop is probably their least competent media project they’ve made. They put some real heart and some great practical craft into it, but they probably had too much to juggle all by themselves to follow their own advice on how to keep a tight script.
I was blindly obsessed with Garbage Pail Kids as a child. So from age 9 to age 11, three years in a row, I made my friends watch The Garbage Pail Kids movie on my birthday. None of those friendships lasted long
My neighbor worked at Blockbuster and one day I went in when he was working, and he was playing this movie on a loop. He was pretty proud to have found a copy in the late 90s! The puppets or whatever always creeped me out.
John Carl Buechler was a legend, man. In spite of all the shitty movies he worked on, he always *tried* to do good work, and it usually shines through, even in Full Moon trash. Also, he directed one of the better Jason sequels, so he gets credit for that too.
RLM does a lot of random stuff, but I certainly did not expect to see their review of David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia today! What suave and classy film will they review next?
I'm afraid to watch this. I saw that movie on HBO as a kid and it was the first time I remember feeling actual depression. After seeing it the world was a worse place, forever, and I could never go back.
Why is all of Mike's ideas for fixing bad scripts or reimagining bad movies from the ground up almost always good? I genuinely would want to see the Garbage Pail Kids movies Mike pitches and I never thought I wanted to see anything Garbage Pail Kids related ever again.
Fun fact: The movie was originally supposed to be an R-rated horror movie and Friday the 13th Part 7's director John Carl Buechler would've directed and done the effects before the script and tone was changed. However, even though his version never got made, he still got to do the effects. So the reason why they look so terrifying was because it was meant for a completely different movie that was intentionally scary. (Even some of the posters still had his name credited as director. So this really had to have been changed at the last minute.)
@@BioYuGi "fun fact" comments always either restate what's already described in the video or state some other basic level of information that everyone already knows. "Fun Fact: this movie was *not* successful upon release and got lots of bad reviews."
John Carl Buechler definitely had a certain look to his animatronic creatures, they all looked really weird and you can easily tell they were from his studio since there was a similarity to their looks. The alien monster from Terrorvision is probably his best work that I can think of since it didn't look like anything else the studio did and came out looking quite good and unique. His studio had great gore effects though and made (imo) the best Shape/Michael Myers mask since the original in the Halloween 6 mask.
In 5th grade, before going on to middle school my teacher had us make a time capsule. We would include a few things we remember from the time and then write an essay about who we thought we might be, and it would be put into a folder, and then she would send it to us 10 years later. 10 years later I was in MCRD San Diego for boot camp as a Marine, and that envelope was automatically forwarded to recruit youtubeme, and I had to read the essay outloud in front of 74 other recruits, and show what was inside. What was inside were 3 Garbage pail kid cards.
Were any of the other recruits like "Hell yeah" after the Drill Instructor finished passing out mail and released the platoon to "personal time" or whateverbthat little period if time was called?
@@kubrickenigma7977 Not really When you get mail, if there is something other than a letter in it, you have to open it in front of the belts so they can make sure you aren't receiving contraband. So I was standing on the quarterdeck required to open my mail and little chotchkeys that little kids think are important was poured out. The cards weren't the only the only thing, but they were memorable. I didn't even recognize the name on the envelope at first until I opened it and saw the cards. There might have been a bit of humor that that happened to be the timing of the time capsule, but it wasn't a deal to anyone but me. Also, I just realized that my dumb ass didn't pay attention to the date and yesterday (well actually today in the US but I live in Australia) was The Marine Corps Birthday. Oohrah, Semper Fidelis. Love my brothers.
@@youtubeme7195 Happy birthday, Marine! That's a good story, and a little peculiar. A funny memory for yourself, and one that's come full circle. Now it's Remembrance/Veterans Day. Others get a full month, while Vets and the dead get a day. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Thank you for doing what you did, whatever it may have been, and for however long. Don't let Australia kill you. Go down swinging down under at Down Under if you have to.
I remember going to the video store with my mom. This movie was on the shelf in the kid's section and I asked to rent it. My mom looked at the cover and said no because it looked like a horror movie. My mom was a smart lady.
22:00 This is what I sub to this channel for. More of Mike animating stories with goofy sound effects please. Thanks for the video! 48:19 This takes Mike's Garbage Pail Kids pitch to another level - introducing a cross-over element in the finale with some other 80's pop culture kids icon to defeat the evil Garbage Pail Kids. That's awesome.
I laughed a lot more than I had any right to just staring at the thumbnail on my subscriber feed. I used to watch this movie a lot as a kid and still don't remember anything from it like 30 years later. For the longest time I thought it was just a fever dream and then the internet came through and reminded me.
My grandma is the reason I watched this as a kid. She convinced my mom to let us watch it with our uncle at her house. I didn’t pay much attention to it but I retained very specific memories of some of the weird, nightmarish moments.
Mike's description of being a 12 year old Gen-X kid watching the Garbage Pail Kids movie and realizing things that he should like can sometimes suck is exactly what millennials felt when The Phantom Menace came out.
Funny thing is I had the exact same experience as Mike watching Revenge of the Sith in theaters. "I should like this, but there's something wrong..." so perfectly describes the exact feelings I had seeing it as a kid.
@John Kult I’m Gen X and the term was used at the time (this was before Buzzfeed and in fact, the Web). Coupland’s 1991 novel popularized the term. I love your Gen Z confident incorrectness.
@John Kult D-Generation X (DX) is an American professional wrestling stable, and later a tag team, that consisted of Triple H and Shawn Michaels.[2] The group originated in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) in the midst of the "Attitude Era" in 1997 as a foil to another prominent faction, The Hart Foundation and became one of the main driving forces behind the WWF competing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the Monday Night Wars. In addition to two other founding members Chyna and Rick Rude aside from Michaels and Triple H, the group expanded with new additions X-Pac, The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn), and Tori until it disbanded in August 2000. After a teased reunion in 2002, DX reformed in June 2006 as the duo of Triple H and Shawn Michaels for the remainder of the year[3] and again in August 2009 until March 2010, shortly before Michaels' retirement. This incarnation was voted the greatest WWE Tag Team Champions of all time in a 2013 WWE viewer poll.[4] On October 8, 2018 it was announced that D-Generation X would face The Brothers of Destruction at the Crown Jewel pay-per view. At the event, Triple H and Michaels were victorious against Undertaker and Kane. On February 18, 2019, it was announced that the group would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame later that year, with Triple H, Michaels, Chyna, The New Age Outlaws, and X-Pac as the inducted members.
Except Millennials just power through it by conspiratorial thinking aka "irony" because we grew up with the Internet. Neo-Boomers ("Gen X") like Mike couldn't understand.
42:20 I live in Los Angeles and Debbie Lee Carrington used to live just a block away from me. I'm only just now discovering that she passed away in 2018. When I was in 5th grade (circa 2010 or so), I went trick or treating on Halloween as Ash from Evil Dead. Debbie was the only person the entire night who recognized who I was dressed as, and she complimented my costume. That was the only interaction I had with her, but she seemed like such a sweet person.
22:30 "You could do an ironic remake of garbage pail kids but with dark humor." "I've actually thought on who would be the perfect director of that!" - Jay
I remember renting the 82 Conan the Barbarian and Masters of the Universe at the same time and my young brain couldn’t process the disappointment of Masters of the Universe after first watching Conan
I saw Masters of the Universe in the theater. It was an odd experience because while it was a fun little movie it was nothing like the toy line, comics that came with the toys, cartoon, or the full fledged licensed comic books from DC or Marvel or whatnot. You could just tell that something was off in production and it wasn't just that it was in part trying to sell a new toy line like the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies were with pitching generation 2 characters. It felt like they took the existing characters and put them in a different movie (which is essentially what it was).
I love how for most movie reviews, Mike and Jay are like, "...then the lady talks to the man with the mustache... uh, which is when the guy from The Garfield movie got his head stuck in the fence..." But for this movie they are on a first and last name basis with every character.
The fact that the whole thing was set in some nightmare dystopia where unsatisfactory people were murdered kind of stopped it from being so zany. Then you get to the end hoping you'll see the whole batch re-united but it's like 'Nope, your friends all died horribly off camera. Thank you for watching! *roll credits* That sure felt like a '----- you'.
I watched that movie at a friends house in about '88. My friend was poor and lived in a trailer house out by the dump. That was the perfect way to watch that movie.
I've been checking Netflix regularly for that movie since they first mentioned it. Nothing. Guess I'll have to buy it. I really want to see The Greasy Strangler. Same with Beef House. Fucking Netflix sucks.
Tbf the gross-out fad of children's media came in multiple short bursts between the late 80s, some parts of the 90s, and even a little bit during the 00s. Like, sure that style was definitely a fad, but it never truly stayed dead until like 2007 or something.
Another interesting fact about Anthony Newley: David Bowie was a huge fan of his. In fact; Bowie took a huge influence from Newley at the very beginning of his evolution as a pop icon etc. David contributed a new song 'What Kind Of Fool Am I?' to a tribute album of Newley's. I remember reading about Bowie's infatuation with Newley in one of his many autobiographies.
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Jay growing up rich explains his rebellious Amish phase.
Reverse-Rumspringa.
@Royal Messiah then jay and I share the same sentiment. You can't honestly talk about politics or culture without pissing off someone
@@69Jackjones69
I respect that viewpoint. It adds so much stress to life.
However Counterpoint:
There are worse things than pissing people off. Some things are important enough to risk it.
Not cool bro not c9ool
@@LittleMissLounge this whole thing is incredibly disturbing
Jay throwing up on his Garbage Pail Kid cards is the most perfectly hilarious thing that could have happened to them.
Imagine being sick and delirious and you look over and see these gross ugly cards of disgusting children, you'd throw up too!
In the Home Alone mansion.
And probably explains his fixation on the toxic waste theme for animating them.
That should have been the origin story for how the garbage pail kids came to life.
I wanted to like this but I didn’t want to mess up the devil number
Fun fact: the creator of the garbage pail kids was one Art Spiegelman, who is best known for Maus, the harrowing graphic novel about the Holocaust and its lingering effects on his personal life and the lives in his community. Interestingly, there was a period of time he was working on both garbage pail kids cards and Maus simultaneously, which is kind of hilarious to me. Like, there's no better contrast between high culture and low culture than that.
ahahahahah
When I was 6, I shoplifted my first pack of Garbage Pail Kids cards. One year later, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie shoplifted my heart.
you seem like the target audience
in soviet russia store shoplift you!
I love stealing worthless shit
Circle of life
That was beautiful
I'm always amazed how easily Mike can just spout off interesting and cohesive plots for movies that will sadly never be.
Mike is kind of a genius. He's like a muse.
A shame none of that went into space cop
The E.t/Predator one was amazing. I can just see the images in my head as he so eloquently talks about something that will never be. :)
@@stanharold7641 proof its easy to spit ball and critize but a whole other thing to create something of real quality
he'll get an angel investor soon enough
You're telling me the cinematographer for the Garbage Pail Kids movie was fresh off the famous "garbage day" scene? It's like poetry, it rhymes.
That would be the most pointless, random, preposterous and awesome crossover ever. Alas, it's too late to make it happen.
@@aarondavis8943 Ricky could've unloaded on that trash can & stopped the movie before it started! Truly the hero we needed.
@@aarondavis8943 Where Ricky solves the movie by just shooting everybody. Then, he bonds with the Garbage Pail Kids, because they're just as horrible as he is, and they help him kill Mother Superior.
Jay is a billionaire yet he refuses to cure Rich Evans' diabetes.
Good.
Does he own the insulin company?
Lol 😆
There is no cure for diabetes
@@StMozzer for you
@@StMozzer Ah, if you go on a strict regime of exercise and high fat / low sugar you can completely rid yourself of it before ending up with full blown type 2 diabetes.
You gotta love how they still say "our friend Rich Evans" as if the entire audience doesn't know who Rich Evans is at this point 😂🤣
No they're trying to boost their own status by claiming to be friends with international superstar and Our Lord and Saviour Rich Evans (TBUH).
Just imagine all the sweet custom shirts Jay’s wealthy family must have bought him each year when HE was the Birthday Boy.
Expensive jewel-encrusted designer polo shirt.
Which he would promptly vomit on and put in the *Garbage Pail*
all still say "dick" though
I seriosuly can't tell if that story is a bit or not.
Slick the birthday boy
Somehow I imagine him stiff in a ridiculuous non-volitive attire, a sailor or something like that, plastered hair an inmovile as formless guests encircled him in their madness
This feels less like a review and more like an extensive group therapy session. I hope this will help Jay and Mike eventually overcome their trauma.
smh
Jay's getting over that Affluenze, one day at a time.
All of their re:views feel like that
Yea we need that fidget spinner movie
It's actually kind of sweet to see that Mike still has Live Mike framed. There must be a sliver of humanity left in him yet.
Doubtful
He threw it out but Rich saved it.
Its one of his horcruxes so he has to keep it safe
The fact that people have made Garbage Pail Kids cards that look like Mike, Rich, and Jay is honestly really sweet and wholesome.
shut up lol
And parasocial lmao
It's borderline experimental
@@headphonic8 Dude's never heard of fanart
@@headphonic8 - Someone just learned what "parasocial" means and is super eager for a chance to use the word
The moment that "wrong" sign went over Mike's face was the moment I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was edited by Jay
I forgot the video, but one time Mike did it to himself in the edit. All I remember was that he was super wrong.
@@greed13X Yeah which video was that, it's been bugging me for a while. The one where they really dragged it out with sad music
@@Hugsloth It was Jack Quid's episode (or however you spell his name). Plinketto number 10. edit: and it was about an argument over the frame-count of a scene of a bad cgi dinosaur eating a dude.
Absolutely true
@Russo Is A Genius, Bro! wait. People still defend star wars? Verdict is out son. Star wars hasnt been good since empire
I remember my mom not allowing me to see this movie in theaters as punishment for getting into trouble. Little did anyone know that she was actually saving me from REAL punishment.
like being sent to bed without dinner, only for the meal to be moldy spam.
Like being thrown off the plane pre-takeoff on 9/11.
There'll be no church for you this Sunday!
@@aarondavis8943 watched moral orel by any chance?
No cell phone or WiFi privileges is the new ground dead ☠️
Mike being heavily influenced by the Garbage Pail Kids as child really explains a lot.
I was gonna say, no "and i turned out just fine" joke from their part?
"I like to **** my cat"
Mike's description of watching your first truly disappointing movie as a kid perfectly matches my experience with The Last Airbender. I was 12, huge fan of the Avatar animated series (still am to this day), I was squarely in the target audience and was hyped for the movie for months. I sat in the theater wanting to love it so much and it just let me down on every level. The humor, the characters I knew and loved, the mythology, everything that appealed to me about the series was either butchered or missing entirely. I'll never forget that feeling of utter disappointment I felt on the car ride home.
@⁺⓵⓷⓪⓷⓺⓵⓺⓸⓻⓻⓪ RedIettermedia You disgust me. Call your mother.
@⁺⓵⓷⓪⓷⓺⓵⓺⓸⓻⓻⓪ RedIettermedia hopefully an M2 Macbook can lift his spirits
For me it was the Percy Jackson movie. I felt so hollow afterwards
Yup i know what you mean
I think for me it was Stormbreaker. I really liked the book series it's based on, I think because it was 'kid spy' fare that took the 'spy' part really seriously--they all read like a pretty good pre-Daniel Craig Bond movie, just starring a teenager. But the movie... really did not work out, it felt like it was talking down to the audience in a way the books didn't, was obviously cheaping out in places, and shoehorned in a bunch of stuff that movies aimed at that demographic 'should' have but didn't really do anything helpful.
You know a movie like that doesn't work when they cast Stephen Fry as the Q equivalent and even HE'S not really a highlight. I'd probably seen worse movies by then, but it's the first one I remember where I could feel my hopes getting dashed as it goes on.
Masters of the Universe came out in 87, too. I think we've pinpointed the exact moment Mike lost his childlike sense of wonder.
I can actually picture a young Mike's blank face while watching this
I remember seeing it in the theater, when I would have been about 13. I couldn’t understand why it was set on Earth. Earth was only even mentioned once in the cartoon, and not even by name! And who are these human kids I don’t care about? Why are He-Man and Skeletor the b-story? When I hear people complain about movies now, I know they didn’t live through the 80s. Everything was such a disappointment. I got a flashback of this movie during the first Thor movie. You want to see gods and Asgard but you get some out-of-work scientists.
@@joesweeney6152 Isn't it baffling that Hollywood still does that? Look at the Sonic movies. Why are Sonic the Hedgehog and friends on Earth?
I can't imagine Mike as a child. I remember in his TNG discussion with Rich he mentioned running to go tell his mom that the Enterprise blew up, but my mind could not compute a young Mike, so instead I imagined Mike but scaled down 50%, stubble and all.
He only really, finally lost it watching Picard
My best friend in school had a little sister that was stuck for 2 summers in a row in one of those "random old lady with a house down the street" day cares that would never fly in this day and age. He told me her and the other rotating group of about 30 kids either played in the back yard (which was nothing but hard packed dirt) in the blazing southern heat or had to sit in the tiny living room crowded around a 19 inch tv watching this movie on VHS over and over again.
They were the true Garbage Pail Kids.
I went to a place like this I can still remember having to eat moldy cereal and the owner watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre over and over again
Oh my God. That’s a nightmare
I went to one of those, the woman had a sadistic son the woman would leave us with that would abuse us (non sexually, atleast me). Things like hold sippy cups above our heads with a rope while we were extremely thirsty, or lock us in closets. One kid got mauled by their dog... My mom was oblivious to it all and I was too young to communicate this stuff to her or know I shouldve. Fun fact, daycares weren't a thing till boomers became parents. In my opinion, a very privileged generation that squandered this country for their own selfish gain.
@@holisterbruxly4554 I am sorry you went through that. I had a rough preschool experience but not quite that bad.
I went to one of those too lmao
Jay's cop-out throwaway line of, "Hey, we didn't make the movie." after Mike says they're going to hell was fantastic
It's true, in the context of Garbage Pail Kids, how many things can truly be called sinful?
The best thing about The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is that it’s about family, and that’s what’s so special about it.
Oh, he said the thing. Everyone upvote.
This is a true 100% Garbage Pail Kids movie story of mine. So when I was a senior in high school (2001), a classmate of mine knew I was into the garbage pail kids trading cards, and she just so happened to say “hey, I have the movie on vhs if you want it”. I said “sure!” I had honestly never even seen it. Well, the next day, she brings it and of course I’m stoked about it. Later that day, I went to my drama class and it just so happened that we were just going to watch a movie that day. The selections they had for us to watch were played out at that point, and the students didn’t want to rewatch what they had. The teacher asks “does anyone have anything else then?”. The stars aligned that day because I had the GPK movie in hand after my classmate gave it to me that morning. I said “I got the Garbage Pail Kids movie”. So everyone was like “what’s that?” I hyped it up saying it was a funny gross movie even though I hadn’t even seen it. Well, we put it on…and I’ll never forget how bored and confused an entire classroom of students got, and even had someone say “wtf is this?”. I managed to show an entire classroom the GPK movie. Instant classic memory for me.
That's amazing lol
And he never got a date again 😌
HAHA. That's great!
What a great way to expose yourself as a virgin
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 picturing the look on their faces is killing me, I know you had to feel super embarrassed.
Fun Fact: One of voice actors for the Garbage Kids was apparently so disgusted with the final film, that he joined protests to get it withdrawn from theatres. That voice actor was Jim Cummings (Pooh, Tigger, Taz) & it was also one of his earliest films to boot.
ohhhh myyy goddddd
A legend from the very beginning. 👏
Greaser Greg redemption arc
This is a man with a conscience.
@@asurlybarber3620 Sure. Don't look up 'Jim Cummings divorce' btw.
There's no greater compliment after working hard to direct a major motion picture based on your vision than to be told you'd make a good Garbage Pail Kids director.
In the UK we call them rubbish bins. I always thought garbage pail was ultra American in the 80s. My parents were always complaining about Americanisation and my dad would make irritated noises whenever Garbage Pail kids were mentioned. I fucking... liked them for that
Only natural.
Same as one day realising the old man was right all along.
The rubbish bin children
What's funny is that Americans don't say garbage pail either. We say trash cans. I think "garbage pail" was only chosen to kinda spoof "cabbage patch."
A real brexit geezah
Garbage pail has to be an east coast thing or something, I've never heard anyone call it that lmao.
Hearing Mike talk about the childhood confusion regarding movies that you should love but don’t spoke to me. I was nine when Batman and Robin came out, and I saw it thinking, “I’m supposed to love this. It’s Batman. Why don’t I love this?”
Then I saw The Phantom Menace when I was eleven, and that taught me to never be excited about any movie ever again.
Same. But for me it was Batman Forever but I also felt underwhelmed as a kid by Episode 1
I saw Spiderman 3 as a kid and left wondering why I didn't feel like I had as much fun as I was expecting
This was basically my whole childhood. Stargate SG1 was a big one. Loved the early seasons. Hated the later ones. Could never articulate why other than very surface level criticisms. TV shows were actually the worst because they would slowly get bad, and it mess with your brain.
Now as an adult I understand how changing of writers/directors, rushed production and other behind the scenes stuff works.
That's a beautiful story, thanks for sharing it.
Same with the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean
I love when Mike and Jay riff off each other and end up writing a whole movie script.
Literally their best feature as a pair. It's probably how they became friends and decided to work together if I had to guess.
One thing they got wrong: You don't want Seth Rogan as your protagonist. That wouldn't work with _The Greasy Strangler_ director. You want one of the guys from _Beef House_ as your protagonist. And Tim & Eric could do a cameo as some bad guys.
I'd watch it.
My take on their origin would be that this toy store gets in a shipment of defective dolls. The store owner is like “I can’t sell these” and throws them in the garbage pail out back. Later on a shady character dumps a bunch of strange chemicals into that can and mutates those defective dolls into the Garbage Pail Kids.
Jay vomits on his cards as a child. The stomach acids react strangely with the ink and the characters come to life.
And those defective dolls would surely be the Cabbage Patch Kids, of which they were based on.
Back in the 80’s some stores did sell Cabbage Patch Dolls that had defects. You could get them at a discount. All us boys absolutely hated Cabbage Patch dolls.
How about aborted babies?
It's at least better than "the product is a product within the movie too, then comes to life and has opinions about iPhones", a trend Mike should not promote
My mother took me to see this film in the theatre at my request and she still complains about it 30+ years later
You should show her this review and watch it together. That would be a great way to close this chapter of your lives.
Love how they refer to Jack as "Jack Packard" - as if we don't know who he is
They're afraid we'll mistake "Jack" for Jack Quaid, so Jack will forever be known as Jack Packard ever since that video
I believe due to how unbelievably catchy it is, people just enjoy calling him Jack Packard. He's also pretty badass...
They could have meant any Jack so I appreciate the clarification
Same reason they specify "Rich Evans" every time
If your name is as tonally cool as "Jack Packard" you can demand people use the whole thing.
I always look forward to Mike and Ewen McGregor talking about movies. They're such good friends!
@@DystopianUtopia8 Ewest MidGregor
Jayded McGregor
@@Sporp how dare you call Jay mid!!!
Did you see bad break dry fix phone
*Ewan McDonald
I see Jay is entering his Obi Wan Kenobi era.
This is why I identify with Mike so much. I didn’t have cable till I was 20.
"too young to pinpoint what's wrong but you know something is off"
That hit the nail on the head. I felt that way about so many NES and SNES games. I would even question myself sometimes. "Why am I not enjoying this? It's a video game. It should be fun."
I remember the first time this happened with me, I received a transformers video game for the original DS, and It tutorialization was so bad that I had no idea what I was doing, it might have been a alright game if I had a guide but it was the first time I noticed failing of game design.
@@allypearlman5569 maybe it was Revenge of the fallen or animated, it happened the same to me with those two
Yeah even as kids we have critical thinking, for me it wa the Bendy episode of Fosters home for imaginary friend, i always (as a kid again) felt a little empty watching it, angry even
Shrek the third made me think about how movies were made for profit and not because the creative had genuine love for film and storytelling.
I feel that way about modern entertainment. But we all know what's wrong with modern entertainment, so the real mystery we question is why is it ongoing and why aren't they improving on it?
That “something is off” feeling, I first got that as a kid when I saw ninja turtles 3. I remember my dad asking what I thought and I said “it was okay”.
Yeah I think I was in 3rd grade when tmnt 3 dropped... It was just... not very good in the shadow of the first two
Ditto. I remember my parents buying a bootleg VHS of it off the street, which blew my childlike mind to actually buy a movie that's still in theaters. But I remember being so bored and confused, asking myself why wasn't I enjoying this as much as the last two?
It's weird when you first realize that movies can actually be bad. I had that feeling with tmnt3 as well, so actually never bothered to see it in theaters. Actually to this day at 41 I STILL haven't seen the damn thing lol!
I would have been ten, and it was pretty much my first movie turn off too. Either that or He-Man.
Now I wanna see and hear Jay's take on, "You Can't Do That On Television" because that was one of my favorite shows as a kid. It's awesome how a small show from Canada basically became the foundation of what Nickelodeon would become.
I can't believe i totally forgot about that whole recurring firing squad bit for the past 30+ years
@@jimx117 and they always shot the officer instead of the kids haha
Nickeolodeon is STILL milking its ever-present slime gimmick, which it got straight from You Can’t Do That on Television. Sadly, no younger person today would know where it came from.
@@Prizm44 Nor would they know that Alanis Morrissette was on the show, too... possibly not even know who she is, either haha
Heyyyyy Alistair!
The "wrong" sign on Mike's face will never cease to make me laugh
I knew a girl in Christian school, who collected Garbage Pail Kids cards, she had them in her hands at all times, no one else really cared about them but she was just constantly showing them and talking about them, it was like the only thing she cared about. One day I saw her just sobbing on the playground and I asked someone what she was crying about, the school had banned Garbage Pail Kids from the school grounds. She was Crushed Cathy after that.
I dont get it
It was a personal attack on her because she was the only one affected by the school ban
They tried to ban them at my Christian school, but I'm not sure how successful they were as we sort of had an underground Garbage Pail Kid ring going.
She had it easy! Pastor of my school tried to ban Transformers. Said it was too violent.
@@Ahrimane I want to see a scene of kids having a dispute over who owes who Garbage Pail Kids cards, but it's filmed like The Godfather
Jay coming out as rich was brave in this day and age.
Let’s be real, I think we all kind of had a feeling he was.
When I saw this comment before watching the video I thought you meant rich as in like, Rich Evans.
How else can he afford all those NUKIE tapes he keeps buying off eBay and sending to the studio under different names?
@@punishederic4761 That's what I thought too. I was fully anticipating him unzipping his skin and revealing himself to be Rich the whole time.
Somehow being rich doesn't quite sound as good in comparison to being Rich Evans
I owned exactly one Garbage Pail Kids card, Dinah Saur (which was very tame by GPK standards) because they were banned (lol) from school. I literally hid it under my mattress like it was the most illegal contraband in the world. Yet somehow I got away with owning a number of the "Dinosaurs Attack" series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Dinosaurs Attack" had real educational value, teaching us what it might be like if a Triceratops wanted to impale a schoolteacher in the present day
Jay thank you for showing us the connection between the cinematography of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2, as well as educating us on Deborah Lee Carrington's filmography.
The most memorable Garbage Pail Kids reference by these guys was when Jay called the fat kid from AIDS vampire movie a Garbage Pail Kid.
I can't believe Home Alone was based on a true story and Jay was in it !
I swear, if that story is true it explains so much!
That experience left him with a lifelong fear of Italians
An important thing to note about the inappropriate sexualization of Tangerine is that her and Dodger were dating in real life. He actually helped get her this role. Then they broke up partway through the shoot.
The plot thickens...
Source?
@@SofaPop. Source was your Mom
@@SofaPop. Search for "A Conversation With Mackenzie Astin, Star Of 'The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'"
why the fuck would that change anything? He wasn't the Director, he's literally just a kid.
“Jay’s Family Lived in The Home Alone Mansion” is a bit of lore far too important to be hidden in the Garbage Pail Kids re:view.
A Brit here, just pointing out that nobody in the UK calls them "garbage pails", like ever. Never even heard of that term before. It's a bin here, or rubbish bin.
I’m here just to make sure a Brit made this point. I always assumed it was a US term, so who does?!
Thats beyond the pail.
We used to use pail as in "Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail of water". But nah, we defo don't use 'garbage pail' we don't even use 'garbage' that's a Yank term. Agreed, it's a bin!
It’s true. Even as a New Yorker I knew it’s called bins over there. Pail is a term from the greatest generation era folks. My grandparents used to say pail once in a while.
Given that they were parodying Cabbage Patch Kids, they got close to "cabbage" with "garbage" and so needed something close to "Patch." "Pail" might be the best they could do.
I watched this in theaters back in 87. I was 7 years old. My dad dropped me off alone at the movies and left me there for 6 hours. So i watched it 3 times. Twice for free and i still felt ripped off. The 80's was a different time! I feel bad for the kids these days. They would never have the life i did.
what was your dad doing for 6 hours that was so important that he had to literally take you and leave you somewhere so as to be sure of no interruptions ?
or is it not "what" but "who..." ??
@@jubeaumont6305 cocaine was big in the 80s and Being a deadbeat dad is timeless
You feel bad for kids that weren't abandoned to watch a terrible movie for six hours?
That's wild.
@@joinsideke like no wonder that was the era of serial killers
Worth Mentioning:
The Dude who wears the Aligator Mask is Kevin Thompson, who you may know as the Leprechaun in "Always Sunny" and one of JR Sebastians Toys in Blade Runner.
The Dude who plays Foul Phil (Bobby Bell) and the woman who plays Messy Tessy (Susan Rossitto) worked together as those massive emperor penguins working for Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns"
Susan and Debbie Lee Carrington (the one from Total Recall) worked together as the aliens from that one alien episode of Married with Children
The dude who played Windy Winston was in Freaked, which you already know from Re:View, but also a stunt standin for Leprechaun 2, 3 and 4, working alongside Susan again.
Susan was also a stunt performer in the Phantasm movies, alongside Larry Green who plays Nat Nerd in this.
I want a biopic of these people meeting eachother and working together over the course of a career, seeing eachother grow and change, and seeing actors rights develop over the 1990s into now. Very interesting
The busted puppet head's animatronics being left in the movie almost makes sense in a way.
"That's obviously wrong and broken."
"Yeah, just like the characters are supposed to be! Maybe they'll think we did it on purpose?"
As a kid I was irrationally terrified of Garbage Pail Kids. If I'd see one of the dispenser things at the exit of a supermarket I would either try to run past it as fast as I could or close my eyes. Something about even looking at them filled me with an intense sense of dread
That reminds me of my brother. He was terrified of Chucky when we were kids and the video store we went to had a large Child's Play poster hanging up by the front counter, so whenever we went there, he'd always run past so he didn't have to see it 😄
Sounds like me. I was very young in the 80s tho
@@Tronomics2000 My brother had the My Buddy doll that Chucky was based on and I was terrified of that thing. I used to lock it in our closet before bed.
I was similar about them even though I liked them, something about the horrible stuff happening to them while they just kept smiling was really off-putting to my tiny brain
That was me with Goosebumps books!!
When I was in 1st grade, my parents told me we were going to move, and that they found this nice house and they wanted me to go see it. I liked the new house, but I was apprehensive about leaving the city for this little town in the woods. So we drove through the town center, and sure enough, there is a comic book shop with a GIGANTIC Garbage Pail Kids poster in the window, so big that you could see it from the car. I vividly remember seeing that poster and getting all excited for my new home. It was the deciding factor!
it doesn't have much to do with the video or the movie, but genuinely: thank you for sharing this story.
It's... Genuinely nice they involved you in the decision. Growing up I moved multiple times to multiple cities in multiple countries. Felt like I might as well have been luggage! That was very sweet of your parents.
"Felt like Ibmay as well have been luggage"
Beautifully put into words.
My mom forbid me from having GPK cards but I'd sneakily buy them anyway and hide them in my room. She would always find them and make me throw them away! 😤 I bought a pack of the new re-release cards (they suck) and she happened to see them recently and she is still angrily grossed out about them 30+ years later. GPK triggers something in moms, it's crazy.
My mom thought they were hilarious and had some of her own.
@@corsaircarl9582 Your mom is an outlier. Lol
@@lisah-p8474 She's a cool mom, she even knows you can't pause an online game! (Because she plays them herself)
"But mooooom, I'm 42 years old!!" 😀
To be honest it triggers something in everyone with eyes:)
I remember that moment in the movie where they hand-wave the rest of the Garbage Pail Kids as having been murdered off-screen. Even at 7 years old, I 1) totally understood that it was because they couldn't be arsed to make potentially dozens more costumes just for the last handful of minutes in the movie, and 2) was gobsmacked at what a cheap and unnecessary cop-out that was. I knew, I *knew* that would be a hot talking point in this video. I was rubbing my hands together in anticipation.
I sort of wish Red Letter Media had more money because every time I hear Mike, Jay, or Rich describing how they'd make one of these bad movies better I like what they said and want it to happen.
The three of them should totally be producers on some projects. They often workshop genuinely better versions of things than what we actually get, just in a single afternoon shoot. I want their Gremlins 3 idea! Their Ghostbusters Afterlife rewrite would have totally worked as an actual sequel with the right tone.
They made a bad movie. It was alright. Some scenes were hilarious but very few were played out. It was something I watched. Not sure I would watch again. I would give Space Cop 2 a shot when they release it in 20 years.
I don’t know about nuclear waste that makes pictures come to life. You kinda need some sort of magic.
@@JacobSantosDev This is why I think they would really shine as producers. Get a creative director that has all his shit together already with making a good movie and directing actors, then have Mike, Rich, and Jay play a producer or executive producer type of role in the making of one of these 80’s tongue in cheek reboots. Because I’ll admit, Space Cop is probably their least competent media project they’ve made. They put some real heart and some great practical craft into it, but they probably had too much to juggle all by themselves to follow their own advice on how to keep a tight script.
They should just hit up Jay’s apparently-rich parents.
I was blindly obsessed with Garbage Pail Kids as a child. So from age 9 to age 11, three years in a row, I made my friends watch The Garbage Pail Kids movie on my birthday. None of those friendships lasted long
9 - 11....mystery solved!
geez can''t blame them
I see we took the lyric "WHY SHOULD WE DO SOMETHIN' NICE?" a bit too seriously.
18:17 my favorite RLM gag is the slow WRONG. Gets me every time.
My neighbor worked at Blockbuster and one day I went in when he was working, and he was playing this movie on a loop. He was pretty proud to have found a copy in the late 90s! The puppets or whatever always creeped me out.
I love watching Mike and Jay deconstruct movies like these.
This is the only CZcams channel that I watch literally everything they make. Love it
Check out their movie commentaries on bandcamp!
@@Ravior666 already seen them all :D
@@hoffinator88 *heard them all ;)
I love that they spend the last ten minutes of the video trying to build a better Garbage Pail Kids movie.
@@Ravior666 I really hope they make another commentary soon.
You guys are one of the few things that brings joy into my life. Thank you
Hope you're okay, charlie!!
Incest and folk dancing being the others
I saw it in the theater, with Masters of the Universe. How perfect?
John Carl Buechler was a legend, man. In spite of all the shitty movies he worked on, he always *tried* to do good work, and it usually shines through, even in Full Moon trash. Also, he directed one of the better Jason sequels, so he gets credit for that too.
RLM does a lot of random stuff, but I certainly did not expect to see their review of David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia today! What suave and classy film will they review next?
This is way classier. Not classy enough for Clooney to mention at an oscar speech though
"The trick is not minding that it hurts" is something RLM lives by for sure.
I'm hoping they revisit the other Arab genre classic, Ishtar.
I think that one is fairly likely
Mike and Jay make my workdays feel less like an existential nightmare. Thanks Mike and Jay!
I'm afraid to watch this. I saw that movie on HBO as a kid and it was the first time I remember feeling actual depression. After seeing it the world was a worse place, forever, and I could never go back.
Why is all of Mike's ideas for fixing bad scripts or reimagining bad movies from the ground up almost always good? I genuinely would want to see the Garbage Pail Kids movies Mike pitches and I never thought I wanted to see anything Garbage Pail Kids related ever again.
Fun fact: The movie was originally supposed to be an R-rated horror movie and Friday the 13th Part 7's director John Carl Buechler would've directed and done the effects before the script and tone was changed. However, even though his version never got made, he still got to do the effects. So the reason why they look so terrifying was because it was meant for a completely different movie that was intentionally scary. (Even some of the posters still had his name credited as director. So this really had to have been changed at the last minute.)
I like how you mention this as a Fun Fact despite Jay pretty much giving all this information.
@@BioYuGi "fun fact" comments always either restate what's already described in the video or state some other basic level of information that everyone already knows.
"Fun Fact: this movie was *not* successful upon release and got lots of bad reviews."
Or they made posters very early in the production to take around and try and find funding, then didn't bother making a proper poster later
John Carl Buechler definitely had a certain look to his animatronic creatures, they all looked really weird and you can easily tell they were from his studio since there was a similarity to their looks.
The alien monster from Terrorvision is probably his best work that I can think of since it didn't look like anything else the studio did and came out looking quite good and unique. His studio had great gore effects though and made (imo) the best Shape/Michael Myers mask since the original in the Halloween 6 mask.
@@tituslafrombois1164 Fun Fact: That's part of the eye rolling fun in Fun Facts.
18:09 These moments will never not crack me up. The big fat Wrong always kills me 🤣
Hearing them mention Willow a couple times REALLY has me wanting to see them do a re:view of Willow... Maybe when the new show comes out...
Unfortunately it's bad - some early episodes were released to some people.
@@theelder4797 I'm shocked. Shocked!
@@theelder4797 who could've seen it coming
@@sandmaneyes well, not that shocked...
Woke-ow
In 5th grade, before going on to middle school my teacher had us make a time capsule. We would include a few things we remember from the time and then write an essay about who we thought we might be, and it would be put into a folder, and then she would send it to us 10 years later. 10 years later I was in MCRD San Diego for boot camp as a Marine, and that envelope was automatically forwarded to recruit youtubeme, and I had to read the essay outloud in front of 74 other recruits, and show what was inside. What was inside were 3 Garbage pail kid cards.
Were any of the other recruits like "Hell yeah" after the Drill Instructor finished passing out mail and released the platoon to "personal time" or whateverbthat little period if time was called?
@@kubrickenigma7977 Not really When you get mail, if there is something other than a letter in it, you have to open it in front of the belts so they can make sure you aren't receiving contraband. So I was standing on the quarterdeck required to open my mail and little chotchkeys that little kids think are important was poured out. The cards weren't the only the only thing, but they were memorable. I didn't even recognize the name on the envelope at first until I opened it and saw the cards. There might have been a bit of humor that that happened to be the timing of the time capsule, but it wasn't a deal to anyone but me.
Also, I just realized that my dumb ass didn't pay attention to the date and yesterday (well actually today in the US but I live in Australia) was The Marine Corps Birthday. Oohrah, Semper Fidelis. Love my brothers.
@@youtubeme7195 Happy birthday, Marine!
That's a good story, and a little peculiar. A funny memory for yourself, and one that's come full circle.
Now it's Remembrance/Veterans Day. Others get a full month, while Vets and the dead get a day. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Thank you for doing what you did, whatever it may have been, and for however long.
Don't let Australia kill you. Go down swinging down under at Down Under if you have to.
I remember going to the video store with my mom. This movie was on the shelf in the kid's section and I asked to rent it. My mom looked at the cover and said no because it looked like a horror movie. My mom was a smart lady.
The thing that surprised me the most about this movie is that kettle chips existed in 1987
Somehow, the Garbage Pail Kids returned.
22:00 This is what I sub to this channel for. More of Mike animating stories with goofy sound effects please. Thanks for the video!
48:19 This takes Mike's Garbage Pail Kids pitch to another level - introducing a cross-over element in the finale with some other 80's pop culture kids icon to defeat the evil Garbage Pail Kids. That's awesome.
I loved this movie as a kid I had no idea it starred a young rich evans.
Yeah it's a shame they kept that scene in where we saw up his skirt
I laughed a lot more than I had any right to just staring at the thumbnail on my subscriber feed. I used to watch this movie a lot as a kid and still don't remember anything from it like 30 years later. For the longest time I thought it was just a fever dream and then the internet came through and reminded me.
Thanks. I thought i was going crazy, this is like trauma-therapy-hypnosis-shit.
Happy to read that Tangerine has a long career on mexican telenovelas.
She alone managed to survive this debacle.The Garbage Pail kids movie wouldn't pass muster on MST3K.
The fact that this movie exists and the Cabbage Patch Kids movie doesn't is absolutely astonishing.
I can imagine the absolute horror parents had on their faces when taking their kids to this shit lol. Must've been quite the nightmare....
I mean what did they expect with a movie called "Garbage Pail Kids" XD
The parents who chose to take their kids to the movie must have been the nightmare
My grandma is the reason I watched this as a kid. She convinced my mom to let us watch it with our uncle at her house. I didn’t pay much attention to it but I retained very specific memories of some of the weird, nightmarish moments.
This movie seems like one parents used to babysit their kids while they did other things at the mall, like get drunk.
Mike's description of being a 12 year old Gen-X kid watching the Garbage Pail Kids movie and realizing things that he should like can sometimes suck is exactly what millennials felt when The Phantom Menace came out.
Only Mike isn’t now arguing that it’s actually good
Funny thing is I had the exact same experience as Mike watching Revenge of the Sith in theaters. "I should like this, but there's something wrong..." so perfectly describes the exact feelings I had seeing it as a kid.
@John Kult I’m Gen X and the term was used at the time (this was before Buzzfeed and in fact, the Web). Coupland’s 1991 novel popularized the term.
I love your Gen Z confident incorrectness.
@John Kult D-Generation X (DX) is an American professional wrestling stable, and later a tag team, that consisted of Triple H and Shawn Michaels.[2]
The group originated in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) in the midst of the "Attitude Era" in 1997 as a foil to another prominent faction, The Hart Foundation and became one of the main driving forces behind the WWF competing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the Monday Night Wars. In addition to two other founding members Chyna and Rick Rude aside from Michaels and Triple H, the group expanded with new additions X-Pac, The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn), and Tori until it disbanded in August 2000. After a teased reunion in 2002, DX reformed in June 2006 as the duo of Triple H and Shawn Michaels for the remainder of the year[3] and again in August 2009 until March 2010, shortly before Michaels' retirement. This incarnation was voted the greatest WWE Tag Team Champions of all time in a 2013 WWE viewer poll.[4]
On October 8, 2018 it was announced that D-Generation X would face The Brothers of Destruction at the Crown Jewel pay-per view. At the event, Triple H and Michaels were victorious against Undertaker and Kane. On February 18, 2019, it was announced that the group would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame later that year, with Triple H, Michaels, Chyna, The New Age Outlaws, and X-Pac as the inducted members.
Except Millennials just power through it by conspiratorial thinking aka "irony" because we grew up with the Internet. Neo-Boomers ("Gen X") like Mike couldn't understand.
42:20 I live in Los Angeles and Debbie Lee Carrington used to live just a block away from me. I'm only just now discovering that she passed away in 2018. When I was in 5th grade (circa 2010 or so), I went trick or treating on Halloween as Ash from Evil Dead. Debbie was the only person the entire night who recognized who I was dressed as, and she complimented my costume. That was the only interaction I had with her, but she seemed like such a sweet person.
22:30 "You could do an ironic remake of garbage pail kids but with dark humor."
"I've actually thought on who would be the perfect director of that!" - Jay
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I can only imagine that Jay throwing up on his GPK cards as a kid was such a relief to whichever parent found him
My dad still remembers the scene where the alligator says "it's toe time." What a truly bizarre movie.
I laughed my ass off at this comment. Since jay and mike don't explain, why was the alligator trying to find toes anyhow?
@@GataZGinkgo there's a recurring thing where he eats/bites people's toes/feet
They don't explain why as I recall. He just has a thing for feet.
@@killaken2000 Played by Quentin Tarantino...
ah, he must be snyder's father then.
I never knew her name until now and didn't know she passed. Rest in peace, Debbie. ❤
I like when RLM mentions a film 13 years prior & finally gets around to reviewing it.
I like that Jay’s trying to be polite, using “little person” meanwhile Mike’s just doesn’t give a fuck: “M I D G E T”
mike says little person later in the vid, maybe he felt bad
He only used the M-word when speaking in character as the Director of the film.
Bill Burr : MIDGET!! That’s a good word! A solid description.
He sure has dropped a looooot of M-bombs over the years...
@@TheFrekeShowe I don't think a lot of people were really paying attention or applying any thought at all, really, to have missed this. Kind of sad.
I remember renting the 82 Conan the Barbarian and Masters of the Universe at the same time and my young brain couldn’t process the disappointment of Masters of the Universe after first watching Conan
I actually kind of like Masters of the Universe, but that must have been grim.
I saw Masters of the Universe in the theater. It was an odd experience because while it was a fun little movie it was nothing like the toy line, comics that came with the toys, cartoon, or the full fledged licensed comic books from DC or Marvel or whatnot. You could just tell that something was off in production and it wasn't just that it was in part trying to sell a new toy line like the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies were with pitching generation 2 characters. It felt like they took the existing characters and put them in a different movie (which is essentially what it was).
I love how for most movie reviews, Mike and Jay are like, "...then the lady talks to the man with the mustache... uh, which is when the guy from The Garfield movie got his head stuck in the fence..." But for this movie they are on a first and last name basis with every character.
The fact that the whole thing was set in some nightmare dystopia where unsatisfactory people were murdered kind of stopped it from being so zany.
Then you get to the end hoping you'll see the whole batch re-united but it's like 'Nope, your friends all died horribly off camera. Thank you for watching! *roll credits*
That sure felt like a '----- you'.
I watched that movie at a friends house in about '88. My friend was poor and lived in a trailer house out by the dump. That was the perfect way to watch that movie.
Jay just wants to work with The Greasy Strangler director and this episode was made just to pitch the Garbage Pail Kids reboot to him…
Respect.
I've been checking Netflix regularly for that movie since they first mentioned it. Nothing. Guess I'll have to buy it. I really want to see The Greasy Strangler.
Same with Beef House. Fucking Netflix sucks.
I love the shot of the dvd copy sitting on the floor between mike and jay. Just a constant visual reminder of Mikes take of the movie
Tbf the gross-out fad of children's media came in multiple short bursts between the late 80s, some parts of the 90s, and even a little bit during the 00s. Like, sure that style was definitely a fad, but it never truly stayed dead until like 2007 or something.
Another interesting fact about Anthony Newley: David Bowie was a huge fan of his. In fact; Bowie took a huge influence from Newley at the very beginning of his evolution as a pop icon etc. David contributed a new song 'What Kind Of Fool Am I?' to a tribute album of Newley's. I remember reading about Bowie's infatuation with Newley in one of his many autobiographies.
Would have been a better interesting fact if David Bowie was a huge fan of the Garbage Pail Kids.
One of the puppets looks exactly like the one in Bowie’s movie too. The actual gremlin one.
extremely concerned for those in the comments who now unironically think jay grew up in the home alone house
I WANT TO BELIEVE
but they said it
At no point was there an edit to highlight this as being wrong.
Wait, he didn't? Then why did he say that and show the house?
Why would Jay lie
I'm so glad that you're presenting these old hall-of-shame films, to stop me from feeling the need to ever watch them.
File under movies that should have been animated. This shit is a hellish fever dream.
I like how they always remind us that they're friends with the legendary Rich Evans.
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I’m stuck here in Florida about to go through yet ANOTHER HURRICANE. I needed this RLM, thanks. Everyone stay safe here in FL
No better feeling than finding an RLM video you watched but have zero memory of. Just like a new vid
Mike and Jay needs to be hired for the GBK reboot. Honestly it's sounds really catchy.