The Garbage Pail Kids are 30 -- 30 facts about the trading cards
From Ali Gator to Barfin Barbara, the Garbage Pail Kids were always likely to offend (Picture: Topps)
The Garbage Pail Kids are 30 years old this summer.
Characters such as Adam Bomb, Bony Tony, Drippy Dan and GuilloTina delighted children all over the world in the 80s, much to the disgust of their parents.
The perfect combination of puns and bodily fluids, the trading cards werent exactly PC.
Here are 30 facts about the Garbage Pail Kids to freak you out, as well as some images of the Kids themselves to freak you out even further.
1.The Garbage Pail Kids were launched in June 1985as a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids
2. The cards were produced by Topps, best known for making baseball and football stickers
Adam Bomb had his finger on the button (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
3. The Kids were co-created byArt Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist behind the graphic novel Maus
4. In Italy, the Garbage Pail Kids were known as The Snotlings; in France they were The Filthies, while in Germany they were The Totally Broken Kids
Slobby Robbie, also known as Fat Matt on his b card (Picture: Topps)
5. Several schools banned the stickers in the 80s because they were too much of distraction in classrooms
6. There were two versions of each card an a and a b with the same artwork but a different name for the character
Drippy Dan was full of holes (Picture: Topps)
7. The Garbage Pail Kids stickers came with bubble gum
8. More than 600 stickers were produced between 1985 and 1988
9. Nasty Nick, a vampire boy biting into a Barbie dolls neck, was Garbage Pail Kid 1a
Love at first bite (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
10. There have been 34 series of Garbage Pail Kids stickers
11. The main GPK artist was John Pound, who makes cartoons using his own computer code
Unzipped Jack reveals himself (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
12. In the past few years, various Garbage Pail Kids have become a popular choice for tattoos
The Garbage Pail Kid Fryin Ryan gets a name change for this tattoo (Picture: Geekologie)
13. Original Appalachian Artworks, the makers of the Cabbage Patch Kids, sued Topps for trademark infringement in 1986
14. The lawsuit led to an agreement that Topps would change the look of its characters
15. After a decline in sales, the Garbage Pail Kids stickers were discontinued after December 1988
GuilloTina was also known as Cindy Lopper (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
16. The Garbage Pail Kids cards were reintroduced by Topps in 2003
17. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, released in 1987, is considered to be one of the worst films ever made
18. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has a rating of 0% on reviews aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes
19. The initial concept for the movie was to make it a horror film with the Garbage Pail Kids as serial killers
20. Some of the actors who played Garbage Pail Kids in the film were also Ewoks inStar Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
21. The movie starred English singer Anthony Newley. It was his last feature film
22. A new Garbage Pail Kids film is in the works, according to reports
23. A Garbage Pail Kids cartoon was pulled in the US just days before its air date because of complaints from parents
24. The cartoon was replaced on American TV screens by an extra half-hour of Muppet Babies
25. A documentary on the history of The Garbage Pail Kids is in production after receiving crowdfunding
26. There was a Garbage Pail Kid based on E.T. called Alien Ed / Phone Homer
I just called to say I scare you (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
27. A Garbage Pail Kid based on then US president Ronald Reagan was calledRay Gun or Rappin Ron
Ray Gun addresses the nation (Picture: GeePeeKay.com)
28. You can find your own Garbage Pail Kid name HERE
29. Individual Garbage Pail Kids cards are on sale on eBay for more than $4,000
30.The Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still going strong, and are still produced by Topps
The latest batch of Garbage Pail Kids stickers (Picture: Topps)
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The Garbage Pail Kids
Not politically correct for sure!
But the graphic art is extremely good and many of them are funny, while conveying a message at times.
It does not seem like 30 years ago
Not politically correct for sure! But they sue made me smile!!!
Glad I could ligthen mood!
My youngest was 7 when these cards first came out and he was an avid collector, much to the consternation of his mother and grandmother
Does he still have them??
Nona
Not sure
He seldom throws anything away but if he has them they are in Grandma's attic packed carefully away until he wants them again