The Garbage Pail Kids

July 21, 2004

larrylips-gpk.jpgThe Garbage Pail Kids were the defin­i­tive gross out card set of the 80s. Every kid in the world at least owned one of these and some kids were for­tu­nate enough to own the entire col­lec­tion (which sells for top dol­lar on Ebay nowa­days). They were undoubt­edly a par­ody of Cab­bage Patch Kids which in my opin­ion were more dis­turb­ing than the Garbage Pail Kids.

I remem­ber think­ing any­one who owned an entire col­lec­tion was just plain cool. I, on the other hand, had only a few of which I “bor­rowed” from friends and for­got to give them back. Luck­ily they never appeared on my doorstep at 3 in the morn­ing demand­ing their cards.

For the less for­tu­nate who couldn’t barter with their par­ents to buy these cards they had to instead savour in the details from a friend. Look­ing over each of these cards you couldn’t help but feel that these cards were not only cool but at the same time creepy. Yet, that didn’t mat­ter because Garbage Pail Kids were an awe­some addi­tion to your other 80s col­lec­tions like He-Man, Bat­tle Kats and the occas­sional Bar­bie you stole from your cousin to use as a tor­ture vic­tim in your toy escapades.

By the way, did you know that Topps has ressur­rected the Garbage Pail Fran­chise?

For more GPK infor­ma­tion, check out these links:

 

5 comments

This is the best post ever pub­lished. Erik, I com­mend you from bring­ing back fond mem­o­ries. I was just talk­ing to my co-workers last week about this movie. No one had a clue when I was try­ing to explain the movie. GPK is one of the only things I can remem­ber from my child­hood. Seriously.

Sweet post indeed. Thanks for those links.

by Fernando Dunn II on July 22, 2004 at 2:45 pm. Reply #

Glad I could be of help in rejuvinat­ing your past. As for my child­hood I can remem­ber not only the GPK movie, but Poprocks, Mon­sters in my Pocket, He-Man, GI Joes and a scary movie with Cher of which I can’t remem­ber the title.

Your site looks sweet, Fer­nando. I love the sim­plic­ity. It works on many levels!

by kartooner on July 23, 2004 at 11:36 am. Reply #

My cousins and I loved them so much when we were young, we took on names after them. “Chris Piss” was my moniker. Did any­one else do this?

by Chris McDougall on July 26, 2004 at 12:30 pm. Reply #

Chris, I know just what you’re talk­ing about. My cousins and I loved to pick on eachother and after the Garbage Pail Kids made their debut we called eachother var­i­ous GPK-esque names.

I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I do remem­ber we had a GPK Club — no girls were allowed, naturally.

by kartooner on July 27, 2004 at 3:59 pm. Reply #

Thanks for the com­pli­ment, Erik. I was slowly evolv­ing my site into what it is now. Sorry if I dis­ap­pointed you ;) .

Any­way, I wish I had a cool name like “Chris Piss” because I had to stick with “Egghead” all my life. They had to be quiet once I grew into it though.

by Fernando Dunn II on August 3, 2004 at 11:27 pm. Reply #

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