Oh man I saw this thread and literally made the :gonk: face. D=

The cards never bothered me for some reason. But that movie. That awful movie. I will always have horrible memories of it. The first time I saw it I was eating and also already sick. Oh god that did just not go well together at all.
I don't have such horrible memories of the cards, though. There seemed to be a lot of phases of "gross-out" collectables like the GPK. Or maybe there were just a lot of them I didn't realize they were all from the same thing. xD

@ Kole_Locke: What did you do with all of them?

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Oh also! Has anyone here seen the Nostalgia Critic review of the GPK movie? It was great. While not his best review, it made me happy to see someone else go :gonk: at that movie.

Yea the movie was just pure lame, but I had to at least watch it once. So stereotypical of the eighties it really was, made it seem like some twisted fairytale if you ask me. There were definitely some funny parts to the movie especially the part where Messie Tessie sneezed popcorn all over the audience in the movie theatre. That was original for sure. Well, we moved away and half were taken off the cards and put up on a wall in the basement stuck up on. Some were stolen and the rest were sadly all just lost. I kind of wish they would remake them again just so I could get up another collection of them again lol.. I remember my friends and I actually had a game made up and now I can't remember how to play it but I remember at a certain point you had to say Garbage Pail Kids or some sort of penalty you had to deal with. It was a fun game and it caught on fast. I had just about all the Garbage Pail Kid's cards that they depicted in the movie. I remember one funny thing was about traits of Sagitarius on one of the cards and it said that they like to save own dandruff in a bag in hope of a dandruff recycling center....Aaahhh... memories of childhood, aren't they wonderful?

That's a bummer about your cards. The game sounds more fun than anything you could do with the pokemon cards. xD

The only parts I thought were funny in the movie were the parts with the bullies. There were so laughably ridiculous. I just remember that one with the lepoard print shirt or some other generally 80s stereotypical look.
And I hadn't thought about it like a twisted fairytale, but it did kind of seem that way! Did they ever explain (in the cards, since I don't think they did in the movie) where exactly these kids came from? Or why they were here? I know they were in a magical trashcan and didn't want to go back in, but that's all I remember.

I remember the movie too! That was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Oh and Tangerine was creepy too.

I remember watching the Garbage Pail Kid movie and I liked it. My favorite part was where Vommitting Valerie tells one guy to punch her in the stomach and make her day and everyone clears away from here saying look out look out! After the guy punches her in the stomach she hunches over and pukes up the most amount of green and white vommit I have ever seen in one vommit session. Sounds like the Exorcist which really makes me laugh.


I still have a couple of these cards, they were a lot of fun and really annoyed my parents that I liked them so much.

THey are so different and interesting in their own way. I really wished I still had my cards. The movie didn't do it justice, it should have been a cartoon movie or today the could have done a 3d version of it.

A cartoon would have been so much better. But I think maybe they were trying to ride on the popularity of the muppets? -shrug-

If anything, maybe a show would have done better so they could have focused on all the various characters without cramming them all in one movie.

My dad used to get those. when we were going through boxes he found a lot.

About six or seven years ago, they sold them at the 7eleven i lived by, and my little brother collected them.
I thought they were gross.

A series would have been so much better as they would have had a lot more time to develop the characters, and their origin other than a trash can they come from. I mean who did they live with? Oscar from sesame street? I still watched it and laughed but I agree with you.

@Rhameil ~ Yes, they were meant to be gross, but very funny and just repulsive, and I think it was alures like this that made them desirable and collectable.

Man, I used to collect these with a passion. I'd always buy them whenever and wherever I can. 25 cents for a pack and I'm all over it. I used to get mad at shop owners who would sell them at 50 cents a pack. And that hard stick of chewing gum? Yum!

I still want an Adam Bomb card. Wonder how much they go for nowadays?

I had several copies of those, but my stash of four thousand plus was lost sadly. I was getting them for ten cents a pack at Big Lots and oddly enough they had them in a thirty gallon metallic trash can and it was FULL!! I had never seen so many packs of cards in one place at one time! It was just crazy, but I remember getting as many as I could get.

Ah man, sorry that your collection was lost. But yeah, man, I wish I was there to experience the "Garbage Pail Kids packs in a trash can." And for ten cents a pack! I would have lost my mind!

I wonder if the makers of Garbage Pail Kids were the same ones who created the cabbage patch kids. If not then I wonder how the creator felt whenever he saw his creation of characters were defiled into some ugly about a mockery. Now, I'm not saying I don't like them or don't agree about their creation because I have to admit that I did have a few of them myself. The were definitely a part of the shock culture of the eighties. I love the stick of gum in them too by the way.

I'm not sure, I would actually have to look that up. I realy don't know. That would be an interesting thing to know though. I'm sure they couldn't have done it without some sort of rights to the character or their intellectual properties or there would have been some legal issues.