History Film / TheGarbagePailKidsMovie

* BrokenAesop: The argument that true beauty is on the inside does rather fall flat given that the GPK are just as horrible on the inside.

* HitlerAteSugar: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Somehow, UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, and Santa Claus are locked away in the State Home For The Ugly. The movie seems to imply that if they are "ugly" ("too bald", "too skinny", and "too fat", respectively), then any ugly individual is, therefore, a good person.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: A very absurd and downright ridiculous example. The kids bust into a bar and beat the patrons up, with Ali Gator even ''biting off someone's toes''. The patrons befriend them right afterward because they "got guts" and later help them free the prisoners of the State Home for the Ugly.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two of the guards at the State Home for The Ugly comment that they are glad they are not down in the laboratory section of the facility, with one of them claiming "Those doctors like to hurt people".

* AdamWesting: Creator/AnthonyNewley, who plays Captain Manzini, is clearly channeling some of his Broadway-musical acting and composing experience into his character, such as his playing a toy piano in an attempt to find a spell to send the titular characters back into the can. One of his attempts at coming up with a such a spell ends with him name-dropping ''Film/MaryPoppins''[[note]]Newley himself [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was considered at one point]] to play Bert in that film.[[/note]]

* KarmaHoudini: The kids go to a bar called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Toughest Bar In The World]] where they punch out several guys [[ForTheEvulz for no apparent reason]]. And do they get punished for assaulting people? No. Instead, the bikers treat everyone, including the kids, to drinks and later help Dodger and Manzini free the kids and other prisoners at the State Home For The Ugly.

* ForTheEvulz: Not only are the bullies much older than Dodger, but they also have no motivation for bullying him.

* {{Jerkass}}: Juice, Blythe, and Wally, who pick on Dodger relentlessly. Also, the Garbage Pail Kids, who steal, threaten, assault, and vandalize throughout the film. Their leader, Ali Gator, and [[TheBrute muscle]], Greaser Greg, even bite off people's toes and carry around a pocket knife respectively.

* WouldHurtAChild: Juice and his gang have no qualms inflicting bodily harm short of murder to Dodger for no reason. This is played with regarding the State Home for the Ugly workers, who are more than willing to kill the Garbage Pail Kids, but call out a young girl for wearing a mask outside of Halloween and nearly getting her killed by them too.

The film's box office reception was abysmal, earning one and half million dollars while the film cost one million to make. It received three Razzie nominations the year it was released.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some places in the United States [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ugly-laws/ did criminalize being “ugly” in public]] as recently as ''1974''. Of course, they ''obviously'' did not go as far as to have "ugly" people ''executed'' as this film does.

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''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'' is a 1987 movie adaptation of The Franchise/GarbagePailKids trading card series. The Kids are gross parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids.