History Franchise / GarbagePailKids

** Some concepts that were deemed unfit to print include a scrapped 10th series card named Hole in Juan[=/=]Louie Kablooey (where a Kid shoots himself in the head while holding the gun with his prehensile tongue) and two drawings that were intended for the cancelled 16th series (one where a Kid has shot himself in the back of his head by firing at his backwards reflection in the mirror and one where a Kid with a tiny head, a long neck and rows of arms that have every right arm holding a report card and every left arm preparing to fire a gun at oneself). Louie Kablooey would later be featured as a bonus card included in the Abrams book on ''Garbage Pail Kids'', while the second of the two rejected 16th series Kids would see the light of day as a bonus card named Failed Phil included with the 2013 ''Garbage Pail Kids'' calender, albeit edited to remove the guns.

* StickySituation: Glooey Gabe[=/=]Sticky Rick.

* TwoFaced: Split Kit[=/=]Mixed-Up Mitch.

* UncleSamWantsYou: Snooty Sam[=/=]U.S. Arnie.

* VomitIndiscretionShot

* GroinAttack: Door Knox[=/=]Knocked Nolan.

%%* {{Cyclops}}: Sy Clops[=/=]One-Eyed Jack is a giant with one eye in the center of his forehead.
%%* DefeatByModesty: See More Seymour[=/=]Coy Roy.

%%* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Idol Ira/Ken Tiki.[[note]][=FB2=] "Lost Card"; originally planned for [=OS16=][[/note]]

* HairyGirl: Armpit Britt[=/=]Shaggy Aggie.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Adam Bomb[=/=]Blasted Billy presses the BigRedButton and a mushroom cloud pops out from the top of his head[[note]]If he did already, he can do a "mushroom cloud fart".[[/note]], so does his SpearCounterpart Ada Bomb[=/=]Blasted Betty.
* IneptMage: Misfired Merlin[=/=]Spell Castor.

* MirrorCrackingUgly: Creepy Carol[=/=]Scary Carrie.

* TheMovie: [[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie A particularly infamous one]].
* MyLittlePhony: Brony Tony[=/=]Horse De Paul, My Little Polly[=/=]Elma's Glue.
* MundaneMadeAwesome
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Blake Flake[=/=]Hippie Skippy.

* NoseShove: Most, if not all cases have the object penetrate through their heads.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted.

* OfCorsetHurts: Fatty Maddie[=/=]Cora Corset.

%%* AshFace

%%* BizarreAlienBiology

%%* TheCanKickedHim

%%** ThreeStoogesShoutOut

%%* GirlishPigtails

%%* GrossOutShow

%%* GrotesqueCute

%%* HighPressureBlood
%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard

%%* KidsAreCruel
%%* LiterallyShatteredLives

* BlindingBangs: The joke of Can't Music/{{Sia}}[=/=]Fallin' Furler is that she can't see because of her hair covering her eyes, making this a somewhat literal example of the trope.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Some characters have abnormal skin colors. Wretchen Gretchen[=/=]Ill Jill is this trope taken UpToEleven.

* UpToEleven: Most characters do this.

* AshFace

* {{Beatnik}}: Hip Kip[=/=]Walt Witless is a beatnik.

* BizarreAlienBiology

* BloodyHilarious: Some cards can be pretty gory.

* CakeToppers: Piece O' Lisa[=/=]Wedding Bella.
* TheCanKickedHim
* CaptainErsatz[=/=]{{Expy}}: Quite a lot of Garbage Pail Kids are based on famous fictional characters.

* {{Cyclops}}: Sy Clops[=/=]One-Eyed Jack is a giant with one eye in the center of his forehead.
* DefeatByModesty: See More Seymour[=/=]Coy Roy.

* DemBones: Bony Joanie[=/=]Thin Lynn and Grim Jim[=/=]Beth Death, among others, are living skeletons.
* DesertSkull: Baked Jake[=/=]Dry Guy.

* DiscoDan: Stan Alive.

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: Idol Ira/Ken Tiki.[[note]][=FB2=] "Lost Card"; originally planned for [=OS16=][[/note]]
* EnfantTerrible: Many of the Kids are shown doing downright cruel things.

* EyePoke: Sammy Stooge[=/=]Triple Ted.
** ThreeStoogesShoutOut

* FrankensteinsMonster: Frank N. Stein[=/=]Undead Jed.

* GirlishPigtails

* GrossOutShow

* GrotesqueCute

* HighPressureBlood
* HoistByHisOwnPetard
* HollywoodNerd: Nat Nerd[=/=]Clark Can't.
* HumanKnot: Often done with tongues.

* KidsAreCruel
* LiterallyShatteredLives

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

Creator/RLStine worked with Abrams to publish a three-book miniseries based on the Garbage Pail Kids, with the last two being released in 2021.

R.L. Stine worked with Abrams to publish a three-book miniseries based on the Garbage Pail Kids, with the last two being released in 2021.

Garbage Pail Kids is a trading card series by Topps. The characters in the franchise resembled the ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'' with variable humour and gross levels. Creator/ArtSpiegelman, Topps consultant and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, came up with the product idea after the success of his earlier creations, Garbage Candy and ''Wacky Packages''. The concept originally began as an unreleased ''Wacky Packages'' title, but the management at Topps thought it would be a good idea for a separate spin-off series. Spiegelman and fellow cartoonist Mark Newgarden worked together as the editors and art directors of the project, Len Brown was the manager, and the first series of the cards was drawn exclusively by artist John Pound, released in 1985. Several additional artists and writers were brought in to contribute to the series, including Jay Lynch, Tom Bunk, and James Warhola, among others.

It received a [[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie movie adaptation]] in 1987 that was a colossal bomb. [[WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon A 13-episode animated series]] produced the same year was never aired, but did see a DVD release in 2006.

* {{Animorphism}}: Sort of. Some characters like Ali Gator[=/=]Marshy Marshall are kids with animal heads, while others like Mark Bark[=/=]Kennel Kenny are just straight up animals.

* ArtifactTitle: Zig-zagged. The main gimmick of the ''Garbage Pail Kids'' trading cards were that they were unusual, grotesque, gross, and/or comedic characters that happened to look like Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the name of the series itself being a take-off of Cabbage Patch Kids. A lawsuit from Xavier Roberts forced Topps to redesign the characters so that, starting with the 10th series, they wouldn't look like Cabbage Patch Kids anymore, and the Kids still looked nothing like Cabbage Patch dolls in the All-New Series revival run from the mid-2000's. However, the Brand New Series starting in 2012 has the Kids back to looking like Cabbage Patch Kids.
* ArtShift: The lawsuit resulted in the Kids being rendered with narrower heads, bigger noses, and more prominent teeth to make them look less like the [[Toys/CabbagePatchKids toys they were parodying.]] By the 2010s series, the old style returned.

* BlackComedy: Many of the cards depict children being killed, mutilated, or close to being killed or mutilated. The sheer absurdity of the situations are what makes it so funny.

* ConjoinedTwins: There are several Garbage Pail Kids that consist of conjoined twins.

** Played much more straight in the All-New Series, and to a lesser degree in the series that follow.

* LongRunners: 30 years, albeit with a 15 year gap through the late 80s to the early 00s.

* MediumAwareness: Hector Collector[=/=]G.P. Kay is peeling off his own sticker.

* NoseShove: Most, if not all cases have the object actually penetrate through their heads.

** Many cards reference Bazooka gum, Topps' own brand. There's also Joe Blow/Rod Wad, based on the Bazooka Joe mascot (and wearing a Bazooka Joe shirt).

* UglyCute: John Pound meant for the characters to be disgusting but cute, since he had to be looking at them a lot while painting them.

* YourHeadAsplode: Newly Dead Ed[=/=]Dyna Mike explodes his own head.

* FingerlessGloves: Cleaved Steve[=/=]Tandem Randy and Roller Debbie[=/=]Skate Kate.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Kim Kong[=/=]Anna Banana is a monkey.

-->--'''Music/FaithNoMore''', "We Care a Lot"

* HumongousMecha: Hot-Headed Harvey[=/=]Roy Bot, and no wonder - he's based on a ''{{Macross}}'' mech.

* PuttingThePeeInPool: Wet Whit[=/=]Wee-Wee Willie.

An [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/garbage-pail-kids-animated-series-danny-mcbride-hbo-max-1234959124/ animated revival]] was announced for HBO Max in 2021.

* SymbolSwearing: Fowl Raoul[=/=]Mack Quack, as a parody of DonaldDuck.

* TheReptilians: Ali Gator, Firey Francis, and Reptilian Killian.

* {{Retcon}}: Several cards' names were changed in later runs of the same series for some reason or another. Schizo Fran was renamed to Fran Fran due to "schizo" being considered offensive, although later appearances occasionally still used Schizo Fran. OS4 had four names changed out of fear of potential legal action. [[note]]These names were Woody Alan, Crystal Gale, Reese Pieces, and Salvatore Dolly.[[/note]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The western animation adaptation and the unreleased 16th original series.[[note]]Some of the original series 16 artwork came back for the first all-new series, the rest showed up in the flashback sets.[[/note]]

* GarbagePostKid

* GagBoobs: Puffy Buffy[=/=]Busty Dusty is a small baby with big breasts. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Yes, this is a real card.]]

Garbage Pail Kids is a trading card series by Topps. The characters in the franchise resembled the ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'' with variable humour and gross levels. Creator/ArtSpiegelman, Topps consultant and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, came up with the product idea after the success of his earlier creations, Garbage Candy and ''Wacky Packages''. The concept originally began as an unreleased ''Wacky Packages'' title, but the management at Topps thought it would be a good idea for a separate spin-off series. Spiegelman and fellow cartoonist Mark Newgarden worked together as the editors and art directors of the project, Len Brown was the manager, and the first series of the cards was drawn exclusively by artist John Pound, released in 1985. Several additional artists and writers were brought in to contribute to the series, including Jay Lynch, Tom Bunk, and James Warhola, among others. This NeedsWikiMagicLove, if possible.

* ToiletHumor

* GrotesqueGallery