History Trivia / TheGarbagePailKidsMovie

* WhatCouldHaveBeen
** The film was originally intended as a ''straight horror film'', but ExecutiveMeddling tried to turn it into a ... "family film", which doesn't explain why the script maintained the Kids abhorrent homicidal behavior, or the fact that the other Kids were ''executed'' for being ''ugly'' in the BackStory.
** There were plans for a new ''GPK'' in the early 2010s which dissolved by 2013. Notably, it would have been the feature directorial debut of stop-motion animator PES (of "Fresh Guacamole" fame).

** Mark Newgarden, the creator of the cards, revealed in an interview that Topps had no involvement in the movie. Thus, even he felt it was terrible.
---> '''"I was sick and depressed throughout the whole thing."'''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally intended as a ''straight horror film'', but ExecutiveMeddling tried to turn it into a ... "family film", which doesn't explain why the script maintained the Kids abhorrent homicidal behavior, or the fact that the other Kids were ''executed'' for being ''ugly'' in the BackStory.

** Inverted with Tangerine. She appears to be in her twenties, but the actress was only sixteen at the time (a year older than Dodger's actor). It makes their flirting far less {{squick}}y.

* FranchiseKiller: This did NOT help the actual card collection at all. It now mostly exists as a niche collectors series. It also got an already-completed SaturdayMorningCartoon canceled before it could even debut.

* FranchiseKiller: This did NOT help the actual card collection at all. It now mostly exists as a niche collectors series.

** Jim Cummings has described the film as this when asked about it at Comic Cons; this is a movie that he personally hates.

* ZeroEpisodeWonder: The planned Garbage Pail Kids SaturdayMorningCartoon, 13 episodes of which were actually made, was cancelled by Creator/{{CBS}} before it premiered in 1987. To compensate for this, WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies was expanded into an unprecedented 90-minute block.

* CreatorBacklash: Mark Newgarden, creator of the cards, revealed in an interview that Topps had no involvement in the movie. Thus, even he felt it was terrible.

** Cast member Jim Cummings also went out of his way to join the protest against the film's theatrical release when he saw the final product, an effort that eventually saw the film pulled from theaters.
* DawsonCasting: Inverted with Tangerine. She appears to be in her twenties, but the actress was only sixteen at the time (a year older than Dodger's actor). It makes their flirting far less [[{{Squick}} squicky]].

* OldShame: [[http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-29/entertainment/ca-1307_1_garbage-pail-kids According to this article,]] it was this even when it was released.
** Creator/JimCummings has described the film as this when asked about it at Comic Cons; this is a movie that he personally hates.

* FranchiseKiller: This did NOT help the actual card collection at all.

* BoxOfficeBomb: It cost about $30 million to produce, but only made $1.5 million in profits. Parental protests over the film's RefugeInVulgarity after it received a PG rating led to it being pulled from theaters within weeks of its release. Part of a long series of bombs for Atlantic Releasing Corporation.

* BoxOfficeBomb: It cost about $30 million to produce, but only made $1.5 million in profits. Parental protests over the film's RefugeInVulgarity after it received a PG rating led to it being pulled from theaters within weeks of its release.
* CreatorKiller: Director Rod Amateau never took helm of another major project after this film.

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Simpko, an illustrator for the cards, revealed in an interview that Topps had no involvement in the movie. Thus, even he felt it was terrible.

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Simpko, an illustrator for the cards, revealed in an interview that Topps had no involvement in the movie. Thus he, too, felt it was terrible.

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Simpko, an illustrator for the cards, revealed in an interview that Topps had no involvement in the movie. Thus, he, too, felt it was terrible.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Both Greaser Greg and Nat Nerd are voiced by none other than [[Creator/JimCummings JIM CUMMINGS]]. [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop Yes]], [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck THAT]] [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Jim]] [[WesternAnimation/CatDog Cummings]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[Film/{{Troll}} John Carl Buechler]] was considered to direct the film, and his version of the story was going to be a straight up horror film, in which the Garbage Pail Kids would have spawned from radioactive sludge that had found its way to a garbage can filled with broken dolls, turning them into serial killers.

* BoxOfficeBomb: About $30 million to produce, but only made $1.5 million in profits. Parental protests over the film's RefugeInVulgarity after it received a PG rating led to it being pulled from theaters within weeks of its release.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Both Greaser Greg and Nat Nerd are voiced by none other than [[JimCummings JIM CUMMINGS]]. [[GoofTroop Yes]], [[DarkwingDuck THAT]] [[WinnieThePooh Jim]] [[CatDog Cummings]].

* StarDerailingRole: Anthony Newley's cinematic career went down the drain with this film. He never appeared in another major film for the rest of his life.

** Averted with Dodger himself; he tells Tangerine he's "14, almost 15", but since he looks about 12, [[RealityIsUnrealistic most people didn't believe it, despite his actor being 15 at the time]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Anthony Newley, who played Captain Manzini, also helped write the songs for ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory.''
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/JimCummings.

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* Of all the movies he's seen and reviewed as WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, internet personality Creator/DougWalker considers this the worst film he's watched in his life.

* Of all the movies he's seen and reviewed as WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, internet personality Doug Walker considers this the worst film he's watched in his life.