History YMMV / GarbagePailKids

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Some GPK collectors become sore if they catch anybody referring to GPK characters by gender.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It was marketed to them, in spite of their shamelessly graphic nature and some cards using jokes of a flagrantly adult nature. Heck, the cards Pourin' Lauren[=/=]Bonnie Bunny and Busty Dusty[=/=]Puffy Buffy are respectively a Playboy Bunny waitress and an infant with big breasts.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It was marketed to them, even through their shamelessly graphic nature.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://gpk.wikia.com/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids_Wiki Here.]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse:
** [=OS8=]'s Drillin' Dylan/Explorin' Norman seems to be one. More recent uses include a "post-lawsuit" rendering on the [=ANS1=] packs, and the original version taking up the box for a foreign-release set.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The animated series, which was planned for the 87-88 season on [=CBS=]. For the coming years, all that was seen of the show was on bootleg tapes before its official release on DVD in 2006.
** [[http://members.tripod.com/garbage_pail_kids/US_16th_Series.htm GPK World]] has the [[{{Pun}} filth]] on 1989's unreleased [=OS16=], including uncut sheets salvaged in the 1990s, roughs, cut designs, and the journey of one card that took a whole ''17 years'' to make it into a series. Many of the cards in this series were carried over to [=ANS1=] in 2003, others were the Flashbacks' "The Lost Cards", and the rest were exclusive to the album books.
** The holdout mentioned above went by Guy Pie/Pepperoni Tony, planned for [=OS2=], then [=OS6=], and seen on the sheet for [=OS16=] as card 639. This design otherwise existed only as a poster before it was finally included proper in [=ANS1=] as Cheesy Charlie/Pizza Face Chase.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/LinManuelMiranda wrote and recorded his first song, "[[https://www.soundcloud.com/lin_manuel/the-garbage-pail-kids-are-in The Garbage Pail Kids Are In Town]]", mostly about the cards. In 2017, [[http://gpknews.com/2017/02/topps-launches-2017-gpk-the-not-scars-online-set/artgpk-16c2s-17gpap-nslm-set/ he himself became a Garbage Pail Kid]].[[note]]The cards double as a TakeThat to Miranda's ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' losing the Best Song Oscar to ''Film/LaLaLand''.[[/note]]

* FandomBerserkButton: Some GPK collectors become sore if they catch anybody referring to GPK characters by gender.

* HilariousInHindsight: Music/LinManuelMiranda wrote and recorded his first song, "[[https://www.soundcloud.com/lin_manuel/the-garbage-pail-kids-are-in The Garbage Pail Kids Are In Town]]", mostly about the cards. In 2017, [[http://gpknews.com/2017/02/topps-launches-2017-gpk-the-not-scars-online-set/artgpk-16c2s-17gpap-nslm-set/ he himself became a Garbage Pail Kid]].[[note]]The cards double as a TakeThat to Miranda's ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' losing the Best Song Oscar to ''Film/LaLaLand''.[[/note]]

** Stating you like the modern Kids over the old ones on GPK Underground is not recommended by any stretch of the imagination.

** Stating you like the modern Kids over the old ones on GPKUnderground is not recommended by any stretch of the imagination.

** Stating you like the modern Kids over the old ones is not recommended by any stretch of the imagination.

* 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.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Upon its release, the cards met with a lukewarm reception. Its popularity didn't explode, however, until MoralGuardians launched a public outcry against the cards

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Upon its release, the cards met with a lukewarm reception. Its popularity didn't explode however until MoralGuardians launched a public outcry against the cards
* TheWikiRule: [[http://gpk.wikia.com/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids_Wiki Here.]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Upon its release, the cards met with a lukewarm reception. Its popularity didn't explode however until MoralGuardians launched a public outcry against the cards

* FandomBeserkButton: Some GPK collectors become sore if they catch anybody referring to GPK characters by gender.