History Film / TheGarbagePailKidsMovie

* 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".

** This also, more or less, is the reason why the kids pull all the rather unsavory acts they do during the second act of the film.

* 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.

* MoralDissonance: Manzini wants to save the Kids from the State Home For The Ugly, but he still plans to imprison them again in the garbage pail.

* HitlerAteSugar: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Somehow, Mahatma Gandhi, 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.

* HitlerAteSugar: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Somehow, Mahatma Gandhi, UsefulNotes/Abraham Lincoln, 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.

As Dodger gets to know the kids, he finds out they know how to sew clothes and uses their talents to impress Tangerine, one of the female bullies. Unfortunately, before Dodger can really hit it off with her, the kids are captured by The State Home for the Ugly, an institution that incarcerates anybody considered too ugly for society. Dodger and Manzini decide to infiltrate the prison and save the kids from being euthanized.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some places in the United States [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ugly-laws/ really 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'' like this film does.

* 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 afterwards because they "got guts".

* HitlerAteSugar: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Somehow, Mahatma Gandhi, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln and SantaClaus 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.

* {{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 peoples toes and carry around a pocket knife respectively.
* 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.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Garbage Pail Kids sing about working together, while stealing stuff in order to make clothes.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E02TheGirlInGoldBoots The Mount Rushmore of ugly.]] [[note]] (Clockwise from bottom-right: Messy Tessie, Windy Winston, Greaser Greg, Valerie Vomit, Foul Phil, and Nat Nerd)[[/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 threat 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.

* 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.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Some places in the United States [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ugly-laws/ really did criminalize being “ugly” in public]] as recently as ''1974''.

* CrapsackWorld: This movie is set in a world where "ugly" people are imprisoned and executed. That they almost capture a normal kid wearing a mask because they thought he was a monster, then tell him not to scare them like that implies they've accidentally done the same to people who weren't considered ugly before as well.

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

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E02TheGirlInGoldBoots The Mount Rushmore of ugly.]] (Clockwise from bottom-right: Messy Tessie, Windy Winston, Greaser Greg, Valerie Vomit, Foul Phil, and Nat Nerd)]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from bottom-right: Messy Tessie, Windy Winston, Greaser Greg, Valerie Vomit, Foul Phil, and Nat Nerd]]

* CrapsackWorld: This movie is set in a world where "ugly" people are imprisoned and executed. That they almost capture a normal kid wearing a mask because they thought he was a monster then tell him not to scare them like that implies they've accidentally done the same to people who weren't considered ugly before as well.

* CrapsackWorld: This movie is set in a world where "ugly" people are imprisoned and executed.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: A very absurd and downright ridiculous example. The kids bust into a bar and beat the patrons up, with Ben Aligator even ''biting off someone's toes''. The patrons befriend them right afterwards because they "got guts".

* {{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, Ben Aligator, and [[TheBrute muscle]], Greaser Greg, even bite off peoples toes and carry around a pocket knife respectively.

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

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

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

* ShoutOut: To ''MyMotherTheCar'', of all things. Captain Manzini shares his name with the main villain of that series, whose producer and main director, Rod Amateau, also directed this film.

* HitlerAteSugar: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Somehow, Mahatma Gandhi, AbrahamLincoln and SantaClaus are locked away in the State Home For The Ugly. The movie seems to imply that if they are "ugly" ("too bald", "too tall" and "too fat", respectively), then any ugly individual is therefore a good person.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Garbage Pail Kids sing about working together, while stealing stuff in order to make clothes.

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

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[[caption-width:600:You have been warned.]]

''The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'' is a 1987 movie featuring...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Garbage Pail Kids,]] gross parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids. As the name also suggests, it is also based on a series of trading cards of the same name.

This film starts in outer space, where a floating trash can is probably heading to Earth. We don't know where it comes from or what's really doing in there. The trash can lands in a store that is owned by Captain Manzini. For some reason, he keeps the trash can.

The next day, a group of bullies chase Dodger, a kid that works in Manzini's store, and steal money from him. Dodger heads to the store and, after a chat, sees the trash can. Manzini tells Dodger that the garbage pail can is like Pandora's Box and should be left closed. The bullies arrive, and Dodger is somehow [[{{PrecociousCrush}} smitten with Tangerine, one of the two female bullies.]] After they throw Dodger in a sewer, he is cleaned up by the Garbage Pail Kids, who got out of the pail for a reason that the film can't even say. (Don't worry, though: there are a lot of things that are never explained in this film.) Throughout the film, the Garbage Pail Kids just do stuff (sewing clothes, watching an old Three Stooges movie, ''singing a freaking song''...) while Dodger plans to make clothes for Tangerine.

Near the end, we somehow find out that the other Garbage Pail Kids (those who we don't even see) are in the State Home for the Ugly. The Garbage Pail Kids are then sent to the place by Juice and his gang. Captain Manzini and Dodger rescue the kids, and they return in time for Tangerine's fashion show. From there, {{Brain Bleach}} is needed as the Garbage Pail Kids sneeze and vomit all over people, not to mention that they also rip the clothes off the models. Juice and Dodger fight for a bit. Dodger refuses to help Tangerine. Captain Manzini tries to send the Garbage Pail Kids into the garbage can, but it backfires. The Garbage Pail Kids leave. The end.

* AnAesop
** BrokenAesop: The film does very little to rectify the fact that the Garbage Pail Kids are just as ugly on the inside as on the outside -- they're [[JerkAss rude, obnoxious, vandals, thieves and general troublemakers.]]
** CluelessAesop: The film was based on a line of ''deliberately'' [[{{Gorn}} violent]] and [[DeadBabyComedy disgusting]] trading cards, which arguably couldn't handle ANY aesop well.
** Trashed Aesop: [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute Appreciate those who look different]]

* FunbagAirbag: Blythe on Dodger
* [[GrossoutShow Grossout Film]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The campfire scenes.
* MoodWhiplash: The State Home for the Ugly part of the movie. The whole idea of people getting rounded up in compounds by the state based on their appearance, is pretty dark on its own. But add in some very heavy implications about the staff planning to execute the inmates, and it becomes downright disturbing and offensive.
* MoralDissonance: Manzenie wants to save the Kids from the State Home For The Ugly... so he can stuff them into a garbage pail.
* PlotHole: Plenty of them. To say that the movie never explains these things is just putting it nicely.
* RefugeInVulgarity
* {{Sealed Evil In A Can}}: The garbage pail that contained the kids.

* LittleBoyBlueNote[=/=]ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Garbage Pail Kids sing about working together...while stealing stuff in order to make clothes.
* TheObiWan: Attempted. Captain Manzenie is supposed to be like this, but he ends up being rather useless and rather cruel.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to the ''other'' Garbage Pail Kids? It is heavily implied that they were euthanised by the State Home for the Ugly.
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Near the end, we somehow find out that the other Garbage Pail Kids (those who we don't even see) are in the State Home for the Ugly. The Garbage Pail Kids are then sent to the place by Juice and his gang. Captain Manzini and Dodger rescue the kids, and they return in time for Tangerine's fashion show. From there, {{Brain Bleach}} is needed as the Garbage Pail Kids sneeze and vomit all over people, not to mention that they also rip the clothes off the models. Juice and Dodger fight for a bit. Dodger refuses to help Tangerine. Captain Manzini tries to send the Garbage Pail Kids into the garbage can, but it backfires. The Garbage Pail Kids leave. The end.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The campfire scenes.