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| 3 | ->''(We care a lot!) About the Garbage Pail Kids, 'cause they never lie'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''Music/FaithNoMore''', "We Care a Lot" |
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| 6 | Garbage Pail Kids is a trading card series by Topps. The characters in the franchise resemble the ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'' with variable humor and gross levels. |
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| 8 | 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 ''Toys/WackyPackages''. 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 were 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. |
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| 10 | The cards have been adapted to other media several times: |
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| 12 | * ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'', a [[BoxOfficeBomb colossal bomb]] released in 1987. |
| 13 | * A 13-episode cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'', was produced the same year as the movie. It never aired, but did see a DVD release in 2006. |
| 14 | * Creator/IDWPublishing published a series of one-shot comics based on the Garbage Pail Kids from 2014 to 2017. |
| 15 | * Afterwards the license left IDW, Dynamite Comics picked up it up in 2022 to publish a ''Garbage Pail Kids: Origins'' miniseries, as well as one crossing over with fellow grossout-oriented 1980s franchise the ''Madballs''. |
| 16 | * For the franchise’s 35th anniversary, Creator/RLStine worked with Abrams to publish a three-book miniseries based on the Garbage Pail Kids. |
| 17 | * An [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/garbage-pail-kids-animated-series-danny-mcbride-hbo-max-1234959124/ animated revival]] was announced for Creator/HBOMax in 2021. |
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| 20 | !!''Garbage Pail Kids'' has provided the [[TropeNamer name for]]: |
| 21 | * [[ForumSpeak Garbage Post Kid]] |
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| 23 | !!''Garbage Pail Kids'' features some gross examples of: |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * AlienAutopsy: Alien Ian[=/=]Outerspace Chase's Where Are They Now? card shows him being strapped to a table and dissected. |
| 26 | * AlliterativeName: Most of them, including obvious such as [[ALizardNamedLiz Lizard Liz]]. |
| 27 | %%* AllJustADream: A few characters fit this. |
| 28 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Some characters have abnormal skin colors. Wretchen Gretchen[=/=]Ill Jill's skin consists of colorful patchwork. |
| 29 | * AmericanGothicCouple: Barnyard Barney[=/=]Dick Hick. The pitchfork has a dog impaled on it. |
| 30 | * AmusingInjuries: A lot of characters are shown being subjected to slapstick injuries, such as Hurt Curt[=/=]Pat Splat wiping out on a skateboard. |
| 31 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Some characters are like that. Some examples include Smelly Kelly[=/=]Doug Plug (an anthropomorphic fire hydrant), Noel Bowl[=/=]Pete Seat (an anthropomorphic toilet), and Willie Wipe-Out[=/=]Spencer Dispenser (anthropomorphic toilet paper). |
| 32 | * AnimatedAdaptation: The ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'', which never aired in the United States because of parental complaints. |
| 33 | * AnimatedTattoo: The snake tattoo on Drew Tattoo[=/=]Marked Mark’s chest is popping off of his body and hissing in his face. |
| 34 | * AnArmAndALeg: Quite a few cards depict kids being dismembered. |
| 35 | ** Picked Nikki/Antsy Nancy has various body parts, including one arm and one leg, removed and being carried away by ants. |
| 36 | ** Art Apart/Busted Bob shows a smiling boy calmly staring at his ripped-off arms and legs on the floor in front of him. |
| 37 | * ArtifactTitle: Zig-zagged. The main gimmick of the ''Garbage Pail Kids'' trading cards was 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 is 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-2000s. However, the Brand New Series starting in 2012 has the Kids back to looking like Cabbage Patch Kids. |
| 38 | * ArtImitatesArt: The Sushi Susie/Yuckie Tori card shows a kid puking up the Great Wave Off Kanagawa. |
| 39 | * 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. |
| 40 | * AssInALionSkin: Sheepish Seth[=/=]Wade Wolf is a wolf poorly disguising himself as a generic Garbage Pail Kid. |
| 41 | * {{Autocannibalism}}: |
| 42 | ** Cannibal Stu[=/=]Brewin' Bruno is [[StewedAlive cooking himself in a pot]]. |
| 43 | ** Brady Back Ribs/Spare Rob is eating his own barbecued ribs at a restaurant. You can tell they’re his because [[TorsoWithAView there’s a hole in his chest where they were removed]]. |
| 44 | * BadSanta: Chris Mess[=/=]Sandy Clod is a mugger in a Santa suit, while Sani Klaus[=/=]Sick Nick is shown dumping trash down someone's chimney. |
| 45 | * {{Beatnik}}: Hip Kip[=/=]Walt Witless is a beatnik who hasn't noticed he's holding his book of zen poems upside down. |
| 46 | * BedsheetGhost: Boo Bradley[=/=]Pete Sheet is wearing a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''-style bedsheet ghost costume, made from a sheet with [[PottyFailure pee stains all over it]]. |
| 47 | * BellyMouth: Tongue In Chico[=/=]Nick Lick has a mouth on his stomach with a huge tongue. |
| 48 | %%* BigEater: Slobby Robbie[=/=]Fat Matt and Broad Maud[=/=]Large Marge. |
| 49 | * BigRedDevil: Hot Scott[=/=]Luke Warm and Moe Angel[=/=]Turned Lief both have the requisite red skin, horns, tail, and goatee. Scott/Luke also gets hooves and a pitchfork. |
| 50 | * BizarreHumanBiology: Assuming the Kids are humans (they aren't). |
| 51 | * BlackComedy: Many of the cards depict children being killed, mutilated, or close to being killed or mutilated. The sheer absurdity of the situation is what makes it so funny. |
| 52 | * BloodierAndGorier: The All-New Series is a lot gorier than the Original Series. |
| 53 | * BloodyHilarious: Some cards can be pretty gory, but it’s all in the name of goofy BlackComedy. |
| 54 | %%* Bloody Mary/Donna Donor has a small cut on her finger that’s somehow bleeding enough to flood the room she’s in. |
| 55 | * BodyHorror: A lot of cards feature characters with disturbing anatomical abnormalities or having sickening mutilations done on their body parts. |
| 56 | %%* BrownNote: Deaf Geoff[=/=]Audio Augie and Cracked Crystal[=/=]Shrill Jill. |
| 57 | %%* BubblegumPopping: Joe Blow[=/=]Rod Wad and Bazooka Joanne[=/=]Bubbly Babs. |
| 58 | * TheBurlesqueOfVenus: Bonus card Hairy Hannah[=/=]Mary Shelly from Brand New Series 3 is a Garbage Pail Kid version of Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Botticelli}}'' painting. |
| 59 | * CakeToppers: Piece O' Lisa[=/=]Wedding Bella is a wedding topper who's been cut open, revealing flesh on the inside. |
| 60 | %%* CaptainErsatz[=/=]{{Expy}}: Quite a lot of Garbage Pail Kids are based on famous fictional characters. |
| 61 | * ChalkOutline: Chalk Linus[=/=]Crime Scene Dean is the chalk outline of a boy that somehow also outlines his fart. |
| 62 | * ChildProdigy: Brainy Janie[=/=]Jenny Genius is a little girl with [[MyBrainIsBig an oversized cranium]] and is shown using a computer with a blackboard full of equations in the background. |
| 63 | * ComicBookAdaptation: |
| 64 | ** Creator/IDWPublishing made some one-shots based on the trading card characters in the mid-2010s before losing the license in 2017. |
| 65 | ** Dynamite Entertainment would later obtain the license by 2022 and start publishing two new miniseries: ''Garbage Pail Kids: Origins'' and ''Madballs vs. the Garbage Pail Kids''. |
| 66 | * ConjoinedTwins: |
| 67 | ** Double Heather[=/=]Schizo Fran[=/=]Fran Fran is a girl with two heads [[MultipleHeadCase who don't get along]]. |
| 68 | ** Upside Donna[=/=]Two-Fer Juan depicts two babies joined at the tops of each other's heads. |
| 69 | ** Duped David[=/=]Twice Bryce depicts a boy on clean-up duty watching as his conjoined brother vomits. |
| 70 | * CoveredInKisses: Nicky Hickey[=/=]Hank. E. Panky is wiping kissing marks off his face in disgust. |
| 71 | * {{Cyclops}}: Sy Clops[=/=]One-Eyed Jack, as one might guess from both of his names, is a giant with one eye in the center of his forehead. |
| 72 | * DeliveryStork: Bratty Maddy[=/=]Dirty Birdie ''eats the leg off of'' the stork carrying them. |
| 73 | %%* DemBones: Bony Joanie[=/=]Thin Lynn and Grim Jim[=/=]Beth Death, among others, are living skeletons. |
| 74 | * DesertSkull: The Baked Jake[=/=]Dry Guy card depicts a boy in the ThirstyDesert. The background has the standard cow skull, plus some ribs and [[AllDesertsHaveCacti a few cactuses]]. |
| 75 | * DirtyKid: Herman Hormone[=/=]Turned-On Ron is reading a skin magazine. |
| 76 | %%* DiscoDan: Stan Alive. |
| 77 | * DissonantSerenity: Some characters look happy or calm while meeting some horrible demise. Guillo Tina/Cindy Lopper is a prime example, smiling at the viewer while at the guillotine. |
| 78 | * DualityMotif: A favorite of the series. Notable cards include Split Kit[=/=]Mixed-Up Mitch (a normal kid on one half and a nasty punk on the other side) and Half-Nelson[=/=]Glandular Angela (male and female). |
| 79 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The OS Series 1 Kids have a slightly more cartoony, slightly less CPK look to them. |
| 80 | * EatenAlive: Sometimes the Kid gets eaten, other times it's the Kid itself who's doing the eating. |
| 81 | %%* EnfantTerrible: Many of the Kids are shown doing downright cruel things. |
| 82 | * EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: [[DirtyKid Herman Hormone/Turned-On Ron]] is shown reading an inappropriate magazine called ''[[PlayboyParody Playtoy]]''. |
| 83 | * EverythingIsAnInstrument: Sawing Sal[=/=]Musical Mike depicts a kid attempting to play a musical saw, and slicing into himself. |
| 84 | * ExcrementStatement: The ''Late to School'' series features Wiz Kid William[=/=]Pee Don, who urinates on a pile of textbooks as well as a note informing that he's done poorly enough to require attending summer school. |
| 85 | * ExtraEyes: Starin' Darren[=/=]Peepin' Tom has eyes all over his body. |
| 86 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: The aforementioned Starrin' Darren[=/=]Peepin' Tom has eyes all over his body. |
| 87 | * EyePoke: One of [[ThreeStoogesShoutOut Sammy Stooge/Triple Ted’s]] three heads is getting poked in the eyes VSign style by the body’s arms. |
| 88 | %%* EyeScream: It would take a whole page to list every card that depicts ocular mutilation or a character being injured in the eyes. |
| 89 | %%** Scrambled Aggie/Sonny Side Up is frying one of her eyes in a pan like an egg. |
| 90 | * FacialHorror: Mugged Marcus[=/=]Kayo'd Cody is a good example of this, his face being battered to a gruesome degree. |
| 91 | %%* {{Fartillery}} |
| 92 | %%* FatSlob: Slobby Robbie[=/=]Fat Matt, Broad Maud[=/=]Large Marge, Lost In Austin[=/=]Fat Chance... |
| 93 | %%* {{Fingore}} |
| 94 | * FireBreathingDiner: James Flames[=/=]Burnin' Vernon features a boy spewing fire from his mouth and ears after eating some hot sauce. |
| 95 | * FourFingeredHands: The number of fingers on the Kids' hands went down from five to four due to Topps losing the lawsuit with Original Appalachian Works. This was kept from OS10 to some of the Flashback series' Where Are They Now? cards. |
| 96 | %%* FrankensteinsMonster: Frank N. Stein[=/=]Undead Jed. |
| 97 | %%* {{Gasshole}} |
| 98 | * GhostInTheMachine: Eyeball Evan/Re Tina has a smaller Kid living in their eye. |
| 99 | * GenderBlenderName: Some characters with ambiguous gender will have male and female names, especially baby Kids in the All-New Series. |
| 100 | * {{Gorn}}: In a fantasized sense, so it looks less bloody. |
| 101 | ** Played much more straight in the All-New Series, and to a lesser degree in the series that follows. |
| 102 | * GraveHumor: Ashley to Ashes[=/=]Dustin to Dust depicts a gravestone with an engraving of a Garbage Pail Kid and the message “Rest In Pieces GPK”. |
| 103 | * GreaserDelinquents: Greaser Greg[=/=]Chris Hiss is a greaser punk. |
| 104 | * GrimReaper: Grim Jim[=/=]Beth Death is a Garbage Pail Kid version of the Grim Reaper. |
| 105 | * GroinAttack: Door Knox[=/=]Knocked Nolan is a sentient doorknocker reacting to the pain of his handle hitting him in the delicate parts. |
| 106 | * GrossUpCloseUp: Starting with the 2nd OS series, cards like Ghastly Ashley[=/=]Acne Amy, which focus on the character's face and are typically much more detailed. |
| 107 | * GunNut: Mean Gene[=/=]Joltin' Joel and Warrin' Warren[=/=]Brett Vet are psychos armed to the teeth. |
| 108 | * HairyGirl: Armpit Britt[=/=]Shaggy Aggie is a girl with hairy armpits. |
| 109 | %%* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: |
| 110 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: See More Seymour[=/=]Coy Roy covers his groin with his hands as his pants fall down to reveal the skeleton of his lower half. |
| 111 | * HandPuppet: Chopped Susie[=/=]Shana Saw is a hand puppet using a chainsaw to cut herself free... hand and all. |
| 112 | * AHeadAtEachEnd: Poop Head Paul[=/=]Turd Face Trace... sort of. |
| 113 | * HealingFactor: Seen in the animations of the website's interactive "street" during the [=ANS=] era. |
| 114 | * HellBentForLeather: Leather Heather[=/=]Chained Shane. |
| 115 | * HelicopterParents: Helicopter Heather/Obsessed Olga is a [[VisualPun literal one]]: a nervous-looking SentientVehicle helicopter hovering over a sleeping baby. |
| 116 | %%* HumanKnot: Often done with tongues. |
| 117 | * HumanPincushion: The Kid on the "Have A Nice Day" poster has been stabbed with swords, knives, nails, scissors, an arrow, a syringe, a safety pin... |
| 118 | * HumongousMecha: Hot-Headed Harvey[=/=]Roy Bot, and no wonder - he's based on a ''{{Anime/Macross}}'' mech. |
| 119 | * IneptMage: Misfired Merlin[=/=]Spell Castor has accidentally zapped himself in the face with his own magic wand. |
| 120 | * TheInfested: The Itchy Richie/Bugged Bert card depicts a baby covered in black bugs emerging from a slit on his leg. |
| 121 | * InOneEarOutTheOther: Waxy Wendy/Cute Tippi is shoving a giant q-tip into one of her ears. It’s emerging out of the other one covered in wax and [[VisualPun a candle]]. |
| 122 | * JumpingOutOfACake: Adam Bomb[=/=]Blasted Billy does this on his All-New Series card. |
| 123 | %%* {{Kaiju}}: Parodied with [[{{Notzilla}} Charred Chad[=/=]Fryin' Ryan]] as well as Hugh Mungous[=/=]King-Size Kevin. |
| 124 | %%* LizardFolk: Ali Gator, Firey Francis, and Reptilian Killian. |
| 125 | * LongRunners: 30 years, albeit with a 15-year gap through the late 80s to the early 00s. |
| 126 | * LosingYourHead[=/=]OffWithHisHead: Some characters are headless, such as Basket Casey[=/=]Dribblin' Derek. |
| 127 | * LuckyRabbitsFoot: Footloose Fred[=/=]Lucky Lew shows a one-legged rabbit boy happily admiring his own foot on a huge keychain. |
| 128 | %%* LudicrousGibs |
| 129 | %%* MadeOfPlasticine |
| 130 | %%* MadScientist: Mad Max[=/=]Brainy Brian. |
| 131 | %%* MallSanta: Chris Mess[=/=]Sandy Clod's Where Are They Now? |
| 132 | %%* ManEatingPlant: Juicy Jessica[=/=]Green Dean. |
| 133 | * MediumAwareness: Hector Collector[=/=]G.P. Kay is peeling off his own sticker. |
| 134 | %%* MessOnAPlate: Yicchy Mickey[=/=]Barfin' Bart. |
| 135 | * MirrorCrackingUgly: Creepy Carol[=/=]Scary Carrie is a hideous monster puzzled by the mirror she's looking into shattering. |
| 136 | %%* MixAndMatchCritters |
| 137 | %%* MonaLisaSmile: Phony Lisa[=/=]Mona Loser. |
| 138 | * MouseTrap: Matt Rat[=/=]Rachel Rodent is a rat-like kid caught in a mousetrap. |
| 139 | * TheMovie: [[Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie a particularly infamous one]] was released in 1987. |
| 140 | * MyLittlePhony: The ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' franchise (particularly ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'') is spoofed by Brony Tony[=/=]Horse De Paul and My Little Polly[=/=]Elma's Glue. |
| 141 | * NewAgeRetroHippie: Blake Flake[=/=]Hippie Skippy is a hippie Garbage Pail Kid. |
| 142 | %%* NinjaPirateZombieRobot |
| 143 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: At time there are even [[https://www.beckett.com/news/2017-topps-garbage-pail-kids-not-scars/ celebrity-based sets]]. |
| 144 | * NoNeckChump: Few, if any, GPK have necks. |
| 145 | * NonHumanHead: Hammer Hedley[=/=]Nailin' Neil has a giant claw hammer for a head. |
| 146 | %%* NoseNuggets |
| 147 | * {{Notzilla}}: Fryin' Ryan/Charred Chad. |
| 148 | * NoseShove: Most, if not all cases of a character getting something shoved up their nose have the object penetrate through the back of their heads. |
| 149 | ** Drillin' Dylan/Explorin' Norman with his entire finger. |
| 150 | ** Trim Jim/Groomin' Truman[[note]]Seen only in the 2012 book; originally planned for [=OS16=] and was a pack artwork[[/note]] with a pair of scissors. |
| 151 | * OneSteveLimit: Averted. Lots of common names are reused for different characters. |
| 152 | * OnlySixFaces: Make that about one. |
| 153 | * OfCorsetHurts: Fatty Maddie[=/=]Cora Corset is an obese girl trying to squeeze herself in a corset. Judging from the look on her face, it’s not a pleasant experience. |
| 154 | * OrificeInvasion: Menaced Dennis/Wormy Shermy depicts an army of little green worms crawling into a kid’s nose while he sleeps. |
| 155 | %%* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Fallen Angel[=/=]Airsick Ariel. |
| 156 | %%* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Horsey Henry[=/=]Galloping Glen. |
| 157 | %%* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Firey Francis[=/=]Reptilian Killian. |
| 158 | %%* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Fairy Mary[=/=]Stinker Belle and Tooth Mary[=/=]Fiona Fairy. |
| 159 | %%* OurGargoylesRock: Gary Goyle. |
| 160 | %%* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Smelly Sally[=/=]Fishy Phyllis and Fried Freida[=/=]Fishy Florence. |
| 161 | %%* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Nasty Nick[=/=]Evil Eddie, Van Pire[=/=]Bud Sucker, and Sun Bernie. |
| 162 | %%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Eerie Eric[=/=]Berserk Kirk. |
| 163 | %%* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Jay Decay[=/=]Dead Ted. |
| 164 | %%* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Bloody Mary[=/=]Donna Donor. |
| 165 | %%* PersonalRaincloud: Gloomy Gus[=/=]Sad Seth. |
| 166 | %%* {{Pirate}}: Jolly Roger[=/=]Pegleg Peter, Peg Leg Greg[=/=]Justin Timber Leg, and Barnacle Bob[=/=]Crusty Rusty. |
| 167 | %%* PlayboyBunny: Bonnie Bunny[=/=]Pourin' Lauren. |
| 168 | %%* PlayingWithFire: Mostly parodied. |
| 169 | %%* PottyEmergency: Locked Dorian[=/=]Sidney Kidney. |
| 170 | %%* PottyFailure: Some cards feature Kids wetting or soiling themselves. |
| 171 | * PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: Magic Ian/Patrick Hat Teick is pulling his brain out of his hat, much to the horror of his rabbit, who’s sticking out of a hole in the top of his head. |
| 172 | * PullingThemselvesTogether: Fred Thread[=/=]Repaired Rex is a soft toy sewing himself back together after getting [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped in half down the middle]]. |
| 173 | * PunnyName: Two or three per every single character. Most of these are visually {{meaningful|Name}}. |
| 174 | %%* PuttingThePeeInPool: Wet Whit[=/=]Wee-Wee Willie. |
| 175 | * RainbowsAndUnicorns: Seen in the card of Impaled Gail/Magic Wanda, with the Kid as a fairy impaled on the unicorn's horn. |
| 176 | * ReferenceOverdosed: Themed series such as "Oh the Horror-ible" will have plenty of them. |
| 177 | * {{Retcon}}: Several cards' names were changed in later runs of the same series for some reason or another. |
| 178 | ** Schizo Fran was renamed to Fran Fran due to "schizo" being considered offensive, although later appearances occasionally still use Schizo Fran. |
| 179 | ** [=OS4=] had four names changed out of fear of potential legal action. These names were [[Creator/WoodyAllen Woody Alan]], Crystal Gale, Reese Pieces, and [[Creator/SalvadorDali Salvatore Dolly]]. |
| 180 | %%* RoadApples |
| 181 | * RockersSmashGuitars: |
| 182 | ** Heavy Meryl[=/=]One-Night Stan is a guitar Garbage Pail Kid who’s just been smashed by a mostly-unseen metal musician. |
| 183 | ** Pained Pete[=/=]Smashing Smith is trying to break his guitar, but it’s unharmed and he’s cracking apart instead. |
| 184 | %%* RubberFace: Patty Putty[=/=]Muggin' Megan. |
| 185 | %%* RuggedScar |
| 186 | %%* RuleOfFunny |
| 187 | * SatireParodyPastiche: Mostly of ''Cabbage Patch Kids''... plus everything else like televisions shows, video games, celebrities, etc. |
| 188 | %%* TheScream: Parodied with Screaming Stuart[=/=]Terrified Terence. |
| 189 | * SelfParody: |
| 190 | ** There have been some parodies of ''Garbage Pail Kids'' featured in Topps' other flagship product ''Toys/WackyPackages'', including ''Garbage Pail Geezers'' (whose mascot is an elderly version of Adam Bomb only able to make a tiny mushroom cloud come out of his head when he presses his detonator button), ''Garbage Pail Kidders'' (where Adam Bomb's head instead functions as a jack-in-the-box) and ''Gentle Plain Kids'' (consisting of a mundane set of class photos of normal children, the mascot being named A+ Adam and featuring a "100% Parent-Approved" label as a dig at the parental backlash the cards have been notorious for receiving). |
| 191 | ** The early 1990s had Topps try to cash in on the Franchise/TrollDolls craze by releasing a trading card series called ''Trash Can Trolls'', essentially Garbage Pail Kids spoofing Troll Dolls rather than Cabbage Patch Kids. The first card Joel Troll[=/=]Fall-Out Paul is even a Troll Doll version of Adam Bomb, depicting kicking away his inspiration as if to signal that Garbage Pail Kids are yesterday's trend and that Trash Can Trolls are where it's at. |
| 192 | * SentientVehicle: Rusty Heap[=/=]Rustin' Justin, an old rusted-out automobile. Notably appears in [[WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKids the cartoon]] as well. |
| 193 | * SeriesMascot: Adam Bomb[=/=]Blasted Billy, to the point that he was on the wrapper for the first five series. |
| 194 | * SheIsAllGrownUp: The "Where Are They Now?" Ghastly Ashley/Acne Amy from [=FB2=]. Me-''ow''. |
| 195 | %%* ShellGame: Shel Game[=/=]3-Card Monte. |
| 196 | %%* ShockAndAwe |
| 197 | * ShoutOut: |
| 198 | ** Many cards reference Bazooka gum, Topps' brand. There's also Joe Blow/Rod Wad, based on the Bazooka Joe mascot (and wearing a Bazooka Joe shirt). |
| 199 | ** Cootie Cody/Buggin' Brandon of [=ANS1=][[note]]Originally [=OS16=] card Crawly Raleigh/Bugged Boyd[[/note]] is based on the "Trilobyte Terror" card of another Topps series, 1988's ''Dinosaurs Attack!'' |
| 200 | ** Ren Wrench[=/=]Grippin' Griffin is an anthropomorphic pipe wrench with a red-and-blue color scheme and a handle stylized to resemble [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros a certain plumber's overalls.]] |
| 201 | * SigilSpam: The "GPK" abbreviation appears on a lot of cards. |
| 202 | * SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Some characters like Ali Gator[=/=]Marshy Marshall are kids with animal heads, while others like Mark Bark[=/=]Kennel Kenny are just straight-up animals. |
| 203 | %%* SlimeGirl: Jenny Jelly[=/=]Sara Slime. |
| 204 | * {{Snowlems}}: Meltin' Elton[=/=]Ig Lou[=/=]Crystal Gale is a sentient snowman [[TooDumbToLive trying to warm himself by a fire]]. |
| 205 | %%* SquashedFlat: Run Down Rhoda[=/=]Flat Pat. |
| 206 | * SymbolSwearing: Fowl Raoul[=/=]Mack Quack, as a parody of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. |
| 207 | %%* StaringKid: Claire Stare[=/=]Bloodshot Scott. |
| 208 | * StickySituation: Glooey Gabe[=/=]Sticky Rick has a lot of stuff glued to his body. |
| 209 | * SuicideAsComedy: There are some cards where the joke revolves around the Kid killing themselves. |
| 210 | ** Cliff Hanger[=/=]Neck Ty has hung himself and is somehow hoisting his own body in the air by his noose. |
| 211 | ** Lynched Lyndon[=/=]Bruce Noose depicts a Kid attempting to hang himself, only for his body to detach and leave his head looking down while still tied to the noose. |
| 212 | ** 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 of a Kid with a tiny head, a long neck and rows of arms that have every right arm holding a report card graded "F" 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. |
| 213 | * SweetTooth: Junkfood John[=/=]Jay Decay is surrounded by sweets. |
| 214 | %%* TearOffYourFace |
| 215 | %%* ToiletHumour |
| 216 | %%* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Ice Cole[=/=]Stuck Buck. |
| 217 | %%* TongueTrauma |
| 218 | %%* TooManyMouths: Mickey Mouths[=/=]Oral Laurel. |
| 219 | %%* TheToothHurts |
| 220 | * TwoFaced: Split Kit[=/=]Mixed-Up Mitch looks like a normal boy on one half, but is a filthy punk on the other half of his body. |
| 221 | * UncleSamWantsYou: Snooty Sam[=/=]U.S. Arnie is a spoof of the classic recruitment poster depicting Uncle Sam picking his nose. |
| 222 | %%* UndignifiedDeath |
| 223 | * UrineTrouble: Smelly Kelly[=/=]Doug Plug is a sentient fire hydrant expressing shock at a dog coming toward their way. |
| 224 | * VomitChainReaction: Repeatin' Pete[=/=]Round Robyns even features a yin-yang vomit forever vomiting itself! |
| 225 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: A huge number of cards have characters visibly vomiting, some of the more noteworthy examples being Up Chuck/Heavin' Steven, Luke Puke/Richie Retch and Valerie Vomit/Barfin' Barbara. |
| 226 | %%* VulgarHumor |
| 227 | * WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Sort of done with the Where Are They Now? sub-set of the Flashback series, which depicts the current whereabouts and adult lives of several of the original Garbage Pail Kids. One example is Adam Bomb[=/=]Blasted Billy, who is shown to have married and had a lot of children with Ada Bomb[=/=]Blasted Betty. |
| 228 | %%* WholesomeCrossdresser: Swell Mel[=/=]Dressy Jesse and [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Rock E. Horror[=/=]Marty Gras]]. |
| 229 | %%* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Parodied with Reptillian Lillian[=/=]Jay Prey. |
| 230 | * WickedWitch: Weird Wendy[=/=]Haggy Maggie, although she falls fairly close to CuteWitch as well. |
| 231 | * WilliamTelling: Split Cord[=/=]William Won't Tell, split in half by the arrow and shown to have wood-patterned innards. |
| 232 | * YourHeadAsplode: Newly Dead Ed[=/=]Dyna Mike explodes his head. |
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