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Garbage Pail Kids ®
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Garbage Pail Kids is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls which were popular at the time. Each sticker card features a child exhibiting some form of abnormality, deformity, and/or suffering a lulzy fate. To maximize profit two versions of each card were produced, with variations featuring the same artwork but a different character name denoted by an 'A' or 'B' lettered number. Many of the card backs feature puzzle pieces that form giant murals while other flip-side subjects vary greatly among the series, from licenses and awards to comic strips and, in more recent releases, Facebook profiles.
GPK IRL B&?
During the height of the card series' popularity, Garbage Pail Kids were b& in many schools. One of the main reasons for the ban was that teachers cited [citation needed] them as distractions during class.
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Licensed to Ill?
A selection of the offending licenses & awards.
TIL • Trademark Infringement Lolsuit
Topps were jewed by the makers of Cabbage Patch Kids for trademark infringement. As part of the out-of-court settlement Topps modified the appearance of the Garbage Pail Kids to remove the resemblance between brands & tweaked their logo. Production of the cards themselves continued, but by 1988 sales had bottomed out and a planned 16th series was never produced.
GPK • The Movie
In 1987, a live-action film based on the card characters was released. Its shitty production made it both a critical and commercial flop, opening poorly in 374 theaters with initial receipts of $661,512 and total gross receipts of $1,576,615, barely making back its 1 million dollar budget. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 0% critic rating and 35% audience rating. It is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made.
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GPK IRL B& 2: Electric Boogaloo
The American television-network CBS commissioned an entire season of GPK cartoons, and heavily promoted it in the run-up to the 1987-88 season. However, it was abruptly pulled a few days before its debut, and was replaced with an extra half hour of Muppet Babies, which was expanded to 90 minutes in order to fill the slot after Garbage Pail Kids was pulled from the schedule.
CBS removed the series from their schedule, following protests from Action for Children's Television, the National Coalition on Television Violence, and the Christian Leaders for Responsible Television (a part of the American Family Association). The reasons given were that the series ridiculed the handicapped and glorified violence, along with the common issue eventually rectified by the Children's Television Act that the program was effectively program-length ads for the toys and cards of the Garbage Pail Kids franchise.
Some advertisers, such as Nabisco, McDonald's and Crayola also pulled out, either due to pressure from interest groups, or because they were unable to pre-screen the series from advanced tapes.
Despite never airing in the United States, it did air in several other countries, including Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Israel, Italy and the Philippines.
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External links
- GEEPEEKAY • Comprehensive card reference site.
- Rarest & Most Expensive GPK Cards Ever Made • io9
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