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30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

In the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had fo...

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And they became a fad - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And they became a fad

At the top of the heap were the
comic strip artists below those - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

At the top of the heap were the comic strip artists below th...

Topps was like, to me the
end of the road in Brooklyn, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Topps was like, to me the end of the road in Brooklyn,

Topps was in Brooklyn
then, in a very, kind of, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Topps was in Brooklyn then, in a very, kind of,

There were like no windows and I - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

There were like no windows and I

These interminable,
Xeroxed buildings that looked one like - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

These interminable, Xeroxed buildings that looked one like

The Uneeda Doll Company. And
yeah, I mean you know on our way - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

The Uneeda Doll Company. And yeah, I mean you know on our wa...

I'm sure worked it's
way into our - into - - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I'm sure worked it's way into our - into -

When I first went out to Topps
Bubblegum to meet Len Brown, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

When I first went out to Topps Bubblegum to meet Len Brown,

It was unique in that
the gum was made two flights above - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

It was unique in that the gum was made two flights above

When you be approaching our
building just like walking down - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

When you be approaching our building just like walking down

And you could
actually taste the sweetness in - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And you could actually taste the sweetness in

I'm Len Brown. I'm
living in Bee Cave, Texas and I - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I'm Len Brown. I'm living in Bee Cave, Texas and I

We started to come
into the candy business - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We started to come into the candy business

But Bazooka was
probably the number one - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

But Bazooka was probably the number one

They made as a
staple bubblegum, not even the best - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

They made as a staple bubblegum, not even the best

And it was this man who would
become incredibly important to - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And it was this man who would become incredibly important to

Woody's job was to
come up with trading card ideas. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Woody's job was to come up with trading card ideas.

Woody Gelman was of
course the creative nucleus of Topps. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Woody Gelman was of course the creative nucleus of Topps.

He was a story
and idea man first - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

He was a story and idea man first

Going back to the
earliest days, he helped create baseball - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Going back to the earliest days, he helped create baseball

But then we started talking
about different products that we - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

But then we started talking about different products that we

And more and more, there
was a need for what they called - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And more and more, there was a need for what they called

One of the first
things that we worked on - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

One of the first things that we worked on

We were instructed by the
president that a company with a - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We were instructed by the president that a company with a

We'll make them violent - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We'll make them violent

And 'lo and behold
it became a big hit. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And 'lo and behold it became a big hit.

And that was a
forerunner of Mars Attacks. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And that was a forerunner of Mars Attacks.

Wacky Packs which
was one of the very important - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Wacky Packs which was one of the very important

Oh, Woody was the world's
greatest collector, I mean, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Oh, Woody was the world's greatest collector, I mean,

It was like going to a
great museum of pop culture. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

It was like going to a great museum of pop culture.

Stuff that nobody
could ever get to see like - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Stuff that nobody could ever get to see like

Multiple runs of - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Multiple runs of

All the old Argosy, the
old Amazing Stories pulps, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

All the old Argosy, the old Amazing Stories pulps,

And what Woody did was - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And what Woody did was

He'd like be organizing
the stuff in a time - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

He'd like be organizing the stuff in a time

It was a world
where finding it involved - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

It was a world where finding it involved

And one day he brings
in a bunch of these things - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And one day he brings in a bunch of these things

These are advertising cards - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

These are advertising cards

They'd be things that
would look like a tin can - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

They'd be things that would look like a tin can

And there'd be an advertisement - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And there'd be an advertisement

He said you know we
should be doing these, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

He said you know we should be doing these,

They're beautiful.
But you're saying - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

They're beautiful. But you're saying

Or a pea pod
with some peas in it? - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Or a pea pod with some peas in it?

Well, wouldn't it be better to
do it like the way Mad does it - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Well, wouldn't it be better to do it like the way Mad d...

I remember the back cover
of one issue of Mad had a spoof, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I remember the back cover of one issue of Mad had a spoof,

But I cut out the size of that
package and showed it to Woody - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

But I cut out the size of that package and showed it to Wood...

And either he or
Art suggested that - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And either he or Art suggested that

So there's a visual besides just - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

So there's a visual besides just

Uh, Harvey Kurtzman,
the guy who created Mad, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Uh, Harvey Kurtzman, the guy who created Mad,

War comics at a time where
the equivalent of Sergeant Rock - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

War comics at a time where the equivalent of Sergeant Rock

Meanwhile the
Harvey Kurtzman war comics - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Meanwhile the Harvey Kurtzman war comics

And I really do believe
that they had a lot to do - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And I really do believe that they had a lot to do

And stuff like that-all was born - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And stuff like that-all was born

Because Harvey
Kurtzman who created this thing - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Because Harvey Kurtzman who created this thing

It was a kind of
self-reflexive, ironic humor - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

It was a kind of self-reflexive, ironic humor

It was basically saying - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

It was basically saying

And we here at Mad are
part of the adult world. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And we here at Mad are part of the adult world.

I am from Brooklyn, I was born
in Brooklyn, I live in Brooklyn - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I am from Brooklyn, I was born in Brooklyn, I live in Brookl...

One of the early
trading cards things - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

One of the early trading cards things

I remember, Len and
I drove out to Toys R' Us - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I remember, Len and I drove out to Toys R' Us

And um, at that time,
Cabbage Patch Kids - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And um, at that time, Cabbage Patch Kids

And the problem of the day
around this conference table - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And the problem of the day around this conference table

People are fighting over
something that's become hotter - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

People are fighting over something that's become hotter

And we thought maybe we could - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And we thought maybe we could

And so they were
asking an incredible, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And so they were asking an incredible,

And the, the result was
that wasn't going to work - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And the, the result was that wasn't going to work

If you could already get - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

If you could already get

We were disappointed
and I think Arthur Shorin - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We were disappointed and I think Arthur Shorin

You know, we'll parody them
like we did with Wacky Packages. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

You know, we'll parody them like we did with Wacky Pack...

Arthur Shorin
had a term for certain - - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Arthur Shorin had a term for certain -

And one of his favorite
types of products to make - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And one of his favorite types of products to make

He said - let's do a fuck-you - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

He said - let's do a fuck-you

Stan Hart had been working, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Stan Hart had been working,

So at that point Stan,
in a rather imperial way, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

So at that point Stan, in a rather imperial way,

And then me and
Len looked at each other - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And then me and Len looked at each other

Uh, well you
know we would just do - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Uh, well you know we would just do

We had no idea
how to do more than one. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We had no idea how to do more than one.

I remember Art or
it might have been Len. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I remember Art or it might have been Len.

I think it was Art
running back into the meeting - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I think it was Art running back into the meeting

And that was
Arthur Shorin's edict that now - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And that was Arthur Shorin's edict that now

And that team -that
group which wound up being - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And that team -that group which wound up being

This big guy who worked
on the Carol Burnett Show - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

This big guy who worked on the Carol Burnett Show

And there was Len Brown
as the creative director - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And there was Len Brown as the creative director

And they would get
together and have meetings - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And they would get together and have meetings

I was never a part of
the GPK team while they - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

I was never a part of the GPK team while they

So at that point
the problem was how - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

So at that point the problem was how

Before Garbage Pail Kids they - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

Before Garbage Pail Kids they

And the first ones
they did were just ugly - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

And the first ones they did were just ugly

So it would be like an ugly
creature and it would be called - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

So it would be like an ugly creature and it would be called

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In the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll. The resulting commercial product tapped into the international kid zeitgeist. That young generation felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had fo...

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Director: Jeff Zapata, Joe Simko

Writer: Joe Simko

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary

Year: 2017

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ImdbRating: 6.8

BoxOffice: $27,739

Released: 20 Sep 2017

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