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30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

We were making things that Topps that kids boughtwith their own money

We were making things that Topps that kids bought
with their own money

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We were making things that Topps
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that kids bought with their own money.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
55
Timestamp in Movie
00:53:54
Uploaded
Jul 06, 2025
Genres
documentary
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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...
We we're not making things for librarians; - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:07
We we're not making things for librarians;
So that was, you know, it felt like we succeeded. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:06
So that was, you know, it felt like we succeeded.
Because kids are kids and they just like to do, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:09
Because kids are kids and they just like to do,
And all that stuff: the bodily liquids - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:08
And all that stuff: the bodily liquids
All that parents say you shouldn't do and - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:07
All that parents say you shouldn't do and
And, but they were forbidden and they didn't. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:04
And, but they were forbidden and they didn't.
No, but the parents were just too, too powerful. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:08
No, but the parents were just too, too powerful.
How do you feel about that? Are you proud of that? - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:05
How do you feel about that? Are you proud of that?
I am proud of whatever is against all these parents- - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:09
I am proud of whatever is against all these parents-
This German newspaper and this guy was against this - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:10
This German newspaper and this guy was against this
First I think that the kids could buy it themselves. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:05
First I think that the kids could buy it themselves.
It was just cheap. Something that like - I didn't think much - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:30
It was just cheap. Something that like - I didn't think...
And the parents and the schools - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:15
And the parents and the schools
So that made it even better, you know. - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:04
So that made it even better, you know.
I had the good fortune of having a relative, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:12
I had the good fortune of having a relative,
And he was always on the cutting edge - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:22
And he was always on the cutting edge
Not as kid art or card art but - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:07
Not as kid art or card art but
He kind of saw them as an anti pop thing, - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:08
He kind of saw them as an anti pop thing,
We were bringing the counter-culture to - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:08
We were bringing the counter-culture to
We have some things in here like - 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story 00:07
We have some things in here like