The WORST Movie of All Time?: The Story of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
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How did The Garbage Pail Kids Movie even come to exist? Who's idea was this and why did the final film turn out so poorly?
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is a 1987 American comedy film and an adaptation of the then-popular children's trading cards series of the same name.
The cards were a parody of the popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and each card featured a character that typically had a gross habit, an abnormality, or suffered a terrible fate. The film depicted seven of the Garbage Pail Kids interacting with society and befriending a regular boy.
The film was universally panned by critics and audiences and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It was a box-office bomb, earning just over $1.6 million on a $1 million budget.
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Funny story. Ron McClachlan (Juice) got out of acting some years after this film and about 4 years ago sold me a new roof on my house here in Denver. Super cool guy, very friendly and had so many stories to tell about his time in this movie.
Edit: I can't remember too many details about the movie anymore, but he did tell me about running into Kyle McClachlan at a bar in LA when Kyle was doing Twin Peaks and they figured out they were cousins and the common last name wasn't just a coincidence. He said Kyle was really cool and they kept in touch after that. 😂
I can only guess what kind of crazy stuff he talked about. Just the basic description of the little people in suits is some effed up stuff.
If I were him think I'd been traumatized just filming the movie
I want the pictures! Won't believe it w.out em. 😜😂
That's awesome!
@@mikeyfn-a6684 😂😂😂🤘
My best friend in school had a little sister that was stuck for 2 summers in a row in one of those "random old lady with a house down the street" day cares that would never fly in this day and age. He told me her and the other rotating group of about 30 kids either played in the back yard (which was nothing but hard packed dirt) in the blazing southern heat or had to sit in the tiny living room crowded around a 19 inch tv watching this movie on VHS over and over again.
Garbage Pail Kids, indeed.
Is she alright?
@@freakshowfilmfestival3591 She’s still alive, but we don’t talk about those two summers.
@@valecrassus7835 No doubt. 😳 It's gotta be worse than finding Ray Brauer's body in the 50's.
@@freakshowfilmfestival3591 a total….barf-o-rama
That sounds less like a summer and more like a circle of Hell Dante decided not to describe in the Divine Comedy because it was just too ahead of his time.
Dan kind of touches on something here that has been apparent to me since I was a kid: By the time the cash-grab movies came out for so many of these properties (GPC, Transformers, MoTU, etc), I had already aged out of the target demographic, and never went to see any of them. I was always in disbelief that these movies could have much, if any, success because they were always so late to the game, and figured that the kids in the right age bracket to see them would lack much in the way of a reference point to want to.
The higher ups were way out of touch. A good example would be how the Transformers toyline continued until 1990, yet they relied heavily on the cartoon for advertisement which had ended in 1987. New toys were being made yet none of them appeared in the cartoon.
We talkin about the original 80s Transformers movie? 2 years into the franchise isn’t too late, is it?
@@christianbranca3818 For me it was, as I was 11 when the toyline and series first came out, but 13 going on 14 by the time the movie came out. My interests had already shifted away from toys.
Dude I'm 40 years old and most of your videos hit home so hard. Another great video
This movie is so genuinely unpleasant that I think my brain suppressed the memory of its existence and for years it was one of those "did I actually see that, or just invent it in my head?" movies. Fun fact, that company, Atlantic Releasing eventually did go out of business and a whole bunch of their 35mm prints ended up in a defunct film depot here in Kansas City. We had a chance to go through and take what we wanted. Let me tell you, there were stacks and stacks of film prints of Teen Wolf 1 and 2, along with the aforementioned He-Man/She-Ra movie, Night of the Comet, 1984, Go-Bots, Valley Girl, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Heat (Burt Reynolds, not Al Pacino), Hardbodies 2, and tons of movies you never heard of. We took them back to our theater and would occasionally run a movie as a midnight screening for the staff.
Night of the Comet is a pretty good one.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a legitimate classic.
I'm sorry I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact there exists a group that thinks Spaceballs is a worse movie than Garbage Pail Kids.
probably same people that think getting vaxxed 4 times is safe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@trappedintimesurroundedbye5477 you just had to politicize a thread about the fucking GARBAGE PAIL KIDS movie. Time for you to go back into the can with the green slime, true patriot!
I've never heard anything from an 80's kid other than Spaceballs is a classic. Who are these people?
@@trappedintimesurroundedbye5477 I know right I mean doctors. What do they know. Although I am curious as to why some of the wealthiest people paid off governors to be the first people to get vaxxed and when reporters brought it up they were threatened, but again just because Doctors went to school and wealthy paid off politicians and threatened reporters shouldn't raise any red flags.
Spaceballs is the worst movie of all time. Deal with it.
My mom was hardcore. She took me to see this on my 10th birthday because of how much I loved the cards. I remember actually enjoying it as a kid.
RIP mom.
Fun fact: Katie Barberi was just 15 when she made the movie and of course she's 50 now and still looks amazing, she was actually born in Mexico and has found success in many Mexican telenovelas.
Yeah it blew my mind when I found out she was only 1 year older than Mackenzie Astin. I always thought she was way older.
She has a one-shot, no-lines role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" during the "Bueller, Bueller" scene.
@@whosaidthat84 Katie Barberi Dated Mackenzie Astin while filming the movie and broke up in the middle of the movie
@@megankumamoto3645 wow I didn't know that!
I know right! As someone who watched the telenovelas she appeared in, watching this film (just to find out if it was as bad as it's said it is) only to find her made me go "What the hell?!"
There were two movies when I was a kid that I liked and watched for the first time in years... one was Howard the Duck, the other Garbage Pail Kids, knowing they were widely regarded as awful. I still like Howard the Duck (and to be fair, Lea Thompson might've been part of why I liked it in the first place) but no level of thickness on the ol'nostalgia goggles could save Garbage Pail Kids.
They're both nostalgia-fueled guilty pleasures for me. Ironically entertaining but they deserve all the crap they get 😂
Lea Thompson was smoking in that movie. I remember as a kid feeling weirded out by that bedroom scene, since he was a duck... but damn if I didn't keep watching 'cause of her.
@Intergalactic Dust Bunny KCFOS is and will always be a cult classic, there's so much in that movie no one can touch.
To speak again on that bedroom scene, I picked it up even as a kid... which I normally didn't, and it definitely made me uncomfortable. But Thompson in a nightie? I couldn't look away.
There is definitely something about revisiting our memories years later, our favorites definitely altered over time... but never not relive it, it's your own history. Don't have to love it now, but remember that you did, it shaped you in some small way... at least anything with an impact at such a young impressionable age. That's my take anyways, cheers to your awesome taste in weird movies. 😁👍
Howard the Duck barely holds up but it does actually have cool moments, very much unlike this movie
Even when I saw this on VHS as a kid, I had no idea why a bunch of near adults were so devoted to beating up and even murdering some pre-teen. The closest explanation I could think of was Juice seeing Dodger as a rival for Tangerine's affections, but that just brings up questions best not asked of a movie aimed towards kids.
You mean about the writers or the producers or the I don't know, but I know the set design and special effects people don't deserve those questions
"No one sets out to make a bad movie"
Wrong
There's insurance fraud, there's pushing out a provably bad film just to maintain rights, theres malfeasance.
I mean we got at least 2 of those with the Fantastic Four lol
Indifference to quality. Not the same.
I've always been convinced that Tom Green deliberately set out to torch his Hollywood career with Freddy Got Fingered and it kinda worked. I think he had a bit part in one other film after that, but he went into obscurity for years, only to make a comeback with his podcast.
Three. Roger Corman's version remains the best of the three.
I'm impressed at the restraint it must have taken to not use THAT Mac & Me clip. You all know the one. Paul Rudd's favorite.
Saw this in theaters and remember begging my mothers to take me. I also remember being disturbed by it though, not nightmare inducing, but just changed my feelings towards GPK as a concept. It basically made me go from seeing GPK as being something "cool" or "neat", to seeing the concepts depicted on the cards as being true images of grossness, nastiness, and horror. Some concepts don't need a live-action incarnation, and are better kept in the realm of print and animation.
My mother was one of those parents who hated GPK and went so far as to throw out my complete collection. She forbade anyone from taking me to see this movie in the theater. After it came out on video, her mother came and picked me up one weekend, took me to the video store and rented it for me, so this movie holds a special place in my heart. Your assessment of the film is spot on. It's not THAT bad, but it ain't great. There is a song on the soundtrack that I've been humming for years (Big, Big Man by the Beat Farmers) and I remember crushing hard on Tangerine. Thanks for doing a video on it. Your channel rocks! It's like a deep dive into all the important media of my 80's childhood.
I loved collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards SO much. Until all of a sudden I didn't anymore. It's called adolescence and it ruins everything............🤟🏻🤓🥛
Yeah, girls made their appearance in my field of view around that time. Plus they just kept pumping out new series and there was a lot more stuff to spend my allowance on. I do remember buying an entire box of the 4th series and STILL didn't get the elusive Reese Pieces card! I did get a lot of Stuffed Stephen, so that was cool.
I don't collect them anymore either, but I still find myself buying a few packs of these whenever I run across them in stores
Yup. I jumped on during the 3rd series, and ended with the 6th. I did try for a time to get series 1 and 2, but no eBay back then. I think I threw them all away just a few years later when I started highschool. I rented the movie on VHS right after it came out and that was enough.
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Yeah I was 7-8 when that movie came out and I think I saw commercials for it but that was about it. Never saw it on TV or anything like that it never even came back into my brain until over a decade later when some kind of cult movie festival thing was showing it.
Couldn't get to it and still haven't to this day. Honestly from everything I've heard I don't feel like I'm missing anything. The cards were cool but that's about it.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu No your definitely not missing anything. I was 11. I think one of my friends got his parents to take him to the theater. I recall is didn't last long, and was available to rent in less than 3 months, which back then hardly ever happened. I remember the same thing happened to masters of the universe though, and I actually have a nostalgic soft spot for that film as bad as it was.
My brother and his friends traded those cards in secret. The artwork was gross yet creative.
Well My Brother Eric Mosher Has The Movie On DVD He Watched It And He Loves It
This movie is one of my guilty pleasures. It really is terrible but there's something so bad about it that I can't help but love it! 😆
Same.
Also, Toxic Avenger, RobotJox 😁😂👍
Yes and the troma stuff was great. The thing is people go in expecting something more than garbage when it's literally how it's marketed lol. Garbage is great and we need more of it. We lost an entire world of creativity to he horribly homogenized media churned out of the real pop culture garbage
Like troma was punk rock in video form.
Sometimes this channel takes me on a nostalgic trip. Sometimes I'm introduced to things I never knew existed. Sometimes, like today, it fills in the blanks to things I only knew peripherally. Always good.
I had heard some stories about this movie but when you hear the details like how the director didn't care at all and was doing it completely contractually and how the people in charge really didn't care as long as the movie came out and came out cheap you really start to understand what an absolute cluster this entire film and everything around it were.
And how it completely ruined any chance for the garbage Pail kids cards going forward.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I knew there was a movie and it was bad, but that's it. I remember the cards when I was younger, which I maybe had a few of. Now I see some of them in perfect condition go for thousands lol
I was in grade school during the Garbage Pail Kid's craze. My school banned the cards. That didn't stop kids from bringing them to school and trading them. My friends would mix them in with baseball cards so that the teachers couldn't see them. IMO the cards became more popular because the school had banned them.
Huh. My school did that with Pokèmon. Literally anything related to it was banned but that didn't stop us.
Was lucky enough to watch this in theaters around 2000 when a single print of the film was making rounds through the country to independent film chains. We had an extensive Q&A with one of the crew who worked on the film. And it was an awesome experience. Where everyone was cheering and reacting in unison in the sold out theatre to each part of the movie.
I felt like I was watching a film with my entire family. Something I have never experienced since. To this day, I have a MASSIVE collection of the original series (15 of them), many of which are unopened boxes of packs of the cards!
This movie will always have a special place in my heart, similar to Howard The Duck, The Madballs movie and The Monster Squad!
If you enjoyed the camaraderie of that experience the most, I suggest going to the midnight premiers of your favorite series. I was a huge Marvel fan in the 2010’s and going to the midnight premiers felt just like this, because only big fans go to the midnight premiers. So you know you have something in common with everyone there already
This movie was just a total cash grab. The death knell of the whole movement. I miss being young lol!
Comparing it to something like the He-Man Masters the universe live action movie is absolutely spot-on.
Trying to ride something at the very end of it's popularity and failing spectacularly.
I am 44. Till this day the thought of a alligator eating my toes while I sleep still freaks me out. That alligator was my Horror villain
I feel bad for the kids today that didn't get to grow up in the 80s like us. They'll never know what they missed.
Seriously good imaginations we had. Plus we had the best cartoons and collections. Everything is garbage now! Haha!
I feel like there was a joke to be made regarding one's sheath and one's sword of omens...
Great video. I remember seeing the tv ad for this as a kid and getting a "I never want to see that movie" feeling about it. I can't say I know anyone that saw this as a kid, which says a lot. GBK was all the rage at the time, and we'd go all over looking for cards.
"Look, I know it all seeeeeems bad, but if we could get an established star to guest in the film, it could all still work. A known popular name, an elder statesman, a cult star who can bring in their own audience."
"Like a Alec Guinness?"
"Yeah, but cheaper."
"Erm, Vincent Price?"
"I mean cheap."
"Well, we could change this character and maybe get Carolyn Jones."
"I said cheap."
*1000 names later*
"Anthony Newley will work for cake. Literal, bargain range, Costco cake."
"PERFECT!"
All the kids love Anthony Newley.
That quote from Rod Amateau was crazy lol
Thank you for showcasing the classic "Clue" during that flashback commercial break.
That was a bulls*** lawsuit. Weird Al woulda been outta business long ago under that same premise.
Next to Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, this is a masterpiece. I do believe good ole Kirk has the honor of making the worst movie of all time.
Equal parts boring, preachy and stupid. Kind of like Kirk Cameron himself.
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That's a terrible comparison though.
@@Clay3613 It was great to me🤷🏾♂️
Boy, I dunno, I think there might be some competition from Manos: The Hands of Fate and Plan 9 From Outerspace. Turkish and Brazilian Star Wars are pretty high up there too.
Saw it in the theatre during its original theatrical run in the late 1980’s and I didn’t hate the movie back then at all. There are much worse movies IMO. Another awesome video Dan & Greg. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
It's bad cause it makes no sense.
I’m in Newfoundland!
@@borrachoporrero9929 MOTU ?
@@Gatorade69 Masters of the Universe, MOTU for short hand.
"We can do anything by working with each other!" 😂 I'll never forget that song!
I had a ton of GPK cards in 4th and 5th grade.. And I lost a ton of GPK cards to teachers in 4th or 5th grade. Somewhere Mrs. Fitch still has about 50 of my cards!
i swear this guy could make a video talking about eating cereal for breakfast and i would find it interesting and enjoyable to some extent....🤔....
🤦♂️ Just realized that Magic Spoon sponsorship is working. Granted i'm not super hungry after seeing those animatronic costume heads.
😅👍
This move is not even the worst. It is easy to get through, but don't expect Titanic here. How is the TARDIS-like trashcan not brought up?
4:14 Garlic toothpaste? Doesn't Wario brush with that?
Just the fact that Windy Winston is just farting all over the place while looking like that creepy doll is hilarious.
"No one sets out to make a bad movie"
Counterpoint: Uwe Boll, for tax reasons.
Also counterpoint: "Sharknado", for fun reasons.
This movie felt like if someone took Gremlins,The Neverending Story and ET and then added a bunch of garbage pail kids cards,and then put it all in a blender.
The cards were also a smashing success around the world.
Far from the worst, I was actually lucky enough to have seen this in the theatre during it's very limited run, it's something I am so happy I got to experience. Loved this movie experience ☺️
Same! saw it the day before it left the theater.
@@matts6607 GPK brothers for life 🤜🏽🤛🏽
@@littlegipper5798 80's kids rock! We grew up in a great time.
I saw it in the theater, too! Didn’t realize it had a limited run. Lucky me?
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My friend and I do a bad movie weekend marathon once a year and have been doing it for 10+ years. This movie was year 2 and we still quote "No time like toe time" and "wouldn't wanna be ya toes" 😆😆
That's really cool! I'm a big, bad movie fan, so I'm curious, what other films did you watch?
Off the top of my head, my favorites include, The Room, Space Mutiny, anything by Neil Breen, Mitchell and Birdemic.
I love the topics this channel is covering! Very glad to find it and most definitely subbed to see what's next.
Wait....HE'S SEAN ASTIN'S BRO?!?!
Holy crap, it's been a million years and I just now learned this.
No joke, finding out who his parents and brother are was the most mind-blowing part of this whole video. I did a full on triple take, I was like whaaaaaaa!!!
If you're an eighties kid you probably had these stickers stuck to everything . Grossville high stickers also
Also, one word explains the creative process of not only this, but many MANY other crazy kids things from the 80s; Cocaine.
According to a man of great authority in the matter it's apparently "a hell of a drug".
I love this channel. Growing up in the 80's was a magical time. I am glad to have this channel to watch so I can relive the best of my childhood.
The term, tragic magic comes to mind...
I got a bootleg DVD of this movie from a convention when that was the only way to get a copy of the movie. The print they used was a little darker than normal and a bit grainy and I feel like that actually just worked in the movie's favour when I first watched it. It was like watching a "grindhouse" release of an old print they found in a closet. It just worked. It's a horrible movie, yes, but I was glad to see it and got a better copy when they finally released it. I honestly don't watch the movie often, but it's there in those strange cases that I actually want to watch it.
I remember a rumour from school that there were two different VHS releases, one with a blue border, one with a red border, and the red border one was the full uncut more horrible one. But then that was all bs as most schoolyard rumours are.
Imagine if their really was a "State Home For The Ugly", the only part of the movie that made me laugh. Who would you have commited ???
Every god damn person on this planet!! HAHAHAHA!!!!
I remember watching that first episode so many years ago. Great video. Great fast talking.
That cut to Mac and Me had me laughing for a good few minutes. Thanks for that.👍👍
Props on getting through that Sheath promo with a straight face, how many takes did that require? 😂
I'm about a decade too young to have gotten into the GPK card fad and this video was the first I've ever heard of the movie. Amateau sounds like a real piece of work.
The VHS copy was always out on weekends at the rental store, so my mom finally rented it for me on a weekday and I turned it off after 15 minutes. Such an awful movie.
I mean when you hear the background for it it makes a lot more sense. A contractually obligated movie made by someone who didn't give a damn about the property it was based on and a bunch of other people that just wanted it to be made to create interest in the cards. A business decision through and through.
And much like the animated series it was an extremely watered-down version of what kids actually wanted.
I bought the copy from our rental store still got it lol
It was a _perfect_ opportunity to do an animated movie, and they screwed it up.
It definitely would have been a step up from both the movie we did get and the sad watered down version CBS pulled the plug on.
Yeah but sometimes live action works even when it shouldn’t. The ninja turtles movie doesn’t sound like it should work in live action but it did (and the garbage pail kids dont even have to do martial arts)
Have to agree a GPK's Animated movie probably would've went over and done way better...
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I do think I remember hearing that TMNT had like an 8 million dollar budget though or something like that and was still considered an "indie" movie. Also things like having stunt actors available with the martial arts skills for scale for at least crazy cheap made a doable. Although honestly you could tell that just wasn't a passion project the fact the director was doing it out of essentially contractual obligation guaranteed there would be no passion whatsoever.
Garbage Pail Kids is the greatest movie ever! How dare you human 😤
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I grew up in northern WV in the 80's. I vividly remember all this controversy. Fun fact about A. James Manchin (the State Treasurer referenced in the news story): he was impeached by the WV House of Delegates for losing the state $280 million in 1989.
Is there any relation between Treasurer Manchin and the current senator from WV also named Manchin?
Me and my brothers used to collect the cards. This movie was horrible and it wasn't even so bad it was good. This movie was just plain horrible.
When you hear about how this movie was made and the complete lack of passion or any care whatsoever it makes perfect sense how it turned out how it did.
So... why... uh, why was there a commercial for the movie "Clue" in the middle of the GPK movie video?
18:35 Hoping that the episode about that movie comes sooner rather than later!
I actually saw that movie in the theater. Not a movie bad enough to have killed a studio should be but of course but it was way way over budget in a water world type way and a complete vanity project for the director. It should be shown in classes on what not to do honestly.
I like that you used footage from the Cabbage Patch Kids All Stars commercial. My first CPK was from that line. I was a little late the CPK dolls being born in 84. I was also late to the GPK cards. I have some, but I think my parents bought them for me. I never knew about the movie until I read about it online.
I had all the cards, mom was on a mission to buy me FULL BOXES because she saw on the news that people wanted to ban them. I remember liking this movie even though it didn’t make sense. And I had the HUGEST CRUSH on Mackenzie Astin at 6 years old.
Sadly, my older sister threw them all away in the paper bag if them I had in a drawer. :(
The first part of the title of this video is "The worst movie of all time?" The second video UA-cam's algorithm recommends along side this video? Ishtar.
Great video. I don't understand why there's a trailer for Clue in the middle though?
With the clue movie, they should bring back this movie or some mystery movie, with different endings in different theaters. That would be so cool but people don’t go to the theater much anymore. Maybe instead of different theaters, it could be different streaming derives
As promised, I “watched” this video but with my screen hidden. Aside from the short part featuring the card art, I merely listened to the video.
I still hit Like. I still love the channel. But I hate this movie so, so much.
It would have been interesting to see what the suits could have done had they actually gotten to finish them before they had to film the movie.
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Who tf nominated Jim Varney as a potential ‘Worst New Star’?! The guy was a legend in the Ernest movies!
So Dan, why do you have two creepy Rejuvenique facial toner masks displayed on the left-hand side?
I'll never forget waking up on Saturday morning to watch the new GPK cartoon show. Only it didn't air. At the last moments, they pulled it from the airwaves. I was so upset and disappointed. The kind of disappointment that only a kid of that age could relate to; world shattering. Luckily I caught the show several years after that and decided I'd probably would've hated it anyhow.
From what I've heard the creator of the cards actually hated the cartoon because it was such a watered-down joke compared to the cards they were based on. I feel like as bad as the movie is it's that special kind of good bad. Entertaining bad not boring bad.
I was THIS close to throwing my money away on the DVD when they released it. Had I not seen a YT upload of an episode, that would have been like 20 bucks I'd never see again. On the one hand, the parental groups were completely overreacting to the series, but I get the feeling they inadvertently saved a generation from a painful disappointment. GBK should have waited until the 90's (and Fox Kids), when they actually could have made a madcap, wacky series in spirit of the cards. Not the package of lame, safe, uninspiredness we got. Even the one episode Madballs cartoon worked better, and they had to invent some sort of dumb resistance vs cartoon authoritarian story line.
At least there was Mad Balls the cartoon.
@@freakshowfilmfestival3591 Eh... sort of. It was two episodes and they weren't even connected. One was a pilot series, the other was some sort of direct to video series of loose gags. But I'll give you this. There was an 80's Marvel comic series that was more true to the toy concept than the cartoon was. Wasn't very good, but it was something.
I remember the day I turned on the TV expecting Godzilla and got the smurfs instead
I wonder if a remake would work as a parody of Puppetmaster?
Or better yet Garbage Pail Kids vs Puppetmaster!
The plot could be about a jealous wizard apprentice steals his master's spellbook to animate his own dolls to serve him creating the Garbage Pail Kids, and his master sends the Puppets from Puppetmaster after him to get the spellbook back.
The art on those cards is AWESOMENESS!!!
I've watched it in various combinations of drunk and high over the years, but no this really isn't one of those movies that improves in that way.
I am 42 in collected these cards when I was a kid how in the hell did I not know this movie existed lol
I'm roughly the same age as you and let me tell you the blip of time that this movie existed in theaters was microscopic. They showed commercials for it for maybe a week and then it went completely silent and vanished. I wouldn't even have it come back into my mind until it showed up on a flyer for a cult movie series a decade plus later. Then I realized it wasn't just a fever dream from my seven or eight year old mind.
"I'll watch you with the lights off (giggling) like I would dare".
I remember renting this movie from the local vhs rental place. Way before Blockbuster was is popular...damn I'm old. Lol "why should we do something nice, let's quit now that's my advice...We can do anything by working with each other "
I watched this with some of my friends in a movie theatre we rented and had a blast! it is horrifying and upsetting in the best ways but it is something to behold... with drinks.
One of my best days as a kid was going to Big Lots and they had giant bin of GPK for 5 cents a pack instead of .25
I never saw the movie because our local video store didn't have it.
Growing up I loved the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. With that being said, after I saw the movie when it hit my local video store, it almost killed my love for the cards. I remember being totally disturbed and appalled by what I was watching. My younger sister also loved the trading cards and after she saw the movie, it creeped her out so much that she never wanted to buy another Garbage Pail Kids card again. The film really did damage the brand and It’s definitely true that it ended up turning people off to the whole concept. Honestly, I haven’t seen the movie since it’s original VHS release and I don’t plan on watching it ever again. I will say that I did enjoy this episode of Toy Galaxy and it was a real blast from the past talking about the Garbage Pail Kids again. Thank you Dan for jogging the old memory. As always, I look forward to seeing the next video! Take care!
I remember seeing this once or twice As a kid!Born in 78.I thought I dreamed this movie up,never could find it at video store or tv!As a adult I found it!!I couldn't believe it,horrible movie but it reminds me of being young!I lived a rough life!
I remember being so mad that I wasn't allowed to see this in theaters when it was released, but when it came out on video, a friend's parents rented it for us to watch during a birthday sleepover, and after doing so, none of us were happy with what we had just experienced.
I've mentioned before that you can tell how unsuccessful a Toy Galaxy subject is by the commercial they show in the break. I believe I had 'mention in a programming block of a regional TV show' as the lowest tier.
We've reached a new bottom: 'just showing a commercial for something totally different'.
Clue is a underated classic, with hilarious performances by numerous hollywood comedy legends.
You should check it out if you get the chance.
Cheers from Canada
I hated the Garbage Pail Kids. I know it was a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but they were just too gross for me to find any kind of enjoyment.
It wasn't so much an acquired taste as people either liked it or hated it and pretty much no one in the middle. Except me it didn't really do much for me but I wasn't completely horrified/disgusted either. I had I guess morbid curiosity with it. It's definitely grown on me over the years though.
I guess I grew up different. My mom would buy the cards for me and herself. In fact she was the one to first tell me about the cards. She still has a complete set of the first run of cards. Most of the second run too.
We rented the movie from a VideoTyme when it come out on VHS. Not the worst thing I have seen, but it is up there. (So bad it is almost good)
That Mac and Me clip is priceless.
"Tangerine" ended doing Telenovelas in Mexico.
That's actually pretty cool.
Honestly a pretty big step up from this movie across the board.
The director quotes are the living end. The very idea of wanting to expose a new crop of kids to this every year. Not all gross monsters live in garbage cans, I guess.
That on top of his treatment of little people.
Another terrific video, Dan! You did a great job telling the story and your own experiences. The movie definitely sounds like a stinker. I've also seen the review by Nostalgia critic and he roasted it good. The two of you are fantastic enetertainers as far as I'm concerned. I love the cards. I missed the original run, but my brother in law passed me down a package. He's a really nice guy. Also seriously please do a video on the history of The Tick; I think that would be really cool! Spoon!
Saw this in the movie theater for a birthday party and was traumatized by the croc kid biting off the guy's toe. It's like the gift that keeps giving.
I seem to remember questions about whether the movie existed or not. I was 8 at the time, and without the Internet, seeing was believing. I did not see the movie, nor do I remember posters, trailers/commercials, or the name on marquees, so I did not believe it existed.
I remember seeing the trailer for the movie during some other movie my parents took me to but I don't believe it ever came to any theatres near where we lived at the time. Now that I see it had a pretty limited release that makes sense and it seems I didn't miss out on anything either.
12:00 I was laughing in utter horror and then reflexively yelped, "JESUS *CHRIST!!"*
I was amused but mostly horrified by the cards and consequently this was the one childhood fad that I didn't join with my friends. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity about the movie.
yeah they mostly just grossed me out, never something i actually wanted to own but fun to see other kid's.
Some of them were truly horrifying and have stuck with me all these years later. But the ones that stuck with me the most were the ones that were just weird.
Wish I had a name as cool as "Dead Ted"!
Why was the trailer for Clue shown in the middle of this video about the Garbage Pail Kids movie?
They couldn't find a commercial for GPK?
I actually have a very faint memory of the commercial for Garbage Pail kids. The one thing I can say is they definitely hyped the hell out of it.
I truly feel bad for some of the kids that went to see that based on the commercials.
My parents were nice enough to sit through it in theaters with me. I remember being sad about the garbage pale kids that died and disappointed that I didn't get to see them.
I'm sorry if I missed the connection but why is there a television ad for the movie Clue 10 minutes into this entry on the Garbage Pail Kids movie? Any clarification would be appreciated. Thanks!
Fun fact: This movie has some of Jim Cummings' first voice acting roles, he voiced Greater Greg and Nat Nerd.
Needless to say, this is one of if not the only gig he's openly ashamed of, even back when the movie was released he joined the campaign of telling families to NOT watch the movie.
11:43 One of the greatest quotes I have ever heard. That, my friends, is dedication.
You mentioned the Topps cards producing those parodies of brands. I'm old enough to remember when those were amazing themselves.. could you maybe do a video on the Topps parody cards?
I loved these cards and stickers when I was four and five and vividly remembering my mom hating them which made them so much better. Like precious treasures.