GARBAGE PAIL KIDS ARE COMING!!!!!!!

[mrtonguetwista]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Long before "South Park" or "Beavis and Butt-Head" entertained kids with lowbrow toilet humor, there were the Garbage Pail Kids. Now, the grandfather of gross-out is making a comeback.

After being off the market for 15 years, a new series of the hugely successful stickers that entertained children in the mid-1980s with depictions of bodily functions will be released in August by The Topps Co.

Garbage Pail Kids still maintain a cult following, with several dedicated fan Web sites and an active trade on Internet auction sites.

But will the stickers, originally conceived as a spoof of the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids, find an audience among a jaded generation raised on the hyper-potty-humored "Jackass" and the sophomoric "SpongeBob SquarePants"?

"I think gross-out has always been and will always be of interest to kids," said Arthur T. Shorin, chairman of Topps, whose Manhattan headquarters is crowded with mountains of candy and collectible cards. "Garbage Pail Kids was a phenomenal fad -- it really struck a funny bone -- and we expect kids will still enjoy them because it's a spoof on real life."

The new series finds plenty of new things to make fun of, like "Fartin' Martin," who gaseously propels himself on a Razor scooter, or the heavily pierced "Metallic Alec," who is pulled out of his shoes by a magnet.

They even take a shot at the bespectacled child wizard -- "Harry Potty" -- toilet plunger in tow, doing his business in the loo.

To help modernize the series, Topps also plans to launch a Web site in August that will let youngsters create their own Garbage Pail Kids and take a tour of a Garbage Pail Kid city.

Not all the ideas are new. About two-thirds of the series is made up of art drawn for stickers 15 years ago that were never released.

The maker of baseball trading cards and Bazooka bubble gum made millions of dollars on 15 different series of Garbage Pail Kids from 1985 through 1988, Shorin said. The unreleased art was drawn for the 16th series, which never saw print because the stickers' popularity had waned.

Garbage Pail Kids suffered a backlash of sorts from parents who thought gross-out humor was detrimental to children -- something that probably spurred their popularity.

"I would get letters all the time from parents saying, 'This is in poor taste.' Well, of course it's in poor taste!" Shorin said. "But it's not in wrong taste; we would never do that."

Some are still skeptical about Garbage Pail Kids.

"I'm kind of surprised they're releasing it, because I think kids may be beyond this," said Mark Long, author of "Bad Fads" and operator of the Bad Fads Museum Web site.

Shorin argues the stickers' unsavory concepts can actually be educational for children.

"Garbage Pail Kids deals with bodily functions and death and dismemberment, which kids are very much aware of, but it deals with it in a humorous way, which helps kids confront these things."

[Woodrow]

Shorin argues the stickers' unsavory concepts can actually be educational for children.

"Garbage Pail Kids deals with bodily functions and death and dismemberment, which kids are very much aware of, but it deals with it in a humorous way, which helps kids confront these things."

FUCK YES!!!

I used to love these things. Remember the movie??!

LOL @ arguing about the social value of them tho...

[mrtonguetwista]

Yeah....I own movie on VHS and 2 complete card sets in mint condition.

[Don Seer]

damn i had a grip of these things back in the day  

[Woodrow]

*goes rummaging thru my old shit to try and find my old cards*

[Lord Funk]

Loved them! If I close my eyes and think hard enough, I can still smell that shitty gum that you got with them.

[mrtonguetwista]

lol@shitty gum.  Sounds like a gag gift. lol

[Trauma-san]

Ha, about time.  I think I've still got a bunch of the first ones around somewhere.

[OpTiCaL]

damn i had a grip of these things back in the day  

lol yay..ima have to get some to see if they hold up

[mrtonguetwista]

^^^^^^^

[Skindiana bon3z]

That's the RADEST dam thing I've ever heard...

[white Boy]

i have never herd of these things

[_That_Cracka_J]

Hell yeah!  This is some great news!  I've got every one of these things except for the 1st and 2nd series.  These things bring back a lotta memories.

[.:TimeLock:.]

that's dope... i use to have a gang of them...and yeah the gum that came with them was pretty lame, the card were tight though

i saw the movie for it too years ago when i was about 8 or something