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Garbage Pail Kids

Gross and offensive trading cards for kids that became a big hit in the mid 80's. The cards depicted children that looked like Cabbage Patch Kids and had amusingly rhyming names such as Fartin' Martin and Adam Bomb. The pictures on the trading cards then showed outrageous and downright disturbing images of the children in various disgusting scenarios.

As you can imagine, this became very popular with many children (mainly boys) and every newsagent in the land stocked Garbage Pail Kid stickers. In 2003 a brand new series of the Garbage Pail Kids were released by the Topps company.


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Do You Remember Garbage Pail Kids?

Do You Remember Garbage Pail Kids?

  • Anonymous user
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    Me & my friend used to collect these until my friend got one called 'Shorned Sean' which was a kid shaving a huge strip of skin from his head, my friends dad saw it and banned him from buying any more. I remember the chewing gum used to taste like antiseptic as well.
  • Anonymous user
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    AWWW! I wasnt allowed them!
    • Chaobaby7
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      my parents weren't that impressed either
  • Anonymous user
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    I saw the movie and the unaired cartoon. They were awesome!!!
  • Anonymous user
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    I feel proud of myself because I own the entire 2nd series. I got it in Decenber 2006. My werebears codename is WereBoy. My real name is Ian Alexander Fairchild
  • Anonymous user
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    I collected these in 1986 until I was banned from buying any more for getting the bubble gum stuck to something. I still have the stickers stuck in a notebook & the backs with the various awards on them. Later me & my cousin awarded all of these to friends & members of our family, & recorded a ceremony on a tape I still have.
  • Anonymous user
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    i'm looking for a trading card set that was around in the U.K in 1989/90 all i can remember is there were 40 originals and number 40 was called The Rock blue_meanie@blueyonder.co.uk if you know cheers
  • Anonymous user
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    Wow!! This brings back the memories, they were massive here in England also! They were funny and also gross, like a baby barfing his food everywhere called Up Chuck or something!
  • Anonymous user
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    I thought these were sooo cool and funny I wanted them so bad but would rather just buy candy so I stole a whole bunch from my friend I was like in 1st or 2nd grade
  • Anonymous user
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    Unusually for a girl, I was into them...big time. I once spent a king's ransom (about $14 in slag) on a whole load of cards and Bazooka Joe chewing gum at the ice cream van that parked vulture-like outside the school walls. I still have (almost) the entire series 3 which my mother kindly mailed to me. This includes the sought after "Adam Bomb" card and the oversized ones with a certificate for something or another on the reverse. Used to gross out all the girlie-girls and made the sick puppies of my ilk snigger with perverse glee.
  • Anonymous user
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    i was scared of them