Garbage Pail Kids
Overview
Latin America
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, "Gang do Lixo" in Brazil
Brazil
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, "Sgorbions" in Italy
Italy
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, "Les Crados" in France
France
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and "Die total kaputten Kids" in Germany
Germany
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) is a series of trading card
Trading card
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s produced by the Topps Company
Topps
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, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids
Cabbage Patch Kids
Cabbage Patch Kids is a line of dolls created by American art student Xavier Roberts in 1978. It was originally called "Little People". The original dolls were all cloth and sold at local craft shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia...
dolls created by Xavier Roberts
Xavier Roberts
Xavier Roberts , the inventor and manufacturer of Cabbage Patch Kids, is an American artist and businessman. During the American Folk art movement of the late 1970s, Roberts observed several techniques involving the making of dolls from various materials...
which were immensely popular at the time.
Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality and/or suffering some terrible fate, and a humorous, word play
Word play
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-rich character name, such as Glandular Angela or Half-Nelson.
Quotations
Easy Take It!
Not That's Fair!
We help your need!
Outta get let's here!
Quick light the place on fire!
Monsters! Yipes more!
I say we attack...
I say we ripped the painting up.
Fear not, Terri baby! I'll save us.
Now let's get you back home, Abe baby!