Garbage Pail Kids | TheaterFire

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shuanm@reddit

I had about 250 cards before they were stolen from my locker. I guess it was called a "locker" for a reason. I guess I didn't think I needed a lock. I knew everyone at my school.

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catgirl320@reddit

On the History channel there's a show called The Toys that Built America. One of the episodes talked about Garbage Pail Kids

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mr_mxyzptlk21@reddit

What's craziest to me is the same guy who made GPK, is also the creator of "Maus", a great graphic novel about the Holocaust, and how his father dealt with the aftermath.

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So I just read this new to me fact to my husband, and he said in the 2nd half of Maus there is art that he feels is congruent. It’s been a long time since I read Maus, I will have to dig it up. That’s really pretty amazing to me.

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Correct_Elevator_173@reddit

Came here to say that. I just learned anoit Art Spiegelman today watching PBS’s American Masters. He also did Wacky Packages.

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WickedJace22@reddit

I went to a restaurant recently and their table markers were enlarged GPK cards. I was highly amused.

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mstalent94@reddit

I wasn’t allowed to have them, lol

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Falcifer13@reddit

I somehow still have the complete series 1 of these things.

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violetleia@reddit

My parents forbade my sister and me from having them. They would have forbidden us from even looking at them if they had their 'druthers.

My sister and I were already the weird kids and this jusy made it worse.

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smallwonder25@reddit

Garbage Pail kids were the greatest! We always traded them in the afternoons on the bus!

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Engchik79@reddit

Def had a collection in the 80s. Mine are long gone by now tho!

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swissie67@reddit

You guys are young. I graduated high school the year these were introduced. They were something kids were interested in to me.

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togetherwegrowstuff@reddit

These were so fun to collect and chuckle about. They were so creative! I never had any but had friends that did. I wish I had collected them tho.

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thepumagirl@reddit

Omg i loved these! I was also about 5-6years old when i started collecting them

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Mysterious-Panda-463@reddit

Napoleon Blownapart was my favorite

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Valuable_Tomorrow882@reddit

My grandmother disappeared my GPK collection, and I’m still bitter about it.

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Yada-Yada-Yadda@reddit

We are the best generation. Haha. Funny story. I still have mine and laugh and think. Damn these names are so creative.

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SaebraK@reddit

They're having a resurgence right now. If his are in good shape, they might be worth something.

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SJ1392@reddit

My mom threw my entire collection away. They just went missing one day... I found out she threw them away years later... I was pissed...

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troisarbres@reddit

I had a lot of things suddenly disappear and I'm still pissed! :)

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craftyrunner@reddit

I was in high school and had less than zero interest. My younger brother had a friend whose younger brother was ridiculously into them which was how I knew about them at all…

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Nevyn00@reddit

A thing I only learned a couple of years ago is that Art Spiegelman who wrote "Maus" was one of the creators of Garbage Pail Kids.

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Complete-Purpose6632@reddit

Someone stole my complete first series of garbage pail kid cards when I was a kid 💔

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Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit

I think I threw mine away lol

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CommonRespect6640@reddit

I had my favorite Garbage Pail Kid, Doughy Joey, professionally framed in an elaborate tacky oversized gold frame.

I find the juxtaposition hilarious, but it gets weird looks from guests occasionally.

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ponziacs@reddit

Ugh that stuff was so garbage. I remember putting all those stickers on my headboard and realizing how ugly they were.

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KieferMcNaughty@reddit

My third grade teacher took them from me and promised she'd give them back at the end of the year, but she didn't!

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TexasBurgandy@reddit

The best thing was opening a pack on the bus and getting one with the same name as someone on the bus! “It’s yoooouuuuuu!” Good times 🤣

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Porcupine__Racetrack@reddit

I had almost the full set!

We used to steal them from the corner store. Such great kids we were!

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DeCoyAbLe@reddit

Still have mine!! I still love them. Got my Star Wars ones too.

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meowmix79@reddit

I thought these were so gross.

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dbrmn73@reddit

Man i wish I still had mine.

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LastOneSergeant@reddit

I still have most the the third series.

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AgentLead_TTV@reddit

i was in third grade when these came out. i remember this kid richard being the first person in school to have series 2 cards. he was a legend for like a month. no idea how he got them so early to this day.

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jannylou2@reddit

My youngest daughter had a big collection of Garbage Pail Kids cards. She is now 49. Says she doesn’t know what happened to them. My husband, her stepfather most of her life, her Dad passed, his name is Steven. When she got the Heavin Steven card she was so happy. Love to find her one for her 50th birthday next year.

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redditidothat@reddit

Here you go

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BlueberryLove2@reddit

Thank you for this!

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hugatree2023@reddit

My brothers loved these

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Hefty_Debt_638@reddit

I plastered my closet doors with these stickers😂

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

I never had any (my parents would've definitely said, No way), but a lot of my classmates did. I remember finding them hilarious and being grossed out at the same time.

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Rude_End_3078@reddit

Have you seen Lababo's? My son had to have one - the thing is straight up terrifying.

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kimblebee76@reddit

Was the dismembered one Viv E. Section? I needed her for the longest time to be able to complete the poster on the back of the cards lol

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Automatic-Nature6025@reddit

I had Viv E. Section! I only found out years later that it was pretty rare and sought after. My dumbass peeled and stuck almost all the stickers, and let the hundreds of other cards get wet, dirty, folded, etc. oh well, I was a stupid kid.

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vinegar@reddit

Nah you were just being a kid

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sfdsquid@reddit

I wish I still had mine.

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YOUTUBE-BLACKBELT@reddit

Still have mine from 86…

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whatgives72@reddit

I enjoyed Topp’s Wacky Packs more than Garbage Pail Kids.

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vinegar@reddit

I loved wacky packages. I think I was over it before I ever saw garbage pail kids. That’s what 3 years does in the fast-moving world of selling kids shit!

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

Traded these and micromachines

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Eazy12345678@reddit

as humans we collect useless junk like its something special

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jk_pens@reddit

I was just thinking about those. I don’t remember having any, but I remember my friends having them. They went well with dead baby jokes.

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Admiral_Ash@reddit

I got my first pack at a Circle K... Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

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MommaBear354@reddit

Party on!

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MyMutedYesterday@reddit

Humorously, remains true in 2026!

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RedditSkippy@reddit

I always thought they were gross. I never wanted any.

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StandByTheJAMs@reddit

Some of those might actually be worth some decent money.

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Slight-Bowl4240@reddit

I got mine at Okey Dokey! 😃

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captainfishhooks@reddit

I have first year and second year.

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RetroBerner@reddit

My wife still has a bunch of them, are they worth anything? I think hers are all loose in a tupperware container.

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thatpunkyrat@reddit (OP)

Series 1 definitely has value, anything above 3 is not worth much.

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RetroBerner@reddit

Good to know, thanks!

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carlivar@reddit

That's also how it was in 1986 lol

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hoofheartedthistime@reddit

7years ago I just sold a brand new box of first editions, unwrapped like you get from the convenience store. I put them up on Facebook Marketplace and sold them within the day and got $1000.00. It went so quick that I thought that I might not have charged enough and I was a fool.

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Dobgirl@reddit

Sigh. I tossed mine when I was a grownup teenager. I so regret it- my kids would have loved them.

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CraftLass@reddit

A friend of mine is a Garbage Pail Kid. He was friends with the artist or something. And so one is inspired by him.

It had never occurred to me before I met him in 2010 that any of them were inspired by actual individual people. Kinda disturbing, really.

I was completely obsessed during the original runs.

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