For anyone who somehow didn’t grow up adoring these hellacious Cabbage Patch Kids parodies, the Garbage Pail Kids started off as a line of Topps trading cards in 1985, with each card featuring one of the titular kids, whose name was a word-play reflection of whatever his or her malady, mutation, disposition or abnormality was on display.
Here’s hoping Danny McBride figures out a way to bring Smell-o-vision to life with this new animated series.
The backs of the cards usually either had fun details or were meant to serve as pieces of a larger tableau, but the main draw for these cards (at least for me) was seeing what ridiculousness they’d come up with next, whether it be a super-clever name like Sy Clops or the inclusion of gross scratch-n-sniff inserts.