The Garbage Pail Kids are 30 years old. Celebrate their gross-out greatness with artist interviews, superfan collections | dG1fVUx3cmYyb1lhcjA
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00:001980s. We're still in the Cold War. Going nuclear. Something terrible is happening.
00:04People living all over the country. In a fine tradition of anti-authoritarian. Demonic.
00:09Grotesque images. They banned the bloody and puking. They made fun of the names.
00:13The Parent Group's trying to like stop it from being made. This means something.
00:17And I'm like, what are those?
00:18We just can't seem to stay out of trouble. What is going on here? People are fighting
00:31over something that's become hotter than Santa Claus.
00:34What are we going to do about Cabbage Patch Kids?
00:37Artie Spiegelman and Mark Newgarden, Stan Hartland Brown and the various artists
00:42discussed how they were going to develop this parody.
00:44Saw them as an anti-pop against society in some way.
00:48We were bringing the counterculture to a younger group of children,
00:51but of course it was the candy counter.
01:00Watch. The latest fad instantly sweeps across a classroom and then across a continent.
01:05It hit the mark. The kids loved it. The parents hated it. That's where we wanted to be.
01:09Outraging editorial columnists, parents and educators all over America were doomed.
01:14And that put it on the map.
01:17Very quickly, it became a phenomenon.
01:19Every vice president was getting literally a $1 million bonus that year.
01:24At least some scraps were tossed to us.
01:26But when I heard about the million dollar bonuses,
01:28I understood that the root word of bonus was bone.
01:32The copyright suit against the chewing gum company.
01:35It seems obvious in a world where corporations are people too, more so than people.
01:39But the First Amendment was designed not for bubblegum stickers and cards,
01:43but for dissident opinions in the form of newspapers.
01:47I never liked the fact that we couldn't do parody. I mean, MAD did it for years.
01:51I felt we should have that same freedom.
01:53We were actually told parodying the trademark is more serious than parodying an idea or a concept.
01:59They paid till it hurt, but it didn't hurt bad enough to stop us from going forward.
02:04And just having this gut feeling that we were onto something special with this series.
02:08Yeah, this one I'm homebound to.
02:09I saw it coming.
02:10Are you ready for Garbage Bail Kids?