- (children) Kids React to toys!
This episode: Garbage Pail Kids!
- (Finebros) So today you're not reacting to a video.
- Why are you putting the laptop here?! Come on!
- (Finebros) Instead you're reacting to this.
- (pleased) Oh!
Cards of grossness?
- This. What is this?
- They're weird!
- What is this?
I don't know what they're for.
- Garbage Pail Kids?
- Are these like trading cards?
- Is this supposed to be for kids?
- Oh no, I've seen these.
- Yeah! I love these!
- I used to have these.
These were like my life. I loved these.
- They're, uh... not what I'd want for a gift.
- (children) Question time!
- (Finebros) So what these are,
they're called Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
- Noticed.
- (Finebros) Have you ever heard of the Garbage Pail Kids?
- No.
- No. They're gross.
- No, and I kinda wish I hadn't.
- It sounds like a terrible idea.
No offense to the people who made it.
- These things scared me when my dad introduced me.
Don't think they should be shown.
- (Finebros) So these cards were very, very popular with kids
in the 1980s. - That makes sense.
The '80s were a weird time.
- (Finebros) Are trading cards today
something that kids still like a lot,
or is it more of something in the past?
- They're more of the past cards.
- Some people, they want to be old-school,
and they still trade cards.
- People don't really use cards anymore. They use their phones.
- If you want to have success with trading cards,
you have to have some powers, not just pictures.
- I don't know. Pokemon's pretty popular.
- That's kinda like the third-grade, second-grade genre.
In fifth grade, it's really not a popular thing.
- (Finebros) Why do you think these were so popular?
- (perplexed) I don't know.
- I actually have no idea.
This is not kids-appropriate.
- There wasn't that many things to do,
'cause you didn't have phones and iPads back then.
- Cool stuff is rare back then.
But now it's like, you can find a lot of cool things.
- (Finebros) Well, a lot of people say
that the drawings are gross. What do you think?
- Yeah. But that's what makes it funny.
- They are. They're very disturbing.
- Who wants to look at something that's gross?
Bro, that's not-- it's not right.
- I agree with them. I mean, a lot.
Look at this one.
Who'd get entertained off of this?
- (Finebros) So now we're gonna go through the cards one by one.
- No.
I've seen... cards that have scared me.
- (Finebros) Totally okay. You don't have to look at them then.
So first one we're gonna have you look at is Large Marge.
- Yeah. Okay. (chuckles awkwardly)
She likes food.
- She has, like, the whole double-chin thing going.
- It's pretty gross and disturbing.
- (Finebros) And what about Hurt Curt?
- Well, it seems he's one of those 1990s skating kids.
- That one's okay.
I would say it's the least grossest one.
- You can tell it's not the first time he's gotten hurt.
Two reasons: his name's Hurt Curt,
and he has a Band-Aid on his face.
- Would it make sense if a card was like, he-- "Nice Curt"?
He's actually skateboarding instead of getting a crash!
- (Finebros) And what about Frank N. Stein?
- Isn't Frankenstein supposed to be green?
- It kinda looks like Chucky but with blond hair.
- He's just stepping on a cat.
The cat is just like... (screechy yowl)
- Maybe he's too big and he can't see the cat,
and then he just stepped on it.
I don't think he would do it purposely, right?
- I hate Halloween already enough.
You're making me hate it more, people.
- (Finebros) And what do you think of Mugged Marcus?
- This one is disturbing.
- I don't like him right away.
- Looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid got mugged.
- It's really sad. I don't like how people bully people.
- He just looks so happy, even though he just got mugged.
- His dignity is stolen. He has a swollen eye.
He has scars all over his face. He has bruises.
- Why is this even a card for kids?
- (Finebros) And finally, Starin' Darren.
- I can't explain this one.
- Chubby baby with a lot of eyes.
- He has so many eyes! It's so creepy!
- Disturbing. Keeping this card face-down.
- Imagine having all those eyes
and having your clothes on over that.
What would that-- like, are you half-blind now?
- (Finebros) So when these were the most popular
back in the '80s, some schools banned them from the classroom.
- Exactly. I agree.
- (Finebros) What are some reasons you think
a school would not want these cards around?
- 'Cause people love them so much,
they would be trading them while class was going on?
- Some of them are gory, disgusting,
not appropriate for children.
- Of course the teachers wouldn't allow fifth graders
to bring this in and show it to kindergartners or first graders
and traumatize them for life.
- I think schools are too much about it. Like, they overreact.
Because they want to protect the kids, which I understand.
But kids, like, they're people and they know what to do.
- (Finebros) So these were originally made in part to make fun
or another popular toy of the 1980s
that were called Cabbage Patch Kids.
Have you ever heard of that toy? - No.
- No, I haven't.
Are they, like, just pictures of cabbages?
- I've heard of them. I just don't know what they are.
- Sometimes I see their ads on TV.
- I've seen what a Cabbage Patch Kid is
from Toys "R" Us, Target, and The Goldbergs.
- (Finebros) So we're gonna show you a picture here
of the Cabbage Patch dolls that these were making fun of.
- (realizing) Ohh! That's what they are.
- They're cute.
- I don't know why they're making of them.
They're cuter than you guys!
- These things are terrifying.
- I've never really wanted a Cabbage Patch Kid.
I mean, they kinda just creep me out.
- Let's compare.
Yep. Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I see it.
- (Finebros) So back to the cards. These went away for a while.
But they made a comeback in 2003,
and they still are making them today.
- (surprised) They do? Are you kidding me?
- (Finebros) And we have some of the new cards
to show you right now.
- (shrilly) That's even worse!!
- These look worse.
- I'm gonna have nightmares.
- I would definitely want these.
- They just have a newer feel to them, like the vibrant colors.
- (laughing) What the heck is this?
Flushed Francis?
- (Finebros) So which cards do you like better:
the new style or the old style? - I don't like any of them.
- I just hate both of them.
- The new ones.
- The newer ones.
- I think I like the new ones more.
- I just like the old style.
- These ones, they just appeal to me more.
These were the originals.
- (Finebros) So do you think then these cards,
now that they're back, are going to be as popular now
as they were back then? - No.
- Yeah.
- No.
- Hopefully not.
- I certainly hope not.
I don't really want to see these again.
- No.
I don't know why they would still buy them.
- I don't think they'll be as popular, but it's a good idea.
- I hope it doesn't.
If this gets popular again, I will cry.
- I don't, because there's all these new TV shows
that are coming out with cards and stuff, such as Pokemon.
You can actually play games with them.
- No, I don't, because now kids as young as 10
are already getting their brand-new iPhones.
- No.
They aren't the originals.
Like, they don't have the same feel to it.
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