Kids React to Garbage Pail Kids (80s Retro Cards)

- (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.

- 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.

- 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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