30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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?