History Toys / TheGrosseryGang

* GoldTooth: Filthy False Teeth sports one.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Series 3 introduces Slob Fish to the Grosseries, who is a blobfish, a fish species that is rarely seen in fiction.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Each series of the franchise adds more characters to it, expanding it heavily.

* WormInAnApple: Rotten Apple is a an apple core with a worm residing in the top half while Awful Apple is a full apple minus one bite, but there's a worm in his forehead all the same. Rotten Apple appeared in the cartoons, where he was depicted as not intelligent. According to "An Apple A Day", though, the worm inside him is a doctor. %%Awful Apple was mentioned repeatedly but not explained; someone add that info

** [[Toys/TheTrashPack Blow Fly and Trash-a-Pillar]] themselves reappear as figures in Series 3. Blow Fly, being an exclusive action figure, gets an extended bio that makes use of his original ''Trash Pack'' bio, while giving his nickname as "Buzz", the name he was called in the failed Mondo TV cartoon.

An AnimatedAdaptation exists for the series in the form of webtoons, which also air on the Australian Creator/CartoonNetwork channel as interstitials. All of the episodes are available on the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnU75YnHlUt8fwTFU9KTCi0vaN2unCAIT toyline's official Youtube channel]].

* AerithAndBob: Some of the names of the Grosseries in the webseries go from descriptive words like Pizza Face and Sparkles, to normal names like Ricardo.

* AmbiguousRobots: The Clean Team all have flexible arms with pincer hands, wheels instead of feet, and squared-off mouths, giving them an appearance that hints they're robotic compared to the standard Grosseries in the webseries.

* AsideComment: Ricardo gives one of [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones "It's a living."]] at the end of "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous".

* BigFancyHouse: In the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous", Ricardo gets a gigantic private condo with his newfound wealth. Thanks to the gross nature of the Yucky Mart, along with the size of the Grosseries, it's entirely made out of two-ply toilet paper.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce:
** Some of the Awful Sauces, such as Chunky Chili Sauce and Tasteless Tobasco Sauce, are burning under their own contents.
** A brand of hot sauce seen in the webseries (with the mascot as a crying chihuahua) is used various times, once as "liquid motivation" (by shooting it into the characters' eyes to get them to run faster) and another in a molten homemade remedy.
* BlobMonster: The Loog, a snot-based monster created from Pizza Face and Meathead's snot being zapped by a bug zapper in the "Get Well Spewn" arc.

* BrigBallBouncing: Rocky and Wet Wipes take turns bouncing a gross tennis ball while they're trapped in Vac Attack in the "Putrid Power" movie.

* ButNotTooWhite: In the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" arc, after winning the lottery, one of the things Ricardo is told to do by Meathead is to get a tan, because he's too pale, and "rich people love their fake tans"(though it ends up a real tan for Ricardo, albiet a very streaky one).
* CameraAbuse: Part 1 of the "Get Well Spewn" arc has one of Pizza Face's sneezes leaving snot dripping off of the camera lens.

* CaptainsLog: Both Pizza Face and Doc Broc compile one when the expedition team gets lost on Mount Yuck, Pizza Face on how he fears having to resort to eating his colleagues, Doc Broc on getting around the issue of telling Pizza Face that he has an unconscious fear of heights that keeps reacting in the worst times on the journey.

* CloneDegeneration: Doc Broc's cloning machine creates clones that only last for an hour before expiring, causing them to disappear in a puff of dust.

* ComicallyIneptHealing: In the "Get Well Spewn" arc, the cures that Rocky, Meathead, and Fingers try and use to help a cold-affected Pizza Face are this. These include a dunking in molten hot sauce, a slushie-and-sour-milk concoction poured through his nostrils, and attempting to roll him up to squeeze all his snot out.

* CurseCutShort: In "The Grossery Gang Movie", when the Putrid Powered Grosseries eavesdrop on Vac Attack's plan to wipe Cheap Town clean of all life.
-->'''Pizza Face:''' What the--
-->'''Rocky:''' DUCK!
--> ''(Cut to a family of ducks walking past the Clean Team, as they stare in confusion and awkward silence.)''

* DastardlyWhiplash: Meathead's ancestor was one of these. While he lacked the top hat, he had the mustache, and also swindled a much younger Stinky out of both his wealth and his girlfriend.
* DeliciousDistraction: Meathead uses a scrap of his own cheese to lure guard dog-acting Fingers away from burglary attempt. It works for a while, but Fingers is right back on the chase when the heist goes south and Meathead and Surge are forced to book it with the stolen goods.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: According to the "Bug Strike" movie, breaking out into spontaneous music numbers are a crime in Cheap Town. Egghead is at least his 100th strike, yet still continues to do it, regretting nothing.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The webseries arc "A Gooey-Ful Mind" has Egghead, the resident klutzy ditz of the Grosseries, find himself super-smart (from sticking his tongue in an outlet trying to get a mint). Unfortunately, his smartness makes him realize how filthy the Yucky Mart is, causing him to campaign to shut it down. The big issue with this is that not only is the Yucky Mart the home of the Grosseries, it's the only reason they're ''alive''. Thankfully a second electric shock is enough to bring Egghead back to normal... [[HereWeGoAgain only to give Rocky amnesia.]]
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: In the "Lifestyles of The Rich & Famous" arc, Ricardo ends up winning his money off of a lottery ticket, [[spoiler:only to lose it when he invests in more, and they end up destroyed]]

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Parodied in "The Grossery Gang Movie". When Rocky is only "mildly concerned" about Stinky's cleaned-up plight, Doc Broc still treats him as hysterical and slaps him, as Rocky still reacts how he "needed that".
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Rockyland", one of the decrees on Rocky's king list (flipped upside down and mirrored, but still legible text), is [[DroitDuSeigneur "Reinstate the Primanocta"]].

* GroinAttack:
** Doc Broc accidentally lands doing the splits when landing from colliding from the fall from Mount Yuck in the "Mount Yuck" arc, while all he can do is twitch in pain and bite his lip for a while.
** Meathead ends up landing splits-side attempting to do a mid-air split during grease skating in the "Get Well Spewn" arc, painfully commenting how it stings.
** Trash Head gets kicked in the groin by a Clean Team minion during the major battle in "The Grossery Gang Movie".

* HairTriggerAvalanche: Pizza Face's screaming from his unconscious fear of heights (To the point he doesn't even realize he's screaming) causes a nacho cheese avalanche in the "Mount Yuck" webseries arc.

* HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas: The 2017 "Christmas Episode" features Vac Attack attempting to ruin "Grossmas" for the Grosseries by stealing their presents. Guest Grossery [=PukieHurlC=] plays the role of Cindy Lou.
%%* InkblotCartoonStyle: The flashbacks of the Yucky Mart in the old days are drawn in this style.
* TheInspectorIsComing: Mentions of the health inspector's rating of the Yucky Mart has been brought up in the webseries. It has an ''F'' rating.

* InMediasRes: "The Grossery Gang Movie" starts in the middle of the climactic battle between the Grossery Gang and the Clean Team, thanks to how Doc Broc is telling the story. The others listening to the story angrily interrupt him and call him out for starting the story with no setup, forcing him to start from the beginning.

* MessyMaggots: The Grossery Gang, following in the footsteps of its successor, ''The Trash Pack'', uses maggots as decoration on the characters to signify their rot. Unlike The Trash Pack, they are included in their models in the AnimatedAdaptation webseries, as a separately-animated animation asset. Series 4 of the franchise later introduced Maj. Maggots, an evil living maggot that used a rotten chicken drumstick as his weapon.
* MonochromePast: The old days of the Yucky Mart in the webseries are portrayed in black and white, in the style of a classic cartoon.
* MountainOfFood: The Grosseries manage to make one in the "Mount Yuck" arc of the webseries. Being the size of food themselves, they decide that, "since it's there", they need to conquer and climb it.
* TheMovie: ''The Grossery Gang vs. The Clean Team: Putrid Power'' is a feature length movie (still on Youtube), which is actually a half-hour episode of the webseries, which is still long in comparison to the two minute length of standard episodes.
* TheMutiny: Happens twice during the "Crud Flood" arc, a failed one by Pizza Face (thanks to Meathead siding with Ricardo), and then a more successful second one where Meathead turns on Ricardo.

* NakedFreakOut:
** In the "Mount Yuck" arc, Pizza Face is already so frozen from his newfound fear of heights, that he actually ''becomes'' naked from his freak-out, which does nothing to quell his fear that he's in.
** In the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" arc, Ricardo freaks out after losing his peel during a clothing swap and panics about being in his "banana birthday suit".
** In the "Get Well Spewn" arc ''both'' Pizza Face and Ricardo end up naked and panicking at some point, Pizza Face when his toppings are sneezed off of him (along with his eyes and mouth, so he can't see where he's stumbling around) and Ricardo when he's launched out of his peel and into the air by Fingers accidentally landing on him.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The webseries seems to think so, and has made multiple uses of nudity (all censored properly, though). This mainly befalls Pizza Face and Ricardo.
* NeverWinTheLottery: In the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" arc, Ricardo actually wins the lottery, which he quickly lavishly spends on, and then puts the remainder of his stock in lotto tickets, planning on at least one of them to be another big winner. [[spoiler:They all are, but they end up destroyed or lost during a failed heist against them, leaving him broke again. One of the lost ones falls in the hands of Stinky, who previously was in a RichesToRags plot...and wins it using the coin Ricardo carelessly flicked to him, giving him the wealth and housing that Ricardo owned.]]
* NonSequiturThud: In the "Bug Strike" movie, Arak Attack gives off one of [[Film/CrocodileDundee "You call that a knife? THIS is a knife!"]], while gesturing to his catapult limbs. Before Rocky can comment that it's not even a knife, the villain collapses.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: [=PukieHurlC=], being a parody of [=CookieSwirlC's=] logo, has eyes with green sclera, large black pupils, and white highlights, instead of the standard Grossery white sclera with a black pupil dot for an eye. She also has six eyelashes per eye, rather than three like the other female Grosseries.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Pizza Face is certain this is what he'll have to resort with in the "Mount Yuck" arc if they get stranded...as he imagines eating and drinking from a still-alive Doc Broc and Sparkles.

* PaletteSwap:
** Nearly every character has their figure in a minimum of two colors to collect, with some having extra ones in exclusive packages.
** Some of the background Grosseries in the webseries use the same food model, only with a different color, along with added details like eyelashes and facial hair.
* ParodyAssistance: Website/YouTube toy reviewer [=CookieSwirlC=] provides the voice of the character that's a parody of her logo, [=PukieHurlC=].

* PieEyed: The older days of the Yucky Mart gives the characters pie-shaped pupils in place of the standard round ones.
* {{Pixellation}}:
** Pizza Face's bottom crust is pixellated when he is "naked", even though it's already uncovered with toppings to begin with.
** Ricardo's peel acts as clothing for him, and his bottom tip ends up pixellated when it's removed.
* PowerWalk: Used in "The Grossery Gang Movie" by the powered up Grosseries and lampshaded, calling it "the heroic slo-mo walk".
-->'''Ricardo:''' Why are we walking so slowly, my crusty friend?
-->'''Pizza Face:''' I don't know, but it feels amazing! Just go with it!

* RemovedFromThePicture: In "Hambooger Helper", Gooey has a picture of Meathead and Ricardo, with Ricardo's half taped over by a picture of Gooey.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The others are none too happy with Meathead's mutiny once the flooding is said and done with in the "Crud Flood" arc, [[spoiler:so he ends up walking the plank via the toilet]].
* RiskyBusinessDance: A sick Pizza Face attempts to do this during "Hambooger Helper", only to slip over his own snot that he had smeared around the Yucky Mart in rebellion.

* SelfParody:
** The style of ''Shopkins'' corrupted into ''The Trash Pack'' style.
** The webseries would later explicitly parody ''Shopkins'' in the 2016 Christmas episode, calling it "Slopkins".

** A couple times in the webseries, Rocky has taken on the persona of [[Music/KatyPerry "Katy Hairy"]].
** The "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" arc has Ricardo dressed as UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. He loses the suit after the second episode of the arc, but keeps the hair and tan.

** The webseries episode "Pooper Bowl" is a reference to the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl. The episode aired a week before the 52nd Super Bowl itself, the number referenced in the episode. During the same episode, Chips [=McGraw's=] halftime advertisement is a reference to Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.
** Chips [=McGraw's=] name comes from Sgt. Chips [=McGraw=] from the 1944 Western ''Buffalo Bill''.

* SickEpisode:
** The "Get Well Spewn" episode arc has Pizza Face with a cold throughout it.
** "Hambooger Helper" once again has Pizza Face with a cold.

* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Egghead gains a Received Pronunciation accent when he becomes smart in the "A Gooey-ful Mind" arc of the webseries.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple:
** Sparkles is the only major female Grossery in the webseries, the only exception being a quick cameo from Lady Cheese and various background girls.
** The toyline in itself has very few female characters.
** Cruddy Cat Food is the only girl out of the Trashed Cans.
* SpecialGuest:
** The 2016 Christmas special features special guest voice appearances by various toy reviewer accounts that have reviewed The Grossery Gang before, including [=CookieSwirlC=], [=DisneyCarToys=], [=PSToyReviews=] and Chad Alan.
** [=CookieSwirlC=] returned to the franchise in the 2017 Christmas special, voicing [=PukeyHurlC=], a parody of her logo.

* StealthPun: Throughout a majority of the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" arc, Ricardo is seen wearing a Speedo. One of the slang terms for a Speedo is a "banana hammock".

* SuperMode: Putrid Power. Given to them by the legendary Trash Can Juice, it boosts their strength and height, along with giving them special abilities. However, they have to believe they have the capabilities to use their powers, otherwise they'll fade.

* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: There is a toxic leak caused from the poor environment of the Yucky Mark, which is the source of life for the Grosseries.
* VagueAge: With the exception of Stinky and Egghead (being an elder and a very young child, respectfully), the webseries Grosseries are hard to pinpoint ages, as they work jobs at times, yet have very petty squabbles over the smallest things like young kids would.

** [=PukieHurlC=], as mentioned in her name, has the tendency to projectile vomit.

* WhiteGloves: The Grosseries in the past are given them, to give them an old-fashioned feel that hearkens back to classic cartoons.

* XRaySparks: In the "Get Well Spewn" arc, the lottery scanner is used as a makeshift x-ray machine, which ends up zapping Pizza Face and a nearby Rocky and Meathead, showing off their skeletons, despite the fact that they're food.

* InkblotCartoonStyle: The flashbacks of the Yucky Mart in the old days are drawn in this style.

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* YouNeedABreathMint: Stinky Mint is an already bad-breathed breath mint, defeating his own purpose.

* ParodyAssistance: YouTube toy reviewer [=CookieSwirlC=] provides the voice of the character that's a parody of her logo, [=PukieHurlC=].