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* ValentinesDayEpisode: "Heartless Hal" took place on Valentine's Day and had a cherub named Hal attempt to use his arrows to make everyone fall in love with each other. Duane, being the only one not hit by Hal's arrows, has to save the day when everyone being in love with one another creates chaos.
* ValentinesDayVitriol: Split Kit, Clogged Duane and Elliot Mess are shown to not like Valentine's Day very much in "Heartless Hal".
* ValentinesDayVitriol: Split Kit, Clogged Duane and Elliot Mess are shown to not like Valentine's Day very much in "Heartless Hal".
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* OffToSeeTheWizard: In "The Land of Odd", Split Kit, Clogged Duane, and Patty Putty end up in a {{Film/Wizard of Oz}} parody after getting swept up in a tornado at a fair.
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* OffToSeeTheWizard: In "The Land of Odd", Split Kit, Clogged Duane, and Patty Putty end up in a {{Film/Wizard of Oz}} ''Film/TheWizardOfOz parody after getting swept up in a tornado at a fair.
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* DisappearedDad: Patty Putty's mother appears in "Elliot Messed Up", but no mention is made of her father.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Split Kit and Terri Cloth are the only two main characters with neither parent accounted for, when Elliot Mess's parents and Patty Putty's mother appeared in "Elliot Messed Up" and Clogged Duane's parents were both present in "An Egg-citing Adventure" with his mother appearing without his father in "Elliot Messed Up".
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* TakenForGranite: Curly Carla attempts to do this to the eponymous character in "Savage Stuart the Barbarian". Just like in the myth, he simply reflects her glare with his shield, giving her the effect.
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* TakenForGranite: Curly Carla attempts to do this to the eponymous character in "Savage Stuart the Barbarian". Just like in the myth, he simply reflects her glare with his shield, giving her the effect.effect of turning to a stone statue instead.
* TitlePlease: While the opening sequence includes the show's name, the individual episodes do not have titles, presumably due to the show never having aired on television and only being made publicly available through a DVD release made nearly two decades after the show was produced.
* TitlePlease: While the opening sequence includes the show's name, the individual episodes do not have titles, presumably due to the show never having aired on television and only being made publicly available through a DVD release made nearly two decades after the show was produced.
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-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness! What the world!
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-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness! What the a world!
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-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness for the world!
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-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness for badness! What the world!
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* ImMelting: In "The Land of Odd", Haggy Maggie melts after Clogged Duane splashes on her, complete with obligatory nod to the scene from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness for the world!
-->'''Haggy Maggie''': I'm melting! Who would've thought that a gross little kid like you would ruin my wonderful badness for the world!
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A Boy And His X is when they form a bond with the "X" that "changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood."
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* ABoyAndHisX: The second segment of episode 6, "Elliot Messed Up" has Elliot be followed home by a {{Big Friendly Dog}} he deems Kenny. (The dog is Kennel Kenny from the second series) His mom allows Kenny to stay, but he ends up getting flip-flopped between the characters' families due to his antics. In the end, Kenny turns out to be a police dog named Mark Bark and is returned to his proper owner.
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* BeserkButton/BewareTheNiceOnes: While the kids are generally nice guys, if they see harm coming to someone else or each other, they will stop at nothing to defeat it.
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* BeserkButton/BewareTheNiceOnes: BewareTheNiceOnes: While the kids are generally nice guys, if they see harm coming to someone else or each other, they will stop at nothing to defeat it.
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Why do I keep mispelling "accordion"?
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* AccordianMan: The teaser to "Heartless Hal" has a man play Simon Says with the audience and smugly gloat that unseen participants are out of the game for following his instructions when he didn't say "Simon Says" or doing things he didn't say they could do. He gets what's coming to him when he says "Stomp your feet", which results in him getting stepped on by a giant and transformed into a human accordian who groans "I didn't say Simon Says".
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* AccordianMan: AccordionMan: The teaser to "Heartless Hal" has a man play Simon Says with the audience and smugly gloat that unseen participants are out of the game for following his instructions when he didn't say "Simon Says" or doing things he didn't say they could do. He gets what's coming to him when he says "Stomp your feet", which results in him getting stepped on by a giant and transformed into a human accordian accordion who groans "I didn't say Simon Says".
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* AccordianMan: The teaser to "Heartless Hal" has a man play Simon Says with the audience and smugly gloat that unseen participants are out of the game for following his instructions when he didn't say "Simon Says" or doing things he didn't say they could do. He gets what's coming to him when he says "Stomp your feet", which results in him getting stepped on by a giant and transformed into a human accordian who groans "I didn't say Simon Says".
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* GrossoutShow: Tried to be this, but the rather cutesy art style made the gross-out humor stand out less.
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* GrossoutShow: Tried to be this, but the rather cutesy art style made the gross-out humor stand out less. What it lacks in grossness, though, it makes up for in general weirdness.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In Idaho Spud and the Temple of Trash, an anthropomorphic lizard captures the main trio and attempts to eat them. When they throw in the airplane pilot, who is a living corn cob, he predictably produces popcorn. The lizards joyfully start eating it...disregarding that popcorn is dangerous to lizards.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In Idaho Spud and the Temple of Trash, an anthropomorphic lizard (possibly meant to be card character Lizard Liz) captures the main trio and attempts to eat them. When they throw in the airplane pilot, who is a living corn cob, he predictably produces popcorn. The lizards joyfully start eating it...disregarding that popcorn is dangerous to lizards.
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* MonumentalTheft: The villains of "Honest Abe Has A Close Shave" steal the head of Abe Lincoln (or, as he is referred to in his "garbage" persona, "Wrinklin' Lincoln) from Mt. Rushmore.
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* TakeThat: A lot of segments showed parents and MoralGuardians decrying this show, which were more than likely digs toward the controversy this animated series caused when it was first announced.
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* TakeThat: TakeThatCritics: A lot of segments showed parents and MoralGuardians decrying this show, which were more than likely digs toward the controversy this animated series caused when it was first announced.
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'''Garbage Pail Kids''' is an animated series based on [[{{Franchise/GarbagePailKids}}the card franchise of the same name.]] It was meant to be broadcasted by CBS, but only saw one episode airing because of angry parents' groups. Years later, it saw a DVD release instead, revealing 13 episodes. [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/muant_garbage_pail_kids_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Clogged Duane, Terry Cloth, Patty Putty.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Clogged Duane, Terry Cloth, Patty Putty.]]
'''Garbage Pail Kids''' is an animated series based on [[{{Franchise/GarbagePailKids}}the card franchise of the same name.]] It was meant to be broadcasted by CBS, but only saw one episode airing because of angry parents' groups. Years later, it saw a DVD release instead, revealing 13episodes. [[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/muant_garbage_pail_kids_9.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Clogged Duane, Terry Cloth, Patty Putty.]]
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'''Garbage Pail Kids''' is an animated series based on [[{{Franchise/GarbagePailKids}}the card franchise of the same name.]] It was meant to be broadcasted by CBS, but only saw one episode airing because of angry parents' groups. Years later, it saw a DVD release instead, revealing 13
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Clogged Duane, Terry Cloth, Patty Putty.]]
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* PortalBook: "A Rhyme in Time" had the gang enter a book of nursery rhymes into a world of nursery rhymes to investigate why Jack and Jill were missing from the illustration of their rhyme.
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* LiteralMetaphor: The final episode featured a segment where a boy is reprimanded for his actions by his mother using common figures of speech and the boy then having a transformation happen that matches the play on words. For instance, being told that his face will freeze that way causes his face to become frozen solid after making a face, and being told that he'll take root if he stands where he is too long causes him to become a tree.
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* LiteralMetaphor: LiteralMetaphor:
** In "Green Dean Goes out of His Bean", Elliot Mess says "Stop pulling my leg" as an indication that he doesn't believe Patty Putty's story about a plant monster with a voracious appetite. Because his limbs are scrambled and Patty was dragging him along, though, Patty actually was pulling his leg.
** The Garbage Pail Groaner segment of "Heartless Hal" had a boy caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. He states "My hand's not red" when his mother tells him he was caught red-handed, but becomes shocked after discovering that his hand actually is colored red.
** The final episode featured a segment where a boy is reprimanded for his actions by his mother using common figures of speech and the boy then having a transformation happen that matches the play on words. For instance, being told that his face will freeze that way causes his face to become frozen solid after making a face, and being told that he'll take root if he stands where he is too long causes him to become a tree.
** In "Green Dean Goes out of His Bean", Elliot Mess says "Stop pulling my leg" as an indication that he doesn't believe Patty Putty's story about a plant monster with a voracious appetite. Because his limbs are scrambled and Patty was dragging him along, though, Patty actually was pulling his leg.
** The Garbage Pail Groaner segment of "Heartless Hal" had a boy caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. He states "My hand's not red" when his mother tells him he was caught red-handed, but becomes shocked after discovering that his hand actually is colored red.
** The final episode featured a segment where a boy is reprimanded for his actions by his mother using common figures of speech and the boy then having a transformation happen that matches the play on words. For instance, being told that his face will freeze that way causes his face to become frozen solid after making a face, and being told that he'll take root if he stands where he is too long causes him to become a tree.
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* LiteralMetaphor: The final episode featured a segment where a boy is reprimanded for his actions by his mother using common figures of speech and the boy then having a transformation happen that matches the play on words. For instance, being told that his face will freeze that way causes his face to become frozen solid after making a face, and being told that he'll take root if he stands where he is too long causes him to become a tree.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek: Most of the show's main episodes have the Garbage Pail Kids face a different villain or group of villains.
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* YourMom: Comes up in the movie parody segment ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'', where one of the titular character's attempts at getting Galloping Glen made is to ask him if his mother wears army horseshoes, a play on the classic "your mother wears army boots" insult.
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* YourMom: Comes up in the movie parody segment ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'', where one of the titular character's attempts at getting Galloping Glen made mad is to ask him if his mother wears army horseshoes, a play on the classic "your mother wears army boots" insult.
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* BondGunBarrel: The movie parody segment ''[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldthumb]]'', as to be expected from a spoof of a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film, features a parody of the famous scene of James Bond shooting at the gun barrel where James Bland gets panicky and fires a pie gun.
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** ''Goldfinger'' is a parody of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is never even hinted about where the show takes place.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It is never even hinted about where the show takes place.place.
* WholePlotReference: A good number of the movie parody segments were spoofs of specific movies, though some of them are [[InNameOnly nominal parodies]].
** ''Kinky Konk'' is a spoof of ''Film/KingKong1933''.
** ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'' is a parody of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''.
** ''Supernerd'' is a spoof of ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''.
** ''Goldfinger'' is a parody of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** ''R.A.L.F.'' is a spoof of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', with some elements of ''Series/{{Alf}}''.
** ''The Pink Cat's Eye'' is a spoof of ''Film/ThePinkPanther''.
* YourMom: Comes up in the movie parody segment ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'', where one of the titular character's attempts at getting Galloping Glen made is to ask him if his mother wears army horseshoes, a play on the classic "your mother wears army boots" insult.
* WholePlotReference: A good number of the movie parody segments were spoofs of specific movies, though some of them are [[InNameOnly nominal parodies]].
** ''Kinky Konk'' is a spoof of ''Film/KingKong1933''.
** ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'' is a parody of ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''.
** ''Supernerd'' is a spoof of ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''.
** ''Goldfinger'' is a parody of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' film ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** ''R.A.L.F.'' is a spoof of ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', with some elements of ''Series/{{Alf}}''.
** ''The Pink Cat's Eye'' is a spoof of ''Film/ThePinkPanther''.
* YourMom: Comes up in the movie parody segment ''Savage Stuart the Garbage Pail Barbarian'', where one of the titular character's attempts at getting Galloping Glen made is to ask him if his mother wears army horseshoes, a play on the classic "your mother wears army boots" insult.
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* GrossoutShow: Tried to be this, but the rather cutesy art style made the gross-out humor stand out less.
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* CanonForeigner: The cartoon features a lot of Garbage Pail Kids that did not exist in the original trading cards, most of them serving as bit characters in the movie parody segments. Two examples are Louie Litter and Bombed Bill from "Honest Abe Has a Close Shave", who are respectively a sentient trash bin and a dilapidated purple airplane with a goofy face.
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* InNameOnly: The series actually uses very few of the characters from the card series. (They even seem to waste golden opportunities to insert them in. If we could list them all we'd need a new page...) It doesn't even use Adam Bomb, the most iconic of the card series. And when they do appear, they tend to only have one appearance. It doesn't help that their designs are often toyed with to make them less easy to recognize.
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* AgeLift: Patty Putty. Justified in that while the others' card appearances seem to be the same age, [[http://www.geepeekay.com/gallery/os2/os2_42a.jpg Patty's displays her in a diaper,]] indicating she's only about 2 years old.
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* AgeLift: Patty Putty.Putty is depicted as a young girl when she appeared to be a baby on her original trading card. Justified in that while the others' card appearances seem to be the same age, [[http://www.geepeekay.com/gallery/os2/os2_42a.jpg Patty's displays her in a diaper,]] indicating she's only about 2 years old.
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* AnimatedAdaptaion: A cartoon based on the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' trading cards.
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* TheAllegedCar: Rustin' Justin. The second segment of episode 3, Justin Cleans Up, is about a rich man turning him from this into a {{Cool Car}}.
* TheAllegedCar: Rustin' Justin. The second segment of episode 3, Justin Cleans Up, is about a rich man turning him from this into a {{Cool Car}}.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The first segment of the series, Junkoid Zone Aliens, has a trio of aliens able to speak the human language.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The first segment of the series, Junkoid Zone Aliens, has a trio of aliens able to speak the human language.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The first segment of the series, Junkoid Zone Aliens, has a trio of aliens able to speak the human language.
* BeserkButton/BewareTheNiceOnes: While the kids are generally nice guys, if they see harm coming to someone else or each other, they will stop at nothing to defeat it.
* BeserkButton/BewareTheNiceOnes: While the kids are generally nice guys, if they see harm coming to someone else or each other, they will stop at nothing to defeat it.
* BeserkButton/BewareTheNiceOnes: While the kids are generally nice guys, if they see harm coming to someone else or each other, they will stop at nothing to defeat it.
* HauntedHouse: The kids have a romp through one in "The House That Dripped Crud".
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* HauntedHouse: The kids have a romp through one in "The House That Dripped Crud".
* RaidersOfTheLostParody: Idaho Spud is an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' spoof.
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* BlindWithoutEm: The episode "Mona Loser" had the Garbage Pail Kids go back in time to find out why the Mona Loser was frowning. It turns out that Leonardo a Squinty was fired by Mona's husband because he was near-sighted and couldn't paint a proper portrait because of his visual problems. Elliot Mess fixes everything by inventing a pair of glasses for Leonardo, enabling him to see perfectly.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Split Kit in "Chris Messin' August".
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Split Kit in "Chris Messin' August".
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* BadSanta: Chris Mess from "Chris Messin' August", a bratty kid in a Santa suit who impersonates the real deal in a plan to ruin Christmas for everyone by lying to them that nowadays being bad will get them presents.
* BlindWithoutEm: The episode "Mona Loser" had the Garbage Pail Kids go back in time to find out why the Mona Loser was frowning. It turns out that Leonardoa da Squinty was fired by Mona's husband because he was near-sighted and couldn't paint a proper portrait because of his visual problems. Elliot Mess fixes everything by inventing a pair of glasses for Leonardo, enabling him to see perfectly.
* BoundAndGagged:Happens to Split Kit gets tied up by Chris Mess and his goons in "Chris Messin' August".
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* ChristmasEpisode: Chris Messin' August has shades of this.
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* DealWithTheDevil: In "Chris Messin' August" has Split Kit getting tricked into working for the villains.
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** Kinky Kong is one of [[{{Film/KingKong}} King Kong.]]
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** Kinky Kong Konk is one of [[{{Film/KingKong}} King Kong.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: The Garbage Pail Award segment of "Heartless Hal" had the award presented to the Neighborhood Grouch, a crotchety old man who is seen yelling at children for playing on his lawn and trick-or-treaters for bugging him at Halloween.
* InkSuitActor: ''[[Film/TheFly1986 The Fry]]'', the movie parody segment of "A Fishy Story", had the main character played by and bearing a noticeable resemblance to Sunny Besen Thrasher.
* ParentalHypocrisy: The teaser to the episode "An Egg-citing Adventure" shows a pair of children being told not to watch too much television by their parents from off-screen, being warned that too much TV will turn them into couch potatoes. When we finally see the parents, we see they've already become literal couch potatoes. Even when this is revealed, the potato mother has the gall to lament how children these days are always glued to the set.
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* RaidersOfTheLostParody: Idaho Spud.Spud is an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' spoof.
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--->'''Curly Carla: What makes you think you're different than all these other guys?'''
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* {{Determinator}}: Stacy Hoopenagle/Fay Hooray in "Kinky Kong' remains determined to capture a {{Kaiju}}.
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