YMMV / Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon

• Awesome Music: One thing most fans agree about the cartoon is that it does have a cool theme song.
• Broken Base: Fans are divided over whether the cartoon is just as bad as The Garbage Pail Kids Movie or at the very least more tolerable than it. Even without comparing the animated series to the infamous live-action film, there is a dispute over whether the cartoon is entertaining in its own right or an unwatchable and painfully unfunny mess.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The first episode opens with a moral guardian giving an exaggerated content warning about how supposedly "disgusting, obnoxious and gross" the show is. The show would end up being pulled abruptly off the air due to protests from real-life moral guardians a few days before its debut.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Fay Hooray is a female explorer who often has adventures in the jungle. And her segment involves a primate. Fast forward to August 14, 2000...
  • A more meta one: Episode 12 had a Wizard of Oz parody called "The Land of Odd" in which the characters meet an expy of Dorothy. Now meet Dull Dorothy, who was part of the first 2014 set.◊
• Viewer Gender Confusion: The Teaser for the second episode had a character named Squishy, a generic cutesy child who ranted about "being too cute for the Garbage Pail Show". Since males in cutesy shows tend to have Squishy's features, (i.e. Care Bears) Squishy has a bow tie, and the voice sounds like a male toddler, Squishy's a boy, right? Wrong. She was revealed to be a girl in The Pink Cat's Eye, as she was a part of the feminine mob chasing after The Figment.
• Values Resonance: Having a show where the main heroes are kids with non-standard appearances and abilities would certainly sit well with an audience today, which makes it all the more upsetting that it was cancelled by the Moral Guardians for being too “gross” for kids.

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