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@@69Jackjones69 I respect that viewpoint. It adds so much stress to life. However Counterpoint: There are worse things than pissing people off. Some things are important enough to risk it.
Fun fact: the creator of the garbage pail kids was one Art Spiegelman, who is best known for Maus, the harrowing graphic novel about the Holocaust and its lingering effects on his personal life and the lives in his community. Interestingly, there was a period of time he was working on both garbage pail kids cards and Maus simultaneously, which is kind of hilarious to me. Like, there's no better contrast between high culture and low culture than that.
Somehow I imagine him stiff in a ridiculuous non-volitive attire, a sailor or something like that, plastered hair an inmovile as formless guests encircled him in their madness
@@StMozzer Ah, if you go on a strict regime of exercise and high fat / low sugar you can completely rid yourself of it before ending up with full blown type 2 diabetes.
@@aarondavis8943 Where Ricky solves the movie by just shooting everybody. Then, he bonds with the Garbage Pail Kids, because they're just as horrible as he is, and they help him kill Mother Superior.
@@Hugsloth It was Jack Quid's episode (or however you spell his name). Plinketto number 10. edit: and it was about an argument over the frame-count of a scene of a bad cgi dinosaur eating a dude.
I remember my mom not allowing me to see this movie in theaters as punishment for getting into trouble. Little did anyone know that she was actually saving me from REAL punishment.
My best friend in school had a little sister that was stuck for 2 summers in a row in one of those "random old lady with a house down the street" day cares that would never fly in this day and age. He told me her and the other rotating group of about 30 kids either played in the back yard (which was nothing but hard packed dirt) in the blazing southern heat or had to sit in the tiny living room crowded around a 19 inch tv watching this movie on VHS over and over again. They were the true Garbage Pail Kids.
I went to one of those, the woman had a sadistic son the woman would leave us with that would abuse us (non sexually, atleast me). Things like hold sippy cups above our heads with a rope while we were extremely thirsty, or lock us in closets. One kid got mauled by their dog... My mom was oblivious to it all and I was too young to communicate this stuff to her or know I shouldve. Fun fact, daycares weren't a thing till boomers became parents. In my opinion, a very privileged generation that squandered this country for their own selfish gain.
This is a true 100% Garbage Pail Kids movie story of mine. So when I was a senior in high school (2001), a classmate of mine knew I was into the garbage pail kids trading cards, and she just so happened to say “hey, I have the movie on vhs if you want it”. I said “sure!” I had honestly never even seen it. Well, the next day, she brings it and of course I’m stoked about it. Later that day, I went to my drama class and it just so happened that we were just going to watch a movie that day. The selections they had for us to watch were played out at that point, and the students didn’t want to rewatch what they had. The teacher asks “does anyone have anything else then?”. The stars aligned that day because I had the GPK movie in hand after my classmate gave it to me that morning. I said “I got the Garbage Pail Kids movie”. So everyone was like “what’s that?” I hyped it up saying it was a funny gross movie even though I hadn’t even seen it. Well, we put it on…and I’ll never forget how bored and confused an entire classroom of students got, and even had someone say “wtf is this?”. I managed to show an entire classroom the GPK movie. Instant classic memory for me.
Mike's description of watching your first truly disappointing movie as a kid perfectly matches my experience with The Last Airbender. I was 12, huge fan of the Avatar animated series (still am to this day), I was squarely in the target audience and was hyped for the movie for months. I sat in the theater wanting to love it so much and it just let me down on every level. The humor, the characters I knew and loved, the mythology, everything that appealed to me about the series was either butchered or missing entirely. I'll never forget that feeling of utter disappointment I felt on the car ride home.
I think for me it was Stormbreaker. I really liked the book series it's based on, I think because it was 'kid spy' fare that took the 'spy' part really seriously--they all read like a pretty good pre-Daniel Craig Bond movie, just starring a teenager. But the movie... really did not work out, it felt like it was talking down to the audience in a way the books didn't, was obviously cheaping out in places, and shoehorned in a bunch of stuff that movies aimed at that demographic 'should' have but didn't really do anything helpful. You know a movie like that doesn't work when they cast Stephen Fry as the Q equivalent and even HE'S not really a highlight. I'd probably seen worse movies by then, but it's the first one I remember where I could feel my hopes getting dashed as it goes on.
I remember seeing it in the theater, when I would have been about 13. I couldn’t understand why it was set on Earth. Earth was only even mentioned once in the cartoon, and not even by name! And who are these human kids I don’t care about? Why are He-Man and Skeletor the b-story? When I hear people complain about movies now, I know they didn’t live through the 80s. Everything was such a disappointment. I got a flashback of this movie during the first Thor movie. You want to see gods and Asgard but you get some out-of-work scientists.
I can't imagine Mike as a child. I remember in his TNG discussion with Rich he mentioned running to go tell his mom that the Enterprise blew up, but my mind could not compute a young Mike, so instead I imagined Mike but scaled down 50%, stubble and all.
Fun Fact: One of voice actors for the Garbage Kids was apparently so disgusted with the final film, that he joined protests to get it withdrawn from theatres. That voice actor was Jim Cummings (Pooh, Tigger, Taz) & it was also one of his earliest films to boot.
There's no greater compliment after working hard to direct a major motion picture based on your vision than to be told you'd make a good Garbage Pail Kids director.
Hearing Mike talk about the childhood confusion regarding movies that you should love but don’t spoke to me. I was nine when Batman and Robin came out, and I saw it thinking, “I’m supposed to love this. It’s Batman. Why don’t I love this?” Then I saw The Phantom Menace when I was eleven, and that taught me to never be excited about any movie ever again.
This was basically my whole childhood. Stargate SG1 was a big one. Loved the early seasons. Hated the later ones. Could never articulate why other than very surface level criticisms. TV shows were actually the worst because they would slowly get bad, and it mess with your brain. Now as an adult I understand how changing of writers/directors, rushed production and other behind the scenes stuff works.
One thing they got wrong: You don't want Seth Rogan as your protagonist. That wouldn't work with _The Greasy Strangler_ director. You want one of the guys from _Beef House_ as your protagonist. And Tim & Eric could do a cameo as some bad guys.
In the UK we call them rubbish bins. I always thought garbage pail was ultra American in the 80s. My parents were always complaining about Americanisation and my dad would make irritated noises whenever Garbage Pail kids were mentioned. I fucking... liked them for that
What's funny is that Americans don't say garbage pail either. We say trash cans. I think "garbage pail" was only chosen to kinda spoof "cabbage patch."
My take on their origin would be that this toy store gets in a shipment of defective dolls. The store owner is like “I can’t sell these” and throws them in the garbage pail out back. Later on a shady character dumps a bunch of strange chemicals into that can and mutates those defective dolls into the Garbage Pail Kids.
Back in the 80’s some stores did sell Cabbage Patch Dolls that had defects. You could get them at a discount. All us boys absolutely hated Cabbage Patch dolls.
It's at least better than "the product is a product within the movie too, then comes to life and has opinions about iPhones", a trend Mike should not promote
That “something is off” feeling, I first got that as a kid when I saw ninja turtles 3. I remember my dad asking what I thought and I said “it was okay”.
Ditto. I remember my parents buying a bootleg VHS of it off the street, which blew my childlike mind to actually buy a movie that's still in theaters. But I remember being so bored and confused, asking myself why wasn't I enjoying this as much as the last two?
It's weird when you first realize that movies can actually be bad. I had that feeling with tmnt3 as well, so actually never bothered to see it in theaters. Actually to this day at 41 I STILL haven't seen the damn thing lol!
Now I wanna see and hear Jay's take on, "You Can't Do That On Television" because that was one of my favorite shows as a kid. It's awesome how a small show from Canada basically became the foundation of what Nickelodeon would become.
Nickeolodeon is STILL milking its ever-present slime gimmick, which it got straight from You Can’t Do That on Television. Sadly, no younger person today would know where it came from.
"too young to pinpoint what's wrong but you know something is off" That hit the nail on the head. I felt that way about so many NES and SNES games. I would even question myself sometimes. "Why am I not enjoying this? It's a video game. It should be fun."
I remember the first time this happened with me, I received a transformers video game for the original DS, and It tutorialization was so bad that I had no idea what I was doing, it might have been a alright game if I had a guide but it was the first time I noticed failing of game design.
Yeah even as kids we have critical thinking, for me it wa the Bendy episode of Fosters home for imaginary friend, i always (as a kid again) felt a little empty watching it, angry even
I feel that way about modern entertainment. But we all know what's wrong with modern entertainment, so the real mystery we question is why is it ongoing and why aren't they improving on it?
I owned exactly one Garbage Pail Kids card, Dinah Saur (which was very tame by GPK standards) because they were banned (lol) from school. I literally hid it under my mattress like it was the most illegal contraband in the world. Yet somehow I got away with owning a number of the "Dinosaurs Attack" series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I knew a girl in Christian school, who collected Garbage Pail Kids cards, she had them in her hands at all times, no one else really cared about them but she was just constantly showing them and talking about them, it was like the only thing she cared about. One day I saw her just sobbing on the playground and I asked someone what she was crying about, the school had banned Garbage Pail Kids from the school grounds. She was Crushed Cathy after that.
Worth Mentioning: The Dude who wears the Aligator Mask is Kevin Thompson, who you may know as the Leprechaun in "Always Sunny" and one of JR Sebastians Toys in Blade Runner. The Dude who plays Foul Phil (Bobby Bell) and the woman who plays Messy Tessy (Susan Rossitto) worked together as those massive emperor penguins working for Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns" Susan and Debbie Lee Carrington (the one from Total Recall) worked together as the aliens from that one alien episode of Married with Children The dude who played Windy Winston was in Freaked, which you already know from Re:View, but also a stunt standin for Leprechaun 2, 3 and 4, working alongside Susan again. Susan was also a stunt performer in the Phantasm movies, alongside Larry Green who plays Nat Nerd in this. I want a biopic of these people meeting eachother and working together over the course of a career, seeing eachother grow and change, and seeing actors rights develop over the 1990s into now. Very interesting
Jay thank you for showing us the connection between the cinematography of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2, as well as educating us on Deborah Lee Carrington's filmography.
I watched this in theaters back in 87. I was 7 years old. My dad dropped me off alone at the movies and left me there for 6 hours. So i watched it 3 times. Twice for free and i still felt ripped off. The 80's was a different time! I feel bad for the kids these days. They would never have the life i did.
what was your dad doing for 6 hours that was so important that he had to literally take you and leave you somewhere so as to be sure of no interruptions ? or is it not "what" but "who..." ??
A Brit here, just pointing out that nobody in the UK calls them "garbage pails", like ever. Never even heard of that term before. It's a bin here, or rubbish bin.
We used to use pail as in "Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a pail of water". But nah, we defo don't use 'garbage pail' we don't even use 'garbage' that's a Yank term. Agreed, it's a bin!
It’s true. Even as a New Yorker I knew it’s called bins over there. Pail is a term from the greatest generation era folks. My grandparents used to say pail once in a while.
Given that they were parodying Cabbage Patch Kids, they got close to "cabbage" with "garbage" and so needed something close to "Patch." "Pail" might be the best they could do.
An important thing to note about the inappropriate sexualization of Tangerine is that her and Dodger were dating in real life. He actually helped get her this role. Then they broke up partway through the shoot.
My mom forbid me from having GPK cards but I'd sneakily buy them anyway and hide them in my room. She would always find them and make me throw them away! 😤 I bought a pack of the new re-release cards (they suck) and she happened to see them recently and she is still angrily grossed out about them 30+ years later. GPK triggers something in moms, it's crazy.
When I was in 1st grade, my parents told me we were going to move, and that they found this nice house and they wanted me to go see it. I liked the new house, but I was apprehensive about leaving the city for this little town in the woods. So we drove through the town center, and sure enough, there is a comic book shop with a GIGANTIC Garbage Pail Kids poster in the window, so big that you could see it from the car. I vividly remember seeing that poster and getting all excited for my new home. It was the deciding factor!
It's... Genuinely nice they involved you in the decision. Growing up I moved multiple times to multiple cities in multiple countries. Felt like I might as well have been luggage! That was very sweet of your parents.
I was blindly obsessed with Garbage Pail Kids as a child. So from age 9 to age 11, three years in a row, I made my friends watch The Garbage Pail Kids movie on my birthday. None of those friendships lasted long
The busted puppet head's animatronics being left in the movie almost makes sense in a way. "That's obviously wrong and broken." "Yeah, just like the characters are supposed to be! Maybe they'll think we did it on purpose?"
I remember that moment in the movie where they hand-wave the rest of the Garbage Pail Kids as having been murdered off-screen. Even at 7 years old, I 1) totally understood that it was because they couldn't be arsed to make potentially dozens more costumes just for the last handful of minutes in the movie, and 2) was gobsmacked at what a cheap and unnecessary cop-out that was. I knew, I *knew* that would be a hot talking point in this video. I was rubbing my hands together in anticipation.
As a kid I was irrationally terrified of Garbage Pail Kids. If I'd see one of the dispenser things at the exit of a supermarket I would either try to run past it as fast as I could or close my eyes. Something about even looking at them filled me with an intense sense of dread
That reminds me of my brother. He was terrified of Chucky when we were kids and the video store we went to had a large Child's Play poster hanging up by the front counter, so whenever we went there, he'd always run past so he didn't have to see it 😄
@@Tronomics2000 My brother had the My Buddy doll that Chucky was based on and I was terrified of that thing. I used to lock it in our closet before bed.
I was similar about them even though I liked them, something about the horrible stuff happening to them while they just kept smiling was really off-putting to my tiny brain
I sort of wish Red Letter Media had more money because every time I hear Mike, Jay, or Rich describing how they'd make one of these bad movies better I like what they said and want it to happen.
The three of them should totally be producers on some projects. They often workshop genuinely better versions of things than what we actually get, just in a single afternoon shoot. I want their Gremlins 3 idea! Their Ghostbusters Afterlife rewrite would have totally worked as an actual sequel with the right tone.
They made a bad movie. It was alright. Some scenes were hilarious but very few were played out. It was something I watched. Not sure I would watch again. I would give Space Cop 2 a shot when they release it in 20 years.
@@JacobSantosDev This is why I think they would really shine as producers. Get a creative director that has all his shit together already with making a good movie and directing actors, then have Mike, Rich, and Jay play a producer or executive producer type of role in the making of one of these 80’s tongue in cheek reboots. Because I’ll admit, Space Cop is probably their least competent media project they’ve made. They put some real heart and some great practical craft into it, but they probably had too much to juggle all by themselves to follow their own advice on how to keep a tight script.
I remember going to the video store with my mom. This movie was on the shelf in the kid's section and I asked to rent it. My mom looked at the cover and said no because it looked like a horror movie. My mom was a smart lady.
I'm afraid to watch this. I saw that movie on HBO as a kid and it was the first time I remember feeling actual depression. After seeing it the world was a worse place, forever, and I could never go back.
My neighbor worked at Blockbuster and one day I went in when he was working, and he was playing this movie on a loop. He was pretty proud to have found a copy in the late 90s! The puppets or whatever always creeped me out.
John Carl Buechler was a legend, man. In spite of all the shitty movies he worked on, he always *tried* to do good work, and it usually shines through, even in Full Moon trash. Also, he directed one of the better Jason sequels, so he gets credit for that too.
RLM does a lot of random stuff, but I certainly did not expect to see their review of David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia today! What suave and classy film will they review next?
My grandma is the reason I watched this as a kid. She convinced my mom to let us watch it with our uncle at her house. I didn’t pay much attention to it but I retained very specific memories of some of the weird, nightmarish moments.
22:00 This is what I sub to this channel for. More of Mike animating stories with goofy sound effects please. Thanks for the video! 48:19 This takes Mike's Garbage Pail Kids pitch to another level - introducing a cross-over element in the finale with some other 80's pop culture kids icon to defeat the evil Garbage Pail Kids. That's awesome.
In 5th grade, before going on to middle school my teacher had us make a time capsule. We would include a few things we remember from the time and then write an essay about who we thought we might be, and it would be put into a folder, and then she would send it to us 10 years later. 10 years later I was in MCRD San Diego for boot camp as a Marine, and that envelope was automatically forwarded to recruit youtubeme, and I had to read the essay outloud in front of 74 other recruits, and show what was inside. What was inside were 3 Garbage pail kid cards.
Were any of the other recruits like "Hell yeah" after the Drill Instructor finished passing out mail and released the platoon to "personal time" or whateverbthat little period if time was called?
@@kubrickenigma7977 Not really When you get mail, if there is something other than a letter in it, you have to open it in front of the belts so they can make sure you aren't receiving contraband. So I was standing on the quarterdeck required to open my mail and little chotchkeys that little kids think are important was poured out. The cards weren't the only the only thing, but they were memorable. I didn't even recognize the name on the envelope at first until I opened it and saw the cards. There might have been a bit of humor that that happened to be the timing of the time capsule, but it wasn't a deal to anyone but me. Also, I just realized that my dumb ass didn't pay attention to the date and yesterday (well actually today in the US but I live in Australia) was The Marine Corps Birthday. Oohrah, Semper Fidelis. Love my brothers.
@@youtubeme7195 Happy birthday, Marine! That's a good story, and a little peculiar. A funny memory for yourself, and one that's come full circle. Now it's Remembrance/Veterans Day. Others get a full month, while Vets and the dead get a day. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Thank you for doing what you did, whatever it may have been, and for however long. Don't let Australia kill you. Go down swinging down under at Down Under if you have to.
42:20 I live in Los Angeles and Debbie Lee Carrington used to live just a block away from me. I'm only just now discovering that she passed away in 2018. When I was in 5th grade (circa 2010 or so), I went trick or treating on Halloween as Ash from Evil Dead. Debbie was the only person the entire night who recognized who I was dressed as, and she complimented my costume. That was the only interaction I had with her, but she seemed like such a sweet person.
Fun fact: The movie was originally supposed to be an R-rated horror movie and Friday the 13th Part 7's director John Carl Buechler would've directed and done the effects before the script and tone was changed. However, even though his version never got made, he still got to do the effects. So the reason why they look so terrifying was because it was meant for a completely different movie that was intentionally scary. (Even some of the posters still had his name credited as director. So this really had to have been changed at the last minute.)
@@BioYuGi "fun fact" comments always either restate what's already described in the video or state some other basic level of information that everyone already knows. "Fun Fact: this movie was *not* successful upon release and got lots of bad reviews."
John Carl Buechler definitely had a certain look to his animatronic creatures, they all looked really weird and you can easily tell they were from his studio since there was a similarity to their looks. The alien monster from Terrorvision is probably his best work that I can think of since it didn't look like anything else the studio did and came out looking quite good and unique. His studio had great gore effects though and made (imo) the best Shape/Michael Myers mask since the original in the Halloween 6 mask.
Mike's description of being a 12 year old Gen-X kid watching the Garbage Pail Kids movie and realizing things that he should like can sometimes suck is exactly what millennials felt when The Phantom Menace came out.
Funny thing is I had the exact same experience as Mike watching Revenge of the Sith in theaters. "I should like this, but there's something wrong..." so perfectly describes the exact feelings I had seeing it as a kid.
@John Kult I’m Gen X and the term was used at the time (this was before Buzzfeed and in fact, the Web). Coupland’s 1991 novel popularized the term. I love your Gen Z confident incorrectness.
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Except Millennials just power through it by conspiratorial thinking aka "irony" because we grew up with the Internet. Neo-Boomers ("Gen X") like Mike couldn't understand.
22:30 "You could do an ironic remake of garbage pail kids but with dark humor." "I've actually thought on who would be the perfect director of that!" - Jay
The fact that the whole thing was set in some nightmare dystopia where unsatisfactory people were murdered kind of stopped it from being so zany. Then you get to the end hoping you'll see the whole batch re-united but it's like 'Nope, your friends all died horribly off camera. Thank you for watching! *roll credits* That sure felt like a '----- you'.
I laughed a lot more than I had any right to just staring at the thumbnail on my subscriber feed. I used to watch this movie a lot as a kid and still don't remember anything from it like 30 years later. For the longest time I thought it was just a fever dream and then the internet came through and reminded me.
I remember renting the 82 Conan the Barbarian and Masters of the Universe at the same time and my young brain couldn’t process the disappointment of Masters of the Universe after first watching Conan
I saw Masters of the Universe in the theater. It was an odd experience because while it was a fun little movie it was nothing like the toy line, comics that came with the toys, cartoon, or the full fledged licensed comic books from DC or Marvel or whatnot. You could just tell that something was off in production and it wasn't just that it was in part trying to sell a new toy line like the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies were with pitching generation 2 characters. It felt like they took the existing characters and put them in a different movie (which is essentially what it was).
I've been checking Netflix regularly for that movie since they first mentioned it. Nothing. Guess I'll have to buy it. I really want to see The Greasy Strangler. Same with Beef House. Fucking Netflix sucks.
I love how for most movie reviews, Mike and Jay are like, "...then the lady talks to the man with the mustache... uh, which is when the guy from The Garfield movie got his head stuck in the fence..." But for this movie they are on a first and last name basis with every character.
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Another interesting fact about Anthony Newley: David Bowie was a huge fan of his. In fact; Bowie took a huge influence from Newley at the very beginning of his evolution as a pop icon etc. David contributed a new song 'What Kind Of Fool Am I?' to a tribute album of Newley's. I remember reading about Bowie's infatuation with Newley in one of his many autobiographies.
This is one of the greatest films I've ever seen. It has everything: suspense, drama, comedy. It is one of the great imaginative documents of our time IMHO.
Nice review guys. My daughter unironically became obsessed with this movie recently. A reboot of this property has been discussed for years, but so far no company has had the courage to pull the trigger on it. Other Topps properties that should be explored are Mars Attacks again (but make it super gory), and Dinosaurs Attack has a lot of potential if done right.
I watched that movie at a friends house in about '88. My friend was poor and lived in a trailer house out by the dump. That was the perfect way to watch that movie.
