3.6 /10 1 Votes
No. of episodes 13 First episode date 1987 Number of episodes 13 | 3.5/10 IMDb Running time 30 minutes Network CBS Executive producer Bob Hathcock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Voices of Tara Strong
Cree Summer
Noam Zylberman
Michael Fantini
Alyson Court Country of origin United States (cancelled)
Canada Distributor CBS Television Distribution Genres Animation, Children's television series Cast Tara Strong, Cree Summer, Alyson Court, Don Francks, Noam Zylberman Similar Meatballs & Spaghetti, The Adventures of Ragge, The California Raisin Sh, Teen Wolf, In the News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Garbage pail kids cartoon episode 1 junkoid zone aliens batteries not included
Garbage Pail Kids is a Canadian cartoon series which was produced in 1987, based on the popular Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, produced and directed by Bob Hathcock and co-written and developed by Flint Dille. Due to controversial themes, it never aired in the United States. However, it did air in most countries in Europe.
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The garbage pail kids cartoon episode 1 junkoid zone aliens batteries not included
Synopsis
The series stars the characters Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Terri Cloth, Patty Putty, and Clogged Duane as gross looking kids with abilities to help others. In the first two episodes, they have normal alter-egos, which transform into their "Garbage Pail" identities; later episodes show them exclusively in their Garbage Pail looks (it is never explained how their Garbage Pail personae became permanent).
The show also features parodies of Hollywood famous movies like the Indiana Jones series, Superman, Conan the Barbarian, King Kong, and The Fly. It also has segments between stories, such as "Garbage Pail Groaners" (jokes) and "Would We Lie To You?" (facts).
Controversy
CBS ordered an entire season, and heavily promoted it in the run-up to the 1987-88 season. However, it was abruptly pulled a few days before its debut, and was replaced with an extra half hour of Muppet Babies, which was expanded to 90 minutes in order to fill the time-slot after Garbage Pail Kids was pulled from the schedule.
CBS removed the series from their schedule, following protests from Action for Children's Television, the National Coalition on Television Violence, and the Christian Leaders for Responsible Television (a part of the American Family Association). The reasons given were that the series ridiculed the handicapped, glorified violence, and served mainly as an infomercial for the cards.
Some advertisers, such as Nabisco, McDonald's and Crayola also pulled out, either due to pressure from interest groups, or the fact that a preview tape of the show was not available in time for review.
A few CBS affiliates, such as WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas; KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma and KREM-TV in Spokane, Washington, opted not to carry the program, notifying CBS of their pre-emption weeks in advance of the debut.
Despite never airing in the United States, it did air in several other countries, including Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Israel, Italy and the Philippines.
DVD release
Paramount Home Entertainment released Garbage Pail Kids: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 on April 4, 2006.