“Evil” Garbage Pail Kids!

Wow, this is a neat find, and it backs up all of the Garbage Pail Kids anecdotes I’ve been spewing online for the past 15 years.

In this 1986 CBS News segment, no less than Dan Rather himself introduced the world to Garbage Pail Kids.

CBS was careful not to be dramatically critical, but all of the important bullet points are here, including my favorite piece of GPK lore: The fact that many schools banned them outright, ostensibly to keep kids focused, but really because they were naughty cards.

(Well, naughty stickers. They were kind of both.)

Tonight’s survey:

Were you ever a trading card collector?

Which sets did you collect?

Share memories, in the comments!

(I could spend all day answering this one. I collected everything. For now I’ll just say that I never collected any set “harder” than the first series of Marvel Universe cards, which I still 100% credit for the early ’90s comic book boom.)