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Originally Posted by Acebot44
Wow, I had no idea these things were real, just thought that Always Sunny Made them up for that episode where Charlie is obsessed with them. Hmm, learn something new everyday.
Were these kids "ravers" or into their house music? 8th grade is kind of young to get started on that lifestyle, but that could explain the use of pacifier as a fashion accessory. Either way, good job on not sticking one of those in you mouth.
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No, those things were real all right. Garbage Pail Kids were actually made to mock the Cabbage Patch Kids, which were also big in the 80s. GPK started in 1986 and were popular until 1989 I believe. My days as an 80's kid would have been perfect if it weren't for those things. Seeing them stuck on something in random places didn't help either. I remember when I went to orientation for the high school I was about to attend, I saw some stuck on the inside of someone's locker and I prayed to God I never got that locker. Thankfully I never did. They were brought back in 2003, and new ones were made, and the ones from the 80s were re-released in special packs, but thankfully I haven't seen them too much. There was even a movie that came out in 1987 to cash in on the craze. If my mother thought seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with me was so bad, then she should consider herself lucky that I never got into Garbage Pail Kids. I feel for any parent who had to see that with their kids. In fact, if you think you can handle it, maybe you should do a search on them.
As for the pacifiers, the kids in my school who sported them weren't ravers or anything. Actually I think the whole thing stemmed from Boyz 'n the Hood, where they had a character who could be seen sucking on a pacifier at times. Now the kids in my school weren't wearing real pacifiers, but things that were shaped like pacifiers.