The iconic Garbage Pail Kids are returning to television, an animated series is heading to HBO Max.
According to THR, HBO Max is teaming with Topps, Tornante, and Danny McBride’s Rough House Pictures to bring the beloved 1980s trading cards to life as an animated TV series. The animated series is expected to be family-friendly and appeal to audiences of all ages.
McBride, David Gordon Green (McBride’s partner at Rough House Pictures), and Josh Bycel (Hulu’s Solar Opposites) will write and co-create the HBO Max series. Tornante TV’s Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen will executive produce alongside Rough House’s Brandon James (The Righteous Gemstones) alongside McBride, Green, and Bycel. No word, yet, if McBride will lend his voice to any of the characters in the series.
The Garbage Pail Kids became pop culture phenomenons in 1985 thanks to baseball cards created by Topps, The GPK cards — a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids line of dolls — featured gross-out humor and a subversive attitude. The success of the cards, which were banned in several schools, led to a live-action movie and animated TV series in 1987. The series never aired in the U.S. as a result of their controversial themes.
