Based on the wildly popular "Garbage Pail Kids" trading cards from the 1980s, these 13 animated TV episodes produced in 1989 were unaired and unseen in the United States due to controversial themes. Join the wacky, funny comedy gross-out adventures of a seemingly normal group of kids who have the ability to quickly "trash out" to their superhero identities to right whatever wrongs come their way.
A Waste container Spacecraft is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini (although it is never shown how or when the can got into the shop, let alone the garbage can's origin). A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four older teenage bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop, where he works. Manzini takes Dodger's clothes and cleans them while warning him to stay away from the garbage can. Later, Dodger sees Tangerine, Juice's girlfriend, who seems to be the most compassionate member of the group towards Dodger, and he tries to persuade her to buy something from the shop. Dodger is attracted to Tangerine and covertly smells her hair while she is distracted. The other bullies enter the shop and attempt to rough up Dodger again, but he manages to outwit them. However, during the tussle, the garbage can is knocked over and a green ooze spills out. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a pipe, pouring sewage onto him. Dodger is then saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids.
When a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular children's doll "The Garbage Pail Kids" in the '80s, they inadvertently sparked the interest of an entire generation's revulsion for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to them.