Prime Slime Trashy TV

Following a nine-month hiatus after the early 2016 run of American as Apple Pie, Topps returned in October of that year with Series 2, titled Prime Slime Trashy TV, which turned the entire checklist over to the golden age of television. Unlike prior releases that mixed pop culture parodies alongside traditional sandbox mischief, this 220-card base set omitted everyday kids entirely across its sixteen broadcast-themed subsets, letting gags like Green AARON, Bare BARRY, SUE PEARL Girl, American Horror RORY, and Sleepy HAL O. carry the whole weight. Base cards also featured several production changes: they lacked die-cut borders, did away with traditional back illustrations, printed their numbering strictly on the reverse, and arrived without a standalone checklist card in the packs.

The release structure mirrored the sprawling retail footprint of its immediate predecessor, spreading cards across hobby boxes of twenty-four ten-card packs, Collector Edition boxes of twenty-four six-sticker packs, standard retail boxes, Target gravity feeds, blister packs, and multi-pack blasters. Blaster boxes came divided between varieties stamped EA, which housed three Bathroom Buddies bonus cards, and SE boxes packed with three Gross Bears inserts, while fat retail packs bundled eighteen base cards alongside dedicated rerun stickers and green parallels. Blister packaging brought exclusive Adam Bomb Your TV stickers into major chains like Toys R Us and Wal-Mart, but collectors chasing the most elaborate hits still had to look directly toward the Collector boxes, which guaranteed a premium hit inside every box.

Parallel borders varied across specific packaging formats. Retail shoppers saw Green Puke borders in every regular pack and Yellow Pee borders falling every four Target gravity packs, while Collector boxes delivered dark Bruised borders in every foil wrap. Numbered borders proved far scarcer, with Spit borders light blue and limited to 99 copies, pink and red Bloody borders numbered to 75 exclusively in Collector packs, and Fool's Gold borders numbered to 50 across the entire production run at roughly one in 58 packs. The insert menu stretched across eight Garbage Pail Kids Wacky Packages crossovers, twenty Classic Rerun stickers, and high-end chase items like Parody Patches numbered to 99 and four distinct artist shirt relics numbered to 50 copies.

Sketch hunters faced a similarly segmented landscape, sorting through standard sketch cards in retail boxes, shaped sketches across hobby and collector packs, loaded puzzle sketches inside blasters, single-artist panoramas tucked solely into fat packs, and double-artist panoramas inside Collector packs. Eagle-eyed fans also noticed notable television absentees on the checklist, as running corporate relationships kept Topps from mocking programs belonging to AMC or Disney's ABC Studios.