Scratch and Stink

Topps released Garbage Pail Kids Scratch & Stink on June 28, 2019, as the eleventh entry in its On Demand program, selling the cards exclusively through its website. Each set cost forty dollars, with Topps capping orders at fifty per customer and providing a free shipping option at checkout through SmartPost. Though the sales window was scheduled to remain open for seven days, collectors bought out the entire allotment in slightly over four days, cementing a total run of 1,200 sets. Shipping delays forced Topps to send out an apology email promising arrival the following week, following similar delivery delays on the previous year's Memes set.

Inside every package was a complete twenty-card base set built around ten original paintings divided into traditional "a" and "b" name twins. Artwork duties were shared among five regular contributors: Joe Simko, David Gross, Brent Engstrom, Joe McWilliams, and Neil Camera.

Every order also held three parallel cards and a single scratch insert. Each set included two Green parallels limited to 120 copies of each card, alongside a single Pink parallel restricted to 60 copies each. Sketch cards fell in one out of every two sets, providing 600 total sketches and marking the first time non-core sketch artists had been invited into an online release since the GPK Classic series. Twelve artists finished sketches on custom card blanks that carried light green nameplates and banners across the front and a camouflage pattern on the reverse.