Valentine's Day Is Gross

Arriving on February 14, 2019, as the second release under the Topps On Demand banner, Valentine's Day Is Gross was offered as an online exclusive. While Topps scheduled a seven-day sales window on its website at forty dollars a set, the entire stock vanished in less than four hours, opening just before two o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time and shutting down just past five-thirty. This marked the fastest sellout for an online Garbage Pail Kids run, surpassing the approximately twelve hours it took for the 2018 Memes release to sell out. Topps initially listed eight hundred copies as available, but the manufacturer later settled the official print run at 750 sets.

The cards relied on ten new paintings spread across the customary paired names, depicting classic male characters courting classic female figures on the reverse sides. Collectors had not seen fresh back art since 2014, and Topps answered longstanding fan requests by styling those card backs after the vintage wanted posters from the original series. The artwork came from the same five illustrators who had drawn the previous Memes set, with Brent Engstrom, David Gross, Joe Simko, Smokin Joe McWilliams, and Neil Camera each contributing two paintings. Front designs featured stalwarts such as ADAM Bomb, Blasted BILLY, Potty SCOTTY, Dead TED, and Fryin' BRIAN, accompanied by the welcome return of card numbers and the traditional peel arrow.

Inside each purchase, buyers received twenty base cards along with one C-name insert, three Green border parallels, and a single Pink border parallel. Original sketch cards surfaced at a rate of one in every two sets, with all five artists contributing eighty sketches each based on characters from the second original series on fresh sketch card stock.