Oh, and as far as your below-the-belt accusation that I hate wackys: I love wackys, otherwise I would not be here on this forum, Joe. What I "hate" is my beloved wackys disgraced with potty humor and lowbrow gross-out crassness (vomit-flavored floss? really?)
Personally, I'm not a fan of "potty humor and lowbrow gross-out crassness" as you describe it, either. That stuff doesn't appeal to me and moreso, it actively turns me off. That said, isn't the introduction of that humor and our reactions to it simply a matter of changing tastes and changing times - and perhaps us simply being set in our ways? And also it could be younger folks wanting to try something new and to make something "theirs"?
Not saying that you can't still have solid Wacky humor without them - you certainly CAN. Of course you can. But that doesn't mean you should or that everyone is going to be satisfied with that and not want to push envelopes, such as they are. In 2014, it would seem that this other kind of post-GarbagePailKids humor has become a part of what Wacky Packages now are. Whether WE like it or not. And that might be the point, too.
Sometimes in these instances, when I have strong reactions to new things like this, I look to other parts of youth culture through the ages and I try to make comparisons.
Elvis shook his hips and a lot of people got up in arms, saying that was crass and inappropriate. It turned a lot of people off. Someone might have said (and likely did) that the hip shaking was unnecessary to the music - and they'd be right, from a certain point-of-view. I think most of us chuckle at that early criticism of Elvis Presley, and yet many of us who do might be incredibly turned off by Miley Cyrus and her "twerking". I'd be one of them. But after some consideration, I can find no fundamental difference between hip-shaking and twerking, other than the era in which they grabbed headlines, and that I'm perfectly comfortable with one and experience discomfort with the other.
Rock and roll didn't NEED to exist. Music was fine before it and I'm sure many folks saw no reason to introduce new sounds and styles to the musical landscape. But in spite of that, things changed. Because that's life.
So times change. It's inevitable and oftentimes difficult for those of us who wish things could stay the same - which is nearly everyone on some level. It has been said so many ways by so many smart people, scientists and poets alike, and said far simpler and briefer than I'm saying here. Things changing and evolving is just a fundamental truth and fact of life.
Considering all of this, when I see Miley Cyrus twerking or Wacky Packages featuring GPK humor, I don't try to stop myself from having my negative reaction to them, but I do try to temper it with an understanding that my reaction perhaps reveals as much about me and where I am in my life as it does about them. :-)
[Edit: I wanted to add that, because of all of this I am incredibly grateful when something comes along to service my existing tastes such as they are - and such as Wacky Packages Old School aims to be. It's sort of the Wacky Packages equivalent of Journey/Styx/Def Leppard touring and so on - sort of.]
