Trailer Park Boys

*Trailer Park Boys*
Trailer Park Boys
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Created by	Mike Clattenburg
Starring	See Cast and characters below
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	45 (plus one special) (as of May 21, 2006)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	Showcase
Release	April 22, 2001 –; present

This article is about the television series. For the movie, see Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

Trailer Park Boys is a popular Canadian mockumentary television series focusing on the misadventures of ex-convicts living in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, which is located near Halifax, Nova Scotia. It premiered in April 2001. The show's creator and director is Mike Clattenburg.

Shot COPS-style (cameraman's point of view), the low-budget program became something of a rarity in English Canada: a homegrown phenomenon. Characters, particularly "Bubbles", appear on novelty tee-shirts, the show's lead trio toured with Our Lady Peace, while currently they're on tour with Guns N' Roses, where you can see Bubbles sing his song "Liquor and Whores". They've also appeared in music videos with The Tragically Hip, while Bubbles has appeared with George Canyon and Snow, and they have been presenters at numerous award shows - always in character.

The show has been a great success for the cable network Showcase, where it is the network's highest rated Canadian series. It airs in the United Kingdom and Spain on Paramount Comedy, in the Republic of Ireland on Channel 6 , in Iceland on Skjáreinn, in Australia on the Comedy Channel, in New Zealand on TV 2, in Israel on Xtra HOT, in the Netherlands on MTV Netherlands, in Denmark on DR2, in Portugal on SIC Radical and in Finland on Nelonen. In the United States, BBC America formerly aired a censored version of the show, but it is no longer part of their lineup.

Background

The show was preceded by two films by Mike Clattenburg, the short One Last Shot (1998), and the movie Trailer Park Boys (1999). Another short film, called The Cartboy, was then created to introduce the character that became known as Bubbles. The show was filmed in real trailer parks in the Halifax area. During the first season, they shot at a park in Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia. The second season was shot at a park in Dartmouth, third season at a park in Timberlea and the fourth season at a park outside Dartmouth. Since then, the show (including the Christmas special and feature film), has been filmed at a closed set in Cole Harbour. Mike Smith (Bubbles), a musician formerly of the band Sandbox, was the sound man during the pilot movie and season 1, but became a full time actor when Bubbles became more popular during the second season. Barrie Dunn (who is a producer on the show and plays Ray), saw the original production at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax and thought it would be great on television. Showcase agreed to air the show and the rest is history.

Cast and Characters

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Main Characters

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Ricky

Ricky (played by Robb Wells) — Enjoys marijuana, hash, alcohol. He is Julian's best friend. Bubbles claims that Ricky taught himself to read by working through the instructions on frozen food packages so that he could eat.

Ricky is frequently shot or injured under embarrassing circumstances, and having only a Grade 10 education, he has a penchant for moral relativism and malapropisms. Ricky is a master horticulturist and has grown and sold large crops of marijuana. He's also an expert at talking his way out of trouble with the law. He will often trick police and his victims into helping him physically carry the things he plans to steal. When Ricky is questioned by the police, he usually goes by the name Randy Lahey.

He's fond of knock-knock jokes that don't usually have a punchline. He frequently wears track pants and a bad shirt that is often the same for an entire season.

He is addicted to smoking cigarettes. In one episode of season 4, he was smoking three cigarettes at once.

His diet consists mainly of alcohol, chocolate milk, chicken fingers, roast chicken chips, pepperoni, cereal and donairs (from King of Donair). He also likes jalapeño potato chips (which he pronounces "ja-LAP-a-no"), all dressed potato chips (which he calls "Dressed All Over") and zesty cheese tortilla chips (which he calls "Zesty Mordant," a send-up of bilingual packaging in Canada, where the French term for 'Zesty' is 'Mordant' and is displayed side by side on the packaging).

Ricky's Family

Father: Ray
Girlfriend: Lucy
Daughter: Trinity ("Trin")

Ricky was set on marrying Lucy until the wedding was interrupted by the police. Most of the time Ricky lives in an old Chrysler New Yorker, known as the Shit-mobile which is missing its passenger-side front door and the driver's side door does not open.

Ricky has also been notorious for kidnapping Canadian musicians Alex Lifeson of Rush (after he refused to give them tickets to the concert and Ricky insisted on a private show at the trailer park), and Rita MacNeil (whom he kidnapped, along with her band, forcing them to harvest his marijuana crop at gunpoint). According to Ricky, his birthday is sometime in the spring of 1970, and the fact that he conceived Trinity at 24, which would place his age around 36. He is sometimes maliciously nicknamed "Reveen" after resembling Canadian hypnotist Peter Reveen "the Impossiblist", an identification which he can't stand.

Julian

Julian (played by John Paul Tremblay) — "The brains" of the outfit, he is smarter of the pair and the leader of the group. His main goal in life is to get rich quick (usually from drug related activities and stealing items of value under $1000) and retire. Also, he is sometimes referred to as Alch-y (for alcoholic) and Patrick Swayze, due to a close resemblance, which he can't stand being called. He is rarely seen without a drink (always rum and Coke, and home made potato vodka in jail) in his hand, and always wears jeans and a black t-shirt. The sound of ice clinking against glass follows him everywhere. Likewise, he refuses to put down the rum and coke even when he is partaking in heists, having the drink in one hand, and a firearm (a Beretta 92 in early seasons and in Season Five a Colt 1911) in another. Julian has emerged from rollover car crashes with his rum and coke completely intact. Julian is generally more sensible than Ricky, and sometimes thinks of getting a legitimate job, but "Freedom 35", the plan to get enough money through crime to retire early, always lures him back in. He shared a mutual attraction with police officer Erica Miller, but wouldn't give up his career of crime.

Julian was raised by Levi and Desiree after they found him abandoned in the trailer park. Julian does not know who his biological parents are, and has no other blood relatives that he knows about, although he has 'adopted' an elderly woman in the trailer park as his grandmother (Mrs. Peterson). She occasionally buys him presents, mostly consisting of booze, dope and CDs, for which in return Julian baby-sits her dog. This occasionally has disastrous consequences, namely whenever Julian has to deal with Ricky and Bubbles, while also taking care of the dog. His birthday is somewhere in October, 1970, also making him around the age of 36, give or take a few months.

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Bubbles and Conky

Bubbles

Bubbles (played by Mike Smith) — Julian and Ricky's best friend and conscience, known for his hoarse voice, absent-mindedness, and coke-bottle glasses. Abandoned as an infant, Bubbles lives in a tool shed with his cats, who are his only family. He makes a living by stealing shopping carts, fixing them, and reselling (he calls it remarketing). The scheme entails the theft of the carts from numerous local malls by tossing them into a ravine from which he retrieves them at night. He then takes the carts home, fixes them up, and resells them to other malls. He has each of the malls playing off each other, but he does not consider what he does a crime. Lahey and Randy do not interfere with this scheme, but he was given a hard time by Gary the Mall Cop. In the first season, his voice was low and monotone, but in the second season, his voice changed to one he has kept since. He explained that he accidentally had his tonsils removed while Ricky and Julian were doing three months in jail, and this is the reason for his hoarse and rough voice.

An animal lover, Bubbles makes the ballooning population of stray cats his own responsibility, feeding and looking after them. Even though most are grown, he refers to them as kitties. Once, he actually brought a mountain lion to the park to live in his shed and named him "Steve French," because despite the fact he was a wild animal, "he's just a big kitty." The animal got out of control in the park and was forced to be returned to the wild, which Bubbles found difficult to do and cried over it. Because he was a first offender at the time of his first arrest, Bubbles was given permission by the judge to keep one of them in his cell during his two month sentence, since the cat had a deformed paw and therefore was (allegedly) unable to look after itself. However, Bubbles revealed that he had lied to the judge, "so I could keep the little mafucker in here with me!"

His name comes from his childhood love of blowing bubbles. His parents abandoned him on Christmas Eve, leaving an explanatory note and an antique bubblemaking machine (a "1961 Electro-bubble"), which for a time Bubbles used to entertain his cats. Sadly, the machine was destroyed when his shed caught fire (the result of a poor wiring job by Ricky, Cory, and Trevor, who were trying to use it as a temporary home for Ricky's grow-op). Bubbles moved into a van owned by J-Roc, and paid $12 a month rent. A new shed was later purchased for him by Julian. After being abandoned by his parents, Bubbles was raised by Julian's foster parents for his own safety due to his parents being hunted down for his father's gambling debts.

Bubbles' evil alter-ego is a ventriloquist dummy named Conky, who he constructed in grade six. The pair bear a striking resemblance to each other. Every time Bubbles operated the puppet, it took over his mind and was very fond of insulting Ricky and Julian, especially the former. They threw Conky into the swamp to protect Bubbles while the boys were drunk in grade 7, but years later, they crossed heads again when Bubbles, who had to see a doctor, insisted on taking the puppet with him. They soon caved in, rescued Conky, and Bubbles took the doll to the hospital. Conky tormented Ricky calling him Reveen. Julian got called Patrick Swayze by Conky which resulted in the puppet getting shot by Julian, effectively breaking the curse on Bubbles. Bubbles is a great rock n roll fan, and his proudest moment was being guitar tech for Alex Lifeson at a Rush concert. Bubbles loves professional wrestling and even dresses up as his own character, "The Green Bastard" (There is also a Drink named after this persona called a green bastard made from :Sour Puss,Vodka, and Butter Ripple Schnapps) from "parts unknown." In addition, he acted in two porno films, From Russia With The Love Bone and The Bare Pimp Project, both of which were directed by J-Roc. He also drives a go-cart while wearing a Cooper hockey helmet, which he is good at doing (although crashing all the time), and makes expert use of the word cocksucker. He also dressed as C-3PO Halloween 1977, which was the same night they got into trouble with Mr. Lahey for the first time.

Bubbles has been said to be the moral centre of the group, in that he represents the purity and innocence that the other characters seem to lack. His perspectives are often rooted in the ideals of staying out of trouble, and helping the meek, illustrated by his love for kitties. In spite of sometimes appearing slightly mentally disabled to some people at first glance, he is really not that dim at all, "the sharpest guy in the park" as proclaimed by Ray, and often he is the very first to really understand what is going on. He feels very remorseful when Ricky (falsely) tells Bubbles that it was Bubbles who accidentally burned down Ricky's dad's trailer after leaving a pot of French Fries frying too long, and so raids the town dump to get his friend new stuff, as an apology (in fact, it was Ricky who burned down the trailer with the pot of fries). Surprisingly, whenever the cops swoop into the trailer park to bust one of the boys' operations, Bubbles usually manages to avoid getting arrested or nailed by the police in most of the show, at least until he was arrested at the end of Season Four by Officer George Green. It was only a two month sentence, and he was allowed to keep a pet cat in his cell.

Bubbles' birthday is sometime in July, in 1971, placing him at 35 years old as of 2006.

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Randy and Mr. Lahey

Jim Lahey

Jim Lahey (played by John Dunsworth) — A police officer, who was wrongfully dismissed as a result of a prank by Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles on Halloween 1977. He's formerly an alcoholic, but he has recently quit drinking as of season 6 and has switched to dope, thanks to Ricky. Mr. Lahey ran Sunnyvale Trailer Park at the behest of his ex-wife, the owner of the Park. He is rarely seen without Randy and the two have had a sexual relationship together as revealed to Julian in Season 1 and the rest of the park in Season 3. He develops a drinking problem between seasons 1 and 2 (after Randy leaves him for Lucy), and lets the trailer park decline into chaos. He keeps trying to catch Julian and Ricky at their illegal activities but is fairly ineffective. He has a tendency to use bizarre, rambling extended metaphors involving the word "shit". Often, he can "hear" strange supernatural events coming to the park such as "The Winds Of Shit," (meaning trouble brewing) "The Shit Blizzard," and bails out Cyrus and his goons (Terry and Dennis) and grooms them as "Shit Puppets" to fight the boys "in my shit play."

At the end of season four, he snapped and tried to kill Ricky in front of everyone, but he was coaxed into giving up by Randy, who admitted his love for him, since they had split up. While the boys spent two months in jail for violating the Motor Vehicle Act on several time, such as Bubbles having a fake license, Lahey spent a month in a mental hospital, where he became sober and returned home to Randy. On the Season 6 finale, he asks Randy to be his character witness at the police board, under the condition that Randy receive tapes of the boys committing crimes, so Randy can personally bust them. Randy refuses. Lahey instead goes to Bubbles, who agrees under the condition that if Lahey becomes a cop, he won't arrest the boys for anything. Lahey agrees and, with the help of Bubbles, is reinstated as a cop. His birthday is September 11, 1955, which places him at 51.

Lahey often tries to expose Ricky and Julian's latest schemes by calling in his old police coworkers when he thinks they'll be caught in the act, but this frequently backfires and makes him look even worse in their eyes, usually getting himself (and Randy) in trouble.

Lahey has the special skill as a drunk to do what he refers to as the "wrap-around." This is when he takes a bottle of liquor and swings it around the back of his head and into his mouth.

Randy

Randy A.K.A Randy Bobandy (played by Patrick Roach) — Mr. Lahey's devoted assistant and "longtime companion". In the Christmas Special episode, it is explained that their "partnership" began when Lahey's then-wife, Barbara, found Randy working as a male prostitute in 1997, and, out of her Christian charity, invited him to stay with them for a while. He has an insatiable hunger for cheeseburgers, which has contributed to his large round pot belly and he never wears a shirt, except for once in season 2 (Never Trust a Man With No Shirt On), when he used a shirt to cover a microphone wire in an attempt to catch Ricky and Julian doing something illegal, and once in season 4 (The Green Bastard), when Mr. Lahey was receiving the "Trailer Park Supervisor of the Year" award. Throughout season 6 he is required to wear a shirt at all times, if he rides along in police vehicles. Randy was the one who insisted on coming out to the rest of the park after he and Mr. Lahey are caught in a compromising situation in Lahey's trailer. He went out with Lucy for a short while during Ricky's three-month stay in prison between seasons 1 and 2.

Randy was once a male prostitute who went by the handle "Smokey," before becoming assistant trailer park supervisor. It is established that Randy knew Mr. Lahey during this period of his life and refers to him as "Simon" (apparently a pseudonym from a previous "business relationship" with Randy) when they are first formally introduced. He will sometimes fall back on this job whenever he doesn't have any money for cheeseburgers. Smokey can be found in front of the King of Donair, or Dairy Queen, where he prostitutes himself for either cheeseburgers, fries, or dairy queen coupons. Randy, it seems has the most physical prowess of anyone in the park. He frequently shoves people when he is trying to get his way. When a real fight seems to be on its way, Randy takes off his pants for fear of ripping them because of how tight they are on him. In season 4 he beats up Cyrus (pantless) when no one else is willing to fight him and in season 6 when he is evicting J-Roc all he needs to do is un-buckle his belt to scare J-Roc into leaving. He's been arrested three times in the series history; once when he got in a tussle with the police and spent a night in the drunk tank, another when he asked the police to take him away with Lahey to a mental hospital for the next month, where he helped his friend and partner get off alcohol, and when he got blamed for stealing an ATM machine.

The Bottle Kids often target him in their raids against the boys, probably due to his fatness or his stupidity. J-Roc is usually an instigator of his wrath, calling him names like Porkzilla, Gut Cassidy and the Sundance Cheeseburger, Inflatable Elvis, etc.

Randy mentioned in an episode of Season Six that he is 42 years old, which places his birthday somewhere in 1964.

Recurring characters

Lucy

Lucy (played by Lucy DeCoutere) — Ricky's on-again, off-again girlfriend and mother to his child, Trinity. Lucy and Julian had a relationship in Junior High, and Lucy still expresses feelings for Julian from time to time. Gets a boob job in Season 5, which Ricky does not notice at first.

Sarah

Sarah (played by Sarah E. Dunsworth) — Lucy's best friend. She moved in with Lucy and Trinity while Ricky was in prison at the beginning of season 1. She dated Ricky for a while and encouraged him to focus on school. However this didn't last long. As soon as Ricky got rich, she was instrumental in getting Lucy to file a child support suit against Ricky. In seasons 4 and 5, she dated both Cory & Trevor (as one entity) and they asked her to marry both of them. She ran a hair salon with Lucy in the park, however as of season 6 she helps Corey and Trevor in the running of their corner store on the park.

In the first season, Sarah was mainly used for commentary and to inform the audience about the other characters on the show, although starting in Season 2 she began to play a larger role by dating Ricky. Sarah is also the real life daughter of John Dunsworth (Mr. Lahey).

J-Roc

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Tyrone, J-Roc and DVS

J-Roc (played by Jonathan Torrens) — A rapper who lives with his overbearing mother at the trailer park. Often mistaken as an Eminem wanna-be. He speaks in ebonics and very frequently uses the phrase "Know what I'm saying?"(pronounced "Gnome Sayin")and " why you all up in my eyes? I ain't got no candy for you." He often helps Ricky and Julian out in their money-making schemes. Also, he and his crew; The Roc Pile, occasionally makes forays into the amateur international porn market (his titles to date are the low-budget movies, "From Russia With the Love Bone", "The Bare Pimp Project" and "J-Roc's Greasy Trailer Park Girls Gone Wild"). His real name is Jamie.

In the episode Who's the Microphone Assassin? viewers are reminded that J-Roc, and even people around him, forget that he's white. In the same episode, J-Roc was caught masturbating. In Dear Santa Claus. Go Fuck Yourself, which takes place in 1997 two years before the series began, J-Roc is one of the nerds and speaks very plainly and professes that he had never smoked marijuana up to that point in time.

Has come up with all sorts of nicknames for Randy, including: "Rico Suave looking mafucker", "Roch Voisine with a gut", "Randy Bobandy", "Inflatable Elvis", "Gut Cassidy and the Sundance Cheeseburger", "Cheesburger Depot", "Rocky and Bullmafucker", and "Starsky and Gut" (both Lahey & Randy). He is also the soon to be father of two children and has decided to soon step out of the rap game as of the newest season. He refers to the two mothers as his "babies mamas".

In the Season Three episode Who's the Microphone Assassin? J-Roc is said to be 29 years old, which places his birthday sometime in 1974.

Cory and Trevor

Cory and Trevor (played by Cory Bowles and Michael Jackson) — Trevor and Cory are two rather stupid young adults who are often used as lackeys by Ricky and Julian, but it's rarely worth the effort because they have a tendency to screw up everything. Invariably, the pair are used by Ricky as scapegoats whenever something illegal doesn't go according to plan. Julian manages them with dog training techniques. Trevor is constantly being harassed for cigarettes and chips by Ricky, who snaps his fingers and says "Smokes - Let's go!". He is also very weak and foolish, as in one episode, he gets beat up by a farm lady and he does not even defend himself when needed. Everyone treats them as effectively one person - one entity. When the boys run an illegal gas station, they are sent to siphon gas from other cars and end up with gasoline in their systems. They are later sentenced to 450 hours of community service by the court after the others pin the blame of them, and due to their being hooked up to oxygen tanks, they are in no position to argue or defend themselves. In the episode Working Man (Season 4, Episode 8), Sara agrees to marry them both, after they propose to her. Cory and Trevor share several traits with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, given the pair's few distinguishing characteristics as well as their roles as (rarely successful) lapdogs of Ricky and Julian. (These two characters are not going to be in Season 7 due to Cory Bowles and Michael Jackson's decisions to leave the show after Season 6)

Others

Ray (played by Barrie Dunn) — Ricky's father who enjoys drinking alcohol, listening to blues music, and reading the Bible. Ray is a deeply devout Calvinist, and is also addicted to video lottery terminals. He constantly steals his son's pepperoni. For the purposes of claiming disability benefit, he spends most of his time in a wheelchair although he is not disabled and will stand and walk around normally when he believes no-one is watching. Interestingly enough, his wheelchair has three flags on it, a Jolly Roger flag, a Canadian Flag and a Confederate flag. Ray was sent to jail for disability fraud after Lahey and Randy called the police. Ray used to be a truck driver. After being evicted by Barb and Randy, Ray was forced to live at the nearby garbage dump inside of his truck's old cab. At the time of his eviction he was stealing cable from the other trailers and firing high velocity piss jugs from his old cab into nearby trees and onto the roofs of houses. Currently, thanks to Bubbles and Lahey, Ray has been instated as the Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor. Also, Ray has an extreme fondness for liquor, and this is proven by his willigness to do anything for liquor, such as take part in one of J-Roc's greasy porn films.

Interesting to note that Ray's character is often the one used to make social commentary. In the episode where he loses the boys' money to a video lottery terminal, Julian can be heard saying "The government just uses those to get welfare checks back."

Sam Losco AKA Sam Lasco (played by Sam Tarasco) — a former veterinarian who lost his job after helping Ricky fix a bullet wound. He later ran for Trailer Park Supervisor but lost to Jim Lahey after Julian slipped hallucinogenic mushrooms into his food prior to his speech to the residents of the park. Then he got his veterinary license back (on probation) and started up his practice again. He has a mild demeanor, but is not particularly fond of Ricky or Julian. His favourite food seems to be greasy hot dogs and has been called a "caveman" by Ricky, Julian, and most recently Randy. In season 6, Sam had a new job at a paving company, but after a prank call by Ricky, loses the job. He places the blame on Randy, who he believes had made the call, and temporarily took Randy hostage in an attempt to trade him for money to pay off the fines he had received.

Tyrone (played by Tyrone Parsons) — J-Roc's sidekick and together the duo have been involved in many gangster like activities. The latest scheme was that he was part of a parcel-pickup theft scam in the trailer park. His real name is Tyler, but prefers to be called "T". In Dear Santa Claus. Go Fuck Yourself, which takes place in 1997, Tyrone speaks very plainly and professes that he had never smoked marijuana up to that point in time.

Detroit Velvet Smooth (DVS) (played by Gary "Papa Grand" James) — Tyrone and DVS are J-Roc's managers. Tyrone is part of the original cast, while DVS was introduced in the episode Who's the Microphone Assassin?. In that episode, DVS found out from Mr. Lahey about how J-Roc was pirating his songs, and proceeded to crash his rap concert at the trailer park and threatened him. He later had a change of heart when the park residents told him about J-Roc, and since then DVS and Tyrone together manage J-Roc's career. It was Tyrone and DVS who came up with the idea of having J-Roc pretend to go to jail to increase his street cred. Ricky often calls DVS "DVD". He does not hail from Detroit, as his name would imply, but rather from Moncton, New Brunswick.

Officer George Green (played by George Green) — the local police officer most often dispatched to deal with Ricky and Julian. He is easily fooled by the pair and it is very rare that he makes an arrest. In season 6, he was caught in Lucy's trailer by Ricky, handcuffed to her shower almost naked, apparently during sex.

Bottle Kids - a gang of pre-teens that show up about every second episode with a shopping cart full of glass bottles and bombard one or more of the principal characters from a distance, and then run away. Randy is a frequent target, perhaps due to his fatness or his stupidity, and he mostly bears the strain of their attacks. The minute anyone shouts "Bottle Kids!", everyone ducks. In the fifth season Trinity was seen as one of the bottle kids. She took a large number of liquor bottles Ray had stored in Bubbles' tool shed, much to Ray's anger. Exactly why they do what they do is unknown.

Cyrus (played by Bernard Robichaud) — bully who enjoys waving his gun around, a Beretta 92, and terrorizing the residents of the trailer park. Ruled over the park while Julian and Ricky were in jail for three months at the start of Season One, becoming their nemesis, and has showed up several times since. He is still trying to get his Grade 10. The tuned in fan will notice that Cyrus always has the same song playing in his car whenever he shows up at a scene. Cyrus ends every conversation (or confrontation) with other characters with the same line: "Fuck off, I got work to do". Cyrus drives a 1978 Corvette, red.

Trinity (played by Jeanna Harrison) — generally assumed to be Ricky's daughter; however, there are a few suggestions that Julian may, in fact, be the father. Supporting evidence includes numerous accounts of Lucy requesting more personal time with Trinity from Julian, and several suggestions that the past relationship between Julian and Lucy may have been more than one would first assume. There is not any definitive proof verifying either possibility, be the father Julian or Ricky, though the show portrays Ricky as the acting father figure in Trinity's life.

"Trin" has an addiction to cigarettes and sometimes gets drunk, which usually ends up with Lucy being angry at Ricky. She has eaten weed brownies made by Ricky (unbeknownst to him) in the episode "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up", with her exclaiming, "These brownies taste funny." She has occasionally been cast as a particpant with the Bottle Kids.

Treena Lahey (played by Ellen Page) — Jim and Barbara's daughter. She hero-worships Ricky, much to the chagrin of her father. She appears only in season 2.

Barbara Lahey (played by Shelley Thompson) — the owner of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. She was married to Jim until she divorced him due to his homosexual relationship with Randy and his drinking problem. She was briefly engaged to Sam Losco in Season 2 until Julian & J-Roc showed her "The Bare Pimp Project", a low-budget adult film. Towards the end of Season 4, she proposed to Ricky until he went back to jail. Thompson, who plays Barbara, first appeared as the officiant of Ricky and Lucy's aborted wedding at the end of Season 1.

Terry and Dennis (played by Mio and Nobu Adilman) — a pair of Japanese-Canadian brothers who use their grandmother's house as a cover to deal hash. The brothers debuted in the episode Give Peace a Chance in season five. Ricky knows them well since their childhood days, but they are not well-liked by Julian and Bubbles. The brothers like to walk around the house wearing only their bathrobes while not covering their private parts. Bubbles labels them with many identities like "the flappy bird brothers"

Levi (played by Ardon Bess) — a friend of Julian, and Ricky. He is Desiree's husband. Levi and Desiree are Julian's foster parents, who raised Julian after they found him abandoned in the trailer park.

Desiree (played by Sandi Ross) — Levi's Wife.

Candy — Julian's girlfriend at one point in the series.

Erica Miller (played by Shauna MacDonald, who is now famous for being the CBC's "promo girl.") — a police officer who fell for Julian, hoping that he'd leave his current life behind. She later realized that he'd never change and arrests him.

Jacob (played by Jacob Rolfe) — works at a convenience store and other hapless jobs where he is often robbed by Corey and Trevor or Ricky.

Mrs. Peterson — an elderly park resident who mistakenly believes Julian is her grandson. Appears in the episode "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up" in which Julian and Ricky take care of her dog. She gives Julian a N.W.A. CD as a birthday gift.

Detective/Officer Ted Johnson (played by Jim Swansburg) — the detective officer who arrested Ricky at his wedding (season one). He returns in season five as George Green's replacement, and in season six as an officer along with George Green. There is no indication as to why he went down in rank from detective to ordinary officer. He has recently been romantically linked to Randy after running up a large tab on cheeseburgers.

Danny/Donnie (voiced by Mike Smith) — the character who occasionally screams loudly but who is always off-camera. He typically yells "What in the fuck?!" "10 fucking dollars a month!" and "Enough with the fucking guns!". "Stop Fuckin Shooting. "Don't Stop Fucking shooting on my account". The Christmas Special. The Cop asked the people of the park,(Does anyone want to tell me were they got there trees. And Danny Shouts "I don't know, Does any one want to suck my cock?".

Phil Collins (played by Richard Collins) — known for his huge stomach, Phil does many cameos on the show as a greasy motel owner, taxi driver and Lahey's paving assistant. Famous Phrase: "What ya lookin' at my gut fer?" Has been known to belch when hit in the gut with bottles. Also, seems to have a fancy for the 2 for 1 down at the K.O.D. He and Randy share a genuine friendship, probably due to the fact they both like cheeseburgers and have huge guts. Also, Phil has made a recent appearance during Season 6, as a taxi driver, in the episode "Gimme My Fuckin' Money or Randy's Dead" he served as a blocking shield for Ricky, or as Ricky called him "A human house". It has been rumoured that in the upcomming season, Phil will be married to a girl named Pat Beatty, both who have guts.

Gary — security guard at the mall. Catches Ricky and Julian stealing car stereos in season 2 but they manage to talk their way out of it. In Season 5 he gives Bubbles a hard time for stealing shopping carts and was very mean to him, which hurt Bubbles' feelings and made him cry. Julian goes down the mall later to straighten him out and give Bubbles all the carts he wants.

Bernie Sandford — president of the International Association of Trailer Parks, Trailer Park Supervisors, and Assistant Trailer Park Supervisors (IAOTPTPSATPS). Bernie has an assistant Jason, who is kind of a servant to Mr.Sandford, getting him drinks on command and what not. When Mr.Sandford finds out about Ricky in the Episode The Green Bastard he introduces ricky to his alter ego The Right Hook and tells Rick "That when the right hook comes out, Crazy Mutha' Fucka's Like you get knocked the fuck out."

Shitty Bill — local tow truck operator. Friend of Bubbles from cart salvaging. He tried to fart but ended up shitting his pants when he was a kid, hence the reason for his nickname. Bubbles makes the point for Ricky not to call him by his nickname "Shitty Bill" but in the next scene, Bubbles clearly acts to the contrary.

Celebrity appearances

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Alex Lifeson and Bubbles

Alex Lifeson (from the band, Rush) — played himself in the episode, "Closer to the Heart".

Rita MacNeil (Canadian singer-songwriter) — Played herself in the season 4 finale, "Working Man", where she was forced to harvest marijuana at gunpoint by Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles.

Nancy Regan (Halifax based journalist) — Played herself in the episode, "Working Man".

Sebastian Bach (from the band, Skid Row) — In the upcoming seventh season, Bach plays the role of a model train enthusiast.

Brian Vollmer (from the band, Helix) — Vollmer makes a cameo appearance in the extras for the season 3 DVD.

Money-making schemes

Over the seasons the Boys have undertaken many schemes to make money and get rich. Their goal is "Freedom 35," a plan to have enough money to retire by age 35. These schemes inevitably fail due to their own stupidity, Cory and Trevor, violence, or interference by Mr. Lahey, Randy and/or the police.

Bubbles steals shopping carts from the malls, fixes them up, and then sells them back to the malls. He reasons that it isn't theft because most of the money goes back into the malls in order to buy cat food. Lahey and Randy do not interfere in this enterprise but in Season 5 Bubbles was given a hard time by Gary the Mall Cop, which hurt Bubbles' feelings and made him cry. Bubbles also retrieves shopping carts from ponds, repairs them and sell them back to the stores for $18.

Running an illegal nightclub in J-Roc's crib. Cory and Trevor passed out leaflets in a bar called The Empty Closet and attracted a gay all-male crowd. It was forced to be shut down by Lahey, Randy, and the police, but Randy, who wanted the credit for stopping it, allowed them to keep all the money they made.

Stealing people's groceries from Sobeys and Superstore, right off the parcel-pick up line and re-selling them back at the trailer park for money and booze.

Filming and distributing J-Roc's homemade porno movies. Such films include "From Russia With The Lovebone", "The Bare Pimp Project", and "J-Roc's Greasy Trailer Park Girls Gone Wild!" Ricky and Bubbles both got to star in the former two, while the third film was cancelled following a trailer park breakdown by the police.

Reselling stolen gasoline, which was siphoned out of the cars of unsuspecting citizens. Ricky states that "regular tastes tangy, supreme tastes sour and diesel tastes pretty good." Plan fails when the Police arrive and Corey and Trevor are sentenced to 450 hours of community service. Since they were on oxygen tanks after drinking gasoline, they were unable to defend themselves.

Organizing a spring fair in the park, complete with a wrestling ring and Bubbles as "The Green Bastard." This comes into idea after Ricky supposedly gains control of the park as supervisor, but it fails when Randy and Lahey stop the event and Ricky, losing his temper, trashes the place with a bulldozer.

Staging a rap concert in the trailer park, with J-Roc and his homies as the main entertainment. It was a success that attracted nearly three hundred, until Randy and Lahey broke up the concert, leading to a fight between them and the boys.

Creating a dope plant in Ricky's, then later Bubbles' tool shed, where they can grow dope to sell around the province. The plan fails when Bubbles' tool shed burns down and destroys the crop.

Growing weed in Julian's trailer and plan to sell it to dealers in Moncton. They attempt to disguise their scheme by stealing a propane truck, fixing it with old license plates, and emptying the propane out and selling it for money. This is ruined when a flaming arrow blows up the propane truck, they get arrested for possession of dope after a hostile shootout with Lahey, and they end up in jail for two months. Ricky, Bubbles and Julian get this sentence for violating several sections of the Motor Vehicle Act. Their back-up plan to buy the trailer park when they get out is also a failure when Cory and Trevor get revenge on them by buying the park for themselves.

Using kids to help them steal barbeques in an attempt to resell them, as minors are protected under the Young Offenders Act. The plan fails when one of the kids' parents, who happens to be a police officer, catches them in the act of stealing Randy's barbeque.

Stealing Christmas gifts from the mall and re-selling them in front of the church on Christmas Eve.

Running a prostitution ring out of Julian's tinfoil covered trailer in the outskirts of the park, complete with furnishings stolen from a local motel.

Ricky having Trevor bring barbecues or lawn furniture to the front of the house (where garbage would be picked up), then Ricky himself approaches, loudly proclaims the newly-placed items to be trash, then loads them into his car. That way, according to Ricky, it is not stealing, since it's garbage (when it's at the side of the road) and he's doing a favor to the people who don't want it anymore.

Julian's plan of stealing many gumball machines, removing the quarters and play as many Video Lottery Terminal(VLT's) as possible. After that they collect the payout slips, get them photocopied and drive from one corner store to another cashing the fraudulent tickets throughout the year.

Despite these failures, the boys have made some successful ventures into making money. Bubbles recently made a legitimate business in his tool shed called "The Kittyland Love Centre," a daycare/spa/amusement park for cats. It has scratching posts, litterboxes, plenty of food, and, of course, Bubbles as the daycare's owner and sole employee. Cory and Trevor have opened up a convenience store (which they spell "convenients store") at the park where they sell gum, single cigarettes, corn chips, popcorn, chicken chips, and Doritos, much to Ricky's delight.

Episodes

To date, there have been six seasons of Trailer Park Boys broadcast, making a total of 46 episodes (including the 2004 Christmas Special).

The Movie

The second Trailer Park Boys movie to be produced (The first being the original black and white production that sparked the series), Trailer Park Boys The Movie (Tagline: Greasiest movie of the year) was released on October 6th, 2006, and distributed by Alliance Atlantis. Ivan Reitman is a producer of the project. Mike Clattenburg directed.

Trivia

A trademark of Trailer Park Boys is the fact that the three main actors actors portraying Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles are never seen out of character, even in behind-the-scenes montages. Even at public events the actors remain in character. The only exceptions to this are the commentary tracks for the Season 4 DVD and the DVD blooper reels. The three have also done an interview with 100.3FM "The Bear", a radiostation in Edmonton Alberta while they were out of character talking about the release of the movie.
The unseen character of Donny(referred to as Danny by Ricky) who frequently screams, "WHAT IN THE FUCK?!", is actually Mike Smith, who plays Bubbles onscreen.
One of the trademarks that hasn't been seen in recent episodes is interaction with the film crew. In many skits, the Boys acknowledge the presence of the camera men and the boom operator. In many skits, Ricky complains about them always being around and at some points shoves and insults them. Also, other characters brought into the scenes look right into the camera with confused, and often blank expressions.
The series uses heavy ad-libbing, which makes the series add more realism.
Between Season 4 and Season 5, the salary for Assistant Trailer Park supervisor changed from $4,600 to $5,200 a year.
The show was offered to be developed in the US, but the creators wanted to keep the content strictly Canadian, and not have to censor the frequent swearing.
The final episode of Season 6 marks the first time that absolutely no one has gone to jail before the beginning of the next season. It is also speculated as a series finale by some, but John Dunsworth has stated that there will be a season seven next year.
The music played during the credits is an original composition by Blaine Morris.
In an episode in the second season where Mr. Lahey and Sam are running for elections of park supervisor, there is a reference to the movie Taxi Driver when it shows the crowd when Sam's giving his speech. There's a character that resembles Travis Bickle in the crowd
Actor Robb Wells (Ricky) performs many of his own stunts, including dangerous driving stunts. In episode #25 "The Green Bastard" he was actually a few inches away from driving the front end loader into a ditch.
The 'Shitmobile" driven by Ricky, is owned by director Mike Clattenburg, and Mr. Lahey's car is actually owned by Robb Wells (Ricky) According to the DVD commentary of Seasons 1 and 2, Robb Wells broke the door off of the Shitmobile during filming of Season 1, and Clattenburg states "I'll do something to his car". Later in the series, Lahey drives around his old car, but with the roof sawed off.
The Trailer Park Boys Hosted "The Bear's 13th Halloween Howler" and are scheduled to host the 14th as well. "The Bear" is an Edmonton radio station "CFBR-FM" that plays rock music. It is a huge party full of crazy (and often sexy) costumes and drunken mayhem.
The three main characters have noticeably put on some weight since the first season.
Jim Lahey constantly refers to Julian as sexy and has a secret crush on him.
In the recent novel "Variable Star" by Spider Robinson is a pair of recidivist Transportees aboad an insterstellar ship names "Richie and Jules" who attempt to get the protagonist to help them grow poppies. Jules carries a dark drink at all times and they attempt to pass themselves off as "Corey Trevor and Jay Rock". Their councel at the court case is "Lahey". I guess Spider Robinson is a fan of the show.

East Coast Music Awards

The Trailer Park Boys hosted the 2006 East Coast Music Awards as Ricky, Julian and Bubbles (in character). Bubbles performed his single "Liquor and Whores". Liquor and Whores actually has the same melody as a song he sings while drunk in season 4. The lyrics are "Fuckin' Randy's gut, is full of dirty ol' cheeseburgers".

Critical reviews

"Trailer Park Boys are the latest incarnation of a Canadian cultural classic." - The Globe and Mail

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