Trailer Park Boys

About

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian television show created by Mike Clattenburg. It's a mockumentary-style comedy following the lives of the residents of the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The main characters are Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles.

History

The characters Julian and Ricky first appeared in 1998 in the unreleased, Clattenburg-drected short film One Last Shot, while Bubbles originated in the 1995 film, The Cart Boy, also unaired.^[1] The original Trailer Park Boys feature film was released in 1999 and shown at the Atlantic Film Festival. It was then developed into a series, and picked up by Showcase. The show ran from 2001-2007, and was revived in 2014 and picked up by Netflix. There have been ten seasons and three films released in the series.

Plot

Trailer Park Boys follows a group of three childhood friends, Julian, Bubbles and Ricky (shown below), as they pursue petty crimes while avoiding the park's alcoholic supervisor, Jim Lahey. Every season follows the gang trying to pull off one big scheme, ending with them either going to jail or succeeding, but blowing their success in the interim between seasons.

Recurring characters include Randy (Patrick Roach), Leahy's assistant and part-time lover; J-Roc (Jonathan Torrens), a wannabe-rapper; Lucy, Ricky's lover and mother of his child; Cory (Cory Bowles) and Trevor (Michael Jackson), two hapless admirers of Ricky and Julian who desperately want to be their friends; and many more. Famous guest stars include Sebastian Bach of the heavy metal band Skid Row playing a caricaturization of himself, Snoop Dogg doing the same, and a young Ellen Page playing Mr. Lahey's daughter, Treena.

Online Presence

Trailer Park Boys developed a cult following during and after its initial run, and has grown a sizable internet fanbase. The /r/trailerparkboys^[2] subreddit has over 52,000 followers. The Trailer Park Boys Facebook page^[3] has over 1.6 million likes. The Trailer Park Boys Twitter^[4] has over 144,000 followers.

Related Memes

Rickyisms

"Rickyisms" are malapropisms that are a trademark of Ricky's speech, i.e. "What comes around, is all around." They've inspired their own memes^[5] and a Facebook page^[6] that has over 626,000 likes.

Shitology

Mr. Lahey commonly puts the word "shit" into phrases where they don't belong, i.e. "The Shithawks." This has turned into its own running gag on the show.

Randy on the Bus

A gif of Randy's gut bumping a passenger on the bus has commonly been used as a way to bump older threads.

Search Interest

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