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'Trailer Park Boys' appreciation post

Postby Andreas Dahl on Fri May 13, 2005 7:02 am

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Trailer Park Boys is the best show by far I've seen on TV in recent days. It doesn't show people eating bull testicles, it doesn't show people marrying each other for money; it's a good old comedy show about life in a trailer park, Sunnyvale Trailer Park, Canada. I'd recommend everyone possible to watch this show, it's not like any other one in the best possible sense; It's just amazing. It's now gone five seasons and the first four are out on DVD. I'm serious now when I say that this is absolutely one of the top three shows I've ever seen... See it.


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It's about love, friends & family, hopes & dreams and of course growing dope and getting hammered. The shows' basic storyline is that it is a documentary in the making about two guys (Ricky and Julian) that's been living in a trailer park most part of their life, and wouldn't have it any other way. They are both petty criminals that go in and out of prison more often than CoolMac posts gibberish.
Ricky has yet to get his Grade 11 (He's still relaxing from passing his Grade 10 a while ago) and isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. How could one describe Rickey better than himself like here when he's trying to defend himself in court: "I'm fuc-, I'm sorry about all the bullsh- about all the stuff. But the prosecutor is a fuc-, he's a fu-, he's an f'ing bad guy and he's fuc-, he's fu-, pissing me off... Look I can't speak without swearing and I only have my Grade10 and I haven't had a cigarette since I got arrested and I'm ready to fucking snap, so I'd like to make a request out of the 'Peoples Freedom of Choice and Voices' act that I'll be able to smoke and swear in your courtroom. Cause if I can't smoke and swear - I'm fucked. I won't be able to properplepely express myself at a court level and that's bullshit. It's not fair and if you ask me I think it's a fucking mistrial.".
Julian is the brains of their team and takes care of as many as possible of Ricky’s, almost endless amount of, fuck-up's. He's always there for his friends with a drink in his hand, no matter how fucked up the situation is (Among many more situations, he's been seen climing out of a fliped car with a drink in his hand). Every time he's been in prison, he's really been reading up on possitive thinking and is determaind to clear up his life... Although that is something that together with Ricky is not ment to be.


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Along with Ricky and Julian there are the other people in the trailer park; the one that stands out the most is Bubbles (as seen in the picture above with two of his god-knows-how-many cats). Bubbles, or 'the Green Bastard' as his wrestling-alias is, has been best friends with Ricky and Julian as long as they all can remember. He's right by them every time they do some shit, although he always seems to get away one way or another. He's my man, my dawg, my homie; he's without a doubt the coolest person in the entire show and, for some reason, you don't ever get tired of him and his laugh.
Two more people in the show are Mr. Lahey and Randy. Mr. Lahey is the trailer park supervisor and with his experience at the force (which he was let go from under suspicious circumstances) runs the park with an almost unbelievable hatred for Rickey. He's constantly on his back whenever there's something that could, even remotely, be reason enough to be able to get rid of him, once and for all. Randy is the assistant trailer park supervisor and also Mr. Lahey's bitch (figuratively and literally). He never wears a shirt and proudly displays his gut that cheeseburgers have created.
Also worth mentioning is Cory and Trevor. They are two kids that absolutely admire Ricky and Julian and will do basically anything for them (also literally). Whenever Cory and Trevor are involved, you can be sure that there will be a fuckup somehow, even though it's often Rickys' fault, but since Rickey is the self-important, biased, ignorant idiot he is, he always finds a reason for why it is their fault. Ricky once said that he has meet cats and dogs that were smarter than Trevor and Cory...


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There are so much more to this show it's amazing, although I don't care to write any more since I doubt that many of you will actually read through all of this, and even less try to watch the show one way or another. You should though...
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Postby Jackal on Fri May 13, 2005 7:06 am

The Shield = Best. Show. Ever.

Anyways, Cam told me about this show, I really might check it out if it's out on DVD.
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Postby Cameron on Fri May 13, 2005 7:18 am

Aww cmon Jackal, this is a Trailer Park Boys thread!

Man, all you guys who have never seen it, you can't imagine how insanely funny it is. To try and redescribe it is almost impossible, you just have to watch it. I'll post a little transcript from memory of one of my favourite bubbles lines, in the Green Bastard episode. (my fav ep is the one with Rush, but the green bastard lines are priceless)

"And now we're going to have the long-bodied alien match! In this corner, wearing some shitty corderoy pants, with tranluscent skin stretched over an alien frame, its Trevor, the elongated skelington!

And in the other corner, wearing the same fucking work pants he's in every time I see him, it's Jacob, the twiggy alien boy!"

and then at the end of the episode he's wrestling corey, and it goes a little like this:

"Sets him up for the closeline... ahhh! OH MY GOD, he fucken DEVASTATED! Are you all right corey?
Corey - "yeah, I'm goo-"
I don't give a fuck actually. (and flips him over)"

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Postby Andreas Dahl on Fri May 13, 2005 7:39 am

Pff, Trailer Park Boys spanks The Shield... Raw...
I really think you (and everyone else) should check out the show, it's fucking awesome.

    "He started out as a little shit-spark off the old shit-flame. Then, by the time he was 13 he'd turned into a shit-bonfire. Now, he's a shit-inferno burning out of control. Well, I'm going to unleash a shit-tsunami the likes of which he's never seen. I'll extinguish his shit-flames forever." (Jim Lahey, talking about Ricky)
    "I've noticed something that if you throw something into a watter, like a lake or an ocean the next day you come back and it's gone, so somehow it takes it away and filters it through and it just cleans it up like a garbage conpactor or whatever, so it's not really littering if you ask me." (Ricky, on why he was throwing stuff in the lake)
    "You can't tell me to stop growin' dope Julian. That's like tellin' NWA to stop being black." (Ricky talking to Julian about his plants)


Hey Cammo, sweet to see that I'm not the only one that follows the show here (y)
:lol: The Green Bastard quotes... It seems like Bubbles get the same way when he get's Conkey on as when he puts on the green suit.
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Postby Cameron on Fri May 13, 2005 7:55 am

Hahahaha yeah, he pretty much goes insane :D Conky is ridiculous, and Ricky gets in fights with him :D :D
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Postby Mazzocchi on Fri May 13, 2005 8:05 am

Hm... I have never heard of it, but it seems like a pretty good show, maybe i'll 'buy' an episode or two
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Postby Colin on Fri May 13, 2005 8:36 am

Trailer Park Boys is sweeet. Everybody I know loves it, and someone that goes to my school got some big thick glasses and was Bubbles for Halloween. :D

The Christmas special was great.
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Postby Cameron on Fri May 13, 2005 10:46 am

My friend went to a Rush concert in the summer (I unfortunately didn't get to go but later discovered I could have :evil: ) and he told me that Bubbles came out and took a shirt out of one of Geddy's dryers (or washers, I can never rememebr which) and it was funny :D
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Postby cyanide on Fri May 13, 2005 10:54 am

My friends all watch Trailer Park Boys, and I've yet to see an episode :oops:
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Postby Null17 on Fri May 13, 2005 11:00 am

first time I've ever heard of this show...sounds promising...I don't think we have it here...
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Postby Cameron on Fri May 13, 2005 1:01 pm

Yeah, it's been playing in Canada for a while. It also plays in the USA, but censored as far as I know. I doubt its playing anywhere else; honestly I'm surprised anyone else likes it (I heard people from the States hate it) because its got a lot of Canadian humour stuff in it.

Cyanide, cmon!!!! Watch it!!! I just watched 2 episodes on TV tonite. And Dahl, I see why you're not liking Ricky, that shit he pulled on Bubbles was very uncool (N)
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Postby iKe7in on Fri May 13, 2005 1:13 pm

its a decent show, but sometimes it gets really old, really fast.
most episodes are about the same thing, if they had some good writers to help out the awesome characters it would be much better

if anyone from canada remebers Jonovision, the short lived after school teen talk show on CBC, the host Jonothan Torrens plays J-Roc on TPB, and is by far the best character on the show. Everyone should check it out.
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Postby Null17 on Fri May 13, 2005 2:21 pm

Cammo wrote:I'm surprised anyone else likes it (I heard people from the States hate it) because its got a lot of Canadian humour stuff in it.


I usually won't mind those as long as I know the context a little bit. I usually get those pretty fast. I watched a British-Indian comedy show once and I thought it was fairly funny :lol:
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Postby Colin on Fri May 13, 2005 3:00 pm

I thought that Jonovision was a complete piece of poo. If you want to talk about actor's former shows, I say Adam Brody (Seth Cohen, The OC) and Sausage Factory takes the Canadian tv cake. :D
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Postby Andreas Dahl on Sat May 14, 2005 2:23 am

Colin wrote:The Christmas special was great.
I keep hearing about this christmas special but I haven't seen it yet. Is it like a spin-off or a short-movie or something? Better than the regular episodes?
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Postby j.23 on Sat May 14, 2005 6:59 am

haven't really watched a full episode but seeing bubbles for a couple seconds on TV always gives me a good kick
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Postby Its_asdf on Sat May 14, 2005 1:28 pm

I haven't really seen an actual full episode, but it looks like very entertaining show, and it's probably better than half the crap thats on T.V. nowadays anyway. I was flipping channels and I saw a part where Bubbles gets shot with an arrow or something and I just sat there going "what the fuck?" :shock: , but at the same time I found it quite funny :lol:
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Postby Cameron on Tue May 17, 2005 12:26 pm

Yeah, Lehey shot Ricky with an arrow :D
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Postby Colin on Tue May 17, 2005 12:28 pm

There's a movie coming too, produced by some hollywood bigshot. I forget which Hollywood bigshot though. :?
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