'' is a popular
Canadian Mockumentary that premiered in
2001 focusing on the misadventures of ex-
Convict s living in fictional
Sunnyvale Trailer Park which is located near
Halifax, Nova Scotia . The show's creator and director is
Mike Clattenburg .
Shot '', they appeared in a video with
The Tragically Hip , and were presenters at numerous award shows - always in character.
The show has been a great success for
Showcase , where it is the network's highest rated Canadian series. It airs, censored, in the
United States on
BBC America in the timeslot held by ''
The Office '', in the
United Kingdom on
Paramount Comedy and in
Australia on the
Comedy Channel .
The show was born out of three short films (all directed by (1995),
One Last Shot (1998), and
Trailer Park Boys (1999). The show was filmed in real trailer parks in the
Halifax Area . During the first season, they shot at a park in
Sackville , second season at a park in
Dartmouth , third season at a park in
Timberlea and the fourth season at a park back in
Dartmouth . Since then, the show (including the Christmas special and feature film), has been filmed at a closed set near
Dartmouth .
Mike Smith (Bubbles), a musician formerly of the band
Sandbox , was the sound man during the pilot movie and season one, but became a full time actor when Bubbles became more popular during the second season. Barry 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.
- . Played by Robb Wells , who bears a striking resembalence to Peter Reveen .
:Ricky enjoys Marijuana , Hash , and Alcohol , and is Julian's best friend. He's not too bright, partly due to poor Education (he just recently received his grade 10), and partly due to drinking and dope smoking. He's frequently shot or injured under embarrassing circumstances. He has a penchant for Moral Relativism and Malapropism s.
:In spite of his intellectual and linguistic failings, Ricky is a master
Horticulturist , having grown and sold large crops of marijuana. He's also an expert at talking his way out of out of trouble with the law, often tricking
Police and his victims into helping him physically carry the things he plans to
Steal .
:He's fond of
Knock-knock Joke s that don't usually have a
Punchline so much as a stream of
Profanity and he frequently wears
Track Pants and a very loud shirt that generally never gets changed for an entire season. He has a huge addiction to smoking cigarettes, causing him to smoke wherever he goes, sometimes even where smoking is prohibited. His diet consists mainly of alcohol,
Chocolate Milk ,
Chicken Fingers ,
Chicken Chips ,
Pepperoni ,
Cereal and
Donairs (from
King Of Donair ). He also likes jalapeño potato chips (which he pronounces "Ja-lap-an-o"), 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).
:His family consists of his father Ray, his girlfriend Lucy, and their daughter Trinity. 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.
:Ricky has also been notorious for
Kidnapping Canadian musicians
Alex Lifeson of
Rush (after he refused to sell them tickets to the
Concert and Ricky insisted on a private
Concert at the trailer park), and
Rita MacNeil (whom he kidnapped, along with her band, forcing them to
Harvest his
Marijuana crop at gunpoint).
- . Played by John Paul Tremblay .
:Julian is the "brains" of the outfit, 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 . He is never seen without a drink (always Rum and Coke , and mouth wash in jail) in his hand, and always wears jeans and a tight, 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 (his 9mm ) 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. She occasionally buys him presents, for which in return Julian baby-sits her dog. This occasionally has disastrous consequences, namely whenever Julian has to deal with Ricky while also taking care of the dog.
- . Played by Mike Smith .
:Julian and Ricky's best friend and Conscience , known for his hoarse voice and coke-bottle glasses. Abandoned as a child, Bubbles lived in a Shed for 18 years of his life with his Cat s, who are his only family. He had made a living in the meantime by the generosity of his friends and a semi-lucrative Shopping Cart theft Scam (he calls it re-marketing) with the nearby Mall s.
:An animal lover, Bubbles makes the ballooning population of stray cats his own responsibility, feeding and looking after them.
:His name comes from his childhood love of blowing
Bubble s. His parents abandoned him on
Christmas Eve , leaving an explanatory note and an
Antique bubblemaking machine (a "1967 Electro-bubble"), which Bubbles for a time used to entertain his cats. Sadly, the machine was destroyed when the 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 was abandoned by his parents and 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. The pair bear a striking resemblance.
:Bubbles loves professional wrestling and even dresses up as his own character, "The Green Bastard." He also drives a go-cart while wearing a Cooper hockey helmet and makes expert use of the word
Cocksucker .
:Bubbles' has been said to be the "Moral center" 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. 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, at least until he was arrested at the end of Season Four by Officer George Green.
- . Played by John Dunsworth .
:A former police officer, dismissed for reasons he doesn't wish to talk about (he's an Alcoholic ), Mr. Lahey runs 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 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. Has a tendency to use bizarre, rambling extended metaphors involving the word "shit".
: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.
:Mr. Lahey's devoted assistant and "longtime companion". In the Christmas Special episode, it is explained that Lahey's 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. Randy was the one who insisted on coming out to the rest of the park after himself and Mr. Lahey are caught in a compromising situation. He went out with Lucy for a short while during Ricky's stay in prison between seasons 1 and 2.
:Randy was once a male prostitute who went by the handle "Smokey". 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, or dairy queen coupons.
: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.
: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 is the co-owner of a hair salon in the park.
:In the first season, Sara 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).
- . Played by Jonathan Torrens .
:A rapper who lives with his mother at the trailer park. Often mistaken as an Eminem wanna-be. He speaks in Ebonics and very frequently asks "gnome sane'?" (Know what I'm saying?) He often helps Ricky and Julian out. He also 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 , J-Roc speaks very plainly and professes that he had never smoked marijuana up to that point in time.
:Has come up with all sorts of looking mafucker,
Roch Voisine with a gut, Inflatable
Elvis , Gut Cassidy and the Sundance Cheeseburger, and
Starsky and Gut (Lahey & Randy).
- . 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 Scapegoat s whenever something illegal doesn't go according to plan. Julian manages them with Dog Training techniques. Trevor is constantly being harassed for cigarettes by Ricky, who snaps his fingers and says "Smokes - Let's go!". Everyone treats them as effectively one person - one entity. 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.
:Ray is 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. Currently, Ray is living at the nearby garbage dump inside of his truck's old cab, after being evicted from the park by Barb and Randy.
:Sam is 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.
:Tyrone is 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.
: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". Does not hail from
Detroit , as his name would imply, but rather from
Moncton, New Brunswick .
: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.
- are three or four 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. The minute anyone shouts "Bottle Kids!", everyone ducks. In the fifth season Trinity was seen as one of the bottle kids.
:Bully who enjoys waving his gun around and terrorizing the residents of the trailer park. Ruled over the park while Julian and Ricky were in jail 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.
- is Ricky's daughter. She has an addiction to Cigarette s and sometimes gets drunk, which usually ends up in Lucy being angry at Ricky. She has even eaten a hash brownie made by Ricky (unbeknownst to him) in the episode "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up" with her exclaiming "These brownies taste funny." Sometimes runs with the bottle kids. Played by Jeanna Harrison .
- is Jim and Barbara's daughter. She hero-worships Ricky, much to the chagrin of her father, but has not been seen in the show since Season 2. Played by Ellen Page .
- is the owner of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. She was married to Jim until she divorced him due to his embarrassing shenanigans. 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. Played by Shelley Thompson who first appeared as the officiant of Ricky and Lucy's aborted wedding at the end of Season 1.
- and '''Dennis'''. Played by Mio and Nobu Adilman
:Terry and Dennis are 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"
- . A friend of Julian, and Ricky. He is Desiree's husband. Played by Ardon Bess . Levi and Desiree are Julian's foster parents, who raised Julian after they found him abandoned in the trailer park.
- was Julian's girlfriend at one point in the series.
- is 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. Played by Shauna MacDonald .
- works at a convenience store and other hapless jobs. Played by Jacob Rolfe .
- from the band, Rush . Played himself in the episode, Closer to the Heart.
- . 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. website
- . Halifax based journalist. Played herself in the episode, Working Man. website
- Mistakenly thinks Julian is her grandson. Is in the episode "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up", when Julian and Ricky have to take care of her dog. She once gave a NWA CD to Julian as a gift.
- 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.
- Voiced by Mike Smith
:The character who occasionally screams loudly but who is always off-camera. He typically yells "What in the fuck?!"
- . Played by Richard Collins .
:Known for his huge stomach, Phil does many cameos on the show as a greasy hotel owner, taxi driver and Lahey's paving assistant. Famous Phrase: "What are you looking at my gut for?"
Over the seasons the Boys have undertaken many schemes to make money. These inevitably fail due to stupidity, violence, or interference by Mr. Lahey and Randy and/or the police.
- Running an illegal nightclub. Cory and Trevor passed out leaflets and attracted an all gay-male crowd.
- 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 gang is arrested and Cory and Trevor come down with gas poisoning.
- Selling CDs of JRoc and the Roc Pile. Plans falls apart when the band from whom they're ripped off the rap tunes (Detroit Velvet Smooth) shows up all the way from Moncton with guns.
- Using underage children (protected from jail by the Young Offenders Act ) as part of Junior Achievers to steal barbeques. Foiled when one child turns out to be the daughter of a police officer.
- Filming adult videos. All have been produced by J-Roc. So far such films include ''From Russia With the Lovebone'', ''The Bare Pimp Project'', and ''Trailer Park Girls Gone Wild'', which was not finished due to the police interrupting the shooting of the latter film.
- "Freedom 35" Julian and Ricky cut a deal with the guards at the local prison. This deal entails the growing of marijuana, converting it into hash, and smuggling it into the prison. The most memorable moment in this particular season is in the last episode at the very end with Ricky and Julian sitting in prison. After commenting how he can handle being in jail for two months, Ricky looks at the camera and says "Dope's not that bad either." The name "Freedom 35" is a play on the Freedom 55 mutual fund / retirement savings plan.
- Out of boredom, Ricky comes up with a superweed variety of marijuana which he planted in a field along the highway. Julian returns from prison, and they decide to make money off of the crops by selling it at a Snoop Dogg concert in Moncton. Classic scene is when Rita MacNeil is forced off a bus to help harvest the crop. Ruined when the guys are caught and go to jail and Cory and Trevor, who are on the outside, are tricked out of the cash.
- The Roc Pile stealing groceries from supermarkets and then re-selling them back at the trailer park for profit
- Selling hash at a vocational school. Ricky gets a job as a janitor, after being turned down by the registrar, and sells hash to the students. He collects their locker number and combination and the buyer leaves the money in the locker for a nighttime drop off.
- Selling hash to nearby vocational schools via shopping cart handles. The boys load up shopping cart handles with hash logs and drop off the orders at a parking lot for pickup.
- Selling dope at a Rush concert at the Metro Centre . They got the dope past security by sneaking into the building though the sewers.
(
Summary )
#Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park
#Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk and Eat Chicken Fingers
#Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape!
#Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up
#I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy... Wait a Second, Maybe I am Gay
#Who the Hell Invited These Idiots to My Wedding?
#What in the Fuck Happened to Our Trailer Park?
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#Jim Lahey Is a Drunk Bastard
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#I've Met Cats and Dogs Smarter Than Cory and Trevor
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#A Dope Trailer Is No Place for a Kitty
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#The Bible Pimp
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#Never Trust a Man with No Shirt On
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#The Bare Pimp Project
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#Kiss of Freedom
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#Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor
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#If I Can't Smoke and Swear I'm Fucked
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#Who's the Microphone Assassin?
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#Closer to the Heart
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#Where in the Fuck is Randy's Barbeque?
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#The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey
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#A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots
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#Never Cry Shitwolf
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#Man's Gotta Eat
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#Rub 'N Tiz'zug
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#The Green Bastard
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#Conky
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#If You Love Something, Set It Free
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#Propane, Propane
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#Workin' Man
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#Dear Santa Claus. Go Fuck Yourself
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#Give Peace a Chance
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#The Shit Puppets
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#The Fuckin' Way She Goes
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#You Got to Blame the Thing Up Here
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#Jim Lahey Is a Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be
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#Don't Cross the Shit Line
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#The Winds Of Shit
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#Dressed All Over & Zesty Mordant
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#I Am The Liquor
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#The Shit Blizzard
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Season six began airing on April 16, 2006 on Showcase.
#Way of the Road
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#The Cheeseburger Picnic
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#High Definition Piss Jugs
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#Where the Fuck is Oscar Goldman?
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#Halloween 1977
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#Gimme My Fuckin' Money or Randy's Dead
There is currently another ''Trailer Park Boys'' movie in production (The first being the original black and white production that sparked the series.) According to the promotional posters and the movie website, ''Trailer Park Boys: Baked on a True Story'' is scheduled for release in
Summer of
2006 .
Ivan Reitman is a producer of the project, but Clattenburg is directing.
The Trailer Park Boys hosted the 2006 ''
East Coast Music Awards '' as Ricky, Julian and Bubbles (Playing the roles). Bubbles performed his single "Liquor and Whores".
- "''Trailer Park Boys'' are the latest incarnation of a Canadian cultural classic." - '' The Globe And Mail ''
