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

Shot "COPS" style (but from the criminals 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, 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.

Background

The show was born out of three short films (all directed by Mike Clattenburg). The shorts are: The Cart Boy (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. From then on, the show (including the Christmas special and feature film), is being 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.

Cast and characters

Ricky. Played by Robb Wells
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:Ricky enjoys both marijuana 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 has a penchant for moral relativism and malapropisms. :Ricky is a self-taught horticulturist, having grown and sold large crops of marijuana. He's an expert at getting 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 frequently shot or injured under embarrassing circumstances.

:He's fond of knock-knock jokes 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 and cereal. 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).

Julian. Played by John Paul Tremblay
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: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 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.

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