Fun fact. I live in Nova Scotia where this show takes place. During the early seasons I think season 3, I saw Ricky walk into a shopper's drug mart where I happened to be with my buddy getting money out of an atm for drugs and we were star struck. We asked for his autograph and he wrote "smokes let's go" on my buddies pack of smokes. We got proper high afterwards lol
I thought this story couldn't get any better and then I saw that it has 420 likes. This right here is a Canadian Heritage Moment if I've ever seen one😂
I only learned of John Dunsworth’s passing when watching the last episode of season 12 earlier... I’m heartbroken. Poor mr Lahey, he’ll leave a huge gap.😥
Best running gag on the show is Julian's drink. In count down to liquor day when he is dressed as a security guard and walks through the bank... yep, drink in hand.
Even though I find the show funny, it's the HEART that makes it brilliant. Cut through the language and the booze and drugs and it's really a wholesome show. That's the real key to its success to me.
Dude I love it that they play their parts for the fans. It would probably be one hell of a fun nite to run into these dudes and kind of pretend I'm in an episode with them.
The best currency in the world, is gratitude. When you're dead you're dead..but you're not so dead, if you contributed something! -John Dunsworth Aka Mr Lahey R.i.p.
To this day when we get a new guy at work who just landed in Canada I always tell them the best thing you can do to learn and understand Canadian culture is to watch TPB
I avoided watching the TPB for years because it looked completely ridiculous. One day I finally said, to hell with it, and started watching it. Not only is it completely ridiculous it's absolutely hilarious and original. I love everything about it. I've watched the entire series multiple times now. It's friggin great!
Have watched all seasons through around 4-5 times, plus the specials and tours. Every time is just as good. Its hands down the greatest show ever made!
One of the funniest TV shows ever made. I was pretty depressed for a bit some time ago, and i watched this show every day before work, and it actually enabled me to deal w/ my shit existence at that time. Thanks Jean Paul, Rob, and Mike Clattenburg.
I watched TPB as a kid and teenager but knowing when I was about to be 18 that John passed away the same year my dad did too it was months after cause my father passed in march and I was using the show to help cope with my loss and depression that came with it and hearing that I lost what felt like another dad really did a number on me, it’s like I couldn’t even get to cope with what I love anymore it made it harder then but things slowly got better the more I’d watch and do other things too. Just I know this is a huge part of my life I don’t wanna ever see go
i have to admit this but my 15 yr old son loves this show. So i sit and watch it with him. i came to like it too. mom caught us watching it and got mad, my son says, "dad were in the eye of a shiticane" priceless. that didnt help matters but we laughed!
Who also wouldn't know that the episode titles are what someone says in the show, being mainly Ricky. If theyre going to include that obvious fact "that I didn't know" then the fact that julians full glass is immortal should also be mentioned.
Actually, Ricky and Ray's last name is Flower, originally LeFleur but Ray changed it because he was teased by his trucker buddies hahaha. it's revealed in season 11 i think.
I fucking love the Trailer Park Boys! I knew a lot of these but that scene where Ricky falls into the lake cracks me up, even more so now that I know it wasn't planned.
Brando J he still could have meant to do it, she said it was add libbed by the cast. That just means making it up as you go, most comedy movies especially bromances are scripted but end up shooting scenes multiple times with the actors ideas for funny lines. Most of the time the lines used will be the ones made up on a whim.
Ricky falling and tripping is always 'scripted', some of them terribly obvious, but a lot of them are so unexpected and really well done... the best one is the fall in this video, another great one is Ricky sliding down a grassy slope in season 2 episode one, that grass that got stuck in his pants :)
Even though I live in New Brunswick, 4 hours from where the show was filmed, at 7 years old, we lived nearby, in the 80s, for just one year. My father met John Dunsworth (Mr Lahey) at the Speedy Muffler garage, where he got his car fixed. That same year, again as a kid, I went boating with Jim Dunsworth, John's brother. Oddly, many years later in 2015, I met 'Jim Lahey' at a metal festival in Nova Scotia, where him and Randy showed up in character. Got a selfie with Lahey and a few other friends lol.
I was going through a separation and divorce back in 2009-2010 when I first started watching TPB online. I could always smile and laugh through the shows no matter what ! It helped me relax!
wife left me earlier this year, decided to start watching the show during the lockdown, and I can confirm that it will make you smile and laught no matter how crappy you're feeling otherwise
I "had lunch" with Randy once at King of Donair (Haligonians will get that), and he answered all my fanboy questions. One interesting note that back in the day when the show was just taking off, the support cast still had day jobs, and would film all of their scenes for the whole season at once while on vacation from said day jobs. This is why the characters wore the same clothes in every episode for each season. It would be a continuity nightmare to track who wore what in each episode because they filmed around people's vacations instead of in episodic order
Lucy is a major in the Canadian armed forces and still works there , I think most of them still had 9 to 5s for most of the seasons except the main characters.
It's pretty impressive that they have kept up the act outside of the show for so long since most of the time actors can get pretty tired with a single character. Personally I would want to meet the person not the character even though their character are a lot of fun. Not if they were real, but fun in concept.
I've been a background extra on five episodes. The TPB's are so professional on set it's almost bizarre. You kinda expect them to be drunk and stoned but that couldn't be further from the truth. 😁
This show brought knowledge to the world about a certain lively hood like rap did in it's early days. Most of my teens I lived life like they do in the show and it's just so close to home
Rickys surname is Le Fleur. They mention it as Ray’s last name on one the episodes around when Jim tells Ricky he is his father. Bubbles and Julian break in “somewhere” (I can’t remember where) to find info on ray, Jim and Ricky’s moms blood type so Sam Losco can figure out if Jim really is rickys father. Then in a later episode when Ricky dates the girl who accuses him of giving her chlamydia she at one point says something like “you’re nothing Ricky Le Fleur”. Thus confirming his surname.
Ricky and Ray were originally had the surname of Lafleur and Ray changed it to Flowers, so people wouldn't call him Frenchie. Also, Tom Arnold (the first episode with Snoop Dogg) referred to Ricky's car as the Shitmobile.
imagine meeting ricky irl at a restaurant or something and watching him act normal not fucking something up every second or causing a scene😂how weird would that be
I started watching this show when I was 38/39. I'm 45 now. My old man was 68/69 when I introduced him to The Trailer Park Boys....he is now 75 . Goes to show ya all ages love to show!!!!
@J W you're just a bitchy troll, i see your unnecessarily hateful comments on a lot of videos. Get a fucking job and stop wasting space on the internet you fucking inbred Cro-Magnon bitch.
I thought lahey's car once the roof was sheared off was called the shitmobile? (Countdown to Liquor Day Lahey shows up and Bubbles says....oops that's right they call it the fuck mobile don't they...)
Claudia Blackwell im 22 and have been saying "rakeuns" too since i was about 12 or 13 and first seen that episode. ive also been saying " worst case ontario" instead of worst case scenario for just as long
This is one of those shows that you see the first episode and you either love or just get put off by. I got my wife and my roommate into this show because it was just supremely ahead of its time. I am thankful its become a cult classic. The lines are hilarious and have stayed on point season after season. They have made sure to bring the same quality but with bigger budgets unlike most shows that just get cringy as time goes on. They have stayed the same characters but introduced new scenarios but keeping the same "Get rich quick" story. It reminds me of Ed, Edd, Eddy but has been much more versatile. Cheers to the cast and crew of TPB!
It took me a few episodes, I would listen to it in the background when I would do dishes, it caught my undivided attention when I heard Bubbles rapping on stage at JRocks moms house😂😂 I’ve been committed to the show ever since!
I tried watching it couple years ago stopped 5mins in to episode 1. Just 2 months ago I tried again and got hooked finished all 12 seasons fantastic show!
It took me my worst hangover to get thru 3 episodes. But after the 2nd episode I was addicted. I was too sick during my first episode to change the channel.
staying in character? that's something wrestlers used to do in my youth. this was also one of dad's favorite shows. it was one of the few things that kept him happy during his final few years.
I visited Bubbles restaurant while in Halifax once. They had little shopping carts for condiment holders. (wasn't specified here) I took video of the interior and have a menu from Bubbles. So there. lol
I don't know if I would be offended or flattered if I wrote a song for my child, and then some mockumentary just runs with it, later even changing the name into "trailer park boys theme song"
Another fun fact: I used to live about a minute away from the “trailer park” they purchased. It was actually the location of an decommissioned provincial mental health rehabilitation facility located on Bissett Road in Cole Harbour, NS. The building was abandoned for years, was creepy as all fek, and perpetually rumoured to be haunted before it was torn down. They built the park on the lot the hospital was on. The park has since been taken down and the land is empty.
A couple of other fun facts: Any and all music played by Bubbles throughout the series is actually done live by Mike Smith. He's an incredibly gifted musician, as is Mike Clattenburg. The scene in downtown Dartmouth during the season 4 finale (Lahey vs. Ricky) was filmed as a hurricane approached the Maritimes. The eerie dark background was not an effect, it was due to the real weather as they raced to finish filming before the storm hit.
If you wanted to learn 30 facts about this show and skip the inaccuracies in this list you could just watch the show and have fun at the same time. Get two birds stoned at once
