trailer park boys episode guide ((under reconstruction))
What the hell is Trailer Park Boys?
Trailer Park Boys (TPB) is a Canadian cable-television comedy series centered around the exploits of three slow-witted, drug-addicted, scheming criminals and the trailer park they haunt. The show follows the trio and the other colourful characters in the Park as they continue on their relentless pursuit of fortune, or, failing that, complete and utter intoxication.
TPB was originally broadcast on Showcase television, a specialty channel owned by the CHUM group. The show has since reached international audiences through BBC America and illegal internet downloading.
Who are Trailer Park Boys?
The main inhabitants of the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, located in Halifax, NS, Canada, are Ricky, Bubbles, and Julian.
Ricky is a tongue-tied, foul-tempered ignoramus who is an expert in hydroponics. Ricky has a daughter, Trinity, with another park resident, Lucy. Ricky has also had intermittent relationships with Lucy's roommate Sara. Ricky's father Ray also lives in the park.
Bubbles is a socially awkward man who has taken it upon himself to care for all the cats in the park. He lives in a shed beside Julian's trailer and re-markets shopping carts to make his living.
Julian is the defacto park resident representative and mastermind of the boys numerous harebrained schemes. Julian has dreams of retiring a young and wealthy man but his designs are usually disrupted by his loyalty to his bumbling friends.
The Park is under the rule of tyrannical Trailer Park Supervisor Jim Lahey. Jim is a retired policeman, an alcoholic, and closet homosexual. Jim's control of the park is constantly challenged by Julian and Ricky and he has made it his goal in life to see those two behind bars.
Jim lives with Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor Randy. Randy used to be a male prostitute who went by the name Smokey and sold himself for cheeseburgers. Jim and Randy have had a long and tumultuous relationship that ruined Jim's marriage to the owner of the Trailer Park, his ex-wife Barbara.
Other important residents in the park include Trevor and Corey, two impressionable and inebriated teens who do thankless favors for Julian and Ricky. Also living in the park are Jamie and Tyler, a.k.a. J-ROC and Tyrone. They are half of the ROC-Pile, an underfunded, upstart gangster rap group.
Left to Right: Sara, Ray, Ricky, Bubbles, Julian, Mr. Lahey, Randy, Lucy.
Left to right: Ricky, Mr. Lahey, Randy, Corey (back), Bubbles, Trevor (back), Tyrone, Julian, J-ROC (front).
Episode List:
Season One
101. "Take Your Little Gun And Get Out Of My Trailer Park"
102. "F*** Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers"
103. "Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape!"
104. "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets F***ed Up"
105. "I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy. Wait A Minute, Maybe I Am Gay"
106. "Who The Hell Invited These Idiots To My Wedding?"
Season Two
201. "What In The F*** Happened To Our Trailer Park?"
202. "Jim Lahey Is A Drunk B*****d"
203. "I've Met Cats And Dogs Smarter Than Trevor And Corey"
204. "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty"
205. "The Bible Pimp"
206. "Never Trust A Man With No Shirt On"
207. "The Bare Pimp Project"
Season Three
301. "Kiss Of Freedom"
302. "Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor"
303. "If I Can't Smoke And Swear I'm F***ed"
304. "Who's The Microphone Assassin?"
305. "Closer To The Heart"
306. "Where The F*** Is Randy's Barbeque?"
307. "The Delusions Of Officer Jim Lahey"
308. "A S*** Leopard Can't Change It's Spots"
Season Four
401. "Never Cry S***wolf"
402. "Man's Gotta Eat"
403. "Rub 'N Tiz-zub"
404. "The Green B*****d"
405. "Conky"
406. "If You Love Something, Set It Free"
407. "Propane, Propane"
408. "Workin' Man"
Season Five
501. "Give Peace A Chance"
502. "The S*** Puppets"
503. "That's The F*****' Way She Goes"
504. "You Got To Blame The Thing Up Here"
505. "Jim Lahey Is A F****** Drunk And He Always Will Be"
506. "Don't Cross The S*** Line"
507. "The Winds Of S***"
508. "Dressed All Over & Zesty Mordant"
509. "I Am The Liquor"
510. Untitled
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Episode 101:
"Take Your Little Gun And Get Out Of My Trailer Park"
speedy synopsis:
Ricky and Julian return home to the Sunnyvale Trailer Park after an extended stay at Con College.
Ricky's on-again off-again girlfriend and baby's mama Lucy throws him out and he is turned away by his father, a workers comp fraud and pepperoni stealer. Getting his life back on track begins by moving into a beat up, door-less old New Yorker.
Julian returns to find that his house sitters, the dim-witted teenaged duo of Trevor and Corey, have handed his trailer over to a gun-toting drop-out named Cyrus.
The return of the two recidivists draws the ire of the Trailer Park Supervisor Jim Lahey. As much as he despises the corroding presence of the two paroled locals, Lahey is afraid of Cyrus and knows Julian is the only person who can take-back the park.
Cyrus, who carries a pistol with "the safety always off", has threatened and bullied the Sunnyvale residents. He has been dreading Julian's return, however. Bubbles, Julian's coke bottle-spectacled friend and mentor, insists that Julian should stand-up to Cyrus and claims the entire park is sick of Cyrus' antics.
A confrontation ensues in which Julian taunts Cyrus, begging him to shoot him and prove what a tough guy he is. Cyrus backs-down like a coward and relinquishes control of the park back to Julian.
speedy review:
At the beginning of the show, Julian is accompanied by a film crew that has arranged to document Julian's life out of prison. Whether this was Julian's idea or if he was asked is unclear, and the consistency of this idea is very unsteady throughout the series. One crew of three people becomes many crews that work simultaneously throughout the park, catching monologues, soliloquies, drive-ups, hidden camera footage, security camera footage, etc.. Half the time the crew is recognized as being present for the events and the other half of the time it isn't. This is something I will talk about more in the future, as it is one of the strangest things about this show.
The show is based on a pilot film of the same title. However, if you watch the film, then the first episode of the series, there are some changes that have been made that you might find confusing.
Randy's character has been modified. In the film, Patrick Lewis is a painter, and a pet-lover. He gets into a shootout with Julian and Ricky which is what sends them to jail, from which they are released to begin the Showcase series.
However, Patrick Lewis becomes Randy in the show, Jim Lahey's... um... assistant. In later episodes it is revealed that Randy was a male prostitute who Jim "got off the streets", and that Randy and Ricky/Julian have a long history.
This character change is mentioned in passing, oddly enough. When Ricky revisits the park after his jail time (2 and a half years or eighteen months, depending on the episode), Ricky sees Randy and asks him "what are you doing here?" or something like that. Peculiar.
Anyways, the first episode introduced us to the characters, the plot, and the vices that the show is based on. From the get-go we get a loud taste of the foul language and unabashed references to drug use and trafficking that, to some degree, fuels the absurdity of the show. We also get a glimpse of Julian's good-natured benevolence for the park and Ricky's tongue-tied, drug-and-alcohol induced, hazy stupidity.
Other main characters, notably Bubbles, Lucy, Sara, Trinity, Mr. Lahey and Randy, do not get as much attention in this premier. In later first-season episodes their characters are more fully fleshed-out. One could say that it isn't until the second season that the show goes from having two main characters to three with the addition of Bubbles.
This episode isn't as funny because we know so little about the characters. The gags are fresh but the episode focuses on building a platform for the series more so than making the audience laugh.
Episode 102:
"F*** Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers"
speedy synopsis:
Julian decides he needs to get his life back in order and thinks going to community college is the answer. First he needs to get an aimless, drunken, gun-wielding Ricky and that rusted old New Yorker out of his driveway.
Julian's desire for self-improvement begins to distance him from the rest of the Park. He starts to resent the demands of the various park patrons, including Mr. Lahey's constant nagging, Trevor & Corey's relentless pursuit of dope, Ricky's unadulterated stupidity and squabbling with Bubbles, etc..
Julian comes to the conclusion that he needs to leave the Park behind and become a new man. Ricky, Trevor and Corey all find fault in Julian's newfound attitude. They believe that the camera crew's presence is making Julian self-conscious and frustrated. At least that's what they would say if they could explain themselves without cursing, stumbling over their words, drinking, or puffing on joints.
After declaring that he is leaving to go to college, and being berated by Ricky henceforth, does some soul searching and changes his mind. Instead, he helps Ricky get the old New Yorker running and then gives it to him as a gift. A new car is also enough to impress Lucy, who gets back together with Ricky.
Julian's decision to stay bodes well with Mr. Lahey as well, who agrees to waive Julian's site fee for the time Julian spent in jail so that he won't be left alone in the park with Ricky.
speedy review:
This might be one of the slowest episodes in the show's history. The laughs are few and far between. This episode is devoted to character development and 'plants the seeds' for one of the show's future themes, growing dope.
Bubbles breaks-out one of his first classic lines in this episode, explaining to Ricky the fundamentals of pet ownership. "If you love something, let it go," he explains, "if it comes back to you, you own it, if it doesn't, you don't own it. And if it doesn't, you're an ***hole, just like [Ricky]."
It's also interesting to see how skinny Bubbles is this early on in the series. He gains at least a couple dozen pounds by the time season four draws to an end. Must be the steady Halifax diet of beer, donairs and chicken fingers.
An odd feature of this episode is that Bubbles and Ricky don't get along at all. They are constantly wrestling and swearing at each other throughout the episode. Later on in the series the two are the best of friends. Friends fight sometimes, but this just seems to be a character shift that goes unexplained.
J-ROC also has a great scene in this episode. He helps get Ricky's New Yorker running and then after slapping hands with the boys, struts off camera crooked with a cane. Ghetto fab!
All in all, this episode is probably only going to be enjoyed by fans of the show. People unfamiliar with TBP may not find this episode particularly compelling.
This episode is probably best viewed after you've seen several others. If you watch this one early on you might not get the joke.
In the three weeks since being released, Ricky has managed to grow four dope plants in the back seat of his car/home. Julian reveals that before going to Con College, Ricky had a tremendous set-up and was selling to the entire park, including to Mr. Lahey. Ricky's current two-bit operation isn't enough to generate any kind of revenue--money Ricky needs to keep Lucy's affections forthcoming.
After an unsuccessful visit to the hydroponics store, and a brief shootout with the store owner, Ricky returns to the park desperate for cash. He needs money to buy gear to grow clones. Ricky also wants money to buy a ring for Lucy. Along comes white gangsta J-Roc and his posse, the ROC-Pile, who offer Ricky an opportunity to make some serious skrilla... by acting in an amateur porn flick.
"From Russia With The Love Bone" is the title of director J-ROC's ah-dult film. He assures Ricky that the tape will only be available in Russia, so no one in Sunnyvale will ever see it. Bubbles gets offered $160 to co-star and jumps at the opportunity, admitting that it's been a long time since he's been so frisky. J-ROC enlists the help of a couple of whores to round-out the cast and everything is ready to roll. J-ROC promises Ricky that he will be "bigger than Revine!"
During filming there are some "testicular difficulties" and Ricky can't come through. He blames the malfunction on nerves and his monogamous love for Lucy. J-ROC improvises and decides to have Ricky do soft-core work in the film instead, claiming that it can still play in Russian hotels. Bubbles, on the other hand, is up to the task, but is interrupted by Mr. Lahey, Randy, and J-ROC's mom, who stumble onto the film set and shut everything down. J-ROC's mom, who calls him Jamie, drags him around by the earlobe and grounds him, shutting down production. A serious complication arises when Mr. Lahey confiscates the raw footage.
Mr. Lahey blackmails Ricky with the tape, threatening that he'd show Lucy the tape if Ricky doesn't clear-out of the Park by morning. Lucy finds-out anyways and leaves Ricky for the ten millionth time.
Ricky decides that he has no other options but to break into Mr. Lahey's trailer and murder him in order to prevent the tape from being leaked-out into the public. Thankfully Julian intervenes. Julian slips into Mr. Lahey's house in the middle of the night and unintentionally interrupts some suggestive behavior between Mr. Lahey and Randy. Julian blackmails the couple, and reacquires the tape along with a handful of joints and some liquor. In exchange, Julian promises to keep Mr. Lahey and Randy's relationship a secret.
Bubbles destroys the tape when Julian returns with it. Julian then lends Ricky the money to get his operation together. Once again, Julian saves the day.
speedy review:
This episode is the first crazy one in the show's history. There are several hilarious moments, including Bubble's perturbed comments following the break-up of the porno filming, when Julian interrupts Mr. Lahey (in a dress) and Randy (in a zippered mask) on a pummel horse watching J-Roc's unfinished porno, when J-Roc's mom tells him he can't use his turntables for two weeks as punishment for making a porn in their trailer, etc..
One of the funniest exchanges in the first season takes place in this episode between J-ROC and his buddy and co-director, Tyrone (T). T criticizes J-ROC for saying "know what I'm sayin'" too many times. J-ROC asks T if he is counting his 'know what I'm sayin's', if he's from the department of 'know what I'm sayin's', or if T is taking a 'know what I'm-census'. Victoria, one of the ho's J-ROC has picked-up for the film, chimes-in to agree with T. Classic.
This episode establishes a lot but does it in a really funny way. Rather than character development for the sake of character development, the characters evolve during several very funny segments. Bubbles gets a larger role in this episode, as does J-ROC. You'll see very few episodes from this point onward in which those two characters aren't featured in great moments.
A great aspect of this episode is demonstrating that Mr. Lahey and Randy are just as flawed as the rest of the patrons of the park. It helps to close the gap between the supervisors and the tenants, and gives us a realistic impression as to why exactly these people can coexist while at each others throats at the same time.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/speedythief/everything/stuff/123/tpb.jpg"> Back row: Detroit Velvet Smooth (DVS), J-ROC, Tyrone (T).
Middle row: Sara, Lucy, Trinity (girl), Julian, Bubbles, Ricky, Barbara, Mr. Lahey, Randy.
Front row: Corey, Trevor.
Episode 104:
"Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets F***ed Up"
speedy synopsis
Ricky needs to get his dope operation going. According to Sara, Ricky always starts his business through the same simple steps: 1. borrow some money to buy a pound of weed; 2. make weed brownies and sell them; 3. use the money from the brownies to buy hydro gear and grow a good first crop; 4. sell the crop, reinvest the money, and he's in business. But Sara explains that the error the boys always make is by bringing guns into the picture, which they do shortly thereafter.
Mrs. Peterson, Julian's elderly neighbor who mistakenly thinks Julian is her grandson, asks Julian to look after her dog, Sparky, while she is at the hospital for a routine operation. Julian agrees, but he has a lot to do that day and things get complicated.
After a brief shootout with "Sam", a character who doesn't get much face time and is never featured on the show again, the boys have the weed they need for Ricky to make brownies. Julian needs to go to the DMV, though, so he convinces Ricky to look after Sparky while he's gone. At the same time, Ricky also has to babysit his daughter, Trinity. As the duties pile-up in front of Randy, things begin to fall apart. Ricky is baking the brownies in his dad's trailer when Trinity accidentally shoots him in the *** with a small handgun. At the same time, Sparky eats a tray of weed brownies and gets "buggered-up".
Julian returns to the park irate at Ricky's reckless irresponsibility. Rather than go to the hospital where Julian fears the cops would ask how Ricky got shot, Julian takes Ricky and Sparky to Sam Losco's veterinary clinic after leaving Trinity with Ricky's dad. In exchange for getting the brownies out of the dog and patching-up Ricky's gunshot wound, Sam Losco asks them to steal a riding lawnmower from a farmer who owes him money.
After another brief shootout at the barn, both Ricky and the boom mike operator are wounded and the riding mower is loaded into the truck. Julian and a buckshot-riddled Ricky drop the boom mike operator at the front door of the hospital and return to Sam Losco's clinic. Sam gives a great line at this point, remarking that he's "only ever heard of one guy getting shot twice in one day in unrelated incidents, and he was a real d***."
Ricky returns to the trailer to discover that Trinity had been drinking alcohol and when her mother Lucy returned home, she found her drunk and unsupervised. Lucy and Ricky break-up yet again.
As the show comes to a close, Mrs. Peterson returns to the park with a surprise for Julian. She duped him into thinking she was going to the hospital, when really she went to the store and bought Julian a birthday present--a stuffed animal and "the new NWA [cd] you wanted."
The show ends on a high-note when the boom mike operator leaves a message on Julian's machine, explaining that he was thankful that Julian dropped him off at the hospital and that when he recovers, he wants to return to work. He says it's the best job he's ever had.
speedy review:
The show is in high-gear now. The exploits of our bumbling heroes are starting to be explored. Like most of their plans, this get-rich-quick scheme goes horribly wrong and Ricky gets shot twice in one day. The action of this episode is non-stop and what the episode lacks in verbal comedy it makes up for in stringing together hilarious scenarios.
Ricky lets-loose his funniest line to date in this episode. After a metaphor about a s***-liner coming in to port from Mr. Lahey, this exchange takes place:
Ricky: "Hey Lahey, knock knock"
Lahey: "Who's there, Rick?"
Ricky: "Mr. Stupid-ity head that’s... f***ing pissing me off right now, thinks he's the captain of the s***liner... and by the way your fish sticks suck, so f*** off and open the gate!"
This is the episode you should watch if you haven't seen the show before and you want to get a feel for it. This episode is loaded with great moments, too many to list here. It is potentially one of the funniest episodes in the entire series. And it does it all without Bubbles making an appearance. Go figure.
Episode 105:
"I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy. Wait A Minute, Maybe I Am Gay"
speedy synopsis:
Ricky makes plans to take his family out for a day of activities but his beat-up old car craps out and strands them in the park. Lucy is frustrated with Ricky's incompetence and takes Trinity back home to the trailer. Ricky and Lucy break-up (again).
It is revealed that Lucy still has feelings for Julian over a night they spent together in high school, but Julian isn't interested in getting mixed-up in her problems. He goes to get advice from Bubbles, who encourages him to lie to Lucy and tell her that Ricky is in love with and wants to marry her. But when Julian tells Lucy, she doesn't believe him, claiming that she needs to hear it from Ricky.
Julian tells Ricky that he needs to marry Lucy once and for all. Ricky doesn't see it as an urgent situation, so Julian pretends that the people in the Park are whispering about Ricky maybe being gay. Ricky believes Julian and thinks that maybe he really is gay, but Julian reassures him that he isn't and he just needs to marry Lucy to squash the rumours.
Ricky and Julian do a B&E to get an engagement ring, evade the police, and return to the Park in time for Ricky to intercept Lucy on her way to visit Julian's trailer in the middle of the night. Lucy tells Ricky that Levi, Julian's friend, managed to get Ricky the job collecting garbage in the park, much to his delight. Ricky proposes, Lucy agrees to marry him, and the stage is set for a trailer park wedding.
speedy review:
This episode is much slower than last week's but the dialogue and acting are superior. There are several memorable moments in this episode, including Ray, Ricky's father, explaining Calvinism, Ricky being thrown-out of a bank and calling the banker a molester, Ricky convincing a police officer that their fathers are good friends in order to distract him from the fact they were traveling in a stolen vehicle, and Bubbles incredible monologue about Plato's Noble Lie.
The adventures in this episode are pulled-back a little to reveal the complexity and stupidity of Ricky and Lucy's relationship. Basically, this episode is designed to lead into the season finale, featuring a pretty f'ed up marriage scene and some great action. It does it with good pacing and cleverness and makes for an unconventional but amusing episode.
Episode 106:
"Who The Hell Invited These Idiots To My Wedding?"
speedy synopsis:
Life doesn't get much better for Ricky than it is in the beginning of this episode. He proudly proclaims that he's curbed his swearing, he's started drinking on weekends only, he's got a job and his dope operation is up and running. The only problem is that he is at odds with Julian.
Neither Ricky nor Lucy are capable of setting-up such an event themselves, so all the wedding planning falls on Julian's shoulders. It should, after all, it was his idea in the first place. A day before the wedding Julian needs to get food, hire a priest, set up a nice venue, and try and hold everything together. Think he can do it?
Out of the blue, Bubbles gets a moment in the spotlight to tell his sad tale of abandonment. He reveals to the camera that it is a lonely life he's led, his parents having left him in the Park without warning. He's grown up alone with his cats, living in a shed. Bubbles insists that Julian make sure he treats Trinity properly and doesn't take her admiration for him for granted. There is really no point to Bubbles telling Julian this, since Julian and Trinity have a relationship that is hardly explained or explored, but the interlude is still amusing.
Anyways, on to the mayhem. Julian can't afford to front all the money for the wedding, so some corners need to be cut. After all, you can't have a wedding with cheap hotdogs; you need to go all-out and get the all-beef ones. Julian gets the boys together and plans to rob the grocery store. In his own words, "it's all about the firepower."
The boys get Ricky trashed at the strip club in order to keep him from interfering with the robbery. They steal a truck out of the parking lot and toss Ricky half-conscious into the back. With Ricky passed-out, the boys drive to the store, suit-up, and stick the place up. Instead of taking cash, cigarettes, or even some nice steaks and other good food, the boys steal a shopping cart full of hot dogs, bananas and potato chips. In the meantime Ricky wanders into the store in a stupor looking for smokes and Corey and Trevor stupidly demand he put his hands up at gunpoint.
Ricky draws his pistol and the boys turn the store into Swiss cheese, managing to destroy everything in the store without injuring anyone. They realize they're shooting at each other and peel-out of the store, but not before they are caught on the security camera referring to each other by their real names, and Ricky having no mask on.
The wedding is held the next day by the side of a road in a pretty random location in the park. Mr. Lahey's ex-wife and the owner of the trailer park, Barb, is the one who conducts the ceremony. Both Ricky and Lucy puff on cigarettes on the altar as they read their home-made vows. Before the ceremony could conclude, however, police cars arrive and Ricky is put in handcuffs. Claiming Ricky can't survive in jail without his help, Julian fires his gun off in the air and is arrested as well. Lucy is distraught, the park is in a frenzy, and the trailer park boys are hauled back to Con College.
speedy review:
Thus concludes the first season of the show. Julian and Ricky return to jail and their lives are brought back to square one.
There are some weird aspects of this episode, such as an intense detective who comes to Ricky's trailer and is eventually the one, aided by Lahey, who arrests Ricky at the wedding. It seems like the introduction of a character with authority over both Lahey and Officer Green, but that's the end of it.
Another problem is that it is never made clear what Ricky was arrested for in the first place. If it was for the robbery of the grocery store, why wouldn't Julian, Bubbles, or Corey and Trevor be suspects? If not, what did he get arrested for? When the detective questions Ricky, it is about "stuff going on in the park" or something along those lines. Pretty unclear.
Anyways, there are some really hilarious moments in this episode that are worth mentioning. Bubbles trying to handle an automatic machine gun was wild, Bubble's explaining the process of selecting good shopping carts, Bubbles launching a cart with a bad chassis up into a dumpster, Bubbles not being willing to leave the cart behind when they try and make their getaway from the store... in all, a lot of Bubbles being funny and establishing himself as a focal point of the show.
I'd be remiss if I didn't include Ricky's comment at the end of the episode. Julian explains how he's using positive thinking to get him through his time in the pen. Ricky, who doesn't understand the concept, says that he's taking the same approach and pretending that he is in university.
There are more holes in the plot of this episode than I care to get into. I think that's what keeps this episode from being flawless. Not that it has to be flawless, as the show is built on a house of cards to begin with, but there are some things that happen that leave you scratching your head and thinking that this episode was rewritten at the last minute or rushed or whatever.
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