I was recently turned on to the Canadian series Trailer Park Boys by a Brit friend who really loves it. This is comedy gold. I started with the 1999 film, 67 minutes long and essentially the pilot for the series. Never heard of it before, but it’s been out there for a long time.
At my Brit friend’s suggestion, we’ve been calling our pub-quiz team Trailer Park Boys since before I started watching it. I feel proud to have represented them.
I’ve got a couple of buddies who are HUGE fans - keep urging me to get into it, and love quoting it.
One time I tried to watch a couple of eps - found some mild amusement, but not enough to spend the time on YouTube. I don’t generally watch a lot of YT vids in an effort to not fall into that endless timesuck.
Ah yes, a bunch of local boys done good!
I never really got into Trailer Park Boys myself (more of a Corner Gas kinda guy) but they are quite popular with almost everyone I know.
My friend is moving back to London next month and has given me a lot of his videos. So I’ve got all of Trailer Park Boys just waiting to be viewed.
Love 'em! Every time I think I’m not going to be in to it (like a new movie or a new season), I end up laughing my butt off.
My favorite character is J-Rock!
They are doing their Christmas live show here in Cleveland this Sunday. I am way too busy to go. I did see Randy & Lahey live at a little theater in Kent (Ohio) this summer, which I thought would be a bit tedious but I laughed my ass off.
I turned a bunch of people on to the show some years ago and now that it’s on Netflix, I’m turning some more. But it’s been a long, slow process!
If you like board games, I thoroughly enjoyed the TPB Board Game.
To me the name holds them back more than anything. It sounds like a “Redneck Comedy Tour” sort of thing. Once I started watching it, I was pleasantly surprised.
It’s a mockumentary comedy like Reno 911, but in a Canadian trailer park, with (mildly) bad guys as the protagonists.
Again, we’ve adopted the name for our team at pub quizzes. But then I am from Texas (although not from a trailer park, alas). Canadians are generally the only ones who recognize our name, but ironically there is no Canadian team member.
Bubbles is the best!
The movies are mostly pretty bad, but the series itself is awesome. Ricky always getting confounded by them word papers!
And kudos to Netflix for reviving it with new seasons in modern times, like they did with Arrested Development.
We are still early on but have seen Bubbles. I understand his character eventually expands and has a cult following among Canadians. I mean even more so than the show itself.
It’s weird because as he gets more time on the show, he kinda becomes more of a dick and personally I like him less. Maybe my perception was also colored by watching the movie where the actors are supposedly playing themselves (it’s called Swearnet), and in that one, the actor (Mike Smith) comes across as a huge asshole.
FYI, Ricky sometimes gets called “Reveen”. In case you’ve never seen the Man They Call Reveen, here’s a taste:
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FYI, Ricky sometimes gets called “Reveen”. In case you’ve never seen the Man They Call Reveen, here’s a taste:
[/QUOTE]They did that in the pilot movie. And Julian got called Patrick Swayze.
I’ve watched every minute of it, and it’s certainly some low-budget comedy gold. It does start to get real weird, cartoonish even, the further you get into it, but still enjoyable.
There’s a lot of subtle Canadian shit in there that I often have to pause and look up, but frankly that’s kind of something in its favor.