Trailer Park Boys

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#3

I can’t put into words how I feel about this show. It is the only show that I really look forward to watching new episodes of. I work with people who base their whole lives around their televisions sets and that’s not my style, but this show is pure magic. It is very heavily improvised around the compositional hand of Mike Clattenberg, to whom this world is just an alternate reality. The characters, specifically Julian, Ricky and Bubbles never do any interviews or public apperances without being in character. You have got to check out the Christmas Special, which seems to be tacked on to the end of Season 6 in that link that thelot provided, but it is actually supposed to be a prequel to the whole series.

Anyway, Season 7 episode 2 airs tonight, so I should probably get some sleep at some point here.

#4

^^Awesome! I’m not alone!

^The Christmas episode is the first episode I saw!! Ricky’s speech in front of the church had me laughing so hard my sides hurt, “just get drunk and stoned with your family and friends. If you don’t get drunk and stoned, just be with your family…awesome.”

My buddy had them all on his ipod. I was amazed to find out there were 7 seasons, and the fact the main characters always stay in character only increases my interest.

Man it makes me feel good that I’m not alone in loving this show.

#5

aw man what an awesome show! i can swear we already have a thread about it…who knows. im no thread nazi.

#6

the movie was really funny, i haven’t watched many of the episodes thou, i’ll have to get on that asap

#7

yo how did you get access to the movie! i heard i wasnt released in the states yet…

#8

my friend has some of the seasons on dvd and put it on one night after the bar. I was so drunk that i forget most of it, but I’m glad other people have heard about this, I thought I was going crazy

#9

I work at a bar near niagara falls Ontario and i got to meet the trailor park boys twice they are so funny. I watch the show all the time.

#10

^Cool!

#11

Shit yeah! Last nights episode was awesome. Luggage Bandits, Co-daddies and trying to boost a car using a Go-cart. Funny as hell!

#12

I’m 3 episodes into season 2. Mr. Lahey has started drinking and almost lost the position of Trailer Park Supervisor, but Julian snuck mushrooms into the challengers hot dog. So as he gave his speech, they started to take effect and he couldn’t speak.

good stuff.

#13

that site is amazing, besides trailer park boys.

#14

I’m finishing season one, and the show is developing nicely. I think getting into a new show days before finals week starts may have been an unwise choice. O well…

#15

ahhh yea

#16

Great suggestion Hank! I am watching the first episode of Season one and I’m enjoying it a lot.

#17

J-Roc owns those first 3 seasons. His apperances become a lot more sporadic in seasons 4-7, though he has had some amazing moments in the new season. The guy who plays J-Roc, Jonothan Torrens, actually used to be a small Canadian star long before TPB. He used to have a teenage talk show called Jonovision, and every second week, it seemed like, he would have a battle of the bands and other than that the topics would be very based around teenage issues.

Before Jonovision he was on a Canadian show called Street Cents. It was a half hour show, again for teens, about consumer awareness. It was always on after school when I was younger, and the cool thing about the show is that they didn’t show any commercials. It was funded entirely by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), so they didn’t have to pander to any sponsors, and I really learned a lot about how much consumer’s get gipped from a very young age. Anyway, Mike Clattenberg, the director and creator of Trailer Park Boys used to write for that show and that’s how he knows Jono…just a little history for you.

#18

any other history would be great Devin!

thanks

#19

Trailer Park Boys was originally a black and white movie and had a much more serious edge to it. The drug of choice was coke instead of weed and the only characters that you would recognize are Ricky, Julian and Cyruss. It really wasn’t all that funny, but I guess Showcase saw how it could be pretty damn funny if they actually gave these guys a bit of a budget.

I don’t know a ton of history outside of what is available in the commentaries on the DVD’s (which are friggin hilarious!..most commentaries actually suck, but Clattenberg is a genius and everythign he says is a hoot), but they are huge cult figures in Canada and I might be the only one I know that watched the show in that first season. It really gets better and better up until Season 4 and 5, which are the best IMO. Season 6 is a bit of a letdown because it is only 6 episodes and some of them just weren’t that funny…I suppose this was because they were releasing the movie that year. Season 7 has been the funniest so far, and I hope it just keeps getting better from here. I really hope it catches on down there because these guys are comedic genius’ and they really deserve it.

#20

Jesus…Episode 6 already tonight…I think…

I’m having a liquor and cheeseburger party tonight with a bunch of friends for TPB! If you don’t get that then you have got to check out last weeks episode.

#21

I was trying to watch episodes last night on that site, and it kept on quitting about 2 minutes into the episode.

This better be a temporary bug, or I’m going to have to kill someone. I need TPB until LOST season 3 comes out on DVD.

#22

I think I’m gonna buy these seasons on DVD so I can share them with my Dad, he hates watching stuff on the computer. It’s like $150 bucks for 5 seasons, but I’ll have all summer to work off that debt :P.