Trailer Park Boys Truly Canadian

The Trailer Park Boys are hilarious. That's only my opinion but I know I'm not alone.

While many (my mother and aunts included) think it's the biggest piece of $h!t on TV today there are millions of others who call it the best truly Canadian television series since SCTV and The Beachcombers.

Not since Nick Adonidas and Relic were combing the coastline North of Vancouver for logs and swapping stories at Molly's Reach has a Canadian television show been so embraced and loved for being Canadian.

For those of you who have yet to experience the foul-mouthed main characters of Julian, Bubbles (with his coke bottle glasses) and Ricky, the show is a mocumentary focusing on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts living in fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, located near Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

The show has been a great success for the cable network Showcase, where it's the networks highest rated Canadian show. You might be surprised to find the Boys are being watched all around the world. Of course in the United States they were airing a censored version of the show but it was eventually pulled. I guess they couldn't follow it or the beeps were too much to handle.

The boys are always up to no good and usually end up in jail while trying to come up with new ways to make money. From running an illegal nightclub, stealing groceries, reselling stolen gasoline or stealing gumball machines, the boys just can't catch a break and hilarity ensues.

The boys have also been featured in The Trailer Park Boys movie with another being planned.

Aside from the three main characters there is a wacky supporting cast that includes Jim Lahey the deranged trailer park supervisor, his assistant Randy whose beer gut is always exposed, J-Roc the parks white rapper/gangsta and Corey and Trevor who are two young and stupid guys who get things screwed up all the time.

This show is in its seventh season and its popularity seems to be growing as it moves from cult status to the mainstream. The boys are here to stay and I couldn't be happier.

Just as short example, here's a video of Bubbles acting as a reporter on another Canadian Comedy Show called 22 Minutes. Note there is some foul language in this but certainly not as much as the actual show.