99 Fun Facts About Trailer Park Boys

Who created Trailer Park Boys?

Mike Clattenburg built the show around two friends who ran a pizza shop on Prince Edward Island, because he found them natural actors and talked them into making short films with him.

What is the name of the fictional park where Trailer Park Boys is set?

Sunnyvale is where almost every season begins, with Ricky and Julian coming home from jail, and where most of them end, with the pair on their way back inside.

In which Canadian province is Trailer Park Boys set and filmed?

Nova Scotia's real trailer parks hosted the first four seasons, a different one each year, before the production moved to a set of its own where it could make noise without bothering residents.

On which Canadian channel did Trailer Park Boys premiere in April 2001?

Showcase took a cold call from the creators on their way back to a Toronto hotel, just after the one network they had flown in to pitch had said no.

In the 1999 Trailer Park Boys film, why does Julian want his life documented?

A phone psychic predicted his death, so Julian has a cheap film crew follow his last days in the hope that the result will steer others away from the life of crime he chose.

Which future star is in the 1999 Trailer Park Boys film only as the documentary crew's soundman?

Mike Smith was hired to record the film's sound, and the thick glasses and sweet voice he put on at home one night persuaded the director to write him a part in the series.

Who plays Ricky on Trailer Park Boys?

Robb Wells had no acting training: right before the show took off he was a salesman, selling bathtubs, whirlpools and showers.

What drink is almost always in Julian's hand on Trailer Park Boys?

Rum and Coke stays in Julian's hand while he plots the get-rich-quick schemes meant to let him retire at 35, and he is seen without the glass only a handful of times.

On Trailer Park Boys, Ricky's malapropisms like 'worst case Ontario' are known to fans as what?

Rickyisms also include 'denial and error' and 'get two birds stoned at once', and fans trade them online with the fondness an older generation kept for Yogi Berra's sayings.

Which 1975 model is the wreck that Ricky drives and often sleeps in on Trailer Park Boys?

Chrysler New Yorker is right: the wreck was the creator's own car, which he was still driving, then painted green, when he met his future cast, and he later donated it to the show.

Where does Bubbles live on Trailer Park Boys?

In a shed with his cats: Bubbles has lived in sheds around the park all his life, ever since his parents abandoned him there as a small child.

How does Bubbles make his living at the start of Trailer Park Boys?

Salvaging and reselling shopping carts came with the character, who was tried out in a short film about two mall security guards confronting a man for taking the mall's carts.

What is Bubbles' wrestling alter ego on Trailer Park Boys?

The Green Bastard, a wrestler 'from parts unknown', makes his entrance when Ricky builds a homemade ring for a community day in the park.

What is the name of Bubbles' ventriloquist dummy on Trailer Park Boys?

Conky was taken away by Ricky and Julian long ago, and they have to fetch him back when Bubbles, laid up with an infected tooth, refuses to go to hospital without him.

Where did the thick glasses Bubbles wears on Trailer Park Boys come from?

A secondhand sale in Texas: the actor's girlfriend bought them there as a joke for 50 cents, all she had on her, so she had to leave behind the photo of the old lady who had owned them.

Which rock band was the actor who plays Bubbles a guitarist in before Trailer Park Boys?

Sandbox signed to EMI and toured Canada and the United States; when the band broke up, its guitarist set up a small recording studio at home and began freelancing as a sound man.

Who played park supervisor Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys?

John Dunsworth was nothing like the permanently drunk Lahey: he rarely drank, and the liquor in his glass on set was usually iced tea.

On Trailer Park Boys, Lahey's assistant and partner Randy is famous for what?

Never wearing a shirt is Randy's rule because, he says, fabric brings him out in a rash, and he puts one on only when he has no choice.

On Trailer Park Boys, what was Jim Lahey's job before he became park supervisor?

Police officer: Lahey lost his badge after a prank by the young Ricky, Julian and Bubbles on Halloween 1977, which is where his grudge against them began.

Which food is Randy constantly mocked for craving on Trailer Park Boys?

Cheeseburgers are Randy's weakness, a joke that followed the cast on tour, where burgers grilled on stage were sold to fans for ten dollars each.

On Trailer Park Boys, which two hapless friends idolise Ricky and Julian and end up as scapegoats?

Cory and Trevor do the grunt work and serve as 'jail cover'; the two actors, who also worked on the crew, quit over pay, and only Cory came back for the revival.

On Trailer Park Boys, what is the real first name of J-Roc, the park's aspiring rapper?

Jamie is the name he cannot stand: J-Roc still lives with his mother in the park, and he bristles whenever anyone addresses him by it.

Which former teen-TV host plays J-Roc on Trailer Park Boys?

Jonathan Torrens met the show's creator while co-hosting the teen consumer series Street Cents, and his character was named on a night out when a friend said, 'Pass the ketchup, J-Roc.'

On Trailer Park Boys, Ricky's father Ray, a former trucker, is secretly committing which crime?

Disability fraud: Ray lost his licence after driving his truck into a post office drunk, and has claimed compensation from a wheelchair ever since, though he stands up when no one official is looking.

What is the name of Ricky's daughter on Trailer Park Boys?

Trinity picks up her father's habits early: Ricky lets her drive his car while she is still a child, and the two of them try, and fail, to quit smoking together.

Who owns the park on Trailer Park Boys?

Barbara, Lahey's ex-wife, divorced him over his drinking, which leaves the park's supervisor taking orders from the woman who walked out on him.

Which future Hollywood star played Lahey's daughter Treena in season two of Trailer Park Boys?

Elliot Page was a teenager when he played Treena, who spends more time with Ricky than with her own father; Juno and an Oscar nomination came five years later.

Bubbles' actor called Trailer Park Boys 'really like' which wholesome series, 'with guns and drugs and liquor'?

The Waltons was his comparison because, beneath the crime, the park is a loyal, close community; the cast kept slurs, and drug use in scenes with children, out of the show.

Which streaming service co-produced seasons 8 to 12 of Trailer Park Boys from 2014?

Netflix revived a show its original producers had declared finished in 2007: the three leads bought the rights and came back with season eight seven years later.

What streaming network did the stars of Trailer Park Boys create after buying the show's rights?

SwearNet was pitched as an uncensored network of their own on the internet, and the trio even shot a film about themselves starting it.

Which Canadian rock star is kidnapped by Ricky in the Trailer Park Boys episode 'Closer to the Heart'?

Alex Lifeson is grabbed after Lahey buys up the last tickets to Rush's Halifax concert to get back at Ricky, and he ends up letting Bubbles work the show as his guitar tech.

Which rapper appeared in several season-ten episodes of Trailer Park Boys, starting with 'Up in Smoke We Go'?

Snoop Dogg was already part of the show's world: back in season four the boys had stolen a propane tanker to haul their crop to one of his concerts.

Which NHL star appeared as himself in season eleven of Trailer Park Boys?

Nathan MacKinnon plays himself, dropping in on the children at the ball-hockey school Ricky is running that season.

Which Hollywood producer, famous for Ghostbusters, produced Trailer Park Boys: The Movie in 2006?

The film, also called The Big Dirty, was nominated for a Genie for Best Motion Picture.

In Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, what is 'the Big Dirty'?

One last crime to fund retirement turns out to be small change: the boys empty a cinema's coin machine, and the loot later pours out of Ricky's car through bullet holes at his wedding.

In Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, what has happened to Bubbles' cats while he was in prison?

They were sent to a shelter that wants thousands of dollars for their release, and they are saved in the end by a prison scheme that hands the cats to inmates as therapy animals.

In Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It, why is Ricky against legal marijuana?

It would ruin his grow-op, so Ricky heads to Parliament Hill to protest and sneaks inside to make a speech; the scenes were shot in Ottawa over the real 4/20 weekend.

Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It opens with the funeral of which character, thought killed in a propane explosion?

Ray is mourned by everyone except Lahey, who is thrown out of the service for insisting he is still alive; a videotape at the end proves him right about the insurance scam.

Which Trailer Park Boys film, released in December 2024, follows Bubbles' band on tour?

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties sends Bubbles and the Shitrockers to Europe to open for Billy Bob Thornton's band, until they are thrown off the tour and left busking for the fare home.

In the Trailer Park Boys special Live in Dublin, what must the arrested boys stage as community service?

A puppet show warning against drugs and drink is their sentence after immigration officers arrest them in Ireland, where they had flown to see Rush; it was filmed at a real 2013 stage show.

Which Trailer Park Boys character is played by the real-life daughter of the actor behind Jim Lahey?

Sarah is played by the actor's daughter, who shares her character's first name; she met the show's creator while working at her father's casting agency and later designed costumes for the series.

Which Canadian singer's tour bus do the boys hijack on Trailer Park Boys, forcing her to help harvest their crop?

Rita MacNeil and her band are marched off their bus at gunpoint to bring in the last field before dawn, because the boys' usual helpers have just been put out of action by a crash.

Which reality show did the creator of Trailer Park Boys cite as inspiration for its handheld filming style?

Cops was the model, and the pilot says so itself, when Ricky explains the film crew to viewers: it's like that show, 'but from the criminal's point of view'.

Where were seasons 5 to 7 of Trailer Park Boys filmed, on a purpose-built set?

A former rehab centre in Cole Harbour gave the show a park of its own, where trailers could be arranged to order and the crew could make as much noise as it liked.

After season three, the stars of Trailer Park Boys toured in character with which Canadian band?

Our Lady Peace took them on the road in 2003, and the roar that met them at the first show, in Kelowna, was how the cast learned they had fans far beyond the East Coast.

Which heavy-metal singer appears at a model train convention on Trailer Park Boys?

Sebastian Bach of Skid Row did more than guest-star: he introduced the actor behind Bubbles to Axl Rose, and Bubbles went on to sing on stage with Guns N' Roses.

In the Trailer Park Boys short The Cart Boy, 'Bubbles' was the name of what?

Mike Smith's character's cat had the name first: he played a man called Darren, who takes shopping carts to pay for surgery on the kitten's injured paw.

How was the original 1999 Trailer Park Boys feature film shot?

In black-and-white, and on the cheap: the director paid for the film himself, and its screening at the 1999 Atlantic Film Festival is what caught the eye of the producer who saw a series in it.

What kind of business did the actor who plays Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys co-own from 2006 to 2010?

A bar, Bubbles Mansion, drew students with one-dollar drinks until a minimum price of $2.50 a serving came in, the rule its manager blamed when it closed.

On Trailer Park Boys, which wild animal, tamed by eating the boys' crop, does Bubbles name Steve French?

A cougar turns out to be the culprit destroying one of the boys' fields in season four. By then the animal is practically tame, and Bubbles tries to get him clean.

The actor who plays Ricky on Trailer Park Boys is a distant cousin of which Canadian prime minister?

Stephen Harper's family tie surfaced in a Globe and Mail article in 2006. The actor is no dropout himself: he holds a commerce degree from Saint Mary's University.

The actor who played hard-drinking Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys usually sipped which stand-in for liquor on camera?

Iced tea filled the glass because the actor rarely drank alcohol himself. Having beaten a gambling problem, he later campaigned against video lottery terminals.

Before Trailer Park Boys, the actors who play Ricky and Julian co-owned a chain of which kind of eatery?

Pizzerias under the name J.R. Capone's were the pair's first venture. The two had been friends since their teens, long before any cameras followed them around.

In season five of Trailer Park Boys, the boys hide a haul of stolen hash by turning it into what?

A driveway made of hash is laid outside Ricky's father's trailer, in plain sight. A drunken Lahey later tricks two of the boys' helpers into revealing it.

A birth-certificate mix-up on Trailer Park Boys leaves Ricky's grandson with which odd legal name?

The Motel is what ended up on the paperwork, so the family simply calls the boy Mo. His father Jacob filled in the form wrong.

The gentle opening theme of Trailer Park Boys was written to emulate a signature song by which crooner?

Tony Bennett's ode to San Francisco was the model for Breeze, the theme by composer Blain Morris. Its calm sets up the chaos that always follows.

On Trailer Park Boys, Sam Losco loses his licence in which profession after treating Ricky's bullet wound?

Veterinarian Sam was only licensed to treat animals, so patching up a human cost him his practice. He holds a grudge against the boys for years afterwards.

In Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, the boys steal a machine full of loose change from which business?

A cinema lobby is where Julian spots the coin machine while on a date. He had taken an inmate's advice that stealing small change stays under the radar.

Which surname belongs to Ricky, the only one of the Trailer Park Boys trio whose family name is spoken on screen?

LaFleur is also the name Ricky's father dropped: he is said to have switched to Flower after getting grief from fellow truckers.

Which actor and co-writer of Trailer Park Boys plays Julian, the trio's drink-carrying schemer?

John Paul Tremblay has played Julian since the 1999 film and writes the revived show with his two co-stars. All three now own the rights to it.

Which stoner-comedy legend takes on Ricky in a pot-smoking contest in Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: USA?

Tommy Chong turns up in Los Angeles billed as Anthony Stoner. On the same trip the boys visit NASA's astronaut training and Ricky tries to wrestle an alligator.

At the end of Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, Jim Lahey has fled with the loot to which country?

Cuba is where a drunk Lahey ends up, rich from the bank job yet miserable with nobody to share it. Part of the film was made there.

Lucy DeCoutere, who plays Lucy on Trailer Park Boys, also became an officer in which military service?

The air force made her a major: she has served the Royal Canadian Air Force as a training development officer, and she once taught kindergarten in South Korea.

At the end of season twelve of Trailer Park Boys, what turns the characters into cartoons for the animated spin-off?

Hallucinogenic mushrooms, taken in a huge overdose, tip most of the main characters into an animated reality. The cartoon series simply carries on from there.

For Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It, the crew filmed during a huge 4/20 rally at which Canadian landmark?

Parliament Hill drew more than 10,000 marijuana-law protesters that day. At least 50 extras ringed the three leads to sneak them in, though onlookers soon saw through the ruse.

On Trailer Park Boys, a gang of local children regularly ambushes residents by throwing which objects?

Empty liquor bottles are never in short supply in the park, and Randy is the favourite target. Ricky fondly recalls throwing them himself as a child.

How does Ricky and Lucy's wedding end in the first-season finale of Trailer Park Boys?

The groom is arrested during the ceremony, and Lucy, who never seemed keen, breaks up with him. Julian had planned the whole wedding himself.

Ricky's battered car on Trailer Park Boys was donated by the show's creator for which domestic reason?

His wife hated it being parked outside their home, so the creator handed his own car over to the production. Fans know the wreck by an unprintable nickname.

Which pistol-waving bully has taken over the park when Ricky and Julian come home in the Trailer Park Boys premiere?

Cyrus squats in Julian's trailer until Julian rallies the residents to run him out. He keeps coming back as the boys' nemesis for years.

Orangie, the pet Ricky dotes on in the revived Trailer Park Boys, is which kind of animal?

A goldfish, Orangie dies in season eight after being given too many shooters, sending Julian and Bubbles scrambling for a lookalike before Ricky notices.

In the courtroom climax of Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, what does Ricky demand that Jim Lahey be given?

A breathalyzer test shows the boys' only accuser is drunk on the stand. The judge discards his testimony, clears the trio and even orders the money returned to them.

Which actor plays Lahey's loyal assistant Randy on Trailer Park Boys, after appearing in the 1999 film as a dog owner?

Patrick Roach lent his own first name to that early character, who became the basis for Randy. After his screen partner died, he launched a solo stand-up show.

Ricky is thrown out of jail early in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie so he cannot play which street-hockey position?

Goalie Ricky is the rival team's star, so a jail instructor frees him 26 days early to rig the tournament. Ricky gets himself locked up again in time for the final.

Which Canadian channel turned down the Trailer Park Boys pitch in Toronto before a rival ordered a first season?

The Comedy Network said no, so the team made a spur-of-the-moment pitch to another channel before heading home. Within a week they were discussing a series.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie earned a Best Motion Picture nomination at which Canadian film awards?

The Genies gave the film three nominations in 2007, including one for its adapted screenplay. It had opened as the top-grossing film in Canada.

The Trailer Park Boys trio appear in the music video for The Darkest One by which Canadian band?

The Tragically Hip brought singer Gord Downie to the trailer park for the video, and he later made a cameo in the trio's 2006 film.

The actor who played Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys also played reporter Dave Teagues in which supernatural drama?

Haven, adapted from Stephen King's novel The Colorado Kid, ran from 2010 to 2015, spanning most of the trailer park's hiatus.

A prank by the boys on which holiday in 1977 cost Jim Lahey his first career on Trailer Park Boys?

Halloween 1977 ended with Lahey wrongfully dismissed, and he blames the boys for his slide into drinking. A season-six episode is named after the night.

In season three of Trailer Park Boys, which items do the boys steal to sell at a flea market?

Barbecues are the boys' idea of a low-profile scheme that season, part of a plan to stick to small jobs and save up for a cruise.

Oscar Goldman, the lost school science project the boys hunt for on Trailer Park Boys, is which animal?

A chicken raised by Ricky's daughter, Oscar Goldman goes missing on Bubbles' watch in season six. The boys first try to pass off a replacement.

In season two of Trailer Park Boys, Ricky and Julian's Freedom 35 scheme means selling their crop to whom?

Prison guards at the local jail are the target market, a plan hatched during 14 months inside. Bubbles reuses the Freedom 35 name for a beer in season twelve.

In season one of Trailer Park Boys, Julian plans to leave the park and better himself by enrolling where?

Community college is Julian's ticket out, which alarms Ricky, who fears being lost without him, and Lahey, who fears what Ricky will do unsupervised.

Ricky's hard-drinking father on Trailer Park Boys claims to follow which Protestant tradition?

Calvinism appeals to him for its idea of predestination, which he takes to mean he never has to answer for anything he does.

The three Trailer Park Boys leads lent their voices to a third-season episode of which American animated series?

Archer cast the man behind Ricky as a radical separatist from the trio's home province, with his two co-stars in smaller voice roles.

Barrie Dunn, who plays Ricky's father and helped produce Trailer Park Boys, has also practised which profession?

Lawyer Dunn has practised at the firm Pink Larkin. He was also the producer who caught the 1999 film at a festival and saw a television series in it.

Which 1998 short film first united the future Ricky, Julian and Lahey actors before Trailer Park Boys existed?

One Last Shot follows two friends through a night of partying before one of them leaves town. Made in 1998, it went unreleased to the public until 2017.

Despite his stage name, Trailer Park Boys rapper Detroit Velvet Smooth actually comes from which Canadian city?

Moncton, New Brunswick, is home for DVS, who storms J-Roc's concert over copied music in season three and is managing him a season later.

Which town's Bible Hill Estates hosted filming of Trailer Park Boys from season eight through season twelve?

Truro's Bible Hill Estates stood in for the park for five seasons. Afterwards the crew removed every set and prop, and it carries on as an ordinary land-lease community.

After Trailer Park Boys, its creator co-created which Adult Swim comedy with Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder?

Black Jesus, which he also directed, premiered in 2014, the same year the trailer park returned to screens without him at the helm.

Which Canadian rock singer played Sonny, Lucy's dangerous boss, in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie?

Hugh Dillon, frontman of the Headstones, was born in Kingston, Ontario, and went on to act in Flashpoint and Yellowstone.

Shelley Thompson, a Trailer Park Boys regular since season one, played the heroine's stepmother in which 1980s fantasy?

Labyrinth, Jim Henson's 1986 film, came during her years in Britain, where she trained at RADA and acted in London's West End.

J-Roc's actor on Trailer Park Boys played Emma Nelson's biological father in which Canadian teen drama franchise?

Degrassi owed him more than a guest spot: a cast reunion on his own talk show in 1999 is regarded as a catalyst for the franchise's revival.

Which long-unseen resident on Trailer Park Boys is heard screaming profanity off-camera at the boys' antics?

Donny finally appears in season eleven, found passed out in his yard, and even then his face is blurred.

In season eleven of Trailer Park Boys, Lucy is said to have left Canada to nanny for which actor?

Tom Arnold had visited the park a season earlier as a devoted fan of the boys. The storyline covered the departure of Lucy's actress, who had quit the show.

Which American cable channel once aired a censored version of Trailer Park Boys before DirecTV ran it uncut?

BBC America toned the show down for American viewers. In 2009 DirecTV's 101 Network began airing all seven original seasons uncensored, two episodes a week.

Randy's actor kept which day job for his first four years on Trailer Park Boys, filming on vacation time?

Selling bottled water as a regional sales manager paid the bills until July 2004, when he left the job he had held since 1993 to act full-time.

In Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It, which unusual product is Julian selling as his new money-making scheme?

Drug-free urine for passing screenings is the plan, run with help from Jacob, who is serving in the Canadian Army until his dishonourable discharge.

In Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, Julian spends stolen cash turning his trailer into which business?

An auto-body shop soon fails, but Julian has the last laugh: when Lahey demolishes the trailer, it turns out to be insured for $28,000.

Which spirit does Julian bootleg around the park in season three of Trailer Park Boys, bought from a smuggler?

Vodka from a Russian smuggler costs Julian the last of his money, and the bootlegging puts Ricky, newly hired as Lahey's assistant, in a bind.