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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Trailer Park Boys |
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So, Canucks, what's up with this show? A friend strongly recommended it, but after watching the first season I was unimpressed. I've now seen seasons 2 and 3 and I have to admit it's started to grow on me. It has some of the same elements that made me love "Curb Your Enthusiasm" so much. The schadenfreude. The seemingly unscripted nature of the show. (On IMDB there are only writer credits for the last two seasons.) The well developed, and fundamental to the show, characterizations. Especially Bubbles' cats as a replacement for his family and Julian always having a rum and coke.
So, I suppose I've been converted. But I'm wondering, is this the Canadians version of white trash 'America.' Are there proper trailer parks in Canada, ala the US white trash/"greasy"/redneckish stereotypes? Is setting the show in Nova Scotia some Canadian joke I'm missing out on? I've not found any good sources of info on the show online. The Wiki is pretty general for a show that's supposedly as popular as I've heard TPB is in Canada. |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I've actually worked in several trailer parks, and it seems everyone has someone comparable to most of the Trailer Park Boys crew, but no-one...quite like them. I miss the series and wish they would make more! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Trailer Park Boys |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| Are there proper trailer parks in Canada, ala the US white trash/"greasy"/redneckish stereotypes? Is setting the show in Nova Scotia some Canadian joke I'm missing out on? |
1- Yes, there are tonnes of trailer parks. Though they have been getting fewer and fewer in number over the decades as banks are more willing to put people into deep debts over a house.
2- No. It's set in Nova Scotia because the production company is based in Halifax and the trailer parks they used are within easy drive of the studio. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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I dated a girl who used to live in a trailer park, and she said the show reminded her of her time there. Not so much the characters I suppose, but the setting really, with random outbursts from characters, and that guy always yelling "What in the fark?!!" Then I found out she used to be a meth addict.
What I find missing from Sunnyvale Trailer Park are the drugs--not the safe ones like weed or hash, or the dangerous but legal ones like alcohol--but the serious drugs like coke or meth. I guess it would be hard to make the characters endearing if they were doing that stuff though. Also, I'm surprised by the lack of Native characters in the show, or maybe that's an East Coast thing. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| My name is Earl is kind of the American rip off of that show. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
| My name is Earl is kind of the American rip off of that show. |
People say that but I don't agree. Just because My Name is Earl is set partly in a trailer park, the main character is a career criminal, and the characters are all lower class doesn't mean they're the same. Although the Cops episodes were very close to TPB. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I don't see that comparison at all. TPB is more like the low-class version of Curb or the Office, while Earl is a straight sit-com. Plus, Earl is much better than TPB, possibly the best sitcom ever made. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| TPB was ok for a while, but then I got tired of it. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
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| I've just finished season 4 and the Conky episode ranks as one of the funnier episodes of a tv show I've ever seen. It's too bad they killed him off. ? |
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Bafsy
Joined: 27 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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The Hash driveway and anything with J-Roc rank as my favs. And anytime Ricky talks about how great jail is.
I didn't like the show at first, but it really does grow on you.... and then it's an addiction. For the finale, my friends and I dressed up for the TPB party in our town, and ate fried chicken and drank rum and cokes before going. |
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CPT
Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I dated a girl who used to live in a trailer park, and she said the show reminded her of her time there. Not so much the characters I suppose, but the setting really, with random outbursts from characters, and that guy always yelling "What in the fark?!!" Then I found out she used to be a meth addict.
What I find missing from Sunnyvale Trailer Park are the drugs--not the safe ones like weed or hash, or the dangerous but legal ones like alcohol--but the serious drugs like coke or meth. I guess it would be hard to make the characters endearing if they were doing that stuff though. Also, I'm surprised by the lack of Native characters in the show, or maybe that's an East Coast thing. |
In the pilot movie, they were all about doing coke (think if the whole show replaced all of the weed references with coke), but they changed it for the TV series, probably for the reason you mentioned.
Oh, and instead of growing and selling dope, their scheme was killing people's pets. Greasy. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Czarjorge wrote: |
| I've just finished season 4 and the Conky episode ranks as one of the funnier episodes of a tv show I've ever seen. It's too bad they killed him off. ? |
He's a puppet. How much would it really take to bring him back?
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In the pilot movie, they were all about doing coke (think if the whole show replaced all of the weed references with coke), but they changed it for the TV series, probably for the reason you mentioned.
Oh, and instead of growing and selling dope, their scheme was killing people's pets. Greasy. |
You're right. I was thinking of mentioning that.
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| Yeah, I don't see that comparison at all. TPB is more like the low-class version of Curb or the Office, while Earl is a straight sit-com. Plus, Earl is much better than TPB, possibly the best sitcom ever made. |
That's a stretch. A scientologist running around with a moustache helping people is a good premise but it's not the best ever. |
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DrTommyTom
Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Location: Suwon, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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apparently for 2008, there will be no season episodes...They might do some special or something but no episodes...There will be a season 8 in 2009 and there have been talks of another movie after season 8...
btw, conky appeared in season 7, when bubbles couldn't take being in disguise and on the run from Patrick Swayze, U.S park rangers and setting the dope train into the U.S...He started becoming possessed by Conky alot more than he did in season 4 with Conky...Weird but it did add character to the show...
And in response to the original poster...You said you didn't like season 1?...
At first, I would agree with you but after watching the further seasons and everything else associated with it, I've come to terms with it...
One of my fav episodes of all time is in season 1...the season finale...Ricky and Lucy's wedding...nothing beats the gunfight ricky had with the rest of the boys in that grocery store and then all of them driving home together, eating bananas, and ricky flipping out on everybody....CLASSIC |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Season 1's finale was great. I love seeing Julian get out of the truck with his rum n coke still in hand.
The best seasons of the show by far were 2, 3, and 4. The ending of season 4 was just too hard to top after. |
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DrTommyTom
Joined: 18 Dec 2007
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yah, season 2-4 kicked ass...cant say the same about seasons 5 & 6...season 7 was good, mainly cuz of the patrick swayze references and the whole smuggling dope into the us for a truckful of smokes (absolutely outrageous!!!)...
season 3 was killer though, the one episode when they go into the sewers to get to the Rush concert (I think its called "Closer to the Heart") was amazing...the best part was when Ricky kidnapped Alex Lifeson and took him outta the hotel room with duck tape all over him and went past the lobby attendants and said "This man is a drunk male prostitute and Im arresting him for soliciting prostitution"...then they had bubbles talking about how he always uses that line to get outta trouble with the cops...This man is a drunk male prostitute...never thought I would ever hear something like that on T.V. LOL |
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