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* SirSwearsALot: Ricky. Not as much as many examples, but enough to count.

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* SirSwearsALot: Ricky. Not as much as many examples, but enough to count. Someone has worked out that there are on average 43 curse words per episode, with the highest count being 91, and that Ricky swears almost three times more frequently than all the other characters put together. Justified in that Ricky lacks the vocabulary to express himself more coherently.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: In Season 7, Bubbles is reading a note on a sheet of paper. At the bottom of the paper is an extra sentence that Bubbles doesn't read out loud, and is only on-screen for an instant. It reads "[[BreakingTheFourthWall If you are freeze framing this on DVD]] [[YouMakeMeSic your]] [[TakeThatAudience fucked]]!"

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* FreezeFrameBonus: In Season 7, Bubbles is reading a note on a sheet of paper. At the bottom of the paper is an extra sentence that Bubbles doesn't read out loud, and is only on-screen for an instant. It reads "[[BreakingTheFourthWall If you are freeze framing this on DVD]] [[YouMakeMeSic your]] your[sic] [[TakeThatAudience fucked]]!"
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** During season 11, Ricky solved a very complex math equation in his head within a few seconds, what made it easy? Weed was involved.
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Season 4's finale is where Lahey goes crazy and tries to shoot Ricky


* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: At the end of season four, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail. First he throws beer bottles at the cop shop shouting to be arrested. He proceeds to break into a liquor store and rob it, drunk-drive to a parking lot, informing a crowd of passers-by of the list of crimes he's committed and begging them to call the police, only to be thwarted again when he then starts firing a handgun he has illegally into the air and the bystanders run away. Finally, he takes a stolen truck, chains it to an ATM, goes up to the security camera, announces his name and intention to go to jail, then rips the ATM out and drags it back to the park. When the ATM is opened, Julian, Lahey and Randy get covered in dye and get arrested, and Ricky becomes park supervisor.

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* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: At the end of season four, three, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail. First he throws beer bottles at the cop shop shouting to be arrested. He proceeds to break into a liquor store and rob it, drunk-drive to a parking lot, informing a crowd of passers-by of the list of crimes he's committed and begging them to call the police, only to be thwarted again when he then starts firing a handgun he has illegally into the air and the bystanders run away. Finally, he takes a stolen truck, chains it to an ATM, goes up to the security camera, announces his name and intention to go to jail, then rips the ATM out and drags it back to the park. When the ATM is opened, Julian, Lahey and Randy get covered in dye and get arrested, and Ricky becomes park supervisor.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Bottle kids, a roving gang of {{delinquents}} who randomly throw bottles at people. Trinity briefly joins them, and on at least one occasion Ricky pays them to attack Lahey.
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An IdleGame, ''[[https://www.tpbgame.com Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money]]'', was released in 2017.
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** Music/SnoopDogg and Creator/TomArnold both appear on the show, with Snoop being a fan of the pot the boys can grow, while Tom is a BigNameFan of the show itself.
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** Subverted when Ricky is growing a dope crop in the Sunnyvale hockey arena. He tries to turn on the lights of the room where he's keeping the dope, but nothing happens. Ricky thinks the power is out in the arena and gives a series of ClusterFBombs, but the cameraman tells him he forgot to pull the arena's main power switch before turning on the lights. Once Ricky pulls the main switch, the lights turn on fine.

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** Subverted when Ricky is growing a dope crop in the Sunnyvale hockey arena. He tries to turn on the lights of the room where he's keeping the dope, but nothing happens. Ricky thinks the power is out in the arena and gives a series of ClusterFBombs, {{ClusterFBomb}}s, but the cameraman tells him he forgot to pull the arena's main power switch before turning on the lights. Once Ricky pulls the main switch, the lights turn on fine.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep:
** Bubbles. His real name is never given on the show. The nickname is derived from his love of a bubble-making machine he had as a child (not from his bulbous glasses, as is often speculated).
** The prequel ChristmasSpecial has him getting the bubble maker as an adult (his parents left it for him as a Christmas present before they abandoned him as a child and he had kept it wrapped, not wanting to open it until he is with his family again, but Ricky and Julian tell him that [[TrueCompanions they are his real family]] and convince him to finally open it). With it is a note from his mother in which she calls him Bubbles, so maybe HisNameReallyIsBarkeep.



* NoFullNameGiven: Every regular on the show that's not related to Jim Lahey. Taken to the extreme that the boys are only referred to by their first names (or nickname in Bubble's case) in ''court''.



* OnlyOneName:
** Every regular on the show that's not related to Jim Lahey. Taken to the extreme that the boys are only referred to by their first names (or nickname in Bubble's case) in COURT.
** When Bubbles is taken to the hospital for a tooth infection, the receptionist asks for his last name. Julian says it's "just Bubbles".

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* OnlyOneName:
** Every regular
OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Bubbles. His real name is never given on the show that's not related to Jim Lahey. Taken to the extreme that the boys are only referred to by their first names (or nickname in Bubble's case) in COURT.
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show. When Bubbles is taken to the hospital for a tooth infection, the receptionist asks for his last name. name; Julian says it's "just Bubbles".Bubbles". The nickname is derived from his love of a bubble-making machine he had as a child (not from his bulbous glasses, as is often speculated). The prequel ChristmasSpecial has him getting the bubble maker as an adult (his parents left it for him as a Christmas present before they abandoned him as a child and he had kept it wrapped, not wanting to open it until he is with his family again, but Ricky and Julian tell him that [[TrueCompanions they are his real family]] and convince him to finally open it). With it is a note from his mother in which she calls him Bubbles, so maybe HisNameReallyIsBarkeep.
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The boys didn't make Lahey cope through alcoholism, he chose to do that himself

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** Lahey also qualifies; even though it's true that the boys are largely responsible for the downward spiral his life is in, Lahey has nobody to blame but himself for constantly relying on liquor which drives the people closest to him away.
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* RoguesGallery: The boys are obviously not superheroes (except when Bubbles is in his "Green Bastard" persona), much less heroes in general, but they have a series of recurring enemies. Lahey and Randy are the most common ones and the boys' [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], but Cyrus, Sam Losco, Barbara Lahey, Terry and Dennis, George Green and Ted Johnson have all caused the boys grief at different times.

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* RoguesGallery: The boys are obviously not superheroes (except when Bubbles is in his "Green Bastard" persona), much less heroes in general, but they have a series of recurring enemies. Lahey and Randy are the most common ones and the boys' [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], but Cyrus, Sam Losco, Barbara Lahey, Terry and Dennis, Gary the mall security guard, George Green and Ted Johnson have all caused the boys grief at different times.
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** The start of the Swearnet seasons has Ricky flipping out at the presence of a film crew, since the boys "fired" and beat up their original crew in ''Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys''. Julian has to explain to him that the contract he signed (while he was baked out of his mind) allows the Swearnet people to film him.


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* RoguesGallery: The boys are obviously not superheroes (except when Bubbles is in his "Green Bastard" persona), much less heroes in general, but they have a series of recurring enemies. Lahey and Randy are the most common ones and the boys' [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], but Cyrus, Sam Losco, Barbara Lahey, Terry and Dennis, George Green and Ted Johnson have all caused the boys grief at different times.


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** Subverted when Ricky is growing a dope crop in the Sunnyvale hockey arena. He tries to turn on the lights of the room where he's keeping the dope, but nothing happens. Ricky thinks the power is out in the arena and gives a series of ClusterFBombs, but the cameraman tells him he forgot to pull the arena's main power switch before turning on the lights. Once Ricky pulls the main switch, the lights turn on fine.
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** Snoop Dogg laughs at the Canadian jail he and the boys are locked up in when they're arrested, saying it's practically TabletopGame/Candyland compared to some of the American prisons he's done time in.

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** Snoop Dogg laughs at the Canadian jail he and the boys are locked up in when they're arrested, saying it's practically TabletopGame/Candyland TabletopGame/CandyLand compared to some of the American prisons he's done time in.
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** Snoop Dogg laughs at the Canadian jail he and the boys are locked up in when they're arrested, saying it's practically TabletopGame/Candyland compared to some of the American prisons he's done time in.
* UrineTrouble: One of the stories in the new comic book has a group of people from outside the park rent several trailers. When the boys break in to see if there's anything worth stealing, they find that the trailer is full of servers that the renters are using to mint bitcoins. Julian and Bubbles try to steal the bitcoin, but Ricky is so annoyed at the fancy know-it-all renters that he pees on the servers. Ricky destroys the servers and causes a fire that burns down the trailers, even as Bubbles tells him [[{{Pun}} that he just pissed away hundreds of thousands of dollars.]]
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* NoodleIncident: When Ricky is trying to start a dope crop so he can make money and get back with Lucy, he tries to get some clones from a guy named Sam (not Sam Losco). Julian apparently has some history with Sam, which Ricky says Sam has gotten over, but we never learn exactly what happened between them.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Lahey and Randy are arrested at the end of Season 3, Ricky takes over as the new park supervisor. His actions get Sunnyvale repeatedly sued, such as when the cable company files a lawsuit for Ricky stealing cable TV for the park residents. Sunnyvale is soon deep in debt and Barbara Lahey is afraid she'll have to sell the park. Julian then gets the idea to use the profits from the boys' latest dope sale to buy the park for themselves, starting the main plot of Season 4.
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** Subverted in "The Bare Pimp Project" when Sam and Cyrus come after the boys and start a gun fight with them. It escalates into the boys getting into a police chase and crashing on a nearby farm. Ricky thinks that they need to save their dope crop to keep it from burning up, but Julian tells him that he already sold it that morning. Ricky and Julian are arrested by the police, but they let Bubbles and he holds onto the money from the dope sale until Ricky and Julian are released.

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** Subverted in "The Bare Pimp Project" when Sam and Cyrus come after the boys and start a gun fight with them. It escalates into the boys getting into a police chase and crashing on a nearby farm. Ricky thinks that they need to save their dope crop to keep it from burning up, but Julian tells him that he already sold it that morning. Ricky and Julian are arrested by the police, but they let Bubbles go and he holds onto the money from the dope sale until Ricky and Julian are released.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Done a few times:
** Subverted in "The Bare Pimp Project" when Sam and Cyrus come after the boys and start a gun fight with them. It escalates into the boys getting into a police chase and crashing on a nearby farm. Ricky thinks that they need to save their dope crop to keep it from burning up, but Julian tells him that he already sold it that morning. Ricky and Julian are arrested by the police, but they let Bubbles and he holds onto the money from the dope sale until Ricky and Julian are released.
** Played straight in "Workin' Man". Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are all arrested, but Cory and Trevor complete the dope sale and the boys assume that Cory and Trevor will hold on to the profits until they're released and can buy Sunnyvale. Unfortunately, Cory and Trevor are sick of being abused by the boys and [[TheDogBitesBack seemingly use the profits to buy Sunnyvale for themselves.]] They suffer a spanner of their own when Barb Lahey swindles them out of the drug profits by tricking them into signing a fake legal document and then uses the profits to pay off Sunnyvale's debts herself without having to sell it.
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** The show is actually a pretty accurate depiction of people living in the Maritimes (especially New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), though obviously satirized. Bubbles in particular is probably the biggest example of this, especially his heavy accent.
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Devil's Due Comics started publishing a ComicBook series called ''[[ComicBook/TrailerParkBoysGetAFuckingComicBook Trailer Park Boys Get a F#¢*!ng Comic Book!]]'' in 2021.
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** Season 3 ends with [[Julian getting arrested and missing out on the cruise, although Bubbles, Lucy, Sarah, Cory and Trevor all enjoy themselves. Ricky also bonds with Trinity and takes over the trailer park supervisor job while Lahey is in jail.]]

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** Season 3 ends with [[Julian [[spoiler:Julian getting arrested and missing out on the cruise, although Bubbles, Lucy, Sarah, Cory and Trevor all enjoy themselves. Ricky also bonds with Trinity and takes over the trailer park supervisor job while Lahey is in jail.]]



** Almost every season ends with someone in jail. It's usually Ricky and/or Julian, but characters like Bubbles, Lahey, Randy, Jacob and Sarah have all been arrested at least once. Season 6 was unusual in ending without anyone getting arrested.

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** Almost every season ends with someone in jail. It's usually Ricky and/or Julian, but characters like Bubbles, Lahey, Randy, Cory, Trevor, Jacob and Sarah have all been arrested at least once. Season 6 was unusual in ending without anyone getting arrested.

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* BittersweetEnding: Happens at the end of some seasons where the boys' moneymaking schemes actually work, but they end up back in jail anyway. Season 2 ends with Julian and Ricky back in jail, but they successfully pulled off their "Freedom 35" hash-selling scheme and Bubbles is keeping the money safe until they get released.

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* BittersweetEnding: Happens at the end of some seasons where the boys' moneymaking schemes actually work, but they end up back in jail anyway. ** Season 2 3 ends with Julian [[Julian getting arrested and missing out on the cruise, although Bubbles, Lucy, Sarah, Cory and Trevor all enjoy themselves. Ricky back in jail, but they successfully pulled off their "Freedom 35" hash-selling scheme also bonds with Trinity and Bubbles is keeping takes over the money safe until they get released. trailer park supervisor job while Lahey is in jail.]]



** Calling Ricky stupid or, in the early seasons, insulting his lack of Grade 10. He also ''hates'' being called "Reveen".

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** Calling Ricky stupid or, in the early seasons, insulting his lack of Grade 10. He also ''hates'' being called "Reveen". He loathes squirrels just as much as being called "Reveen", because they eat his dope plants and cause electrical fires that wreck half his trailer.


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** Almost every season ends with someone in jail. It's usually Ricky and/or Julian, but characters like Bubbles, Lahey, Randy, Jacob and Sarah have all been arrested at least once. Season 6 was unusual in ending without anyone getting arrested.
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* BittersweetEnding: Happens at the end of some seasons where the boys' moneymaking schemes actually work, but they end up back in jail anyway. Season 2 ends with Julian and Ricky back in jail, but they successfully pulled off their "Freedom 35" hash-selling scheme and Bubbles is keeping the money safe until they get released.
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Not an example. The actors were of the age to go trick or treating in Halloween of 1977 and were in high school in 1987. Freedom 35 is only present in the early seasons when they were in their 30s, and George "Cock Knuckles" Green is the dumbest cop in the department, so it's no surprise he was a beat cop for thirty years.


* WritersCannotDoMath: The episode "Halloween 1977" aired in 2006. Given the mockumentary format of the show the characters are supposed to be real people living in the present day. This implies that the 3 main characters are pushing 50 years of age, and George Green has been a police officer for over 30 years and he's still just a patrolman. All the actors who portrayed the main characters were 34-38 at the time.
** Considering the boys' retirement plan is called '''Freedom 35''' it would seem this is a glaring error. Why not "Halloween 1987"?
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* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: At the end of season four, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail. First he throws beer bottles at the cop shop shouting to be arrested, then he takes a stolen truck, chains it to an ATM, goes up to the security camera, announces his name and intention to go to jail, then rips the ATM out and drags it back to the park. When the ATM is opened, Julian, Lahey and Randy get covered in dye and get arrested, and Ricky becomes park supervisor.

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* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: At the end of season four, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail. First he throws beer bottles at the cop shop shouting to be arrested, arrested. He proceeds to break into a liquor store and rob it, drunk-drive to a parking lot, informing a crowd of passers-by of the list of crimes he's committed and begging them to call the police, only to be thwarted again when he then starts firing a handgun he has illegally into the air and the bystanders run away. Finally, he takes a stolen truck, chains it to an ATM, goes up to the security camera, announces his name and intention to go to jail, then rips the ATM out and drags it back to the park. When the ATM is opened, Julian, Lahey and Randy get covered in dye and get arrested, and Ricky becomes park supervisor.
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That never happened and the show is only on hiatus
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That never happened and the show isn't only on hiatus


* DownerEnding: Pretty much all the seasons end with the boys [[spoiler:going to jail]], but the series finale special took it a step further: [[spoiler:not only are they locked up, but Randy and Jim have both succeeded in winning against the boys' schemes.]]

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* DownerEnding: Pretty much all the seasons end with the boys [[spoiler:going to jail]], but the series finale special took it a step further: [[spoiler:not only are they locked up, but Randy and Jim have both succeeded in winning against the boys' schemes.]]jail]].
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* StockingMask: Standard issue for the guys whenever they do an armed robbery.
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** Lahey's daughter seemed to fall under this after her appearances in Season 2. She's never seen or mentioned again, even after Barb moves in with him and Randy. Probably because Creator/EllenPage played her and her career was taking off at the time.

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** Lahey's daughter seemed to fall under this after her appearances in Season 2. She's never seen or mentioned again, even after Barb moves in with him and Randy. Probably because Creator/EllenPage Creator/ElliotPage played her and her his career was taking off at the time.

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