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Picking up immediately after the events of season 12 of Trailer Park Boys, Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Randy, Mr. Lahey, Jacob and Corey, having eaten large amounts of mushrooms, turn into cartoon characters.

The show premiered on Netflix March 31, 2019.


This show provides examples of:

  • An Arm and a Leg: Corey gets a compound fracture after a car crash. He decides to spin his arm like a windmill, which causes it to fly off. They get Sam Losco to reattach it.
  • Artistic License – Law: In the "Duber" episode, the judge says what Ricky's punishment is and bangs his gavel, yet Bubbles is allowed to introduce new evidence that gets Ricky cleared of all charges. In addition to the fact that Ricky would have merely been declared guilty and the punishment would have been decided later, once a judge says the defendant has been found either guilty or not guilty and bangs his gavel, the decision is final; no further evidence can be introduced, no further arguments can be made, the trial is over.
  • Artistic License – Physics: In Hurricane Ricky, Ricky's trailer ends up floating during the hurricane due to insulation foam causing the trailer to float. While it is within the realm of possibily for a 17'500-pound double-wide trailer to be modified to float like a houseboat, the same cannot be said for a trailer with a wind turbine attached; as the combined weight of the nacelle, blade assembly, and tower is a total of 164 tons, almost ten times the weight of the trailer. The trailer would remain in place by the weight of the turbine until the water rose high enough for the pressure to cave in the walls.
  • Black Comedy Rape: In "Clint Eatswood", when Bubbles enlists Randy to take his place as the Green Bastard in a softcore gay porn movie, as pro-wrestler Sledge pretend-humps him, Randy pulled down his pants and turned the pretend act of intercourse into actual intercourse.
  • Call-Back: In a previous season, Ricky bluffs a cop by claiming to be a deep undercover detective infiltrating a motorcycle gang called Satan's Bastards. The Satan's Bastards show up and trash the park after Ricky tries to steal a box of hash Cyrus asked them to deliver for him.
  • Call-Forward: Several in a flashback episode revealing how Ricky and Julian met Bubbles, brought on by smoking old school hash.
    • The boys go to Julian's trailer to get drunk and high, Bubbles suggests Julian cut the rum with cola, while Ricky suggests Julian use his father's tumbler glass.
    • The local bully warns them that his cousin Cyrus will hear about them beating him up.
  • Cassandra Truth: Shortly after leaving jail, Mr. Lahey is grabbed by an actual shithawk and taken away. Randy is the only one to witness this. Mr. Lahey later shows up as a "liquor ghost" whenever Randy drinks an entire bottle of whiskey. Naturally, everyone dismisses him as being drunk, seeing as he is drunk.
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: An In-Universe example during the episode Hurricane Ricky. While preparing for a storm, Ricky cites the time “Momuses built an arch and brought a few of each animals on it.” Bubbles is quick to point out that he got just about everything wrong.
  • Demoted to Extra: George Green, one of the villains of the live-action series, only appears in the two flashback episodes of the animated series (both of which are set in the late-'70s) as Lahey's (who at this point in was still a cop) partner and while he does have lines, his role in the episodes' stories is very small and insignificant.
  • Fake Shemp: Due to John Dunsworths death and the refusal to recast Lahey, audio snippets were used to have Dunsworth reprise his role as Lahey posthumously.
  • Genre Savvy:
    • As Bubs very rightly points out, a bank error is not free money. The money doesn't suddenly belong to the account it went into, and spending any of the money from the error is a crime.
    • Bubbles correctly points out that the "Duber" ride-sharing service is expanding way too fast and that they don't have the capacity to address all the demand. The business quickly collapses under its own weight as the Duber drivers try to pick up too many fares at once and get into trouble with the police.
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: The boys get a job growing weed on a space station. After setting fire to the station and escaping to earth with the weed, the company that hired them seizes the weed at gunpoint and forces them to never speak of what happened.
    • Though whether or not this actually happened or the mushrooms' hallucinatory effects just really flared up that day is up to the viewer's interpretation.
  • Groin Attack:
    • Sam Losco reveals a bear bit his cock off and ate it.
    • To pay off a motorcycle gang for losing their shipment of hash, the boys kidnap Cyrus and have Sam Losco harvest one of his kidneys and both his testicles, replacing them with clacker toys.
    • In a flashback episode, Ricky shoots a local bully in the penis with his own BB gun, which apparently went right into his urethra.
    • In "The Fucket List", while Ricky was carrying out his father's traditions of chugging a beer before pissing off the Confederation Bridge, a wandering seagull swooped in and bit on Ricky's penis as it thought the penis was a shoestring french fry.
  • Little Useless Gun: Randy asks Tyrone for a gun to hunt the shithawk. Tyrone gives him a derringer, so Randy points it at Tyrone's face and demands the biggest gun he has. Tyrone gives him a full size Uzi, which Randy fires uncontrollably until it runs empty, then admits he probably should take the derringer.
  • Operator from India: In the episode "The Tax Man Fucked Me", Cyrus operated a phone scam out of Dartmouth using a bunch of illegal immigrants to pose as CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency) Tax Collectors to scam the residents of Sunnyvale. One of them who called Ricky was Indian.
  • Papa Wolf: Ricky, as he fingered Sam Losco's mystery hole to prevent Jacob from cheating on Ricky's daughter Trinity (then revealed he used Corey's severed arm).
  • Put on a Bus: Mr. Lahey gets grabbed by a shithawk in the first episode and is taken away. Randy runs into it again and finds Mr. Lahey's sunglasses, but can't find Mr. Lahey. He later appears as a ghost whenever Randy drinks an entire bottle of whiskey, suggesting he was Killed Offscreen and is now Commuting on a Bus.
  • Series Continuity Error: In a flashback episode date 1978, Ricky and Julian meet Bubbles for the first time, yet "Halloween 1977" shows the three being friends before then.
    • Also, despite apparently being part of the group since they were children up until she left between seasons 10 & 11, Lucy is never seen in the flashback episodes, nor is J-Roc.
    • J-Roc's absence can be excused since he is clearly younger than the three main characters and as such may not have been born yet.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Randy, Sam Losco and Officer Ted all seem to have gotten over their beef with the boys and are on good terms when them.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Bubbles' missing cat, Bing Clawsby, in Hurricane Ricky. He is the reason that Conky 2.0 was created when he went missing (due to his absence causing Bubbles a severe amount of stress. After he is found, he is seen once after the Boys survive the tsunami and then never appears again for the rest of the episode.
    • Also, Julian's donkmobile Cadillac from seasons 11 and 12 of the live-action series is never seen or mentioned at all in the animated series.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Ricky insists that since they're animated, cartoon laws now apply, so he punches a car window, thinking Soft Glass and Invulnerable Knuckles apply. Instead, his hand gets badly cut up, revealing adult cartoon laws apply, meaning injuries are gruesome yet hilarious.
    • Earlier that same episode, Cory runs headfirst into a wall, thinking the same way as Ricky

Alternative Title(s): Trailer Park Boys

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