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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Lahey's life gets pretty miserable as the show goes on, but he's been making other people miserable for years.
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* CanadaEh:
** Very much so. The accents, plus the love of Music/{{Rush|Band}} and hockey...
** 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.
** They also use a lot of local Halifax-area slang in the dialogue. "Con college" is apparently a Haligonian (a term used to describe a resident of Halifax) term for jail.
*** In ''The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey'', Lahey says "let's go to the LC." "LC," as most anyone from Nova Scotia can tell you, is the slang term for the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission (NSLC).
** There's also the scenes at the King of Donairs pizza place and several appearances in The Movie from Propeller, a microbrew from Halifax.
** "Jesus Murphey" is also used sometimes.
** Very much so. The accents, plus the love of Music/{{Rush|Band}} and hockey...
** 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.
** They also use a lot of local Halifax-area slang in the dialogue. "Con college" is apparently a Haligonian (a term used to describe a resident of Halifax) term for jail.
*** In ''The Delusions of Officer Jim Lahey'', Lahey says "let's go to the LC." "LC," as most anyone from Nova Scotia can tell you, is the slang term for the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission (NSLC).
** There's also the scenes at the King of Donairs pizza place and several appearances in The Movie from Propeller, a microbrew from Halifax.
** "Jesus Murphey" is also used sometimes.
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* GuiltTripping: In the first season, [[CrassCanuck Ricky]] gets into trouble when [[SitcomArchnemesis Mr. Lahey]] catches him making a porn film with [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy J-Roc]], and confiscates the tape so he can {{Blackmail}} Ricky into leaving the trailer park by threatening to show the tape to his on-again-off-again LoveInterest Lucy. In an example of this trope that overlaps with AdvanceNoticeCrime, Ricky leaves a phone message for his friend [[OnlySaneMan Julian]] that emotionally blackmails him that goes like this:
-->'''Ricky:''' Julian! It's Ricky here. Just letting you know that, uh, I've thought about this, I feel I have no other options. I'm gonna go down to Lahey's trailer, I'm gonna break in, and I'm basically probably gonna kill Mr. Lahey, and I'm thinking about killing [[FatBastard Randy]] as well, and I'm gonna take the porno tape back. I've talked to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bubbles]] about it, he's probably gonna give me a hand, because [[MurderIsTheBestSolution we both can't have this tape floating around]]. So, anyway, you know, I was kind of counting on [[TheSmartGuy you]] to maybe help plan this, but if you don't want to, that's up to you. I just hope you won't feel guilty when me and Bubbles are both in jail and [[MurderByInaction you know that you could have prevented a murder]]. Talk to you later.
-->'''Ricky:''' Julian! It's Ricky here. Just letting you know that, uh, I've thought about this, I feel I have no other options. I'm gonna go down to Lahey's trailer, I'm gonna break in, and I'm basically probably gonna kill Mr. Lahey, and I'm thinking about killing [[FatBastard Randy]] as well, and I'm gonna take the porno tape back. I've talked to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bubbles]] about it, he's probably gonna give me a hand, because [[MurderIsTheBestSolution we both can't have this tape floating around]]. So, anyway, you know, I was kind of counting on [[TheSmartGuy you]] to maybe help plan this, but if you don't want to, that's up to you. I just hope you won't feel guilty when me and Bubbles are both in jail and [[MurderByInaction you know that you could have prevented a murder]]. Talk to you later.
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* SadistTeacher: The boys are sentenced to community service where they have to give an anti-drug speech to an elementary school. The principal admits to the boys that he loves scaring the children and encourages them to share some prison horror stories. It turns out EvenEvilHasStandards and the principal considers the boys' antics involving urine, puppets and crude humor is too much.
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* FearInducedIdiocy: Philadelphia "Phil" Collins is already [[BumblingDad pretty]] [[FatIdiot stupid]] by default, but in one part of Season 7 when he finds himself being held hostage at gunpoint by [[CrankyLandlord Sam Losco]] after A) being late with his rent and B) calling Sam a caveman ([[BerserkButton a sure-fire way to make him angry]]), he starts panicking. Sam then orders him to drive his RV out of the trailer park until he's ready to negotiate, only for a nervous Phil to end up driving in a really clumsy way, crashing into stationary obstacles in front and behind of him.
-->'''Sam:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, nice fuck-up, Phil]]!
-->'''[[DumbassHasAPoint Phil]]:''' Shut up, Flintstone, I'm under a lot of pressure here.
-->'''Ricky:''' (''who's none too happy with Sam for shooting him in the foot recently'') [[DidntThinkThisThrough That's what happens when you kidnap a dinosaur, you fucking cave-dwelling prick]]!
-->'''Sam:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, nice fuck-up, Phil]]!
-->'''[[DumbassHasAPoint Phil]]:''' Shut up, Flintstone, I'm under a lot of pressure here.
-->'''Ricky:''' (''who's none too happy with Sam for shooting him in the foot recently'') [[DidntThinkThisThrough That's what happens when you kidnap a dinosaur, you fucking cave-dwelling prick]]!
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* KeepingTheEnemyClose: As much as Ricky wants to get rid of Lahey, Julian knows how to control Lahey and thus makes sure that nobody else is the supervisor of the park. This also allows them to keep a close eye on Lahey in case he calls the cops on them.
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* CrassCanuck: The main characters are a trio of Nova Scotian [[LowerClassLout Lower Class Louts]], who make a living out of selling drugs. Of the three, Ricky is by far the most [[SirSwearsALot vulgar]], selfish, abrasive, HotBlooded, and picking on other residents of the trailer park. Julian has a chip on his shoulder, and can be unpleasant when doing illegal activity. And their SitcomArchNemesis, Jim Lahey the park supervisor, is a vindictive [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] willing to arrest them for the pettiest reasons, make Ricky literally kiss his ass in public after failing to win a bet, and is constantly going on long-winded tangents that include repeated insertions of the word "shit".
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* DemotedToExtra: Lucy and Sarah in season 4. All they do is show up once per episode, toss an insult or two Ricky's way and then depart, often being on camera for less than a minute. They serve zero purpose in the season other than to fulfill the actresses contracts.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Phil Collins in Season 7 seems at like an annoying oaf who ruins the boys' plans, at least until one realizes that he's perfectly justified in being angry over his son skipping school and putting his life on the line to spend time with a bunch of criminals.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The concept of Swish (an alcoholic drink distilled from old liquor barrels) ''has'' to be something created for the show, right? Nope. [[http://forums.redflagdeals.com/extracting-alcohol-old-whisky-barrels-199789/ Swish]] is very real, and it's just as nasty as the show makes it out to be.
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** Very much so. The accents, plus the love of Music/{{Rush}} and hockey...
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** Very much so. The accents, plus the love of Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} and hockey...
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* AsHimself: Alex Lifeson of Rush (the rest of the band cameos) in Closer to the Heart, Rita McNeil in the season 4 finale and Sebastian Bach throughout season 7. Snoop Dogg, Creator/TomArnold, and Doug Benson appear in the later episodes of season 10.
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* AsHimself: Alex Lifeson of Rush (the rest of the band cameos) in Closer to the Heart, Rita McNeil [=MacNeil=] in the season 4 finale and Sebastian Bach throughout season 7. Snoop Dogg, Creator/TomArnold, and Doug Benson appear in the later episodes of season 10.
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* CourtroomAntic: Any time Ricky is in a courtroom. Besides interrupting people with no regard for legal process, it's established that he simply cannot think clearly unless he can smoke and swear, enough so that a judge allows him to do both in court so he can properly make his arguments. This gets a CallBack in ''Live from Fuckin' Dublin'', where he swears in a courtroom in Ireland, prompting the judge to tell him to "stop fucking swearing", but both him and the judge do so for the rest of scene, and the judge rants at Ricky about how he should have bought drugs in Ireland and helped their economy instead of bringing them in.
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* CourtroomAntic: Any time Ricky is in a courtroom. CourtroomAntics: Besides interrupting people with no regard for legal process, it's established that he Ricky simply cannot think clearly unless he can smoke and swear, enough so that a judge allows him to do both in court so he can properly make his arguments. This gets a CallBack in ''Live from Fuckin' Dublin'', where he swears in a courtroom in Ireland, prompting the judge to tell him to "stop fucking swearing", but both him and the judge do so for the rest of scene, and the judge rants at Ricky about how he should have bought drugs in Ireland and helped their economy instead of bringing them in.
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** Randy is seen alongside Mr. Lahey whenever the latter is at court. Since he never wears a T-shirt or anything on his upper half, the rules of courthouse decorum would mean that Randy would not be allowed into the courthouse, much less a court''room''' and even if he was allowed by more lenient officials, the Judge would likely have him escorted outside.
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* OneBookAuthor: Alma Godwin, who played Mrs. Peterson in the fourth episode of season one, wasn't actually an actress and was in-truth just a resident of the trailer park they were filming in. Her role as Mrs. Peterson in the show's fourth episode was her only acting credit before she passed away in 2004 at the age of 94.
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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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* NoodleIncident: 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.
** Season six opens with Randy finding Mr. Lahey passed out drunk in the car, now [[InstantConvertible missing its roof]]. No explanation is ever given (the roof was destroyed in TheMovie after it was flipped, which is in a separate continuity).
** 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.
** Season six opens with Randy finding Mr. Lahey passed out drunk in the car, now [[InstantConvertible missing its roof]]. No explanation is ever given (the roof was destroyed in TheMovie after it was flipped, which is in a separate continuity).
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* InstantConvertible: In the season six opener, Randy finds Mr. Lahey passed out in the car, missing its roof. No explanation is given. In TheMovie (which was filmed between seasons five and six, and is in a different continuity for the most part) has Randy crash into garbage cans and flip it. In season seven, Mr. Lahey crashes his police cruiser and destroys the roof after being reinstated to the department.
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** Most of the cars in the show start out in good condition, but usually end up this way by the end of the season. Mr. Lahey's car ended up providing parts for the Shitmobile at the end of one season. In a later season, Randy steps out of the trailer to see [[NoodleIncident Lahey passed out drunk in the front seat with the roof of the car completely gone]] (and this car ''isn't'' a convertible). Despite this, none of the characters have any problems driving it. Funny enough, after Lahey becomes a cop again, his cop car ''also'' loses its roof.
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** Most of the cars in the show start out in good condition, but usually end up this way by the end of the season. Mr. Lahey's car ended up providing parts for the Shitmobile at the end of one season. In a later season, Randy steps out of the trailer to see [[NoodleIncident Lahey passed out drunk in the front seat with [[InstantConvertible the roof of the car completely gone]] (and this car ''isn't'' a convertible). Despite this, none of the characters have any problems driving it. Funny enough, after Lahey becomes a cop again, his cop car ''also'' loses its roof.
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* KinkyRolePlaying: Randy and Mr. Lahey are ForcedOutOfTheCloset when they have to evacuate Lahey's trailer in the middle of some activities involving Franchise/IndianaJones and skimpy bumblebee costumes. Lahey tries to pass it off as a rehearsal for a play, but Randy confirms that they're in a relationship.
-->'''Randy:''' We weren't "rehearsing for a play"... It's not Halloween. We're not "doing community theatre". We're consenting adults, and what we do in the privacy of our own home is ''fine'', Mr. Lahey.
-->'''Randy:''' We weren't "rehearsing for a play"... It's not Halloween. We're not "doing community theatre". We're consenting adults, and what we do in the privacy of our own home is ''fine'', Mr. Lahey.
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-->'''Woman''': (''as they're being arrested'') Shut up! Look what you did, you idiot!
-->'''Man''': You had to dance one more time, didn't ya!?
-->'''Woman''': Oh, you liked it, you fuckin' ''LOVED'' it!
-->'''Man''': You had to dance one more time, didn't ya!?
-->'''Woman''': Oh, you liked it, you fuckin' ''LOVED'' it!
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* StupidCrooks: Abound in the series (including the boys from time to time, usually Ricky), but the fake bible salespeople in "The Bible Pimp" stand out, as they easily would have gotten away with the money they stole from the residents of the park had they just made a run for it, but they insisted on making a stop at the strip club where the woman worked so she could still get her stage time in, which gave the residents plenty of time to track them down and recover the money.
-->'''Woman''': (''as they're being arrested'') Shut up! Look what you did, you idiot!
-->'''Man''': You had to dance one more time, didn't ya!?
-->'''Woman''': Oh, you liked it, you fuckin' ''LOVED'' it!
-->'''Woman''': (''as they're being arrested'') Shut up! Look what you did, you idiot!
-->'''Man''': You had to dance one more time, didn't ya!?
-->'''Woman''': Oh, you liked it, you fuckin' ''LOVED'' it!
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Don't Legalize It is this relative to the preceding movies and later seasons, featuring understated humor, more emotional scenes and a somewhat bleaker tone more in line with the first two seasons. The series' trademark debauchery and antics are of course still present, but the shift in tone is still very noticeable.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Don't Legalize It is this relative to noticeably bleaker than the preceding movies and later seasons, featuring understated humor, more emotional scenes and a somewhat bleaker tone more in line with the first two few seasons. The series' trademark debauchery and antics are of course still present, but the shift in tone is still very noticeable. For one, it opens up with the characters in some fairly dire circumstances that are played for drama rather than comedy:
** Julian was fired from his bar bouncer job after humiliatingly losing a fight with a drunk customer, which clearly damaged his confidence and forced him back into criminal work.
** Lahey had a stroke and has lost some mobility and speech capability.
** Bubbles is now living under Lucy and Sarah's trailer, barely ekes out enough money to get by as a delivery driver, and has taken to drinking heavily.
** Jacob starts out with a promising new career in the military, but gets dishonorably discharged early in the movie after getting caught in one of Julian's criminal schemes.
** Ray died before the movie started, which opens with his funeral. [[spoiler: Though Ricky finds out at the end that he faked his death for insurance money and is now living happily in Florida.]]
** Even Phil Collins is shown to be in poor health and now requires a wheelchair. This doubles as a sad example of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Richard Collins was actually ill and passed away during the movie's filming period.
** The movie is even shot with a gloomier atmosphere, taking place mostly on overcast winter days, and replaced the classic rock of the last two movies with a moody old-time country soundtrack. Since it was the last thing Mike Clattenburg directed before handing off ownership to the new production team, many fans believe he deliberately shot something in line with the darker tone of the pilot and first two seasons to bring things full-circle.
** Julian was fired from his bar bouncer job after humiliatingly losing a fight with a drunk customer, which clearly damaged his confidence and forced him back into criminal work.
** Lahey had a stroke and has lost some mobility and speech capability.
** Bubbles is now living under Lucy and Sarah's trailer, barely ekes out enough money to get by as a delivery driver, and has taken to drinking heavily.
** Jacob starts out with a promising new career in the military, but gets dishonorably discharged early in the movie after getting caught in one of Julian's criminal schemes.
** Ray died before the movie started, which opens with his funeral. [[spoiler: Though Ricky finds out at the end that he faked his death for insurance money and is now living happily in Florida.]]
** Even Phil Collins is shown to be in poor health and now requires a wheelchair. This doubles as a sad example of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as Richard Collins was actually ill and passed away during the movie's filming period.
** The movie is even shot with a gloomier atmosphere, taking place mostly on overcast winter days, and replaced the classic rock of the last two movies with a moody old-time country soundtrack. Since it was the last thing Mike Clattenburg directed before handing off ownership to the new production team, many fans believe he deliberately shot something in line with the darker tone of the pilot and first two seasons to bring things full-circle.
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* ConstructionVehicleRampage: After the head of the Association For Trailer Parks and Trailer Park Supervisors calls Ricky "Raveen" and Julian "Alkie", Julian gives Ricky full permission to do whatever it takes to get them to leave the park. Ricky proceeds to use a front end loader to demolish the cars belonging to the members of the association.
