History Series / TrailerParkBoys

* NeverLiveItDown: [[invoked]]Shitty Bill, whose childhood accident gave him the nickname which has stuck to this day.

* DrinkOrder: Julian is almost always seen holding a glass of Rum & Coke.

* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Julian cusses Ricky out for using children to help him steal barbecues, pointing out that he's contributing to the delinquincy of minors.
** In the second movie, J-Roc is helping the boys steal their way back onto their feet, but admonishes them when he learns they stole a sign from a church.
---> J-Roc "Old people need their beans!"
** Also in the christmas special they won't steal anything that could be a present for a kid.

* EvenEvilHasStandards:

* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: At the end of season four, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail, so 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.

* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Averted. The guys actually fairly effective small-time criminals, helped in no small part by Lahey's incompetence. What usually chucks them in jail is either their ambition exceeding their capabilities, or sheer bad luck.
* CantGetInTroubleForNothing: At the end of season four, Ricky decides "fuck it" and tries to go to jail, so 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.

* HypocriticalHumor: Before Bubbles introduces Ricky to Shitty Bill, he warns Ricky not to call him "Shitty Bill". When it cuts to the next scene, Bubbles amiably calls him "Shitty" several times. [[spoiler:Thyeen again, Bubbles only said to not call him "Shitty ''Bill''", which he never does.]]

!!This show provides examples of:

** The show is set in modern day, but much of the things in the show are very outdated. Most of the cars are from the 80s, when the boys play video games on occasion its always an older system like the NES, and even when they get cell phones they are always many years out of date. You can just chalk it up to being poor and unable to afford newer things.

* Irony: Ricky hates going to jail, but the one time he ''deliberately'' tries to get arrested, everyone ''but'' him gets arrested instead.

** The "Shitmobile" (1975 Chrysler New Yorker 4 door hardtop... well, 3 door hardtop now). The driver's side front door doesn't open, the passenger side front door is missing entirely, and it requires a specific method of key turning to start it. It breaks down periodically, but is also shown to be nigh indestructible. The boys have knocked down parking meters and even walls with it, and still been able to drive away.

** In an AMA on Reddit, the boys acknowledged the car did give them actual problems (the brakeline once broke while shooting it driving down an actual street), but still runs to this day.

** Very much so. The accents, plus the love of Rush and hockey...

--> ''He's playing sexy hardball with us.''

** Randy, [[{{Gonk}} who is not]] [[FanDisservice the best looking man on the planet]], is always shirtless.

** So what happened to Trina Lahey, Cory, and Trevor? They vanished without in-universe explanations, never to be mentioned again.
** Cory and Trevor got in-universe explanations and Ricky was shown to be regretting treating them so badly that they were committed to an asylum. Trina was only staying with her dad for the summer, though Barb (Lahey's ex-wife) starts to become a major part of the later seasons, with no mention of Trina even when the two were living in the same trailer. It's possible the Laheys decided the best way to keep their daughter away from criminal activities was to keep her away from the trailer park, period.
** Cory returned in Season 8. He says that he and Trevor were released from the asylum and travelled the world for a while, but got separated in New York when Trevor got on a subway train and then the door shut in Cory's face before he could get on.
** Lucy and Randy's son isn't seen or mentioned in Season 8. In season 10, Randy reveals that he put him up for adoption.

** Canon examples, Lahey and Randy of course, and Sam Losco admitted to being with "a few dudes". Context examples, Sarah's marriage to Corey ''and'' Trevor, the "male crush" that Corey and Trevor have on Ricky and/or Julian (Trevor even at one point suggesting sucking the venom out of a snake bite on Ricky's penis, but backed down when Ricky seemed less than responsive to the idea.) and if you want to get into the LesYay, there's always Sarah and Lucy.

There are currently 12 seasons, as well as numerous specials and feature films, all of which are available on Creator/{{Netflix}} worldwide; the original seven seasons aired in Canada on Creator/ShowcaseTelevision. Several characters [[{{Spinoff}} also make their own shows on the side]], available on the [[https://www.swearnet.com/ SwearNet website]] (though most of the episodes are locked behind a paid subscription).

%% * AntiVillain: Bubbles.

* BlindWithoutEm:
** Bubbles. And what's worse, they found the prop glasses they use on the street and have no way of replacing them if they ever get broken.
** A recent AMA, Bubbles' actor stated his girlfriend found them in a thrift shop in Texas right before the show started and gave them to him, so the actual story of the glasses origin may be forgotten by an UnreliableNarrator (not to mention, it's probably not impossible to have a facsimile made by an optometrist). Additionally and somewhat ironically, he WAS blind wearing them, and could only wear them 10 minutes at time in the beginning, and although now he can now wear them indefinitely, they've probably done permanent damage to his eyes. Many fans have speculated that the strain and headaches they produced helped him get in character to the tense, jittery Bubbles.

** Even though Bubbbles is usually the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Man]], harming his kitties or calling him a "Googly-Eyed Bastard" makes him go nuts.

* BreatherEpisode: Season 6 - which features a scant 6 episodes of relatively low-key plots - feels like a breather season, coming off the intense S5 (which featured the boys at their most broke, desperate and given to infighting, plus several gunfights) and preceding the over-the-top plot of S7. Somewhat of a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, as it was shot immediately after the first movie, and both the filming resources and the crew were exhausted.

*** Corey and Trevor quit the show [[FridgeLogic because they were being treated like Corey and Trevor]].

* CaliforniaDoubling: The outside of the "prison" that is sometimes seen is actually a local high school. Makes sense, if you think about it.

** For the most part, the PilotMovie seems to fall under this, except for part of the ending which was referenced in the beginning of the first episode. Among other things, Julian was addicted to cocaine, Randy was a different person, and Bubbles didn't seem to exist. It's also worth noting that (perhaps because Bubbles didn't exist) the Boys were more prone to... [[KickTheDog Kicking the Dog]] and therefore were much more monstrous and unsympathetic characters.

** 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 of [[Creator/EllenPage who played her.]]

* CatchPhrase: Cyrus has "Fuck off, I got work to do."

** Ricky is often called "Reveen" (referring to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Reveen this guy]]), and Julian is often called "Patrick Swayze". This is a BerserkButton for both characters.

* 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 [[RefugeInAudacity how he should have bought drugs in Ireland and helped their economy instead of bringing them in]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Bubbles started out as a weird side character and didn't become one of the boys until season two. Lahey is also a much meeker character, getting bullied around by Cyrus in the pilot (something that later drunk Lahey wouldn't put up with).

--> J-Roc "Old people need their beans!"

--> Ricky "I'm not gay, I love Lucy... wait a minute, maybe I am gay."

* IAmTheTrope: Lahey in the Liquor varient. Who else?

* NeverMyFault: Ricky is a master of this. In one noteable example from Season 5, it looks like he's about to apologize to Bubbles, only to end up blaming Julian, Cory and Trevor, the entire rest of the park, and ''Bubbles'' before half-heartedly mentioning that he may have been at fault as well.

* StockScream: Anyone who's watched more than a couple of episodes should be familiar with the frequent off-screen cries of "WHAT IN THE FUCK?!!!" The "WHAT IN THE FUCK!?" and "FUCK OFF WITH THE GUNS!" lines are attributed to a single character, Donny (sometimes Danny), voiced by Mike Smith and is never seen on-screen.

** Ricky and Lucy, anyone?

* InMemoriam: The end of Season 12 dedicated one last scene of John Dunsworth (the actor who played Mr. Lahey) as he passed away on October 16, 2017.

There are currently 11 seasons, as well as numerous specials and feature films, all of which are available on Creator/{{Netflix}} worldwide; the original seven seasons aired in Canada on Creator/ShowcaseTelevision. Several characters [[{{Spinoff}} also make their own shows on the side]], available on the [[https://www.swearnet.com/ SwearNet website]] (though most of the episodes are locked behind a paid subscription).

* HypocriticalHumor: Before Bubbles introduces Ricky to Shitty Bill, he warns Ricky not to call him "Shitty Bill". When it cuts to the next scene, Bubbles amiably calls him "Shitty" several times. [[spoiler:Then again, Bubbles only said to not call him "Shitty ''Bill''", which he never does.]]

** At the trailer park supervisor election, the spitting image of [[TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]] can be seen in the background, with the mohawk, aviators and jacket.