A Great Outlaw Canadian Comedy!

I'm new to this amazingly lowbrow but hilarious comedy, Trailer Park Boys. It's on channel 101 on DirecTV and I've been recording it but I also found it online and have nearly watched the whole series.

It's the story of Sunnyvale trailer park in Canada. The main characters are Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles. They have two stupid helpers Corey and Trevor. They also have two antagonists in Jim and Randy Lahey, the trailer park supervisor and the assistant trailer park supervisor.

Ricky is just about too stupid to live. Julian always has a drink in his hand and is the idea man. Bubbles is mildly retarded but is sometimes the smartest one of the bunch. They are really pretty likable guys but Ricky can be annoying.

Over the five plus seasons I've watched so far the shows revolve around Ricky and Julian staying out of jail and avoiding Jim Lahey's attempts to get them arrested for any number of infractions such as growing weed. Ricky's only real skill in life is growing weed. However they never have enough money to get a crop going and if they do it always befalls some sort of tragedy in which it's destroyed.

This show really is at times hard to watch, it can be that lowbrow. When it's funny though it is brilliant if you don't mind the Cheech and Chong style drug humor. These characters really don't have much at all going for them, Ricky has lived in a car for nearly the entire show's run while only briefly living in a better place when he is in jail.

The sad thing is that this series has ended. It has gone onto make two movies I believe. I could be mistaken about that. The entire show is only fifty some episodes so it is fairly fast to watch the whole run. I would liken it to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia but before that show came out. TPB kicks the language up a few notches and the characters aren't as self absorbed like they are in Sunny. Many of the characters will go to great lengths to help out another character where as in Sunny they backstab them.

This show is a definite watcher though for some people. If you think you might be one of those people then it's for you! I'd recommend checking out the first couple of episodes though for anyone but keep in mind it doesn't get really good until the story lines unfold during the course of the coming seasons.