The Trailer park Boys

It’s about 9:45 Saturday night, the day that this post is due for my Advanced Expository Writing class. I have been putting off writing this particular blog for as long as I could, because I have been dreading it so.  Although, I do confess that when I decided to blog based on the recommendations of my peers, such a tragedy was inevitable. So since I can delay my suffering no longer, here it is, a brutally honest review of the Canadian based comedic smash hit-The Trailer Park Boys.

 In the opening scene shoddy aluminum singlewides are laid out in rows, and a smashed up car rolls into view grinding on its bare rims, already my expectations are low. I could be wrong, I have been once or twice in my life, but my intuition tells me that the next 46 minutes are going to be some of the most excruciating in my life, and that includes the time I was pegged my left nut by a far flung Oreo cookie.  At the very least I'll say that the show has a unique cast of characters; all of whom sport semi-mullet hairdos, or some white trash variation of the pompadour, except for the one called “Bubbles,” a seemingly mentally impaired fellow, who sports thick wide rimmed glasses, a bowl cut,  has a predilection for the “F word,” and lives in a ramshackle wooden shed on the outskirts of this Canadian trailer dystopia.   It takes a special kind of awful to make me cringe but this program has managed to accomplish that very feat in less than five minutes.

The plot revolves around a robbery; the proceeds of which are squandered on a Delorean, which is subsequently confiscated by the police during a traffic stop, along with the money hidden inside it. So the rest of the film is basically just a hustle put on by a select few trailer park residents to make money. The eventual solution being  a "dirty dance party." Then so and so is gonna make off with the profits. That is of course, if someone else doesn’t abscond with it first.  Oddly enough throughout all the going on the only one who ever seems have even the slightest grasp of what’s going on(including myself) is Bubbles. However due to the obliviousness of his cohorts, coupled with the fact that Bubbles is never taken seriously, things go horribly wrong. In the end the dirty dance party is raided by police after a drunk, "Retired" sheriff  (trailer park resident and party patron) notifies them via telephone of the illicit activities transpiring in the trailer park rec-cnter which include but are not limited to: drinking of bootlegged liquor, lap dances, racketeering, and pot smoking, and as you might have guessed the Trailer Park boys (including Bubbles) are off to jail....And the credits roll.
 According to the person who recommended that I watch this, it's  somehow "The funniest shit in the world." I don’t know, I don’t get it.  Maybe the lack of plot and sheer stupidity of the whole thing is what appeals to the people who have kept this show on the air for 10 seasons? Or maybe I'm  on the far side of some kind of humor gap that I just can’t bridge, (similar to the one that keeps many Americans from appreciating Monty Python and other widely acclaimed comedies from across the pond in the UK). Whatever the reason is,  I don’t like it. They lost me somewhere between the crumpled roofless cars riding on there rims (which everyone seems to be driving), a man wiping a sweaty baby off with pieces of bread, and a poorly executed Scarface reference …It’s no good. It is clear to me though why almost every person I know who actually likes this shit, are bong smoking, beer swilling rednecks, with little intellectual substance; many of whom I’m sure also live in a trailer park (not that there is anything wrong with living in one).

It's now past 11 P.M. and at last, it’s finally over, my task is  complete. It’s time for me to step away from this computer and schedule myself a frontal lobotomy, so I can forget that this ever happened. All in all I would give this program, movie, whatever a D- and that’s only because  of one scene where a drunk man staggers up to a trailer, and you can see porn being viewed on a big screen TV in the living room through the window.  That made me chuckle for .5 seconds.  If you’re reading this, and you like Trailer park Boys, I know you’re probably thinking that I’m just giving the show a bad wrap because I’m a stubborn asshole, and it seems like I’ve just hated it from the beginning. You’re partially right, I did enter into the viewing of this program with a bit of negative bias, but trust me when I say that I was sincerely and truly hoping that I would find something redeemable about it, or at the very least a modicum of humor somewhere in there, other than the porn of course. I’m not even sure if I (kind of) laughed because it was funny, or if it just made me that uncomfortable.  Additionally, let me just say if you do like Trailer Park Boys and you’re griping as you're reading this, chances are I probably hate you just as much, if not more than I hated this show, so I don’t really care what you think anyway; and if you're reading this and you haven't watched Trailer park Boys, do yourself a favor, read a book instead.