I must echo Clinton Hammond and agree that Trailer Park Boys "... is one of the funniest, most original shows in the past 15 years!"

Right on! It is an absolutely marvelous, brilliant, stupendously good, hilariously funny show in every way. It has no peers. I am serious. It's one of the very few things out there actually worth watching TV for these days. (Count 'em on the fingers of one hand...)

I don't even own a TV, and watch about 3 hours of it a year, I'd say...BUT...Raptor was kind enough to expose me to his DVD's of Trailer Park Boys, and I was hooked.

My advice...buy the DVD's...you won't have to sit through the TV advertising, but can get straight to the point and watch the funniest, most courageous damn show in the history of television. It just gets better with every episode.

I've lived around what could be termed the somewhat disadvantaged lower echelon of Canadian society, local losers of the social game, have worked with them here and there, and this show is a totally wry and gloriously apt comment on the daily thoughts, aims, and survival tactics of some of society's...ummm...rough diamonds? Or what would you call them?

If you don't get it...well, that's a shame, but what can you do?

Hurrah for trailer park boys!...the only TV show in history where the characters talk exactly like real lower class Canadians do every day, and still aren't offensive in the process. Doesn't offend me, anyway. Ordinary TV crap offends me. Music videos offend me.

Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles are really quite sympathetic characters in their own inimitable way...and that Julian...he's got character. Poor lad just didn't grow up with all the social advantages, that's all.

Yeah, and Ricky's a selfish jerk, but he's a totally understandable jerk. Bubbles is amazing.

- LH