New Year’s Eve isn’t officially Liquor Day but it could be for you. No better way to nurse your hangover than with a rum/coke and a few laughs from Sunnydale’s surliest residents – The Trailer Park Boys. Submit your favourite Canadian comedic export and you could steal both Trailer Park Boys flicks – “The Movie” and “Countdown to Liquor Day.”

Win these guys's movies - weed plants and rum/coke not included

You want some of this?

Cuff em, Stuff em, & Set Bail

Some of your wise-guys already scored the whole TV series on DVD – in a grass stash bag no less – so double down to complete your TPB “library” – if you can call it that without sounding all fancy.

Here’s how to win:

1. Contemplate Canada’s stunning comedic contributions

2. Submit your favorite Canadian comedy export – choose a TV series or movie which amuses, surprises and inspires you – and stick it in the comments

3. Pour yourself a drink and relax til Jan 4th when we choose 4 DVD pack winners based on creativity, your reasons and surprise quotient

A brief history of Canadian Comedy

Canada is known for a few things: Poutine, Hockey, Politeness, Beer and Comedy {Ed note: Also formerly known for progressive environmental policy}. In fact, Canadians take great pride in seeing Canucks’ comedic creations take off in the States and there have indeed been a few pieces of filmed entertainment which built cult-like audiences of Americans.

In case you’ve been in lock-up for the past year, here’s a Review of Countdown to Liquor Day and the Trailer:

Along with these reprobates from Nova Scotia, here are a few ideas to shake your brain, but you will be graded on originality as well as awesomeness so put on your thinking toque and choose wisely.

Kids In The Hall... back and busty

Kids in the Hall – Nerdcore comedy troupe taught you the joys of squishing heads, cross-dressing and Brain Candy. Now the Kids are returning to CBC with Death Comes to Town, plus 2 Kids (Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald) are in development for a TV show about a 80s New Wave band reuniting in current times

SCTV - Like Saturday Night Live except without the cheesy guest hosts who usually stink up the place. This fictional TV network’s shows launched careers of Martin Short, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Joe Flatherty … if you don’t know who these guys are, you’re disqualified – PS Hey SNL, you’re welcome for Mike Myers and Dan Ackroyd

Bob and Doug - It’s worth noting among the classic sketches from SCTV was Bob and Doug McKenzie – originally made to fill time and make fun of stereotypes, these affable hosers made the classic movie Strange Brew and became the most famous Canadian ambassadors until Jason Priestly & Michael J Fox took over – guess the torch now goes to Seth Rogen and Ryan Reynolds

Canadian Bacon – Before Michael Moore was a super-famous documentary lightning rod, he made an odd-ball comedy with a who’s-who of Canadians and those who want to be. Joining Mssrs. Candy and Ackroyd were Alan Alda as the US President reluctantly seeking a new enemy and Carla from Cheers as a gun-lovin renegade cop.

Stared down by Nick Adonidas

The Beachcombers – Not exactly a comedy but once you see Greek-Canadian leading man Bruno Gerussi’s chest hair and medalion, you’ll be laughing. He was the everyday hero in small town coastal town of Gibsons – Not saying Northern Exposure was a rip off,  just that it is oddly similar and not as good. Note: Still huuuge in Germany – as big as the Hoff anyhow

Degrassi Junior High – Saved by the Bell/90210 but in a pleasant after-school special kinda way – overshadowed by 21 Jump Street which was almost entirely Canadian except for whatshisname … Depp something .. ahh he’ll never amount to anything

Bonus: This Hour has 22 Minutes/Rick Mercer Report – While fascainated by the glamour and infidelity of US politics, the northerners also enjoy reflecting their own civil situations in Daily Show-like format – cynical = yes, funny = usually.

Need more?

Rumors say that Canadians Jim Carrey, William Shatner and James Cameron are pooling their money to actually buy the entire country – stay tuned for details. And, for the record we have formally voted Celine Dion off the island and the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on numerous occasions. Finally Terrance and Phillip of South Park fame are still roaming the frozen north in relative anonymity.

Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day

Synopsis: From series creator, writer and director Mike Clattenburg, comes the latest mis-adventures of Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, three wildly self-destructive Maritimers with big plans for legitimacy, easy dollars and another drink.

Stars: Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith

Written by: Mike Clattenburg

Directed by: Mike Clattenburg

Opening on: September 25, 2009

By eleven pm last night the sidewalk in front of the Rio Theater on Broadway at Commercial felt like a block party complete with catering, music and second hand atmosphere. By catering I mean Uncle Fattih’s Pizza by the slice, by music I mean a blaring boom box and by atmosphere I mean Rum and Cokes swilled from Gatorade bottles and the product of BC’s most notorious cash crop.

The line for the midnight screening of the new Trailer Park Boys movie, ‘The Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day‘ started with a few souls and slowly grew one skateboard and mullet wig at a time all eager for the return of Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith). By the time I took my seat I was confident that my first mistake of the evening would be the most significant, I had stopped for coffee when I should have stopped for a six-pack of O’Keefe’s Extra Old Stock.

The Rio put on a show that was well received by the half-full theatre and what the Rio lacked in filled seats the audience certainly made up for with enthusiasm and intoxication! Long before the curtain was raised above the stage a Jim Lahey-like character pushed a shopping cart around the theatre finishing up on stage to the wild delight of the audience. With prizes offered for Trailer Park Boys Trivia, and best costume the audience was well warmed before the opening credits could be seen through the thick haze of blue smoke.

That this Canadian cult TV show may not translate well to the big screen was entirely lost on the audience who enjoyed a call and response relationship to what was happening on screen. For every Trailer Park Boys idiom uttered by Ricky, Julian, Lahey, Randy, Bubbles or J-Roc on screen the audience offered a counter part in kind. To Julian’s omni-present, and ever up right, rum and Coke, to Ricky’s sagging track pants and Bubbles with his odd ingenuity, the audience responded positively to every wild act of self destruction and ridiculous piece of dialogue.

With half-baked plans for great success our trio, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are released from their most recent stint behind bars with big ambitions for their return to their homes in Sunnyvale Trailer Park. Julian, rum and Coke in hand, is seeking legitimacy and fortune through his trailer-based, four-year business plan-backed Success Auto-Body. Ricky is more resigned and without pretense for the parole board when he says that he’ll “grow a little dope” because that’s what he is good at, and Bubbles, poor Bubbles, whose greatest ambition is to rub cat food on his face to win back the affections of the 27 trailer park kitties he cared for before returning to prison.

Watching these characters is like watching a slow moving yet catastrophic train wreck as it happens. Plans for legitimacy and success come off the rails early in the movie when Julian and Ricky make off with a Department of Corrections van in order to rob a liquor store to pick up a little start up money for Julian’s best business ambitions. While this is an early beginning to the end, the train continues to fall from the rails, for our protagonists, car by car until the end credits roll.

For fans of the show, and previous movie, like so many in the Rio Theatre’s audience, there will be no expectation other than watching how the Trailer Park Boys will self-destruct in this latest installment. There is no expectation of redemption, success, or finding peace in the trailer park, the only expectation is of having a “massive failure on our hands” as Bubbles so simply states, and with this in mind Countdown to Liquor Day is a success as it certainly was to the largely teen-aged audience at the Rio.

Countdown to Liquor Day isn’t going to win any critical praise and anyone who might suggest that this is the funniest Canadian movie ever made was either high or drunk on the worst kind of rotgut rum available in the liquor store. While somewhat able to stand on it’s own, this is a movie for fans and unlikely to win over legions of new viewers. You have to appreciate actors as committed to characters as this cast, but we watch not because we feel connected but because we are anxious to see what could possibly happen next.

It should be no surprise to anyone that our adventure comes to a crashing end in a high-speed police chase through down town Halifax with Rickey and Lahey peeing on each other from different cars. Director Mike Clattenburg hasn’t created satire or a parody, this is pure farce and it is only because Ricky, Bubbles, Julian and the lot are so irredeemable that they are so easy to watch.

The show started long before the lights went down, with cheers and jeers, costumes and the great wafts of pot smoke. The crowd, as much spectacle as Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, were as entertaining as anything I saw on screen. With shouts of “C***sucker” and “I don’t even think those are real jeans!” the audience, feeling much like a high school grad class sleep over, had itself laughing long before Ricky had picked his first fight or Bubbles dropped his first f-bomb.

Trailer Time

Check out the trailer for the movie

And if you liked that check out…

Countdown to Liquor Day Video Clips!

Behind the Scenes of Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day Join the documentary crew behind the scenes of TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY to catch the boys up to their usual no good.

Behind the scenes of Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day It’s all fun and games on and off the camera!

Trailer Park Boys II Clip – A potential construction accident is about to occur Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Randy (Patrick Roach) watch in horror as Mr. Lahey (John Dunsworth) goes on a rampage in TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY.

Trailer Park Boys II Clip – It’s called thinking Bubbles (Mike Smith) tells Ricky (Robb Wells) that the talking he hears in his head is called thinking in TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY.

Trailer Park Boys II Clip – Be careful who you love Mr. Lahey (John Dunsworth) gives some free love advice in TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY.

Trailer Park Boys II Clip – It’s just me and the liquor now Randy (Patrick Roach) walks out on Mr. Lahey (John Dunsworth) in TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY.

Trailer Park Boys II Clip – He’s hooking for cheeseburgers Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) catch Randy (Patrick Roach) hooking for cheeseburgers in TRAILER PARK BOYS II: COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY.

Trailer Park Boys is BACK with a new movie, ‘Trailer Park Boys 2: Countdown To Liquor Day‘.  The first picture, poster and trailer have all been released and we have them here on MovieSet.

Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that’s what they’ve told the parole board. But when they arrive back at the park, they find it’s not the same old Sunnyvale – and it’s not the same old Jim Lahey, Trailer Park Supervisor.

Lahey’s a new man, hasn’t had a drink for two years. And he has plans – BIG PLANS – for Sunnyvale. But unfortunately for Lahey, Julian stands in his way. With his big plans for Sunnyvale going down the toilet, his relationship with Randy broken down, and having the Boys back in the park is all way too much pressure for him to bear. For Jim Lahey, the countdown to liquor day is on.

Meanwhile, Julian’s having problems of his own and the Boys are forced to resort to doing what they know best – breaking the law. Lahey’s descent into the liquor coupled with the Boys descent into crime puts them all on a collision course to mayhem and destruction, trailer park style.

Queue Trailer…

Check out the poster art below

Bubbles, you’re kinda right. We’ve given away four complete series of your greasy DVD’s but we also stuck’ em in sweet stash bags! Ricky, Julian and Bubbles you’ll be happy to know that tons of your insane fans entered to try and win this stuff and now it’s time to introduce and cheers our four Grand Prize Winners!

Trailer Park Boy fans help us congratulate:

Crystal R. from Martinsville, Va!

What did Crystal have to say when I told her she won?

“OMG!! After screaming like a teenager for about 5 minutes straight, I’m finally able to reply to my winning message.  The Trailer Park Boys are the funniest thing to ever happen to television and I can’t express how excited I am to get to own the complete series.  This is the best email I’ve ever gotten and I can’t wait to sit down and escape into the crazy world of Sunnyvale.  Thank you, thank you so very much!!  Ricky, Julian and Bubbles Rule!”

Me thinks she’s happy and the MovieSet crew has made a new lifelong friend!  Awesome!

Next up, Meagan J. from Lakebay, Wa!

“I FREAKING LOVE TRAILER PARK BOYS!!!!! TPB is the best (& funniest) tv show i have ever seen, it makes me want to move to a trailer park in Canada and grow dope. You ARE the liquor Mr Lahey.”

Wow, I may have a new neighbour soon, rad! Who’s lucky number three?

Gina V. from Los Angeles, CA!

“Were going to love watching Trailer Park Boys!  Thanks Movieset!…. You Rock!!!! OMG!!!  Thanks again!!  This is so awesome!!!  I can’t wait to see it!”

You are correct, 95% of the time we do Rock! Last but certainly not least… we have?

Darryl G. from East York, Ont!

“Trailer Park Boys is awesome and I can’t wait to see the new movie and to re-watch all the old episodes with my new box set.  Thanks, MovieSet.”

You are totally welcome dude!

Well, that’s another four pack (I drank the other two) of happy MovieSet Sweeps Winners!

First off – Mug Shots

Documented By ‘Gendarme’ Robert Scales

Bubbles (Mike Smith)

Rickey (Rob Wells)

Julian (John Paul Tremblay)

Book ‘em – Official Record

The Trailer Park Boys Movie – Countdown to Liquor Day

Trailer Park Boys – Sunnyvale Facebook

Trailer Park Boys – Official

Telefilm Canada – Trailer Park Boys

Bubbles (Mike Smith) – YouTube channel

Lock ‘em up & Give ‘em a Sandwich

Trailer Park Boys dot ORG - Unofficial

Trailer Park Boys – Wikipedia

Trailer Park Boys, The Movie – Wikipedia

Trailer Park Boys 411 - check out their “Official” Trailer Park Boys FAQ

Q. Everyone is always asking if the boys smoke real weed on the show.
A. The answer is no, they don’t. They smoke herbal buds. Check it Out

Q. What is the song that is always playing in Cyrus’s red corvette?
A. The song is by Rick Jeffery and it’s called “I’m Old (You’re Young)”

Q. Who is the voice of the guys that yells “WHAT IN THE FUCK?” in the park?
A. It’s none other then the one and only Mike Smith (Bubbles)

Q. Why did Cory and Trevor leave the show and are not in Season 7?
A. Here is an article that gets into why they left the show.

Q. Why do people call Ricky Raveen as a joke in the show?
A. The Raveen reference is in regards to a Canadian TV star from a while back. More here.

Waterloo’s Trailer Park Boys Tribute Club – who offer TPB mantras:

“Shitty work bud”

“Sometimes Life is Greasy”

“Go with the liquor”

“The winds of shit are blowing”

“In Cod We Trusted”

“Garbage Juice is Bad for Kitties”

“When Caring is Outlawed only Outlaws will Care”

Bail out to Contest

Enter the Countdown to Liqour Day Sweepstakes

Each of our four Grand Prize Winners will receive: Trailer Park Boys: The Complete Series including special DVD stash bag

Trailer Park Boys Sweepstakes Countdown to Liquor Day

Liquor Day Coming Soon

The infamous Trailer Park Boys are hitting the big screen, for the second time, in their new movie – Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day – coming in September in which Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Sam Losco, Cyrus, and Ray all plot revenge against Jim Lahey upon their release from prison.

Win the Boys’ Stash Bag

But we just couldn’t wait until to get into all the dope, liquor, kittens, cheeseburgers, mini-skirts, and everything else we love about Sunnyvale! So to kill the time til the new movie arrives in theaters we’re giving away four complete sets of the Trailer Park Boys and you can get into the fun by entering the Trailer Park Boys II: Countdown to Liquor Day Sweepstakes!

Get Your Own Bag!

Enter to win one of four Trailer Park Boys: The Complete Series DVD sets, each tucked into a lovely stash bag emblazoned with a lovely cannabis leaf motif! Inside are a stack of DVDs and a cool box with the lads showing off their favorite things: kittens, liquor and weed.

Have You Entered The Trailer Park Boys Sweeps Today?

Indeed! Four lucky fans will be bringing home every single episode that Ricky, Julian and Bubbles have staggered their way through to keep themselves nicely buzzed as they countdown to Liquor day.

Remember, you can enter daily so be sure to come back again and again to increase your chances!

Thanks to these kitty-loving bloggers:

• Wired Cola Sells Out | Wired Cola
• Trailer Park Boys 411 – A Source for Trailer Park Boys News & TPB Info
• Vancouver Blogger Gus Greeper

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