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Trailer Park Boys Call Us Collect

Published: January 22, 2007

Julian and Randy, potty-mouthed stars of the hit mockumentary TV series Trailer Park Boys spent the holidays getting some much-deserved R&R in prison and they're psyched to reunite with their buddy Bubbles and party hard with Vancouverites tonight and tomorrow night at The Commodore. It will be the second stop on the Trailer Park Boys: Out of The Park tour of Western Canada with Swollen Members.

For the uninitiated, The Trailer Park Boys chronicles the lives of the fictional residents of Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia. Julian (played by John Paul Tremblay) and Ricky (Rob Wells) are chronic party animals who pursue various "Freedom 35" illicit activities like running booze cans, porn rings, stolen Christmas tree lots and marijuana grow-ops. Their bespectacled sidekick Bubbles (Mike Smith) lives in a shed with stray cats and is the constantly flabbergasted voice of reason and morality. Monitoring, though rarely foiling the boys' schemes is a bitter alcoholic ex-cop trailer park supervisor named Jim Lahey and his paunchy ever-shirtless bisexual lover Randy.

The show might sound as intellectually stimulating as COPS, and these are indeed exaggerated stereotypes of low rent culture. But the scripts, co-written by long-time friends Tremblay, Wells and TPB director Mike Clattenburg have a provocative skewed logic, with an underlying theme that for some people, prison beats abject poverty. The show is wildly popular with people from all walks of life because it digs at all of our social hypocrisies and rallies against the cognitive disconnect with folksy messages about the importance of close connection with friends, family and community. Instead of clich? family interactions, the TPB, for example, Ricky shares a nicotine patch with his cigarette-addicted pre-teen daughter.

Season six of the series now airs in a dozen countries round the globe, the 2006 big screen debut Trailer Park Boys: The Movie was the top box office draw in Canada opening week and it was recently nominated for three 2007 Genies. The much anticipated season seven has already been filmed for the Showcase fall lineup, there's talk of a season eight and perhaps a sequel movie.

But all this fame hasn't gone to the boys' heads as we learned when Julian and Ricky got drunk and called The Tyee offices collect from Sunnyvale to share their latest news, angle for smoke-able green "presents" from local fans and advise Harper how to run the country. They even slip out of the usual in-character interview shtick to speak as the actors playing these much-loved characters. What follows are excerpts from our conversation.

On Bubbles being MIA

Ricky: "It's only me and Julian on the phone. Bubbles got caught in a snowstorm on the way back from New York. He was down there with Axl Rose, watching him record his new record. We're jealous. Me and Julian only did a couple of shows with Axl [last December on the Guns N' Roses tour], but Bubbles did most of the tour and did his awesome song 'Liquor and Whores.'"


Complete Story: http://thetyee.ca/Entertainment/2007/01/22/TrailerParkBoys/

Well, that's nice. As long as Axl doesn't have a brainwave and get Bubbles to re-record all of Buckethead's parts, or something.  :)

SG

so that means that the recording is still going on, which indicates that the album is still not finished and thus not likely to come out on march 6, 2007. I'm glad to see that at least axl is using the money from the tour for some more studio time.

I think it's a great sign.
You can say it's bad for the march 6 date. but He's in the studio for some time now, like 3 weeks, so something is going on this time.
and thanks to Julian we know that Axl is recording. it could also be the seccond or like third album. or the single!

if he is still in the studio recording "chinese" as of last week, there is no way it can come out march 6th.

album can be released in march or april. look what VR is doing now, they plan a april release too and they are still recording.

Sure it does.....


It also means Axl's building a combustion engine that runs on air and that he's preparing to run for president.  ::)


Seriously, I don't understand how you can come to that conclusion by reading the article in question.  :confused:



/jarmo

I think they should have recorded a version of Liquor and Whores for a bonus track on the album.

Jarmo, Strange, I don't know how that thought can't cross your mind when reading that article. I guess we think very differently. To me, if he's still recording, as that article stated, then he can't hand over the cd to the record company in time for a march 6 2007 release because as axl stated himself in his letter to us, it takes about 2 months to release a record after handing it in to the record company, so it should have been handed in during the first week of january to make it for march 6. Anyone who has been following guns n roses in the last 5-6 years would have some doubt about now that the march 6 date is not happening.

i was kind of afraid, that axl`s in new york now looking for his muse.....

but this article is in no way proof of that. we simply don`t know shit people :peace:

He was down there with Axl Rose, watching him record his new record.


I take that to mean in the past. ?So who really knows what is going on now.

Who says I don't know shit? I know allot, I know that we will get it when it is ready. I know we will find out all that we need from the band when the time is right. Until told otherwise, I have the most reliable info possible... straight from the horses mouth: "March 6th".

It's in the past tense.

But you assume he's still recording.

The fact is, we don't know that. You're just assuming the "worst".




/jarmo

right......   the part about bubbles and axl could be interpreted in many ways......

we`ll just have to wait and see, as always :hihi:

...as lond as we are reading between the lines...

Bubbles got caught in a snowstorm on the way back from New York. He was down there with Axl Rose, watching him record his new record.

Bubbles got caught - Past Tense.

On the way back - He had left, was returning and was stuck.

He was there - Past Tense.

Watching him record his new album - Past Tense, was watching, stoped watching and returned home.

Did he stop watching cause they were done recording, who knows? Maybe? Thus, it is rational to assume all is going well, if one wanted to draw conclusions.

...and this report could be a week or even a month old? Do when know the exact date that this was referring to?

Yeah but however, I think Axl said in his letter that we would be informed when it was complete.

And, if it was delayed..

 So what you saying is that there will be a 100 percent chance of us knowing something!  :hihi:

Axl said he would be notified if it was delayed.....so as far as I'm concerned, the plan is still to release it march 6th.

Its good that we know he is taking this time to record, and he's not just messing around.

This is good news everyone.

It hasn't snowed here at all up until last week.

well, what i say is that there aint any reason to know if it will be out 6th or no.. haha..

So El Nino was there till the end of last week?
either way the bubbles watched ax record his new album before el nino left and not after.
how long ago we don't know.
and the new album could be any new album. the upcoming one or its followers.

Thanks funkymonkey.

Have some faith in ol' Uncle Axl. He was in Vegas recording. We know this. Fact. He was then in NYC recording. We know this. Fact. We do not know whether he's finished recording or not. But if we were to assume he has finished, and he's in NYC perhaps also to "seal the deal" and work out some release strategies and promotions with the label or perhaps even iron something out with a new management team...it could be any number of things, but Axl having moved operations from Vegas to New York is a GOOD sign. His recording earlier this month is a GOOD sign. I still believe we'll have the single within the first week of february. That leaves us about TWO WEEKS. We have almost A MONTH AND A HALF until the TENTATIVE release date. I also believe it's more likely we'll see the album around 20th as opposed to the 6th, but we'll see. The video has most likely been shot, if there was ever a video to shoot. They prolly shot it while the band was in LA and Axl was recording in Vegas, he prolly came down to LA before heading out to New York. Or they shot it in New York, but the video is most likely done by this point. If it's to be a live video, again, nothing to worry about. That's just a matter of assembling the footage, which is also prolly done. You have to understand, "Better" is the single and is most likely sitting there awaiting the official release with video in tow. It's not in some stage of development anymore. He could be finalizing artwork in the city right now for all we know. Axl said if there were any more significant delays, we would know. That's all. No other band keeps their fans as much tuned in as that. You should expect less, not more. Never before have I known a band that would clue people in to things like "The mixes have been turned in," "The video is done," "The artwork is being finalized," etc. Especially from someone like Axl Rose, a legend, who contrary to popular belief owes nobody anything. He owes it to himself to release the record he wants to release and that he can be proud of, that's all. It'll be done when it's done, but there's no reason to believe it's not still on target. This isn't a lie or a guarentee.

Relax guys... he may not make the 3/6/07 deadline... but it's hardly like the "good ol' days" of the late 90's when Guns N' Roses consisted of Axl, Paul Huge and a pin ball machine. We're closer than ever...

 :rofl: I enjoyed that one.

I'm sure this guy Ricky wasn't concerned about how us obsessive GNR fans would take every word someone says in reference to GNR so literally that we'd actually resort to checking out what the weather pattern was for the past few weeks. ?:hihi:

He says he wasn't there so he obviously has no idea ... nor should he care ... exactly what Axl was working on while Bubbles was hanging out with him. ?"watching him record his new record" doesn't mean that "recording" was what Axl was actually doing.? ::)? ?

Exactly. He could be mixing the record - I'm sure that would be way more interesting to watch than just Axl recording some extra vocal work. So, I think Axl invited Bubbles for listening to the new album while they were mixing in NY in the Sterling Sounds.

All we know is that Axl has been in Vegas recording, and as of recently he's been in New York. With this source I guess he was recording there too, but he could be mixing and mastering as well. What is going on now is anyone's guess, but I find it weird that Dizzy has a random amount of time off from the HN'B tour between now and February 3 due to "GN'R's ever changing schedule."

So to me, everything is sounding pretty damn good at this point.

nice to see some optimism on the board : ok:

:rofl:

you should get positive karma for that one

i believe it`s a matter of weeks until we get new information/ a single.... whatever......  but i`m not holding my breath anyways...

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Ricky probably didn't want to get into details so he just said "recording" as a blanket statement.

I think that was a reference to the booger sugar.

 :hihi:

Summer 2007=Chinese Democracy starts now ;)

"It takes approximately eight weeks for an album to hit the shelves once it has been turned in to the record company."

If he's still touching things up 6 or 7 weeks before the March 6th date and the record company won't accept it until it's complete (if Merck is to be believed, of course), I can see how people who are speculating might reach that conclusion.

I'm not buying that its coming out on the 6th either, but not because of this speculation since people have no idea what he was actually doing in those studios (perhaps listening to final mixes and not recording vocals as was reported, who knows? not me obviously).

I mostly don't buy the March 6th date anymore because he says he wants 'proper promotion' and there is still no single or word of a single on the way. I could very well be wrong, and I hope I am.

I take it you're still hoping for March 6th Jarmo? Just curious.

Hoping? Of course!

But I know he said tentative.


I just don't understand how you could come to the conclusion that they're still recording the album because of this article. It's clearly in past tense. We don't know what's happening at this moment.

That's all.


/jarmo

like jarmo is saying, i also think that people are way to (dunno the word) i mean, just because axl is in the studio doesn't mean he's still recording right? it can be mixing it and stuff like that too

and i also hope for 6 march of course

but as sterileeyes said, the man did say CD would get proper promotion, and we haven't gotten anything since mid-december right?

who are you people...????? beating a dead horse over and over and over and over....alright already. it will come out when it comesout.... :peace:

Has anyone ever seen this show B4? And the guy who plays Bubbles? Erg... take a a look

Vid:
http://www.dailymotion.com/colbybear/video/xjs48_s03e02-trailer-park-boys

Pic:
(http://www.paramountcomedy.com/trailerparkboys/wallpapers/bubbles1_800x600.jpg)

"Bubbles" is played by a guy named Mike Smith, he actually has a pretty extensive musical background, here's his bio:

http://www.tv.com/mike-smith/person/103817/biography.html

Mike Smith currently plays the character "Bubbles" in the hit Canadian television series The Trailer Park Boys.

He was born and raised in Thorburn, Nova Scotia. He started playing hockey at the age of four but showed early signs of musical genius when he learned to play guitar at the age of seven. Continuing with both hobbies for the majority of his life, Mike eventually gave up hockey to concentrate on being a musician.

He attended St. Francis Xavier University where he earned a degree in English. In 1992, Mike's career in music began to take off. He played guitar and was one of the principal songwriters in the band Sandbox and signed a record deal with EMI in Canada and Nettwerk in the U.S. Nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards and a Casby Award, Sandbox released two albums with EMI and Nettwerk ? Bionic and A Murder In The Glee Club.

In 1999, Mike started composing music for film and television and has worked as a sound mixer on such feature films as The Weight of Water starring Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley, and Serendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

While sound mixing for his friend, director Mike Clattenburg, on a pilot project titled The Trailer Park Boys, Mike met actors Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay. Goofing around one day on set, Mike was imitating a character he had been doing for years. Mike Clattenburg liked the character so much he decided to use the "Bubbles" character in a short movie called The Cart Boy. Later he wrote the same character into the first season of The Trailer Park Boys series and the rest is history.

When Mike Smith makes public appearances he normally does so as his character "Bubbles". In fact he appeared as foul-mouthed "Bubbles" in the music video Legal by Canadian artist Snow. There was so much swearing that most of his dialogue had to be bleeped out. He also appeared with fellow The Trailer Park Boys actors Robb Wells (Ricky) and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) in The Tragically Hip's music video, The Darkest One, featuring Don Cherry. Just before that, Mike joined Robb and John Paul on a cross-Canada tour with the musical group, Our Lady Peace.

Mike's career does sometime take him away from his life on The Trailer Park Boys, as he recently worked on the US cable pilot Espia as writer and musical director.

Mike Smith is currently engaged to American actress Nichole Hiltz, whom he met on the set of the upcoming feature length film The Trailer Park Boys Movie. Aside from a new love in his life the movie will likely give Mike Smith new found fame and fans outside of Canada.

 In 2003, Mike Smith won the Gemini Award for Viewer?s Choice - Favourite Comedian. (edit)
Mike Smith met his fiance Nicole Hiltz on the set of the upcoming The Trailer Park Boys Movie (2006), where she plays Julian's girlfriend. (edit)
Whenever Mike Smith and his fellow The Trailer Park Boys actors make official public appearances they always stay in character. (edit)
Mike Smith met actor friends Rob Wells and John Paul Tremblay while sound mixing for his buddy Mike Clattenburg on the original The Trailer Park Boys movie. All three noticed Mike as he goofed around doing his character "Bubbles". (edit)
Mike Smith was born and grew up in Thorburn, Nova Scotia. (edit)
Mike Smith is well known as an excellent "swearist" which is what his character "Bubbles"is famous for on the series The Trailer Park Boys. (edit)
Mike Smith composed music for the movies The Weight of Water and Serendipity. (edit)
Mike Smith is a long-time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg. (edit)
The first time that Mike Smith played the character Bubbles is in a short movie called The Cart Boy. (edit)
Mike Smith created the character "Bubbles" when he picked up a pair of thick glasses for 50 cents at a Texas flea market in the early 1990s. (edit)
Owns a cat named "Bubbles". (edit)
Was once a guitarist in the rock band Sandbox. (edit)
Has a degree in English from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (edit)
Has played the guitar since the age of seven. (edit)
Made a cameo appearance as the extreme foul-mouthed "Bubbles" in Snow's 2002 music video Legal, however his swearing remains bleeped. (edit)
Played hockey for the Pictou County Weeks of the Nova Scotia Midget AAA Hockey League when he was in high school.
(edit)
Mike Smith: (On being typecast as Bubbles) I'm not really at all worried because when I don't have my chin stuck out or have the glasses on, no one recognizes me. If I play a role in something else, nobody will ever know I was Bubbles. (edit)
Mike Smith: (On the hit show The Trailer Park Boys) We?d love to see it go on as long as we can do it for. Just so long as it?s funny. The majority of the people in the park where we filmed loved it. A few were offended by it too. I think they thought we were making fun of people living in trailer parks, but that?s not it at all. This show is about humanity and reality generally. (edit)
Mike Smith: (On the hit show The Trailer Park Boys being nominated for a Gemini Award) I don't really pay much attention to awards. It's cool we got nominated, but we're probably going to fucking lose.

Looks like he's got some pussy.

who bubbles or axl ?
axl allwayz lol.bubbles who cares lol.oh daa the pic sarry lol.

rather thatn POINTLESS specualation on what was said.
I just think it would be cool to have a GNR crossover with the Trailer Park boys, Rush did it.
or hafve the TPB's as part of the Better Vid maybe.   

here's to wishful thinking

The Tragically Hip allready did a video with the Trailer Park Boys.

See Linky ===>? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUfdsKiFJ4

not to mention this was in past tense. dont worry guys. well get chinese democracy soon enough :yes:

Hey, I just realized that there are only three degrees of seperation between me and Axl Rose:  I used to be in high school and I did some shows with Corey who is in the Trailer Park Boys with Bubble's and Bubbles is friends with Axl!!!  I know...it's lame but it was exciting for a moment or so. :rofl:

Seriously who the fuck is this? At that LA show I thought some down syndrome dude got on stage, and they let him stay and gave him a guitar because it was funny. And Axl calling him Bubbles from the trailer park boys. I thought it was a joke. What the fuck? I don't want this new whatever the fuck in the GNR universe. Who the fuck are they and why should I give a fuck?

Speaking of retards, look what Buddha_Master wrote.

GN'R may, and don't quote me on this, share the same universe and you, Bubbles and I. So it may be too late, we may have even begun in this universe, I mean before Axl was famous.

Anyway...

http://www.amazon.com/Trailer-Park-Season-X-MAS-Boxset/dp/B000FJRB1C/sr=8-2/qid=1169574916/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-0430984-4603315?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

That is who they are, 5 very lucrative seasons of TV in Canada and the UK.

Check this out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0mU4nzlKVA

Over the lastcouple of months, my wife and I have become hopelessly addicted to Trailer Park Boys.  Every episode appears to be on google's video site now...FOR FREE!

For the uninitiaded, here are some tips.  Go to epguides.com.  Go to the "T" section and pick "Trailer Park Boys".  Every episode title will be listed in order.  Then go to google.com.  Switch the top search to "video".  In the search box, enter "Trailer Park Boys" and a couple of words of the title of the episode you wanna watch.  And there you go!


P.S.  Best episode is titled "Conky".

Apparently, Bubbles heard the album and says that its "awesome!"  : ok:

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showtopic=89075&st=0

Here's Bubbles myspace? .? ? ?http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=62677608

So?

Listen dude. Just because you see things two dimensionally that doesnt mean that is the way it is. We all exist together, but we also live in our own multiverrse. Trying to think of a way to explain it where you would understand...

You ever watch Seinfield? Remember the 2 Georges? His 2 world theory? The 2 Georges devided cannot stand.

I live on the same planet as President Bush, but in my world, people like that don't mingle. ?That is a completely different world. Right wing letting a fantasy god dictate their actions exist in a different universe.


I have been there when GNR first started (literally watched this unfold from LA) and have been a fan since. Then this Bubbles comes out of no where, and being from America, do not know who the fuck that is and why he is accociated with GNR. I know why BAz is. I know why that fuck Rackman is. Bubbles came out of left field though. You dig? Anyway fuck you for making this personal.

Bubbles came from Baz. He was on an episode of the Trailer Park Boys and on the Trunk interview he was telling Axl about the show. So he probably introduced him to Axl and they became friends.

The guy that plays Bubbles is Mike Smith and he's a really cool guy and a musician...so I'm sure that Axl isn't hangin' around with Mike playing Bubbles all day! ?Really, Buddha chill out!

Alright cool man. Thanks tHeElEcTrIcSiNtAr.

Oh dude. Im fine. Just became a what the fuck kind of thing with all the Bubbles talk. I felt out of the loop and with GNR that was a strange feeling.

no problem.

Were you jealous of bubbles, Buddha_Master?  :)



And that was also in the past. (I'm just referring to some posts on this thread)


awesome. did any canadian in here catch the show?

LOl Bet your ass. Well who wouldnt be? This fucker apparently got to hear the Chinese Democracy album.

If we're going by the fact that Bubbles heard (past tense) the album - then should we assume that its either completely finished or extremely close to it?

Yes, considering he had no involvement with GNR back when Axl played mixes to everyone at a BBQ at his house after the Inland Invasion show. So we must assume if he has heard the album recently, then it is done (giver or take some final mixing or mastering)

HaHa, Bubbles is a LEGEND!!! If you havent seen Trailer Park Boys, please take time to rent or buy a copy of one of their dvd's to appreciate them ALL especially Bubbles. I got stoned out of my mind a few times and have never laughed so hard watching them... If you find the series, watch the one where their planning Ricky's wedding... damn funny!!

^^^ Oyeah, if your not stoned it wont be funny. So if ur not into grass I wouldnt bother with it.

I disagree. I watch it sober all the time & I think it's quite funny. If you like stupid humour, you'll like the Trailer Park boys.

BubBles is a right on guy,,  i talked to him a few times along with ricky and julien,,,  its really great to see a guy from a small eastern canadien town becoming such a great success. 

People who diss bubbles are people who wish they were bubbles,  a normal guy who put a funny pair of glasses on one day and talking funny to appearing in a very successful tv show and performing and hanging out with Axl Rose.

Cmon people,, give this guy some credit,  fuck,,  even Axl likes him.. : ok:

Trailer park boys are class..the best tv show i've seen in years

I wouldn't go as far as saying "class", however "classic" might be more appropriate! :hihi:

good thinking! "the winds of shit are blowing"

 :hihi:

However, being from Canada, I must admit to knowing these classic types myself in my own family. :rofl:

Funny how being a GnR fan makes you realize how much in common you have with these higher ups! :hihi: