Season 5, Episode 8: Dressed All Over & Zesty Mordant

Julian’s biggest money-making scheme yet involves smuggling drugs in shopping carts. Ricky lets Trinity drive the shitmobile and she gets arrested.

Plot Summary

The Boys’ latest drug-smuggling technique involves smuggling the hash in shopping cart handles. Bubbles plays a large role in this operation, as he both steals the carts and welds the pieces together before shipping them to schools across Canada.

Act One

Instead of working on the dope carts, Ricky is fixing up the car to let Trinity drive it. The Boys don’t have enough carts, so Julien sends Bubbles to get som more from the mall. But as he tries to steal more, the mall manager stops Bubbles and threatens him if he steals any more carts.

Lahey is seen extra drunk shouting about sending Julien back to jail. Ricky is seen selling more hash at jail, and Lucy and Trinity decide to get some drinks at Bingo later that night. They ask Corey and Trevor to watch Trinity, but they’ll be busy helping Julien with the dope.

Act Two

Ricky is drinking and driving while he sees a police checkpoint. He drives in the grass to avoid the stop. Bubbles is telling Julien about his encounter with the mall manger when Ricky pulls up with some liquor saying he’s bailing Ray out. Julien then promises to get Bubbles some more carts.

Julien heads to the mall and threatens the mall cops to leave Bubbles alone. The mall cops throw the carts off the mall property. Ricky is seen cutting up the driveway, and Lahey and Randy think he is simply repaving it. Corey and Trevor steal a truck.

Lucy asks Ricky to watch Trinity later, but Ricky instead pays Sarah $80 to watch her. Ricky wants to hang out with Lucy later and starts handing out money to her and Trinity. Bubbles then arrives with a ton of carts, and the peeping Lahey and Ricky think they are just playing with the carts.

Trinity takes the car, and Corey and Trevor show up with the truck. Trevor stands up to Ricky, and Ricky decides to rip Trevor’s pants. Ricky is forced to apologize, and Julien sends Corey and Trevor off to deliver the carts and buy some new pants.

Trinity is pulled over by the cops.

Act Three

As Lahey and Randy walk over to the Boys to try to do a bogus water test, a crying Lucy runs over and tells Ricky that Trinity has been arrested. Ricky arrives at the scene to his car being towed and Trinity in a cop car, and Lucy being taken away to the drunk tank for trying to bribe the cops.

The Boys are in a somber mood when Corey and Trevor show up with some food. Two two nitwits don’t understand the situation, so Bubbles kicks them out of the Trailer and away from the lot. The episode ends with the Boys in a awful situtation.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Winds of Shit

Julian devises a clever plan to sell part of their driveway in order to earn extra cash. Ricky gets a job as a janitor at a local vocational school.

Plot Summary

Lahey places a ‘For Sale’ sign on the front yard to anger Julien. The camera cuts to the burnt trailer, where Ricky starts digging up hash to bail his old man out. Lahey drives by and tells Julien about the for sale sign and drives off bragging about his role in Ray’s arrest.

Act One

Ricky and Julien argue how and where to sell the hash to raise some quick cash. They decide to start selling dope at school, particularly the local community college. Ricky tries to enter the school, but instead lands a janitor job by bribing the school supervisor with some dope.

Julien and Bubbles visit Ray in jail and break the bad news that he has to stay in there a bit longer. Ray gets mad, but Julien still says he’s going to buy his trailer back before bailing Ray out.

Act Two

Ricky details his success selling hash at the college, and Lucy gushes at Ricky “going to school.” The camera shows Ricky selling some hash in a classroom while taking out the trash. Lahey and Randy record Ricky taking out the trash in an attempt to blackmail him later.

As Ricky, Julien, and Bubbles are preparing the hash to sell, Lahey walks up and tells Julien about supposed interest in the trailer. The Boys arrive at the school to deliver the hash, but Ricky get scared at the toilet flushing and fires off his gun. They quickly leave the area to avoid the cops.

Act Three

The cops still show up and ask the Boys about the gunshots. Ricky is able to get them out of the mess by claiming kids broke into the school. The scene cuts to the morning, and Julien shows up with drinks for the boys.

When Ricky tries to use the money on bailing Ray out, Julien tells him Ray wants to stay in jail a bit longer. Ricky gets up and walks over to Lucy’s trailer to deliver some furniture, but Lahey drops off the photos of Ricky as a janitor.

The plan doesn’t work out as planned for Lahey, as Lucy is still somewhat proud of Ricky’s attempts to impress them.

Season 5, Episode 6: Don’t Cross the Shit Line

The boys star in another one of J-Roc’s greasy porn films. Randy and Lahey manage to get Ray arrested for disability fraud.

Plot Summary

Bubbles approaches Ray in the burnt trailer and Ray asks for some liquor. Bubbles says that Julien stole his liquor, and then asks Ray for some food. Ray says he has 9 cans of ravioli, but it’s missing from the cabinets.

Ray asks Ricky, who is sleeping on the driveway, about the ravioli. Ricky claims he ate one can, while Julien ate the other eight. Ray breaks into Julien’s tent and steals his liquor glass, causing a physical then verbal fight. Ricky finally admits he ate all the ravioli. Julien storms away in anger.

Act One

Lahey is in his trailer labeling liquor bottles with troublemakers in the park, promising to drink the bottles when the people get arrested. Lahey gives Randy some eviction papers for Ray.

J-Roc arrives at his trailer and sees Julien trying to get some more liquor out empty bottles. J-Roc shows off his new bottles of liquor and food, piquing Ray and Bubbles’ interest. Julien and Ricky wants nothing to do with J-Roc’s porn film, but Ray and Bubbles volunteer to do it for food and liquor.

Randy arrives at the burnt trailer and tries to evict Ray, but he only finds Ricky and Julien. Ricky and Randy get into a fight, and Randy goes back to the trailer and tells Lahey about his failure to deliver the eviction. Lahey explains that Ray crossed the “shit line” by telling everyone he was drinking again.

Act Two

Bubbles expresses some regret over his choice to be in the film, but Ray tells him to now worry. J-Roc gives Ray a bottle of liquor and Ray starts chugging. Ricky heads to Lucy’s trailer to convince her not to be in the film, but his attempts were unsuccessful.

Lahey and Randy notice the party in J-Roc’s trailer and decide to investigate. They find the stolen grocery bins, and while Ray is being wheeled out for being passed out, T approaches Lahey and Randy and tells them off. Lahey calls the cops and leave the scene.

Act Three

Ricky makes a unsuccessful last-ditch effort to stop Lucy, but the cops show up before any more filming starts. J-Roc and T get arrested for stealing groceries, and Ted Johnson warns Ricky before departing. Julien warns the Boys about staying out of the cops’ way.

Lahey approaches J-Roc’s trailer and finds the porn tape. He sees Ray hop out of the chair and calls the disability office, who call the cops. The cops throw Ray out of the chair, revealing the farce. Ray is carted off to jail and Ricky vows to take revenge on Lahey.

Notable Clips

Season 5, Episode 5: Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin’ Drunk and He Always Will Be

Bubbles pretends to be a spaceman when the boys buy a rocket set. Ray reveals Lahey’s secret and Lahey goes off the deep end.

Plot Summary

Phil Collins pulls up to Lahey and Randy’s trailer and tries to get Randy to kayak with him. As they practice kayaking in the lot, Phil recommends hypnosis tapes to help Lahey get off the liquor. The bottle kids assault them.

Act One

Ricky is washing his face while trying to justify while he’s not at fault for burning the trailer down. He then makes some bacon for his old man, saving him three pieces in exchange for the Bacon grease. He and Ray then argue over the “sparrows from the Bible.”

Julien wakes up and asks Ray for a splash of Rum, and Ray straight up refuses him the drink. The camera cuts to Bubbles, who is dreaming about ordering a large breakfast at a restaurant. He wakes up and heads towards the burnt trailer.

Bubbles tries to get some bacon, but Ricky already gave it all to Ray. Him and Ricky do bread heels and bacon grease, but it’s obvious that it is both disgusting and dry. Bubbles still seems to be a bit mad about Ricky lying to him about how the trailer burnt down.

Lahey is inside reading “How to Quit Drinking for Life,” but refuses to take the liquor meds Randy gives him. Trinity is seen running to borrow Ricky’s car, but Julien objects to her taking the car. An argument ensues between Ricky, Julien, and Ray.

Ray gives Julien the rest of his rum out of spite and leaves the lot. Bubbles freaks out when Ricky and Julien get into another heated argument. They promise to do whatever Bubbles wants to do, which means heading to the mall for a badminton set.

Act Two

Lahey tries to stop Trinity from driving the car, but he trips over something and she drives off. Lahey freaks out while Randy tries to get him to watch some hypnosis tapes, but Lahey finally relents and agrees to watch the tapes.

The Boys get to the mall and Ricky decides to play some pranks, including getting on the paging system. Bubbles finds a rocket set he wants instead of a badminton set, but the price tag is a whopping $100. Ricky decides to take care of it, claiming to know how to pay for it.

Ricky pulls out a fake checkbook, writes the amount of the rocket, and walks out of the store without paying. As he gets to the car, mall cops show up. Ricky slips the check into Trevor’s pocket while the mall cops take them back to their office.

Back in the office, Ricky tells the mall cops that it is Trevor’s fault the rocket isn’t paid for. The mall cops find the check, a result of the “fake check trick” by Ricky, in Trevor’s pocket. They let Ricky, Julien, and Bubbles go while they hold Corey and Trevor for questioning.

Lahey is seen asleep while watching the hypnosis tapes, and jumps up when they end, claiming to want to make the park great again. Him and Randy walk out of the trailer as the Boys get ready to launch the rocket.

Act Three

The Boys try to play space, but Ricky has no clue how to pretend. Lahey and Ricky try to stop the Boys, but they tell them off and go ahead with their plan anyway. As Ricky is setting up the launch device, Ray calls Lahey out for drinking liquor out of his bottle instead of water.

Ray and Lahey argue over the contents of the bottle, and as Bubbles launches the rocket, it is revealed that Lahey has been drinking vodka out of the water bottle. Lahey gives a speech about his alcoholism and runs over the rocket on his way out.

Randy shows back up to Lahey’s trailer with a bottle of liquor. Lahey thinks it’s some kind of trick, but Randy wants to use the booze to allow Lahey to send Ricky and Julien back to jail.

Season 5, Episode 4: You Got To Blame The Thing Up Here

The boys find ways to help Ray now that his trailer has burned down. Bubbles realizes that the fire was not his fault.

Plot Summary

Ricky wakes up in his car and quickly looks toward the trailer, hoping the trailer fire was a bad dream. It isn’t. Bubbles walks up to Ricky and is hoping the same thing, but then takes the blame for burning the trailer down. Ricky lets Bubbles takes the blame because once Bubbles takes the blame, he can’t.

Act One

A crowd forms in front of Ray’s trailer, and Ricky tells them off. The scene cuts to Lucy’s trailer, where Trinity is marking up Julien’s face while he is sleeping. Julien, Corey, and Trevor head out.

Bubbles apologizes to Ray for burning the trailer down, and notes that it’s a big mess-up for Bubbles. Ricky promises to take care of Ray. J-Roc walks up and offers Ray 50% off some stolen groceries, but a fight stops when Ray tells them to go away.

Julien is in the car with Corey and Trevor, and he yells at them for not telling him about the marker on his face. They head over to Ray’s trailer and Bubbles tells them he thinks he burnt the trailer down. Julien reaffirms the importance of the driveway and him and Ricky argue over when to sell the hash.

Corey and Trevor first rob some gum machines and get the coins by shooting the machines. Ricky is rolling some foot hash while he thinks of a plan to get Ray a bed: haul Ray’s old rig sleeper to the lot. Bubbles get Shitty Bill to tow it back to the park.

Act Two

Julien and the two goons head to the strip club to pull a VLT scam: get the winning ticket and cash out at multiple locations. While they are pumping the machines full of coins, Ray approaches Julien asking for some coins. Julien tells Ray to stop gambling and Ray storms off.

Bubbles and Ricky head to the supermarket to gank some groceries for Ray. J-Roc runs up to them and starts a fight for “cutting their hustle.” Julien is at the print shop and copy the winning ticket.

While they’re selling the groceries in the Park, J-Roc starts another scuffle. Ricky’s gun falls out, scaring off J-Roc and T, and Ricky starts shooting his gun off at J-Roc’s groceries. The Bottle Kids continue the assault by pelting them with bottles, causing J-Roc to hide inside.

Act Three

Julien picks up a bunch of supplies for Ray, including a tent, cots, and other home accessories. Ray comes home drunk and sees the rig sleeper, with Julien close behind. Ricky and Julien get into a quarrel about Ricky leaving the driveway to help his old man.

Julien then gives Ray all the stuff he bought earlier, which leads to another fight. Ricky and Julien finally reconcile when Julien bought Ray a bottle of liquor and claims it’s from Ricky. Ray retires to his sleeper for the day.

Lucy and Sarah arrive at the burnt trailer at night, and Lucy admits that it was her and Ricky that caused the trailer fire. Everyone expresses their anger at Ricky, especially Bubbles and Ray.

Season 5, Episode 3: The Fuckin’ Way She Goes

The boys hide all of the hash by using it to pave Ray’s driveway. Ray’s addiction to gambling and liquor gets worse. Ricky barbecues for his family with devastating effects.

Synopsis

The Boys detail their plan to hide the hash in plain site. They heat the hash into bricks to use to build a driveway on Ray’s lot. Corey and Trevor are called to help with the operation, but when Ricky offers an ultimatum to Julien, he gets fired and storms off.

Act One

JRoc, T, and DVT show their money-making plan: ganking groceries from the local supermarket. Lahey and Randy notice their paving tools were stolen and begin to suspect some wrongdoing in the park.

JRoc and T roll up to Ray’s to collect their grocery tab. Before they arrive, Ray explains to the audience how he paid off the mortgage on the trailer after 35 years. Ray answers the door, but cannot pay his tab due to his newfound addiction to the gambling machines at the local strip club.

Julien finds out that $60 he left on the table was stolen by Ray, who pretends to not know how the money went missing. Ricky wakes up and wants to have a barbeque for his family, and approaches JRoc to get him the food and equipment in exchange for some of his rap gear back.

Act Two

Ricky arrives at Lucy and Sarah’s trailer to pick up some of the rap equipment for JRoc, and notices Trinity making some music. He invites them all to his barbeque. Ricky notices Julien, Corey, and Trevor outside, and asks Julien to take Ray out at night so he can get right with his family. Julien agrees.

Lahey finishes his bottle of liquid and leaves for a game of bridge. Ricky takes back some of JRoc’s equipment, and Sarah argues with Ricky. JRoc pulls up with a new barbeque and food.

The barbeque starts and Ricky is cooking. Julien rallies Ray, Bubbles, and Corey and Trevor to head to a strip club, and on the way out it’s shown that Bubbles cooked some french fries.

Ricky burns the potatoes he is cooking and heads inside to cook some french fries. He and Lucy drive off to have a private conversation, but he leaves the grease pot on the stove with the fire still running. There’s a big flame at the end of the act.

Act Three

The Boys are now at the strip club, and Julien gives Ray money to buy some drinks. Ray instead wheels into the VLT room and blows all the cash gambling. Disgruntled and cashless, they all leave the club. The police pull up on Ricky and Lucy engaging in salacious deeds and send them home.

As Julien drives the gang back home, they notice a slew of police and firemen. Ray’s trailer is the one on fire, and it is determined to be a grease fire. Ricky shuffles all the firemen off the property to protect the hash driveway, and then consoles the despondent Ray.

Season 1, Episode 1: Take Your Little Gun and Get Out of My Trailer Park

After 18 months in jail, our Trailer Park Boys, Ricky and Julian , head back home to Sunnyvale Trailer Park aiming to get their lives back together again. The problem is that neither Ricky’s fiancee Lucy nor his dad Ray will let him back into their homes, and some guy named Cyrus has moved into Julian’s trailer, having crowned himself the new “King of the Park.”

Synopsis

The episode begins by showing how Ricky and Julien landed in jail for 18 months: a shootout in the streets. The two are then introduced and are shown being released from jail.

Act One

As they are released from jail, Julien denies Ricky a ride in his cab and blames Ricky for landing him in jail. Jim Lahey is introduced and has some strong words about Ricky and Julien, and later intercepts Ricky shaking some guy down for cigarettes.

Julien arrives back at the park and finds out that his trailer is both a mess and that Cyrus had moved in while he was in jail. Cyrus claims that he is not afraid of Julien and states that he now runs the Trailer Park.

Act Two

Ricky goes to pick up smokes from the convenience store and runs into Cyrus. Both steal the items they want from the store. JRoc and T are introduced, and they tell Julien about Cyrus’ liquor and drug businesses in the park.

Bubbles is introduced and Julien tells him to spread word that he will take care of Cyrus once and for all. Cyrus then shows off his gun for the audience, stating that his dad gave him it, the safety is always off, and that it’s “seen a lot of action.”

Cyrus and Ricky again cross paths in the trailer park and Cyrus steals two packs of smokes from Ricky. He also warns Ricky to tell Julien that he’s going to strong arm his rule of the park.

Ricky shows up at Sarah and Lucy’s trailer. Sarah tries to stop Ricky from entering the trailer, but he eventually gets to talk to Lucy. He tries to move back in, but Lucy freaks out and tell him that he can’t move in nor see his daughter.

Ray is introduced, but he is not shown as he is drunk and playing loud music in his trailer. Lahey and Randy are then reintroduced and they explain that they are calling the cops for the impending shootout in the park.

Act Three

Randy explains that he wants to keep the cops out of Cyrus and Julien’s feud. Cyrus arrives and questions Lahey and Randy’s decision to call the cops, and threatens the two of them if they go through with their plan.

Cyrus and a large crowd of people arrive at Julien’s trailer. Julien meets him outside, threatens him, and begins throwing Cyrus’ stuff outside the window and breaking them. Julien then questions the park residents whether they need Cyrus’ services and is meet with a deadening silence.

Cyrus pulls his gun out and threatens Julien, but Julien eggs him on to shoot him by pulling the gun to his head and taunting Cyrus. With the whole park watching, Cyrus chickens out and leaves the park. Lahey thanks him and the residents are happy with the result.

Ricky, now out of places to sleep, winds up at Julien’s. Julien shuts him out at first, but then shows some kindness by offering Ricky blankets, liquor, and his car to sleep in. The credits then roll.

Trailer Park Boys Season Rankings

Trailer Park Boys is one of the best comedies on Television today, with 12 seasons of high quality comedy. In this post we rank the seasons of Trailer Park Boys from most enjoyable to least:

  1. Season 5
  2. Season 3
  3. Season 4
  4. Season 2
  5. Season 6
  6. Season 7
  7. Season 1
  8. Seasons 8-12

An Explanation for Our Rankings

Why was Season 5 the best season? Why were 8-12 the worst? We break down the full explanation for our rankings and what makes each season enjoyable and/or more enjoyable than other seasons.

Season 5

Season 5 focuses on Lahey’s return from the mental hospital, Ray burnt trailer and eviction, and the Boys’ intricate dope-growing and selling operation. The Season ends with the Boys in jail but with a lot of money waiting for them afterwards.

The multiple concurrent storylines are both hilarious and enjoyable to follow, and place Season 5 at the top of the best Seasons list. The other seasons simply lack the deep humor and storytelling present in this one.

Season 3

Season 3 focuses on the Boys’ plan to make money and go on a Cruise at the end of the season. Their schemes include a bootlegging vodka, reselling barbeques, and opening a gas station in the park. All of these make for memorable and hilarious episodes.

Despite the many memorable episodes, Season 4 falls short of its successor. The single linear storyline is highly enjoyable, and more so than the other seasons, but Season 5 simply tops it. Otherwise, Season 4 is a masterpiece and very much earns the #2 spot on this list.

Season 4

Season 4 includes Ricky’s short stint as supervisor and the Boy’s elaborate plan to make money and buy the Trailer Park. Some of the most memorable events include the standoff between Lahey and Ricky in the finale, the rub-and-tug, and the emergence of Conky.

Watching the Boys grow dope and Lahey lose his mind is hilarious, but the storyline is a bit too linear to top this list. If you like the conflict between Lahey and the Boys, this season is certainly for you.

Season 2

Season 2 represents the first large-scale dope growing opportunity the Boys undergo and Lahey’s attempts to undermine it. From the Bible Pimp to the Bare Pimp Project, there are a ton of memorable moments in the season.

Season 2 has the best season finale in the entire show, and it propels the season to its #4 ranking despite its slow start. While not perfect, Season 2 is the beginning of Trailer Park Boys’ ascent to a top comedy show.

Season 6

Season 6 features Ray’s life at the dump, Lahey’s return to the police force, and a decent relationship between him and the Boys. Between the Cheeseburger Picnic and Sam Losco taking Randy hostage, there are some memorable moments from this season.

Despite these memorable moments, there are few other ones in Season 6. In addition, the lack of an antagonistic relationship between Lahey and the Boys limits the comedy of this season, but the episodes are generally pretty good compared to the ones following in this ranking.

Season 7

Season 7 focuses on Phil Collins and his sons, the Boys smuggling dope into the United States, and the continuing storyline of Lahey as a cop. The Mustard Tiger is the best episode of the season, and the funniest moment is Ray getting arrested in the United States.

The season is and feels long (10 episodes), and the several storylines feel a bit jumbled. Although there are several funny moments throughout the season, the lack of cohesion makes this season fall to the number #5 spot on this list.

Season 1

Season 1 features the beginning of Trailer Park Boys, including an original bout with Cyrus, the Boys struggling to get on their feet, and Ricky’s wedding to Lucy. The season finale is by far the best episode in the season.

Season 1 feels very slow, but the season finale is tried-and-true TPB. Although the entirety of the season isn’t great, the fact that pushing through it unlocks the rest of the show allows it to rank above the following seasons on this list.

Season 8-12

Seasons 8-12 were produced by Netflix, a divergence and a huge step down from the earlier seasons. There are a few memorable moments, but they seem forced compared to the effortless humor displayed in prior seasons.

The episodes in these seasons are not the same Trailer Park Boys as previous seasons, and it is tough to recommend watching these seasons. Nonetheless, they do provide some funny bits, but they pale in comparison to ones from Season 1-7.

Best Scenes from Season 2

The Boys Trick the Cops

From Episode 6: Never Trust a Man with No Shirt On. Lahey calls the cops on the boys, and they scramble to keep the cops away from their dope.

Jalapeno Chips

From Episode 6: Never Trust a Man with No Shirt On. Randy buys the boys some booze and chips, but Ricky has a hard time understanding how to pronounce his favorite chip flavor.

Ricky Takes the Grade 10 Exam

From Episode 7: The Bare Pimp Project. Ricky takes the Grade 10 Exam and confronts his sworn enemy.

Sam Losco on Drugs

From Episode 2: Jim Lahey is a Drunk Bastard. Sam Losco tries to beat Lahey for the Supervisor position, but the Boys concoct a plan to send Sam back to his cave.

The Police Chase

From Episode 7: The Bare Pimp Project. The Boys try to outrun the police, but Bubbles makes a split-second decision that sends the Boys to jail.

Bonus: Bubbles Tells Off the Bible Pimp

From Episode 5: The Bible Pimp.

The Best Scenes from Season 1

Season 1 was a bit slow in terms of actions and crime. However, there are several scenes that are both memorable and hilarious. Here are the top scenes from Season 1:

The Jim Trick

From Episode 5: I’m Not Gay, I Love Lucy… Wait a Second, Maybe I am Gay. Ricky pulls the handy Jim Trick out of his pocket and is able to narrowly able to escape the cops.

The Grocery Store Robbery

From Episode 6: Who the Hell Invited These Idiots to My Wedding?. The Boys and Corey and Trevor rob a grocery store, but a screw-up threatens the entire mission.

Trinity Shoots Ricky

From Episode 4: Mrs. Peterson’s Dog Gets Fucked Up. Ricky cooks up some marijuana brownies, discovers a hidden gun, and gets shot in the butt by his daughter Trinity.

Ricky and Chicken Fingers

From Episode 2: Fuck Community College, Let’s Get Drunk and Eat Chicken Fingers. Ricky sleeps in a car on Julien’s property and finally pisses Julien off enough.

Ricky Gets Arrested at His Wedding.

Episode 6: Who the Hell Invited These Idiots to My Wedding?. Ricky gets arrested at his wedding, and Julien stands up for his buddy.