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The pitch was greenlit from Showcase, and the six-episode first season debuted on April 22, 2001.

Bubbles wasn't even Bubbles yet the character's name in The Cart Boy was Darren. The result was The Cart Boy, a film about two mall security guards (played by Wells and Tremblay) who confront Smith for stealing shopping carts from the mall. Wells: They thought that we were making fun of somebody. Tremblay: And then when Showcase was interested in picking it up as a series, we had to basically shoot a small short film showing the character Bubbles, because on paper they were uncertain of this character. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)Ĭlattenburg and Barrie Dunn (who served as co-producer during the early seasons of the show and played Ricky's father, Ray) pitched the show to several networks. The character of Bubbles, centre, stemmed from an impression Smith, centre, had done to entertain hockey teammates in the locker room. Mike Clattenburg saw it and thought it was a funny character, and I think he named him Bubbles. The glasses came from a yard sale in Texas that a girlfriend at the time bought. I'd be doing that character in the dressing room just to make guys laugh. Smith: It was just a character I had sort of always done just goofing around, you know, when I played hockey and stuff. There was no Bubbles in the film, but Smith was responsible for recording and mixing sound. Smith had a go-to impression he'd break out behind the scenes.

The mockumentary looked at the lives of two small-time criminals living in a trailer park. By now, the Ricky and Julian characters were in place. Up next was Trailer Park Boys, a feature-length film that was screened at the 1999 Atlantic Film Festival. Layhie, played by actor John Dunsworth, who later became Mr. Their characters weren't yet known as Ricky and Julian, respectively, but the seed was planted. Wells and Tremblay starred in 1998's One Last Shot, which was about two friends having a final night out in Halifax before one of them moved to Vancouver. Tremblay: He was watching this crazy stuff we were doing and he said, 'Let's get together and do a short film.'

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And Mike said to me, 'I'm going to teach them how to act and I'm going to make a show.' Tremblay just being silly, just making up characters and just sending them to their friend just for their own entertainment. (Submitted by Sarah Dunsworth-Nickerson)ĭunsworth-Nickerson (Sarah): It was Robb Wells and J.P. Lucy DeCoutere (Lucy), left, and Sarah Dunsworth-Nickerson (Sarah) on the set in 2002.

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