Trailer Park Boys - 5th Season.

More, On Season 5....

The boys are back, but this time they have their own trailer park. Filmed for four years in an actual trailer park in Nova Scotia, Trailer Park Boys —the faux documentary series about three petty criminals — has finally got its own home.

“This is the funniest season with great scripts, but the best part is we got our own set. We didn’t have to film in other people’s trailer parks,” says Lucy DeCoutere (Lucy) from the Sheraton Suites in Eau Claire.

“People have been great, but I wouldn’t want us swearing ... every five seconds in my backyard either.”

DeCoutere, Sarah E. Dunsworth (Sara), her dad John Dunsworth (Mr. Lahey) and Pat Roach (Randy), were in town last week to promote the show’s fifth season premiering this Sunday.
It kicks off with the boys, Julian (John Paul Tremblay), Ricky (Robb Wells) and Bubbles (Mike Smith), once again, getting out of jail after a massive drug deal gone bad.
They return to the Sunnyvale Trailer Park only to find out all the drug money is gone and they are back at square one.

“People are going to love it because we are all so sexy and sex sells,” says Roach.
“Seriously? They like it because it’s all good. The boys go to jail every year, but they always come back and life is good again.”
Over the course of the next 10-episodes, the boys start a gang war with a couple of drug dealers who sell dope out of their grandmother’s house, forgive a temporarily sober Mr. Lahey and pave a driveway with hash.

The fifth season is much more reflective of the first two as series creator and head writer Mike Clattenburg is back behind the camera, says John Dunsworth.
“Mike is very specific on what he wants — what works and what doesn’t work — and he’s almost always right. He knows what people want to watch.”
First introduced to audiences in 2001, TPB is one of the most successful Canadian TV series in recent history. The cast have become Canadian icons and the show has been picked-up in the U.S. by BBC America.

That said, it doesn’t mean the stars of the show can quit their day jobs.
“Last year I quit my full-time job to become a full-time Trailer Park Boy, but I’m not a very good actor so nobody else wanted to hire me,” says Roach, who soon returned to his rental/sales career on a contractual basis.

“Now I try to rent somebody a water cooler and they say ‘Aren’t you Randy? Can you lift your shirt?’ It’s not the best.”

Sarah Dunsworth can relate. As the owner of a small clothing store in Nova Scotia, she’s still surprised when fans recognize her.

“I don’t think any of us have really been affected by it. We film it over the summer and then go back to our normal lives and jobs,
“Then one day you look over and see someone staring at you and whispering and you think ‘Oh yeah, I’m on a show.’”

Trailer Park Boys airs Sundays at 10 p.m. beginning this week on Showcase.