To celebrate P-Cip, Sean and my’s foray into Canadian media fame, see the Trailer Park Boys have American Fans article from yesterday, I thought I’d look for a musical clip related to the show. The first thing I found is a funny scene from the new movie where Tragically Hip’s lead singer, Gord Downie, makes a cameo as a cop. Ricky, who is famous in the TV series for tricking cops to get out of trouble, convinces them that Julian is deaf. The other cop, who asks “Where are you coming from?” is Alex Lifeson, the lead guitarist from RUSH:
Then I found a clip from the beginning of my all-time favorite episode, Who’s the Microphone Assassin, where J-Roc and the Roc Pile shoot a low-budget video for the song of the same name. “The day that J-Roc loses his flow is the day that hair on Jim Lahey’s bald head grow…“
Later in the same episode, the boys have a rap concert. But J-Roc has stage fright due to having been caught masturbating (I couldn’t make this stuff up) so other members of the gang have to fill in. Cory, Trevor and then finally Bubbles get up on stage to bust some rhymes. “Mad MC skills leave ya struck, and I roll with my kitties and I’m hard as fuck!”
And finally, J-Roc gets talked into performing, and the ditty he performs about his mom catching him wanking is undeniably catchy. Ask anyone who has seen this episode – you’ll be chanting “It could happen to you, cause it happened to me…” for a few days afterwards.
If you’re uninitiated, I’ve just given you an easy way to take a peek at this ridiculous phenomenon. Hit the play button on any of the videos to see the clips. I swear this is almost the last of it. Since I’m now an official authority, I have to act accordingly.
If you want to hang out with real life TPBs come to Welland some time. Our bubbles (Colange) would happily be your host. If I gotta listen to another coked out welland version of Ricky ask me what I’m looking at or if I think I’m better then them while I’m trying to soak up the ambience of the local shit show I may have to avoid going out in my home town all together. This TPBs shit is funny but unfortunately for me resembles real life a little too much. Funny to watch on TV, try avoiding these guys every time you go home for holidays.
For example, one night I’m sitting at the kitchen table with Welland’s version of Julian watchin Welland’s version of J-Roc & crew doing lines and talking shit about an incident they had the police a few nights before. A cop came to the door told them the rap music was too loud, told them they had to turn it down and boldly asked if they were doing lines… to which the guy in his 30’s standing at the door looking like he hadn’t slept for 3 days, wearing a G-Unit baseball cap and matching G-Unit hooded sweat-shirt replied, “what the fuck would make you think we’re doing lines?”
Dave you gotta post some Colange stuff… he’s way fuckin funnier than bubbles.