The following characters are featured in the Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys.
Main characters Character Actor Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Julian John Paul Tremblay colspan="12" Ricky Robb Wells colspan="12" Bubbles Mike Smith colspan="12" Jim Lahey John Dunsworth colspan="12" Randy Patrick Roach colspan="12" Lucy Lucy DeCoutere colspan="10" colspan="12" Sarah Sarah E. Dunsworth colspan="12" J-Roc Jonathan Torrens colspan="10" colspan="12" Cory Cory Bowles colspan="6" colspan="5" Trevor Michael Jackson colspan="6" colspan="6" Ray Barrie Dunn colspan="7" colspan="5" Trinity Jeanna Harrison colspan="10" Levi Ardon Bess colspan="1" colspan="11" Desiree Sandi Ross colspan="1" colspan="11" Treena Lahey Elliot Page colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="10" Barbara Lahey Shelley Thompson colspan="1" colspan="11" Sam Losco Sam Tarasco colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="3" colspan="1" Tyrone Tyrone Parsons colspan="2" colspan="10" Detroit Velvet Smooth Garry James colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="7" Cyrus Bernard Robichaud colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="3" Philadelphia "Phil" Collins Richard Collins colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="5" Jacob Collins Jacob Rolfe colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="6" George Green George Green colspan="6" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="2" Don/Donna Leigh MacInnis colspan="7" colspan="3" colspan="2" Leslie Dancer Daniel Lillford colspan="8" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" Detective Ted Johnston Jim Swansburg colspan="3" colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="1" Marguerite Murphy Marguerite McNeil colspan="7" colspan="2" colspan="2"
Ricky
Richard "Ricky" LaFleur (played by Robb Wells), is one of the three primary characters in the series. Ricky is described as a fun-loving, dim-witted slacker who enjoys marijuana, Jalapeño Potato Chips, pepperoni, chicken chips, licorice, cigarettes, ravioli, chicken fingers, fish sticks, and alcoholic beverages. One of his biggest weaknesses is education as he only made it as far as Grade 10, not completely finished with High School. His career in crime stimulated from his childhood, involving his father. He is known to lack patience and tends to react violently.
Julian
Julian "Jules" (played by John Paul Tremblay) is the eldest primary character in the series. He is responsible for hiring the camera crew that follows the characters around, originally meant to document his life. Like Ricky, Julian enjoys marijuana and alcoholic beverages, and he used to smoke cigarettes. In the original 1999 black-and-white movie Trailer Park Boys, Julian sold and used cocaine, and Ricky also indulged. Despite being a career criminal, Julian follows a clearly defined set of morals and often displays a level of honour and selflessness well beyond that of a normal criminal, which makes him the de facto leader of the trio
Bubbles
Bubbles (played by Mike Smith) is the youngest primary character, Julian and Ricky's closest friend, and the series' breakout character. In the first season, like most of the characters in the show, Bubbles maintains a somewhat-reserved demeanour to look good on camera. Early on, he reveals that he was abandoned by his parents, retaining only a bubble-making machine as keepsake from his childhood. As the series progresses, he reveals many sides to his personality.
Bubbles's full name is not revealed until a later TPB film, Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It. In a scene, his parents' mailbox reveals his last name to be Harnis, a play on the name for a business, Harness Work. Throughout the Trailer Park Boys series, he is simply referred to as 'Bubbles' by other characters, friends, hospitals, courts, and other officials and entities. He is known for his hoarse Maritimer English, sensitive nature, pearl snap shirts, and thick glasses that magnify his eyes to a considerable degree. Bubbles has never been seen without his glasses, even in photographs of him as a child. His home is a shed on the trailer park and he is socially inept.
Conky Conky is a ventriloquist puppet that Bubbles received from a family member who used him in vaudeville times. Bubbles treats Conky as a trusted friend, but bestows him with a caustic, annoying, and domineering personality. Conky tends to insult people, especially Ricky; his utterances even shock Bubbles himself.
Jim Lahey
James "Jim" Lahey (played by John Dunsworth) is the supervisor of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. In his youth, Lahey was an idealistic police officer, but since his wrongful dismissal as a result of a prank by Julian, Ricky, and Bubbles on Halloween 1977, he degenerated into a bitter alcoholic. Still, he has devoted himself to making Sunnyvale a better place to live, accompanied by his devoted assistant Randy. Even in his most incoherent moments, Lahey maintains an extreme affinity for the trailer park and all of its residents except Ricky. In spite of all that, he remains devoted to liquor as he tells everyone to "Trust the Liquor" while making claims about the existence of "Shit-Hawks" present.
Randy
Randall, commonly referred to as Randy and Bobandy (pronounced: BOW-bandy) (played by Patrick Roach), is Jim Lahey's devoted assistant trailer park supervisor. Their relationship began in 1997 when Lahey's then-wife Barbara found Randy turning tricks for cheeseburgers while calling himself "Smokey" and wearing a cowboy hat. Out of her Christian charity, she invited him to stay with them for a time.
It is revealed in the sixth season that Randy is bisexual; he had been maintaining a sexual relationship with Lahey, but also becomes sexually attracted to Sarah and Lucy, the latter apparently being pregnant by him. Randy and the boys were schoolyard chums and, though he usually sides with Lahey against them, he also demonstrates some lingering thread of friendship toward them. Randy will sometimes seek the Boys' assistance whenever Lahey goes overboard with his antics. He almost never wears a shirt, citing that he is allergic to fabric and will get rashes. However, Randy will wear a shirt under very rare circumstances, and only when he has no choice but to wear one. One example includes the second-season episode "Never Trust a Man with No Shirt On," when Randy wears a shirt to conceal his radio while eavesdropping on the Boys to gather information on their grow-op. He also wears very tight white pants, which he removes when preparing to engage in a physical fight.
He is addicted to cheeseburgers and onion rings (thus being called "Lord of the Onion Rings") and his resulting pronounced belly is his major target for ridicule, especially from J-Roc, who will often crouch down and speak directly to Randy's belly (or "cheeseburger locker", as J-Roc puts it). In the seventh season, Randy becomes a frequent user of marijuana and goes into business with Phil Collins, operating an RV/food truck producing hamburgers, which are called "Dirty Burger"(s). In the episode "Jump The Cheeseburger", he attempts to jump an inflatable cheeseburger on his bicycle while wrapped in cardboard for protection. The jump is a failure, and Phil eventually fires Randy due to his marijuana addiction.
Randy's relationship with Lahey mirrors their work hierarchy, with Lahey calling the shots, speaking in a commanding voice, and doing what he wants, while Randy obediently conforms, following orders with a warm "Yes, Mr. Lahey". At the same time, Lahey holds deep affection for Randy, and is usually seen as sad whenever Randy breaks up with him. Similarly, Randy holds deep concern for Lahey's well-being, specifically his severe alcoholism. Randy patiently tries to bring out the best in Lahey by subtle means.
For example, with Lahey's drunk antics going out of control, Randy videotapes them with the hope of showing them to him later. Randy calls Lahey "Mr. Lahey", except on very rare occasions when he is angry with him and (rather contemptuously) calls him "James". Lahey affectionately calls him "Bo-Bandy" occasionally when he is drunk. Like Lahey, Randy drinks heavily, but he is sober more often than Lahey and acts as the voice of reason during Lahey's occasional lapses of sanity. Although he starts smoking marijuana in Season 7, Randy no longer smokes after that season.
Lucy
Lucy (played by Lucy DeCoutere) is Ricky's on-and-off again girlfriend from the first season to the tenth season. Ricky is extremely loyal to Lucy, but Lucy is promiscuous, especially when intoxicated and stoned on marijuana, but Lucy expressed a genuine desire to be a responsible parent and will go to great lengths to ensure that Trinity does not end up like her father.
Lucy and Julian had a brief relationship after high school, which Julian would rather forget (it is occasionally implied throughout the series that Julian, not Ricky, is Trinity's biological father, though this is never confirmed). Her relationship with Ricky has taken many turns throughout the series; at the end of the first season, she agrees to marry Ricky though she never seemed interested in doing so, but she breaks up with him after he's arrested during the wedding. In Season 2, Lucy starts going out with Ricky's nemesis Cyrus, but the relationship falls apart after Cyrus' meltdown from failing Grade 10. Ricky is finally able to rekindle their relationship during the fifth season.
She also tends to gravitate toward men who can do something for her, or demonstrate the ability to elevate her to a status level better than the one she has. This is why she rejects Ricky when he is down and out, but takes him back when he starts to grow dope or has any moderate amount of money.
Lucy has a boob job in the fifth season, a fact that Ricky didn't seem to notice, other than it seemed he was more than usually turned on by her and couldn't figure out why. In the later movies she began working at the local strip club, or as it is called, the "gentleman's club" where she has a fling with her boss, Sonny.
At the end of the seventh season, she gives birth to Randy's son, who was conceived during a weekend Ricky spent in jail. Although Ricky has difficulty accepting that the baby is not his, he's happy he doesn't have to pay child support, but still treats the baby as his own. In the tenth season, Randy eventually reveals that Baby Randy was put up for adoption in order to keep the baby away from the negative influences of the trailer park.
In the first episode of the eleventh season, it is revealed that Lucy has left Canada (presumably for the United States) and is working as a nanny for Tom Arnold. Ricky explains (to the camera) that, after he was almost killed near the end of the tenth season, Lucy gave him an ultimatum: stop partying completely, or she would leave. Needless to say, Ricky didn't manage to comply.
Sarah
Sarah (played by Sarah E. Dunsworth) is Lucy's best friend and roommate. She moved in with Lucy and Trinity while Ricky was in prison at the beginning of the first season. Both the actress and her character were credited as Sara during the first season.
Sarah is much more insightful and level-headed than Lucy. She and Lucy make their living running a beauty salon out of their trailer. Although she prefers to distance herself from the Boys' antics, she will often lend her assistance if she stands to gain from it.
Her relationship with Ricky is a key aspect of her character; she dates Ricky in the second season after Lucy breaks up with him. But after Ricky is arrested again, she breaks up with him and becomes increasingly disrespectful and hostile towards him.
In the fourth season, she begins dating Cory and Trevor, becoming very protective of them and trying to discourage them from working with Ricky. Near the end of the season, she announced plans to marry Cory and Trevor. However, during the fifth season, she denied being their girlfriend or lover.