I really dislike pot culture films.. so juvenile..

I suppose i have a bit of a soft spot for cheech and chong.. Other then that i can't think of one movie envolving pot which was enjoyable.. this will probably be another movie for my stoner friends to want to watch while they are high.. there is nothing worse then watching movies based of weed when you are not high and everyone else is.. makes you want to die..

Gigantor Please tell me you don't have a poster of the trailer park boys at your place

Seconded.

Certainly not. I've always loved TPB.

Why do I like TPB? Hmm, that's something I was never posed with before, so I don't exactly have a predisposed answer off hand. Besides, you've never even seen the show before so my reasoning would be moot towards you, no doubt.

But I'll try and articulate myself here all the same.

TBP was something very light and very simple that I could watch at any given point in the episode and find myself enjoying it on many levels:

-Many subtle Canadian references throughout the episodes:
In this manic entertainment starved craze we've pretty much introduced ourselves with since birth, we are very seldom given the opportunity to see real Canadian references in media outside of how the US portrays us (Igloos, hockey, cold, etc...). Nothing beats seeing Ricky drink rum and coke with a cut-up PC bottle. Or the many Rush references (such as when Bubbles kidnapped Alex Lifeson). The MacDonald cigarettes. Etc...They're light, and not overly subjective like most American shows are, so I've always had an appreciation of that.

-Face it, we all feel infinitely better when watching losers consistently lose at life:
The high-point (or low) of the show is really digging on just how utterly stupid the gang is. Everything from their parenting skills, excessive drugging/boozing, schemes, gunplay, all go to such lengths of stupidity it is a formula that never got old to me. In the later seasons, I found it began to sputter a little, and some charm was lost with a couple of key members leaving the show, but it was a consistent formula until the bitter end of the series.

-Watching life in the trailer park:
I've had friends/acquaintances tell me that the show is not very far off from the reality of living in a trailer park. Sure, there are some gross exaggerations sprinkled throughout the series (hash driveway, cars flipped over in the middle of the road, garbage anywhere, zero sense of humanity within the community).

-Interesting characters:
Even though they've got the extra chromosome, the three primary characters of the show (Ricky, Julian, Bubbles) gel together so well throughout each episode it is a real treat to watch them work off of each other and how they react to all secondary characters (Lucy, Shitty Bill, Cory & Trevor, plus a multitude of others).

I'm sure you've made up your mind about not watching the show, so I won't bother wasting anymore time trying to figure out why I have ever liked the show in the first place.

It appears a lot of your judgment (seeing as you claim you haven't even watched an episode in full) relies upon how the younger fans of the series represent themselves. I am faced with this a lot with some artists I like (Tool, Marilyn Manson, Rage Against the Machine. most forms of metal, etc...) whereas people dislike whatever due to the fans and how they represent themselves intellectually and physically.  Nothing to do with the actual art-form.

i actually just got turned onto them within the last few months and i love the show....i've seen the original movie, seasons 1-7, the x-mas special & the latest preview for the special in December. i've yet to see The Big Dirty....and i think there's something called One Last Shot?
i read somewhere (wiki or web site, idk) that they're supposedly doing a special in Dec 2008 and another one scheduled for sometime in 2009.
i'd really like to see another season, myself...but i'll take what i can get.
 

The TV show is done and all that Showcase plays now is re-runs. They are planning annual hour long specials though. One should be out before Xmas.

I fell into a similar trap as you regarding the whole "I'm Rick James Bitch!" phase that encompassed everyone under the age of 20. Chappelle was an overnight sensation and I hated the man a great deal because of the emulation from his Rick James skit. That is, until I actually sat down and watched The Chappelle Show (under protest, mind you) and immediately fell in love with the show.

This is why I pay no heed to fans of any form of media/art, because a lot can be missed out upon as a result.

Some sad TBP news. Yes Adam, I am hijacking your thread and twisting it into a news thread: