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 Welcome to Sunnyvale Trailer Park, home of Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, three best friends in their 30s who have spent their lives together growing up in Sunnyvale.
Ricky’s currently living in his car which is parked outside his girlfriend, Lucy’s, trailer. Lucy is sick of the fact that Ricky spends a lot of time in jail for committing petty crimes – so she won’t let Ricky live IN her trailer – but she still agrees to get together with him every once in a while. Ricky wants to spend more time with Lucy and their daughter, Trinity, but right now he’s got to help Bubbles and Julian rob an ATM machine. After all, how else is he going to support his family?
Julian is usually the brains behind operations like these, and he’s got the ATM heist all planned out. Cory and Trevor, two inept park residents who are often used as scapegoats, offer to help but the plan goes awry when The Shitmobile, Ricky’s car, rolls backwards into a storefront window near the ATM machine. The store alarm goes off and the boys race away – but not before loading the car with hundreds of cartons of cigarettes from the store shelves.
The boys might’ve been able to escape from the cop car and helicopter that are now in hot pursuit, except Ricky forces Julian to pull over because he has to take a piss. As the cops catch up to them, Ricky and Julian make sure Bubbles escapes by telling him to hide in the bush. Julian’s not good in these types of situations – he freezes up – but Ricky is confident that he can talk his way out this predicament. He almost succeeds, but then Julian gets nervous and blows it by speaking to one of the police officers (Ricky had told the cops Julian was deaf and dumb.)
Not surprisingly, the boys are thrown in jail – again. Ricky enjoys jail because he gets to play ball hockey and is captain of a great team of prisoners. They’re practicing for a big hockey tournament: the prisoners vs. the guards. Donny is one of the prison guards – he knows that with Ricky as team captain, the prisoners could win, so he arranges to let Ricky and Julian out of jail a month early. Ricky is furious that he’s going to miss playing in the hockey tournament with his friends, and he knows that Donny’s setting him free on purpose.
Meanwhile, Cadillac, a fellow inmate, warns Julian against being lured into doing The Big Dirty when he gets out of jail. Cadillac explains that newly released prisoners often decide they want to do one last big job – and retire with all the profits. But most of the time they get caught, and land right back in jail. So Cadillac gives Julian a safer idea. Ricky, on the other hand, likes the idea of The Big Dirty, and eventually convinces Julian to consider it.
Back at the park, Bubbles is spending his time restoring old broken-down shopping cards and selling them back to the grocery stores to support himself and his dozens of cats. Bubbles takes care of all the cats in the trailer park; he misses Ricky and Julian terribly.
When Ricky and Julian get back to the park, all hell breaks loose. Mr. Jim Lahey, Sunnyvale’s perpetually drunk Trailer Park Supervisor, and his shirtless assistant Randy, want to lay down the law and talk to Ricky about adhering to all the rules of the park. Ricky responds by driving his car through Lahey’s makeshift barrier gate.
Ricky returns to Lucy’s trailer and finds out that things have changed. Not only is Lucy living with her friend Sarah, she’s also working as a dancer at a local strip club and has had a boob job. While Ricky is visiting her at the club, Julian meets a sexy dancer named Wanda and decides to take her on a date.
Ricky realizes that he needs to make some money – fast – in order to get Lucy back. He needs to do what he does best: start growing dope again to support his family. But getting a dope operation up and running requires start-up funds that Ricky doesn’t have. Julian tells the boys about Cadillac’s idea to steal change – it’s theft under $1,000, so they won’t risk going back to jail, and they can rob change from local parking meters.
Meanwhile, Barb Lahey – Jim Lahey’s ex-wife and the owner of the park – confronts Jim and puts her foot down. Lahey has been remiss in collecting lot fees and Barb tells him that she wants him to evict anyone who is more than 3 months late with their payments. Lahey hatches a plan to exact revenge on the boys by forging Sunnyvale’s accounting records so it looks like they haven’t paid.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, along with Cory and Trevor, attempt to steal change from parking meters but realize they don’t have the right tools. Julian wants to abort the mission but Ricky’s impatience gets the better of him and he runs over a parking meter with his car. But it’s not enough cash.
When Julian and Wanda go on their first date, Julian spots a HUGE coin machine filled with loonies and toonies – it’s The Big Dirty!
Ricky receives mail from his friends in jail – they want him to come back to play hockey in the tournament. Ricky’s got to find a way to go back to jail – just temporarilty. The boys head to a party at their pal J-Roc’s, where Ricky proposes to Lucy, and she accepts. Wanda and Julian are also getting pretty serious, so Julian tells her not to get too attached. He’s worried that if The Big Dirty goes awry, he’ll end up back in jail. Wanda’s got a checkered past too, though, and she tells him that jail’s no big deal. Julian has found his perfect mate!
When Bubbles realizes that Lahey and Randy have trashed his shed in their effort to exact revenge, he attacks them with nunchucks. Julian intervenes to keep the peace, and Lahey shows him the falsified accounting records. Barb doesn’t believe that the boys already paid their lot fees – they have no choice but to do The Big Dirty in order to get enough money to pay the lot fees directly to Barb.
The Big Dirty is underway and is going smoothly until Trevor accidentally hits the fire alarm. Dozens of people run out of the theatres and see the boys committing the heist. But the boys escape in the Shitmobile with a ton of change in the trunk of the car. Because most of them had their faces covered, witnesses can only identify Cory and Trevor. Julian can’t believe they did it!
Ricky’s quite proud – he’s going to spend his Big Dirty money on his wedding. While Sunnyvale residents are preparing for the wedding, Lahey convinces the cops to come to the park to check things out. Immediately after Ricky and Lucy exchange vows, Sonny, Lucy’s boss from the strip club, shows up. Sonny has a gun and he wants the $6,000 that Lucy owes him for her boob job. When Ricky refuses to pay for used tits, Sonny fires his gun. The bullets hit the trunk of the Shitmobile and change starts pouring out. When the cops – who are waiting in the wings with Lahey – hear that shots have been fired, they storm the wedding.
During the chaos that follows, Wanda gets arrested for being a fugitive from the law – her past has finally caught up to her; Sonny gets arrested for unlawful possession of a handgun; and Bubbles tries madly to gather the change that’s spilling out of the Shitmobile’s trunk. When the boys try to escape, Lahey chases them – leading to a game of chicken in the streets of Sunnyvale. The ensuing crash causes all change to fly out of the trunk and the boys are led downtown.
In court, Ricky tries to talk his way out of his predicament. He claims that there’s no proof the change was stolen – in fact, he was saving it for his daughter’s education. Since witnesses can only identify Cory and Trevor at the scene of the crime, and Lahey is revealed to be drunk (his testimony is discounted), the judge drops the charges against Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. Not only are the boys allowed to go free, but their change is given back to them since there’s no proof it’s from an illegal source.
The best part is that Ricky’s swearing in the courtroom causes the judge to hold him in contempt of court. Ricky is sent back to jail for one week – just in time to play in the jail’s hockey tournament! With Cory and Trevor rooting for him, Ricky leads the prisoner’s team to victory. Cory and Trevor realize that this is their moment to shine, too – and humiliate Donny by pulling his pants down in front of all of the inmates and his fellow guards. Ricky, Cory and Trevor are heroes.
When Ricky gets out of jail one week later, he has enough money to start his dope-growing operation. He knows that with a bit of hard work, he’ll soon be ready to retire. Lucy and Trinity are glad to have an enterprising Ricky back in their lives. Bubbles is happy because the boys have built him a new shed with proceeds from The Big Dirty, and Julian is enjoying a happy relationship with Wanda now that she’s out of jail.
Seems like these trailer park boys (and girls) are living happily ever after.
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