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Richard "Ricky" LaFleur (played by Robert Wells) is a Canadian resident of Sunnyvale Trailer Park. His main cohorts are Julian and Bubbles. Julian is allegedly the father of Trinity, in an episode Lucy describes how she met him at 19 and they had sex, and because Julian is a more reliable person than Ricky, he takes on the role of Trinity's father in many episodes; though it has never been proven that he is really her father. Lucy, being her mother. Lucy's second child, Baby Randy, is not Ricky's child, although he did support Lucy to some extent throughout her pregnancy (and her on and off relationship with Randy) he was ultimately given up for adoption as both Lucy and Randy thought it would be best for the child.Ricky is also grandfather to Mo (The Motel), Trinity's child with Jacob Collins, who got named the Motel when Julian bought a motel so that Ricky could live there with Trinity and the baby, who was supposed to be named Ray after Ricky's alleged father, but after Jacob made a mix up with the baby's name and location on the birth certificate papers, was unfortunately named The Motel (Mo for short). Ricky, Julian and Bubbles all grew up in the trailer park together.[1] They have been inexorably tied together ever since.

Character Background[]

Ricky was born on March 20, 1971, to Tammy LaFleur and his unnamed father. The details of his biological father is unknown, but it’s hinted to be some guy Tammy probably had a one night stand with, while married to Ray. His mother left Sunnyvale soon after he was born. He was raised by an alcoholic trucker, Raymond “Ray” LaFleur who was a con artist, Ricky would claim having several different false identities as a kid due to Ray’s reckless criminal shenanigans. While growing up, his father was said to be a drunk alcoholic who Ricky avoided on occasions such as when he was wasted, even leaving home for a few days to stay in a barn which he had done a couple of times.[2]

At some point, he met Julian. In 1976, Ricky and Julian become best friends with Bubbles a boy who was just abandoned by his parents, after Ricky shot his bully with a pellet gun. On October 1977, Ricky was going out with Julian and Bubbles dressing up as Star War characters for Halloween (Bubbles dressing up as C-3PO and both Julian and Ricky dressing up as Chewbacca). When the boys saw police officer’s Jim Lahey car parked out front, and Ricky decided to push it to see how far it would go and accidentally crashed into a nearby trailer. Lahey confronted the boys and took away Julian’s liquor but accidentally spilled it on his crotch as he was driving away. When Lahey’s partner, George Green arrives on the scene he believes Lahey was drunk and pissed himself and arrested him after a brief scuffle. Lahey would later go on a year long legal battle against the police department, but there wasn’t enough evidence to prove his innocence causing him to resign.[3]

In his early teens, Ricky started growing sideburns and everyone started calling him “Reveen”. He had to repeat grade 6, three times due to being heavily intoxicated. In grade 7, Ricky lost an entire crop of weed to dope-eating insects.[4] When he was 13 (circa 1984), Ricky was spanked by Ray in front of the entire park due to using his car (which he would later brag about to his friends in high school).[5] He dropped out of high school, because Julian stopped doing his homework for him only completing Grade 10. In the late 80’s to early 90s, Ricky begin a relationship with Lucy (who previously had a one night stand with friend Julian in high school) when he made out with her in the bathroom of a KFC restaurant and the two later had a daughter, Trinity LeFleur, in November, 1993.

Living Arrangements[]

When we first meet Ricky in 1999, it's not clear whether Ricky lives with Lucy or not, but they do seem to share space in some way.[6] The next time we see him, he is being released from jail and he states he has nowhere to go until Julian allows him to sleep in his car in his driveway. It is thought at this point that Lucy had kicked him out again for going to jail, which Julian later gives to Ricky outright. Ricky lives in this car, dubbed the Shitmobile, during most of his time in Sunnyvale.[7]

Ricky very nearly bought himself a trailer in the park using the proceeds from the Freedom 35 operation, but he spent more money than he thought and instead bought a set of encyclopedias for Trinity.[8]

When Ricky became Trailer Park Supervisor, he lived in the supervisor's trailer[9] -- but promptly returned to the shitmobile after he was removed from that position after losing a wrestling match with Jim Lahey and Randy for the position.[10]

In Season 6, while Julian is working buying and flipping trailers, he also buys and fixes one up for Ricky that he ends up growing dope in and living in and out of up until Season 12.

Around the time Trinity is pregnant, Ricky is forbidden access to the park and lives in the Shitmobile outside the front gates.[11] He later moves himself, Trinity and Jacob to a nearby barn where they 'squat'.[12], and after Mo is born, they all move into Julian's Motel.[13] However this only lasts until Ricky accidentally floods the motel and after the conclusion of Season 9, is allowed to move back to Sunnyvale with his family.

Sometime between Seasons 11 and 12 the Shitmobile is apparently no longer operable as Ricky has a new car and built a deck over the Shitmobile where he now resides.

Love Life[]

Ricky and Lucy conceived Trinity and experienced an on again off again relationship that carries on over time. They were engaged to be married early on, but Ricky and Julian got arrested during the ceremony, and after that, Lucy takes up with Randy, not wanting to be with Ricky any longer. They hook up again after Ricky gets out of jail.

Ricky hooks up with Sarah soon after that, and it's implied that this is not the first time they had been an item (she describes his lovemaking techniques in an interview around this time, which leads one to conclude this). Things seem to be going well, despite her earlier (and later) opinions that he is a loser, but it doesn't last beyond the season and things go back to the way they were between them both.[14] She and Ricky had oral sex during season 12.

Barb Lahey becomes attracted to Ricky while he is acting as the Trailer Park supervisor, and eventually proposes to him. Drunk and stoned, Ricky accepts -- even though he is not really sure why -- but then gets dumped by Barb when he is sent to prison.[15] it is implied that Ricky also slept with Barb when he was acting as pest control and needed to keep the job. Barb hired him as pest control for the park so that bubbles could keep his brewery business (people were throwing bottles of his everywhere around the park which was attracting rats) and instead of using regular pest control methods, He put cow shit underneath trailers to keep rats away. Barb was understandably upset by this and when Ricky went to plead for her to let him keep the job she described "1...2...3 things I can think of that will settle this" to which Ricky promptly entered the trailer stating that he wanted to "get this over with".

Criminal Activity[]

Ricky does a lot of crimes, most often than not it is dealing drugs like Weed or Hash, or robbing a variety of stores for "theft under a thousand".

Ricky's known crimes

  • Drug dealing
  • Using a firearm unlawfully
  • stealing
  • using a delapidated, unsafe car on the road

Employment[]

It is Ricky's life motto to never work. Ricky states once or twice that he has never worked at a real job, but in fact he has had three bona fide jobs: a brief stint as a mall cop,[16] he works as the Temporary Relief Assistant Park Supervisor,[17], then as the Park Supervisor.[18] He also worked as a janitor at the local vocational school (although is it basically a front to sell drugs to the students and faculty).[19] Also, towards Season 12, Ricky offers himself as a handyman, although that does not last very long as he destroys Margeurite's bathroom, initially hired to install a towel rack. He also worked as pest control for the park

Characterization[]

Ricky is not portrayed as an educated man, not even a little. He has failed Grade 6 three times,[20], because he was drunk most of the time), and didn't pass grade 10 until he resumed his schooling in his adulthood).[21]. His lack of education is a source of dismay for him, feeling he isn't as smart as those around him. He constantly messes things up, fails to understand the simplest concepts, mispronounces or misunderstands words and phrases, has trouble expressing complex ideas and feelings, and loses his cool when any of these things happen. He likewise hates it when anyone appears to come off as smarter than him and responds angrily. As a person with only a primary level education, he has scarcely grown up beyond the age he was when he stopped having a formal education; he is the same person he was as a youth. In the animated series, seen in a flashback, Ricky's speech is horribly incorrect and stunted - even worse than that of his speech as an adult.

Ricky's appearance is mostly extreme casual leaning toward slovenly at times, often wearing worn and torn clothing, mainly track pants or tearaways and loose fitting button up short sleeves with odd designs on them. The only part of his appearance that seems consistently preened is his elongated sideburns and signature pompadour.


Ricky smokes cigarettes very, very often, although he never seems to have any, instead preferring to bum them off of other people (usually Trevor and later on, Jacob). He is also not shy to light a smoke in public places. Naturally, Ricky is a marijuana enthusiast as well as a drinker. He loves to proclaim his desire to get "drunk and stoned."

He is very clumsy, and tends to trip and fall in the most inopportune moments, such as every time he is standing on an incline, or walking down one.

When in the mood, Ricky has been known to taunt people with a 'knock knock joke', which isn't a joke per se, merely a method of getting a person's attention and then rambling off whatever rhetoric he wants to say about what's going on at that moment.

Ricky seems nigh-impervious to permanent physical damage. Ricky has been shot on numerous occasions in sensitive areas, never showing any signs of being critically injured as a result. He has even shot himself by accident. He has also been electrocuted, shot with arrows, as well as tranquilizer darts (which had no effect on him due to his nigh-immunity to drugs), tazed, had his "bag" (meaning ballsack) (which was described as "Soft" by Sam Losco) ruptured by Mo "accidentally" shooting him in the groin, and even suffered a heart attack and was clinically dead for a few moments with very few after effects. Ricky has even survived being brain dead for a few weeks, with no sign of permanent damage after his recovery (the recovery in which was brought on by people smoking marijuana into his oxygen machine).

Ricky loves and dotes on his daughter, Trinity, but he seems to have trouble acting as a good parent. For example, he is fine with Trinity driving around the park in the shitmobile, being a bottle kid, stealing bikes and tire rims, smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, etc., stating that he was allowed to do so when young, and he turned out fine. However, on a few occasions, he has felt the need to correct her and insist that she take a different road than him in life.

Despite his professed lack of practical intelligence, Ricky is actually very skilled in a myriad of ways, having honed his skills through a lifetime of criminal activity. Ricky is a skilled cook and has learned to read by following cooking instructions on packages of frozen food. He is also a highly skilled mechanic; he is shown fixing the derelict shitmobile on Julian's lot, as well as fixing a lawnmower engine faster than anyone else. He is shown to be skilled at stealing power and identifying types of siphoned gasoline on several occasions. He has a great talent for outsmarting the police using quick thinking and an expansive knowlege of the law, which has saved the boys from being arrested on many occasions. Most of all, Ricky is a near-savant at growing marijuana, as his dope is considered by most people in the trailer park, including Ricky himself, to be the very best.

Ricky has been nick-named 'Reveen' by unseen detractors, due to a resemblance to Canadian entertainer "Reveen The Impossiblist". Ricky hates this name so much that he nearly shot Bubbles after Conky called him Reveen.

He hates squirrels and will shoot them on sight.

Ricky-isms[]

A few examples of Ricky-isms.

  • "It's not rocket appliances."
  • "Sweet empowered chicken things."
  • "Take it and leave it."
  • "It's time to put two turnips in heat."
  • "Friends with the Benedicts"
  • “Worst case Ontario”

Swear-Phrases[]

  • Candy cane tarantula slut
  • Mushroom titted whore

Injuries[]

# Type Cause Episode(s)
01 Bullet Accidentally shot in the ass by Trinity "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up"
02 Bullet Shot by a farmer when stealing his tractor "Mrs. Peterson's Dog Gets Fucked Up"
03 Bullet Self inflicted when trying to contain a dog chasing Cory and Trevor "I've Met Cats And Dogs Smarter Than Cory And Trevor"
04 Bullet Shot by Sam Losco in a shootout "The Bare Pimp Project"
05 Taser Shot by Jim Lahey to incapacitate Ricky "The Delusions Of Officer Jim Lahey"
06 Taser Shot by Jim Lahey to demonstrate the Taser "The Delusions Of Officer Jim Lahey"
07 Arrow Shot by Jim Lahey who thought Ricky and Randy were in an encounter "A Man's Gotta Eat"
08 Body Hit in the face by Julian with a baseball bat "Rub N Tiz'zug"
09 Body Hit in the arm by Julian with a baseball bat "Rub N Tiz'zug"
10 Body Hit in the leg by Julian with a baseball bat "Rub N Tiz'zug"
11 Body

Nose broken by Bubbles when he slammed the door of his shed into him. Shot three times with tranquilizer darts by Sam Losco in the same episode, to no effect.

"Conky"
11 Body

Shot with a potato gun while trying to track who, or what was damaging their marijuana field.

"If You Love Something, Set It Free"
12 Bullet Shot by a SWAT officer who was trying to shoot a gun out of Lahey's hand "Workin' Man"
13 Bullet Accidentally shot by Sam Losco. "Jump the Cheeseburger"
14 Frozen Almost froze himself to death with a giant industrial air conditioner he hooked up to his trailer. "The Fuckin' V-Team"
15 Bullet Shot himself during a gunfight with Cyrus and Sam. "Crawling Through the Shitpipe"
16 Electrocution Electrocuted by Leslie Dancer while pissing on an electric fence. "A Stable Fucking Environment"
17 Crushed Crushed by the collapsing walls of his trailer. "Freedom 45?"
18 Bullet Shot in the testicles by Mo who got a hold of his favourite gun My Fucking Balls, My Cock My Hole, or My Tits
19 Body Hand crushed by a hammer by Jim Lahey. "Darth Lahey"
20 Bullet Shot in the hand by a poacher. "The All You Can Eat Shit Buffet"
21 Bullet Shot by Jim Lahey. "The All You Can Eat Shit Buffet"
22 Bullet Shot by someone with a shotgun while on his way to harvest his weed. "Chlamydia"

Jail Times[]

By the time he had become the trailer park supervisor of Sunnyvale, Ricky had gone to jail at least eighteen times. ("The Green Bastard")

Notice: these jail times are the ones referenced to during the series proper.
# Sentence Reason Episode(s)
01 Unknown Drunk driving, destruction of property "I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy... Wait A Second, Maybe I Am Gay"
02 Unknown Unknown "Dear Santa Claus, Go Fuck Yourself"
03 18 Months Gunplay during an attempt to recover a stolen dog "Take Your Little Gun And Get Out Of My Trailer Park", "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers", "Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape"
04 18 Months Gunplay during a robbery "Who The Hell Invited These Idiots To My Wedding?", "What In The Fuck Happened To Our Trailer Park?"
05 2 Months Drinking & Driving, destruction of property, resisting arrest and Dangerous use of a firearm. "The Bare Pimp Project", "The Kiss Of Freedom"
06 Illegal possession of marijuana "Workin' Man"
07 Illegal weapons possession "The Shit Blizzard"
08 1 week using bad behaviour in court Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
09 drunk in public "I Banged Lucy And Knocked Her Up... No Big Deal"
10 30 days Endangering wildlife "A Shit River Runs Through It"
11 2 years being apart of Ray's bootleg opperation "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys"
12 2 weeks Impersonating a Bank money transporter Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

Trivia[]

  • Once ate nine cans of ravioli
  • Several parts of the show point to Ricky being dyslexic, especially his continued struggles to sight-read. Additionally dyslexic people are known for having a high level of creativity, which Ricky displays often, notably with his excellent weed-growing and cop-outsmarting skills.

References[]

give me some fucking weed

Ricky was here 8———————————

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