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Jan 17, 2023 · Mike Smith, who portrays Bubbles in "Trailer Park Boys," has broken down the story behind the character's trademark Coke bottle glasses.
The show follows the exploits of Sunnyvale's most notorious residents, Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, as they attempt to make money through various greasy (and mostly illegal) get-rich-quick schemes, hotly pursued by the park's drunken supervisor, Jim Lahey, and his shirtless sidekick, Randy.
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Before Bubbles, there was Cart Boy. As a long-time friend of the Trailer Park Boys creator, Mike Smith displayed the earliest signs of his comic timing in Mike Clattenburg's 1995 short film The Cart Boy. Smith's IMDb page also credits the short as his earliest acting credit. Physically similar to Bubbles, Smith's titular bespectacled character stea...
While Mike Smith also performed the part of Bubbles in Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series, this was not his first voice role, as he previously played a character on one episode of Archer. The animated spy satire has welcomed so many high-profile actors in guest roles in the past that it can be difficult to keep track of some surprise cameos lik...
Like the other lead characters of Trailer Park Boys, Bubbles engages in a lot of reckless driving throughout the show. Behind the scenes, actor Mike Smith has also had a few car accidents on set. As Smith revealed to AutoTrader, most of the mishaps were because he can’t see anything out of his character's glasses. So, when Bubbles crashed a go-kart...
Mike Smith was a musician before he became an actor. Even in Trailer Park Boys, Bubbles occasionally shows his skills on the guitar owing to Smith’s musical background. He served as a guitarist for the Juno Award-nominated Canadian alternative rock band Sandbox from 1993 to 1998. In a 1996 interview by journalist Steve Newton (now retained in his b...
Mike Smith has had top billing in all Trailer Park Boys movies and Swearnet: The Movie, along with appearances in the sports comedy Champions and the documentary Being Canadian. Beyond Mike Smith’s movie and TV roles, he also served as a sound mixer for the Kathryn Bigelow thriller The Weight of Water, the romantic comedy Love That Boy, and s...
The actor behind Bubbles has ventured beyond Sunnyvale Trailer Park for other real-estate pursuits. Mike Smith launched a Bubbles-themed bar and eatery in 2006 called Bubble’s Mansion. The establishment was located in Downtown Halifax but operated for only four years (via CBC News). The main reason behind its closure in 2010 was government hikes in...
Apart from all the fun and games of the show, the Bubbles actor can be helpful in real life. The best example of this is the time when Mike Smith raised funds to help a Trailer Park Boys superfan in 2019. As reported by CTV News, Tom Termeer is a London native who was suffering from Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias, a condition that leads to sever...
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has been obsessed with Mike Smith’s character on Trailer Park Boys. As reported by Metal Injection, the singer’s admiration for Bubbles even allowed Smith to perform and sing in character in a few Guns N’ Roses concerts in the 2000s, complete with the glasses and plaid shirt. He also joined forces with rapper Snoop D...
While it is common knowledge that Mike Smith also plays the alter egos of Bubbles, such as the puppet Conky, only the most avidTrailer Park Boys fans would know that he also voiced Donny. He mostly appears as an unseen character on Trailer Park Boys who can often be heard hurling profanities and insults at Bubbles and his friends. Even though Donny...
The backstory behind Bubbles’ glasses can be traced to the original Trailer Park Boys movie in 1999 when Mike Smith actually donned a similar pair. He explained in a Sharpmagazine article that these glasses were gifted to him by his then-girlfriend, and seeing Smith act funny while wearing them prompted Mike Clattenburg to cast him as Bubbles. The ...
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The film was released on April 18, 2014. In the spring of 2013, Smith along with his Trailer Park Boys cohorts Wells and Tremblay started Swearnet, an internet-based television network that is entirely uncensored. The trio have also produced a film that is a fictional take on their website.
May 3, 2022 · As Clattenburg was in the process of shopping a Trailer Park Boys show to networks, he stopped by Smith’s house who donned a pair of thick-lensed glasses (bought by his then-girlfriend at a Texas estate sale for 50 cents) and began impersonating the character that would eventually become Bubbles.
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Feb 10, 2023 · Eye-popping, thick-rimmed, and instantly recognizable, Bubbles’ glasses in the hit cult TV show “Trailer Park Boys” are as tied to his character as much as his love for cats.
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Bubbles is a fictional character in the television series Trailer Park Boys. The character is portrayed by Mike Smith. Bubbles is one of the three main protagonists on the show along with Ricky and Julian. [2] He was created by series creator Mike Clattenburg. [3]
