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TORONTO - They may be tough-talking hooligans, but the Trailer Park Boys say they're feeling a little emotional as their TV series comes to an end next month.
The actors that portray the pot-smoking Julian, Ricky and Bubbles were in Toronto on Thursday to promote the final episode of their mockumentary-style series, which revolves around the trio's outlandish money-making schemes in the fictional Sunnyvale trailer park.
"I'm sad, I'd like to do more," comedian Mike Smith, who plays Bubbles, said while sipping a glass of tequila in a downtown hotel room.
"It's a fun job and it's too bad that it's coming to an end."
Seated next to his castmates John Paul Tremblay, who plays the buff petty criminal Julian, and Robb Wells, who plays the hotheaded Ricky, Smith said they learned of the show's end only a day before the news was posted on the "Trailer Park Boys" website two weeks ago.
"It definitely had nothing to do with us," Wells said of the unexpected decision to halt production.
He said the producers held a brief meeting with the cast, but even after that the show's stars were still unclear about the reasons for ending the popular Showcase series.
"Basically they didn't go into great detail," said Wells, nursing a glass of whiskey during the interview.
Calls to the show's producers were not immediately returned.
Wrapped in a hotel bathrobe and sporting his character's trademark pompadour, Wells said rumours of the show's demise had swirled before but turned out to be unfounded. And when the team gathered this past summer to shoot a feature film, tentatively titled "Trailer Park Boys - Countdown to Liquor Day," things went so smoothly Wells assumed that another full season of episodes would follow.
"Everybody seemed to get along so well and gel so well," said Wells, who also serves as writer on the show, along with Smith and Tremblay.
"The energy was very positive and the mood was very positive. I thought maybe after that that we would continue and maybe do at least another special or a movie or some more episodes."
"(But) from what we're told the door is pretty closed and locked."
After seven seasons, "The Trailer Park Boys" comes to an end with the one-hour television special "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys" on Dec. 7.
It picks up one year after the last season left off, with Ricky, Julian and Bubbles poised to enjoy the riches from their latest caper. Julian has stashed the loot for safekeeping, but he and the boys are ambushed just as they are about to retrieve it.
Mayhem ensues in typical trailer park fashion - Julian tries to redeem himself with another harebrained scheme, Ricky blows up during a greasy encounter with the shirtless, potbellied Randy, and Bubbles gets caught in the middle. Meanwhile, the trailer park's drunk supervisor, Mr. Lahey, orchestrates his nastiest plan yet to put the boys away for good.
Though the TV show is ending, fans can catch the boys in a cross-Canada live show in January and February.
"The Ricky, Julian and Bubbles Community Service Variety Show" features the boys supposedly fulfilling court ordered community service to demonstrate the dangers of using alcohol and drugs.
That will be followed by the new feature film, expected to hit theatres in fall 2009.
Meanwhile, Smith says he, Wells and Tremblay are angling to return to TV with another comedy as soon as they can.
"We're just sort of in the development stages of it now but you will hopefully hear about it soon," said Smith.
"It's kind of all over the place really. We're each going to play several different characters, so it's pretty broad and hopefully fresh, which it is."
Smith said they'd like to shoot a demo early next year in Halifax and were aiming to have something on the air in 2010.
And although he is looking forward to new opportunities, Smith said he hopes "The Trailer Park Boys" leaves a long legacy with fans.
"I think it'll be remembered as a show that came out of left field and broke a lot of rules and probably wasn't expected to do very well by a lot of people," he said.
"Hopefully people will remember it like that - that it was different than anything that had been on Canadian TV before."
