The Absolute Best Rickyisms From Trailer Park Boys
By Emily Bell
In season 1, episode 3, entitled "Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape!," Ricky dropped one of his best Rickyisms of all time, telling Mr. Lahey (the late John Dunsworth), "What comes around is all around."
In this moment, Ricky is demanding that Lahey give Ricky a tape that has incriminating footage that could hurt his relationship with Lucy (Lucy DeCoutere). Lahey responds with, "Don't you mean what's all around comes around, Ricky." The phrase, "What goes around comes around," refers in basic terms to the Buddhist notion of karma.
While Ricky butchers words, his hilarious takes on standard English colloquialisms tend to make sense. Usually. After all, longtime viewers know what Ricky is trying to say when he lets out phrases such as, "A link is only as long as your longest strong chain" and "Good things come to those at the gate." In Ricky's scholarly defense, he's always juggling issues and basically lives in desperation mode. We give him a pass if his brain occasionally short circulates.
There are too many Ricky classics to choose from, but as the king of the trailer park would say, let's just let guy bonds be guy bonds.
