Richard "Ricky" Lafleur Portrayed by Robb Wells Aliases Jim Cory Jacob George Gerg Greg Gregson gergson Series/Season 1, 6, 2, 9 Biographical Information Age 49 (Current) Relationships (Ex-girlfriends) Lucy and Sarah Trinity (Possible Daughter) Julian and Bubbles (Best Friends) Status Alive Additional Traits Heavy Smoker Loves to make Weed/Honey Oil/Hash Uneducated - only has grade 11. Has a huge bird Career Shredded wheats

“ I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith drove his car off a cliff broke both of his legs? ” –Ricky

Richard "Ricky" LaFleur (played by Robb Wells) is a resident of Sunnyvale Trailer Park and his main cohorts are Julian and Bubbles. Ricky is (assumed to be) the father of Trinity with Lucy being her mother. Lucy's second child, Baby Randy, is not Ricky's child, although he did act as father figure along with Randy to some extent. Ricky is also grandfather to Mo, Trinity's child with Jacob Collins. Ricky, Julian and Bubbles all grew up in the trailer park together.[1] They have been inexorably tied together ever since.

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Living Arrangements Edit

When we first meet Ricky, it's not clear whether Ricky lives with Lucy or not, but they do seem to share space in some way.[2] 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, which Julian later gives to Ricky outright. Ricky lives in this car, dubbed the Shitmobile, during most of his time in Sunnyvale.[3]

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.[4]

When Ricky became Trailer Park Supervisor, he lived in the supervisor's trailer[5] -- 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.[6]

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.[7] He later moves himself, Trinity and Jacob to a nearby barn where they 'squat'.[8], and after Mo is born, they all move into Julian's Motel.[9] 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 Edit

Ricky and Lucy conceived Trinity (at least that is what we are meant to believe, but there is some room for doubt) 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 Lucy 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.[10] 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.[11]

Criminal Activity Edit

Ricky does a lot of crimes, most often than not it is dealing drugs like Weed or Hash.

Ricky's known crimes

Drug dealing

Using a firearm unlawfully

Employment Edit

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,[12] he works as the Temporary Relief Assistant Park Supervisor,[13], then as the Park Supervisor.[14] 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).[15] 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 smashed his hand in trying to build stairs.

Characterization Edit

Ricky is not portrayed as an educated man, not even a little. He has failed Grade 6 three times,[16], because he was drunk most of the time), and didn't pass grade 10 until he resumed his schooling in his adulthood).[17]. 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 stunted 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 stinted - 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 stylized pompadour.

Ricky is also shown to be extremely selfish, often thinking for himself more than others.

Ricky smokes cigarettes very, very often, although he never seems to have any, instead preferring to bum them off of other people (usually Trevor). 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 a little impervious to physical damage. Ricky has been shot on numerous occasions, although never critically injured as a result. He has even shot himself by accident. He has been electrocuted, shot with arrows as well as tranquilizer darts (which had no effect on him), tazed, had his "bag" (meaning ballsack) shot off by Mo 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.

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 intelligence, Ricky is actually very skilled in a myriad of ways. Most of his skills were honed through criminal activity. Ricky is a skilled cook and 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 has a great talent for outsmarting the police using quick thinking, which has saved the boys on many occasions. Most of all, Ricky is a near savant at growing marijuana. 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.

Injuries Edit

Jail Times Edit

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.

Trivia Edit

He once spent 7 hours trapped in a freezer.