Rickyisms is the term devised by the fans of Trailer Park Boys for Ricky's malapropisms and eggcorns (substitution speech errors.) Most of Ricky's speech errors are idiomatic in nature resulting in a phrase (or word) that are linguistically incorrect, but phonetically similar. These slips of the tongue are often the result of Ricky’s lack of education, and extensive use of drugs and alcohol, and situations where he may not be thinking clearly. Ricky’s speech errors are possibly some of the most entertaining aspects of his character, and arguably of the entire show. Compiled below are several tables listing the different kinds of speech errors found throughout the Trailer Park Boys movies and television series. These are a work in progress, and if you have any updated information, or find new errors that are not listed, please don’t hesitate to enter them in, or contact a moderator. Enjoy the chaos!
Idiomatic Slips of the Tongue
Rickyism.
What Ricky said: |
Actual word or phrase: | First said in: | |
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A link is only as long as your longest strong chain |
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link | "Righties Loosies, Lefties Tighties" | |
All for all and one for one | One for all and all for one | ||
All in one roof | All under one roof | "Freedom 45?" | |
Alright, Heisenstein | Alright, Einstein | Money Can Suck My Cock | |
Astronaut Cock & Snoopy The Fuck Dog | Cory & Trevor. Also called "The Scooby Dumb Cock Brothers" and "Fucky & Gumby-O" | ||
Awkwardly Situation | Awkward situation | "Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor" | |
Bee Suave | Bee Salve | ||
Brain Phones | Smart Phones/iPhone |
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Beauty is in the eye when you hold her | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder | Friends With The Benedicts | |
Bottle of joy | Bundle of joy | ||
Breakfast at bed | Breakfast in bed | "If you Don't Believe it, it's Not Real" | |
Burn the hatchet at both ends | Bury the hatchet & burn the candle at both ends | "Why In The Fuck Is My Trailer Pink?" | |
Brain Compartments and Brain Departments | Brain (Ricky appears to be referring to the different areas in the brain that retain different kinds of information.) | "Money Can Suck My Cock" | |
Can you give me a bit of credjudice? | Can you give me a bit of credit? | ||
Carbonator | Carburetor | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be " | |
Catch 23 situation | Catch 22 situation | "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty " | |
CDR | VCR | Don't Legalize It | |
Cherry Trees | Charity | "Dear Santa Claus, Go Fuck Yourself" | |
Child Reports | Child support | "The Kiss Of Freedom" | |
Church of Later Day Saints | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | Multiple | |
Looks like a tropical earthquake blew through here | Looks like a hurricane blew through here/Tropical Storm | "What in the Fuck Happened to Our Trailer Park?" | |
Cock-a-doodle Fucking Ketchup Chips | Person with a fucked up looking red colour mohawk resembling a rooster head; Jacob's friend and classmate at Dartmouth Regional Vocational School had a red mohawk | ||
Come to turns with it | Come to terms with it | ||
Crop of Shit | Crock of Shit | The Dirty Dancer | |
Crystally-clear | Crystal-clear | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" | |
Cubic Zarcarbian | Cubic zirconia | "I'm Not Gay, I Love Lucy... Wait A Second, Maybe I Am Gay" | |
Decnals | Decals | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be " | |
Delicately situation | Delicate situation | "A Man's Gotta Eat" | |
Denial and error | Trial and error | "I've Met Cats And Dogs Smarter Than Cory And Trevor" | |
Deerts | Deer | ||
Disinspect | Disrespect | "Countdown to Liquor Day" | |
Does a bear shit on the pope? |
'Does a bear shit in the woods?' combined with 'Is the pope Catholic?' |
"Shit-Covered Cave Teeth" | |
Don't judge a cover of a book by its look | Don't judge a book by its cover | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" | |
Do onto others as you do onto you | Do unto others what you would have others do unto you | "Never Cry Shitwolf " | |
Do you wanna get married by me? | Will you marry me? | Multiple | |
Dressed all over | All dressed | "Dressed All Over And Zesty Mordant " | |
DVD | DVS (Detroit Velvet Smooth) | "Who's The Microphone Assassin? " | |
Elemental school | Elementary school | "A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots" | |
Escape goat | Scapegoat | ||
Ever never again | Never again | "If you Don't Believe it, it's Not Real" | |
Every kid goes through phrases | Goes through phases | "The Shit Puppets " | |
False Acriminations | False accusations | "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers" | |
Fenis | Fetus (mistaken for Penis) | "Friends with the Benedicts" | |
Fire Retarded | Flame retardant | "Workin' Man" | |
Fill my feet | Fill My Shoes | " If You Love Something Set it Free " | |
Five-minute rule | Five-second rule | "Whore-A-Geddon" | |
For the Gooder of Us All | For the Good of Us All | "All the Fuckin' Dope You Can Smoke" | |
Forward-Fast | Fast-Forward | "A Dancer For Money" | |
Frog | Fraud | ||
Frustated | Frustrated | "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers" | |
FuckEx | FedEx | "Workin' Man" | |
Friends with the Benedicts | Friends with benefits | " Friends With The Benedicts " | |
Flames were golfing | Engulfed in flames | "The Fuckin' Way She Goes" | |
Flying things | Birds | ||
Get related | Becoming related to someone, in reference to Jacob Collins impregnating Trinity | "Orangie's Pretty Fucking Tough" | |
Get Bornt | "Is born" or "Give birth" | Multiple | |
Get goodin' at it | Get good at it | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" | |
Get two birds stoned at once | Kill two birds with one stone | "Rub N Tiz'zug " | |
Getting like Hank at this | Getting the hang of it | "Piss" | |
Golds | Goals | "The Shit Puppets" | |
Good things come to those at the gate | Good things come to those that wait | ||
Googly search | Google search | Podcast Episode 43 | |
Gorilla see, Gorilla do | Monkey see, monkey do | ||
Gram son | Grandson | Several | |
Happy however after | Happily ever after | ||
Hark attack | Heart attack | " The Shit Blizzard " | |
Hair Shellac | Cooking spray (mistaken for hairspray that Ricky uses to style his hair) | "Orangie's Pretty Fuckin Tough" | |
Hang your horses | Hold your horses | "Up in Smoke We Go" | |
Heart congestion | Indigestion | "The Winds Of Shit" | |
Hit 'em with everything we caught | Hit 'em with everything we've got | "Piss" | |
Hobolo | Hobo | ||
Home trees | Home free | " Workin' Man " | |
Honesty is just a test policy | Honesty is the best policy | "Whore-A-Geddon" | |
Honorly system | Honor system | "The Winds Of Shit" | |
Hornse | Horse | ||
Hyposuction | Liposuction | ||
I do trust his judgmentals | I do trust his judgement | ||
I dont have enough people words to make it understand you the way it understands me | I can't think of the right words to say | "A Man's Gotta Eat " | |
I'm an Optometrist | I'm an Optimist | ||
I'm just stretched out | I'm just stressed out | ||
I'm not going to put my dad in jeopardization | I'm not going to put my dad in jeopardy | ||
Incubaker | Incubator | ||
Indianapolis Jones | Indiana Jones | "Where In The Fuck Is Randy's Barbeque?" | |
Ironland | Ireland | "Trailer Park Boys Live in Fuckin' Ireland" | |
It's better to have a gun and need it than to not have a gun and not need it | It's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it | ||
It's clear to see who makes the pants here | It's clear to see who wears the pants here | "If You Love Something, Set It Free " | |
I-surance | Insurance | ||
It doesn't take rocket appliances | It doesn't take rocket scientists | "A Shit Leopard Can't Change Its Spots " | |
I toad a so | I told you so | The Fuckin' Way She Goes | |
Juniper | Jupiter | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be " | |
Keep your friends close, but your enemies toaster | Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer | My F..king Balls, My C..k, My Hole or My T...? | |
Learnt | Learn | Multiple | |
Leaves comber | A yard rake | rightsies loosies lefties tighties | |
Let guy bonds be guy bonds | Let bygones be bygones | "Why In The Fuck Is My Trailer Pink?" | |
Let's make toast | Let's make a toast | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be " | |
Long stories get short | Long story short | "Whore-A-Geddon" | |
Looks like we need two turnips and heat | Looks like need to turn up the heat | Three tiered shit dyke | |
Lurches | Leeches | "We Can't Call People Without Wings Angels So We Call Them Friends" | |
Magdolin | Mandolin | ||
Make like a tree and fuck off | Make like a tree and leave | " Never Trust A Man With No Shirt On " | |
Make my words | Mark my words | Multiple | |
Man-On Man-On | Man-on-Man | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" | |
Marsmelons | Marshmallows | "George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler" | |
Mating name | Maiden name | "Where In The Fuck Is Randy's Barbeque? " | |
Maturinate | Mature | "Dressed All Over And Zesty Mordant" | |
Meat Dick(s) | Works in the meat department of the Freshmart; Jacob's friends and classmates at Dartmouth Regional Vocational School | ||
Mexicali Stand-on | Mexican Standoff | "A Shit River Runs Through It" | |
Middleland | Middleman | "A Shit River Runs Through It" | |
Multi-usefullness | Multipurpose | ||
My minds started racing against each other | My mind started racing | "Sweet Liquory Load" | |
No things attached | No strings attached | "Friends With The Benedicts" | |
North of-Americas | North America | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" | |
Not in the right frames of the mind | Not in the right state of mind | ||
Nulted and void | Null and void | "Money Can Suck My Cock" | |
Off their leeches | Off their leashes | "Working Man" | |
On slim ice | On thin ice | "Up in Smoke We Go" | |
One man's garbage is another man person's good ungarbage | One man's garbage is another man's treasure. | "High Definition Piss Jugs" | |
Outdoor Curckey Tucker | Outdoor Turkey Cooker | ||
Passed with flying fuckin' carpets | Passed with flying colours | "Propane, Propane" | |
Pavin' a fuckin' point | Proving a point | "George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler" | |
Peach'n'cake | Piece of cake/ peaches n' creme | "Propane, Propane" | |
People's freedom of choices & voices act | Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms | "If I Can't Smoke And Swear, I'm Fucked" | |
Perspecticts | Perspectives | "The Winds Of Shit" | |
PFD | Ph.D | "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers" | |
Phill Cosby | Bill Cosby | "Community Service and a Boner Made with Love" | |
Pillow berry | Pillsbury | ||
Pick someone your own brain size | Pick on someone your own size | ||
Play that "Diane Sawyer" song | Play that "Tom Sawyer" song | "Closer To The Heart" | |
Plutonium loveship | Platonic friendship | ||
Praying Atlantis | Praying mantis | "The Dirty Dancer" | |
Refuckulate | Recalculate | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be" | |
Reap off | Rip off | "Sh*t Covered Cave Teeth" | |
Responsables | Responsibilities | ||
Rocket appliances | Rocket science | ||
Samsquatch | Sasquatch | " Rub N Tiz'zug " | |
Sasparilla | Salmonella | "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers" | |
Search warranty | Search warrant | "Never Cry Shitwolf" | |
Selling me under the bus | Conflating "throwing me under the bus" and "selling me down the river." | " Orangie Is Pretty Fuckin' Tough" | |
Sippy and Garfuckel | Simon and Garfunkel | ||
Slidey Things | Deejay mixing console | ||
Snoopy Dog | Snoop Dogg | ||
Specialtilizations | Specialists | "I Fuckin' Miss Cory And Trevor" | |
Split it 50/50/50 | Split it 50/50 | "The Sh*t Puppets" | |
Stretched out | Stressed out | ||
Supply and command | Supply and demand | "I've Met Cats And Dogs Smarter Than Cory And Trevor" | |
Survival of the fitness | Survival of the fittest | "We Can't Call People Without Wings Angels So We Call Them Friends" | |
Swallow my prize | Swallow my pride | "The Green Bastard" | |
Sweet empowered chicken things | Sweet and sour chicken | "The Bible Pimp" | |
Take it and leave it | Take it or leave it | "A Man's Gotta Eat" | |
This deck of the woods | This neck of the woods | "Friends With The Benedicts" | |
Tempus fuck it | Tempus fugit | "Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor" | |
Tropical earthquake | Tropical storm | "What In The Fuck Happened To Our Trailer Park?" | |
Trying to make my heart attack? | Trying to give me a heart attack? | "Orangie's Pretty Fuckin' Tough" | |
Two turnips in heat | Turn up the heat | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" | |
TVs With The Click-Clackers | Desktop computer | Multiple | |
Water under the fridge | Water under the bridge | "Money Can Suck My C**k" | |
Western Korea | North korea | Flow me the money | |
What comes around is all around | What goes around comes around | "Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape" | |
Where there's smoke there's wires | Where there's smoke there's fire | Righties Loosies, Lefties Tighties | |
Vacational school | Vocational school | "The Winds Of Shit" | |
Vice Principals | Principles | ||
What Julian doesn't grow won't burn him | What Julian doesn't know won't hurt him | "Propane, Propane" | |
What Lucy doesn't know won't learn her | What Lucy doesn't know won't hurt her | ||
What the fuck does that suppose to mean? | What is that supposed to mean? | "The Motel Can't Live At The Motel" | |
Whole different kettle and dish | Whole different kettle of fish | "Freedom 45?" | |
Work in process | Work in progress | ||
Worldy Pipe | Internet | Multiple | |
Worst case Ontario | Worst case scenario | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be" | |
Scale from one or ten | Scale from one to ten | "Freedom 45?" | |
Spy for a spy | Eye for an eye | "The Kiss Of Freedom" | |
Sudyfeds | Sudafed | "Freedom 45?" | |
The more thinkings I have about it | The more I think about it | "The Motel Can't Live At The Motel" | |
What was done was done | What's done is done | "Shit-Covered Cave Teeth" | |
Your Majesty |
Your Honour | "If I Can't Smoke And Swear, I'm Fucked" | |
Cosby, Bill, and 'Stache | Crosby, Stills, & Nash | "Amsterdam pt. 2" From TPB: Out of the Park: Europe |
Mispronunciations
Ricky's pronuncication |
Actual pronunciation |
Source |
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Amphibious | Ambidextrious | "Freedom 45?" |
Apprecialate | Appreciate | "Orangie's Pretty Fuckin' Tough" |
Au GRATT-in | Au Gratin | "Aw Grattin'" |
ASAT | ASAP | |
Asbestosos | Asbestos | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" |
Baby Whips | Baby Wipes | George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler |
Book Learning | Education | |
Bornt | Born | Multiple |
Borntday | Birthday | "The Liquor Snurf" |
Bagminton | Badminton | "Give peace a chance" |
Bible Fuel | Biofuel | "Crawling Through the Sh*tpipe" |
Brainium | Brain | "Sweet Liquory Load" |
Bumble Cocksuckers | Bumble bees | |
Buttercoat | Sugarcoat | "Piss" |
Canapillar | Caterpillar | "A Dope Trailer is no Place For a Kitty " |
Chef Boy-ar-lee | Chef Boyardee | "Shit-Covered Cave Teeth" |
Celsnius | Celsius | "Money Can Suck My Cock" |
Decnuls | Decals | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be" |
Demorcum | Decorum | "High Definition Piss Jugs" |
Disaspect | Disrespect | |
Despicably | Specifically | "Rub N' Tiz'zug" |
Dimensions | Dementia | |
Distraction of property | Destruction of property | "The Bare Pimp Project" |
Distractulating | Distracting | "If I Can't Smoke And Swear, I'm Fucked" |
Doguments | Documents | |
Tronald Dump | Donald Trump | Jimmy Kimmel Show + few other occasions |
Eisenstein | Einstein | "Money Can Suck My Cock" |
Electromecuted | Electrocuted | |
Eternity test | Paternity Test | |
Everly Hills | Beverly Hills | "Super Bling Cowboy" |
Fenus | Fetus | |
F-O-Key-Say O-F | Fuck off (spelling) | "Up in Smoke We Go" |
Freeboater | Freeloader | "Shit-Covered Cave Teeth" |
Fustated | Frustrated | |
Genis | Genius | |
Gesturement | Gesture and Detriment | |
Gramparent(s) | Grandparent(s) | Multiple |
Girack | Giraffe | |
Grissle beart | Grizzly bear | "London" TPB: Out of the Park: Europe |
Hill-A-billies | Hillbillies | |
Horvaculture | Horticulture | "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty " |
Eyesurance | Insurance | |
Heateed Up | Heated Up | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" |
Investaments | Investments | "Who's The Microphone Assassin?" |
Ivitory | Inventory | George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler |
Atodaso | I told you so | |
Ja-lap-en-oh | Jalapeño | "Never Trust A Man With No Shirt On" |
Jelly Shooties | Jell-O Shooters | "Super Bling Cowboy" |
Juniper | Jupiter | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be" |
Jackpop | Jackpot | "Righties Loosies, Lefties Tighties" |
Ka-hay-keys | Khakis | "Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor " |
Hyposuction | Liposuction | |
Leaves Comber | Rake | |
Lemonzineine | Limousine | "Give peace a chance" |
Leo Dicaprionardo | Leonardo Dicaprio | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" |
Learnt | Learn, past or present tense | Multiple |
Maked | Made | "Sweet Liquory Load" |
Mohonk | Mohawk | |
Murderder | Murder | ("Mr. Lahey's Got My Porno Tape") |
Mysterymenous | Misdemeanor | "Crawling Through the Sh*tpipe" |
Nay-sa | NASA | ("A Man's Gotta Eat") |
Nightmare on Wolf Street | Nightmare on Elm Street and The Wolf of Wall Street | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" |
Ooniverse | Universe | "All the Fuckin' Dope You Can Smoke" |
Pacificer | Pacifier | George Green: Industrial Cock Inhaler |
Paralys | Paralyzed | |
Perfectioned | Perfection | "Up in Smoke We Go" |
Piranhagis | Piranha's | "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty " |
Pikeological | Psychological | "Three Good Men Are Dead" |
Pork-a-pik | Porcupine | "Three-Tiered Shit Dyke" |
Prescription |
Description | |
Preventeded | Prevented | "Jim Lahey Is A Fuckin' Drunk And He Always Will Be " |
Proposaling | Proposing | "Propane, Propane" |
Pulsy things | Pulse | "If you Don't Believe it, it's Not Real" |
Quantrintine | Quarantine | "A Dope Trailer Is No Place For A Kitty" |
Quick and essily | Quintessentially | |
Rakins | Raccoons | "I Banged Lucy And Knocked Her Up... No Big Deal" |
Remowed Area | Remote Area | |
Radies | Rabies | |
Runed | Ruined | Multiple |
Pesto | Presto | "Whore-A-Geddon" |
Pianeo | Piano | "The Fuckin' Way She Goes" |
Rocks of Sand | Grains of Sand | "All the Fuckin' Dope You Can Smoke" |
Smartable | Smarter | "Propane, Propane" |
So-hockey | Sake | |
Sasparilla | Salmonella | "Fuck Community College, Let's Get Drunk And Eat Chicken Fingers" |
Saskatchewans | Sasquatch | "Rub and Tiz-zug" |
Snoopy Dogg | Snoop Dogg | |
Speakless | Speechless | "Sweet Liquory Load" |
Speakners | Speakers | "The Shit Puppets" |
Synthensizers | Synthesizers | "The Shit Puppets" |
Puspention | Suspension | "Trailer Park Boys Season 8 Behind the Scenes: Day 24 - Speed Bump" |
The Beatnles/A Beavil | The Beatles/A Beatle | Don't Legalize it |
Thinks | Thoughts | Orangie's Pretty Fuckin' Tough |
Thock | Thought | Season 8 and Beyond |
Ultamarian/Alternatum | Ultimatum | "The Jack Your Cock Furry Whore Slut" |
Vegetenarian | Vegetarian | "Shit-Covered Cave Teeth" |
Victoriaville | Victoria, British Columbia | |
Viknings | Vikings | |
Wayalay | Layaway | "Super Bling Cowboy" |
WD-30 | WD-40 (Oil/Lubricant Product) | "The Jack Your Cock Furry Whore Slut" |
Whore Wash | Car Wash | "You Want the Lot Fees? You Can Suck Them Out of the Tip of My Cock" |
Windowshield Wipers | Windshield Wipers | "Orangie's Pretty Fuckin' Tough" |
Worldy-Pipey Internets | The Internet | "All the Fuckin' Dope You Can Smoke" |
Worchesner sauce | Worcestershire Sauce | "The Fuckin' Way She Goes " |
Notes
The use of "fuck off" with "make like a tree and..." is likely intentional, as Ricky is known to use "fuck off" in order to get people to go away and/or leave him alone.
According to Merriam-Webster, "fire-retarded" is an actual word that means "protected with a fire-retardant material". Thus, this Rickyism is not a mistake.
"Zesty Mordant" is a linguistic error that's not exactly a mistake, relating to the fact that Sunnyvale is in Canada, where products are sold with both English and French labels. What happened is this particular bag of Doritos was sold with the English word "zesty" (meaning "spicy" or "full of life") and the French word "mordant" (which translates to "biting") in large text with the rest of the label in small text. So the English way of saying the name of these chips is "Zesty Cheese" and the French reads "Fromage Mordant", or "Biting Cheese". I would bet Ricky would not have been the first to make this error!