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Bubbles
Bubbles is a fictional character on the Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys portrayed by Mike Smith. He is one of the three main characters on the show along with Julian and Ricky. The character, a small skit Mike Smith had been doing for years, was made popular in The Cart Boy, a short by Mike Clattenburg, and was originally designed to be a supporting character. However, the popularity of Bubbles led to his being continued as a main character in the series.

Character Biography
Bubbles is Julian and Ricky's best friend and conscience, known for his hoarse voice, absent-mindedness, and coke-bottle glasses. Abandoned as a five year old, Bubbles lives in Julian's tool shed with his cats, who are his only family (aside from Julian and Ricky). He makes a living by stealing shopping carts from one mall and selling them to another.

Characterization
Bubbles represents an innocence that the other characters often lack, usually staying out of trouble and helping the meek, as illustrated by his love for cats. In spite of sometimes appearing slightly mentally disabled to some people at first glance, he is really not that dim at all. Bubbles is in fact an intellectual, quoting both Plato and Catcher in the Rye comfortably.

Whenever the cops swoop into the trailer park to bust one of the boys' operations, Bubbles usually manages to avoid getting busted or nailed by the police in most of the show, with even Randy vouching for him at one point, at least until he was caught at the end of Season Four by Officer George Green in the episode "Working Man".

Conky
Conky is a ventriloquist dummy owned by Bubbles, who he constructed in grade 6. Conky was thrown into a swamp in grade 6 by Ricky, but had to be retrieved in order to convince Bubbles to go to the hospital to deal with an infected tooth.

Conky appears to have a personality of his own, going beyond ventriloquism and appearing to know things that Bubbles doesn't, such as the fact that Ricky was the one to "drown" Conky. Conky is verbally abusive to Ricky and Julian, and frequently reminds Bubbles that Conky is the one in charge.

Conky meets his end at several times throughout the show only to return later. Conky also makes regular appearances in the trio's stand up comedy tours.