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Mike Smith (Bubbles) Leading the Race For Space
New submitter reovirus1 writes "Mike Smith, the character Bubbles on the Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys, is leading the
Race for Space contest that will send one lucky reader into space. 'Throughout the series, Bubbles often talks about his love for space and his lifelong desire to become a spaceman someday, but his poor eyesight has always prevented him from even owning a driver's license. It's a fictional show obviously, but Bubble's desire to go to space on the show was actually born out of my love of space and rocketry. It has been a hobby of mine since I was 5 years old. If I win this chance to go to space, I intend to shoot a documentary of the entire process leading up to the flight, in hopes of inspiring a new generation of young people to become involved in space exploration,' he writes."
Ricky: Breaker breaker, come in Earth, this is Rocket Ship 27, aliens fucked over the carbonator on engine four, I'm gonna try to refuckulate it on Juniper. Uhh, and hopefully they've got some, space weed there, over. How... how was that buddy? I don't fuckin' know.
Bubbles: Ricky... that's not very good. Use space words, real ones, not talking about space weed.
Ricky: NAYSA, power rockets are firin' all over the place... they got lasers that are shootin' and uh... Bubbles I can't fuckin' do this.
(This was just after they stole a model rocket kit from Zellers, and Bubbles is wearing the child's 'spacesuit' that comes with it).
Hilarious show. Good luck Mike.
Wow, a celebrity winning a popularity contest? Who would have ever guessed that? That doesn't even seem fair to let him compete.
If I win this chance to go to space,....
What I want to know is, if you win a trip into space, how you are going to pay the taxes on it, and if you really feel that you can justify spending the money on taxes rather than something else.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
http://youtu.be/n4M6bMuQkqc
It's pretty funny
He's fast nearing double the votes of the second-place contender, despite his account suddenly vanishing at one point, and a good 20k votes being placed on a secondary account for him. And yeah, it's not surprising a (minor) celebrity is winning a popularity contest, but frankly, fair play to him. He's not exactly rich, he makes a living performing in relatively small shows and selling autographs, and he wants to achieve a childhood dream that's otherwise out of his reach. Celeb or not, he's no less deserving than most of the other entrants...
The best show to come out of Canada still is The Kids In the Hall
I hope you die painfully and alone.
Well, at least he won't get no hassles from them Barksdale boys up there. Don't need no space ship neither: just give him a couple testers, he'll be higher than the moon in no time.
That may be, but Trailer Park Boys is genuinely a close second. The scene mentioned earlier in this thread where they're preparing to send a rocket into space, and Bubbles is wearing a metallic children's space suit the entire time. . . . Outstanding. Absolutely outstanding.
deeeeeeeeeeecent!
Why try and name the best? Canada has produced many amazing television shows, and I have a hard time putting KITH over SCTV.
"Old man yells at systemd"
I'll make them equals, but they're really two different kinds of shows. Kids in the Hall was much more in the Pythonesque tradition; absurdist skit-based comedy, but TPB, well, since it was story-arc based and involved the same cast of characters, was a different kind of comedy.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah, SCTV is definitely better than KiTH.
The one time I had a story "accepted", the editor rewrote the entire thing...the only part of my submission he kept was the link to the original article. Based on that standard, I think we need editors for our editors.