The Trailer Park Boys - from left, Julian (John Paul Tremblay), Bubbles (Mike Smith) and Ricky (Robb Wells) -- are back for their seventh season of mayhem.

Trailer Park Boys is not a traditional sitcom and the boys themselves are not fans of the genre.

"I can't watch traditional sitcoms, they make me violent," said Mike Smith, who plays Bubbles.

"Laugh tracks make me very violent," said Robb Wells, who plays Ricky.

So are traditional sitcoms dead?

"Not dead, but dead creatively," said John Paul Tremblay, who plays Julian.

Coincidentally, avoiding creative death is the challenge facing Trailer Park Boys, the Canadian phenomenon which kicks off its seventh season Sunday on Showcase. Now with a movie and a book under their belts, Smith, Wells and Tremblay assure us they have found enough ways to keep the show fresh.

"There's a lot of setup in the first two episodes, but it obviously gets crazier until it culminates in a classic Trailer Park Boys finale of mayhem," Smith said of the new season.

Wells pointed out that Trailer Park Boys: The Movie had an unanticipated fringe benefit in that it expanded the show's female fan base. It's the power of the movie-date, we suppose.

"There are so many women who said to us, 'I wasn't into the series but I watched the movie, and now I'm going to watch the series,' " Wells said. "We treated (the movie and the series) as completely different entities, so I think people will get back into the series now. The new season, we're pretty happy with it -- more so than the movie, in many respects."

There are some similarities between the cult fan base that SCTV's Bob and Doug McKenzie garnered in the early 1980s and the cult fan base Trailer Park Boys has attracted in the past half-decade.

"When I was a kid, Bob and Doug (played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) were massive," Smith said. "I can't even imagine being in that ballpark.

"The comparison freaks me out, because we're just goofballs. But then I think, well, maybe they were just goofballs back then, too."