"We were never trailer trash," she said in the interview.
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Now we know she's just trailer trash like her sister!!!
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Racist #VictoriaMather just said Meghan Markle was five clicks up from trailer trash.
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" Meyer has also expressed his discontent with the show, calling it "trailer trash Real Housewives.
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In a December 2016 Facebook comment, Cordova called Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster," CNN reported.
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In a December 2016 Facebook comment, Cordova called Bill Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster," CNN reported.
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On "Trailer Trash," Brock reshaped the common emo trope of looking back on one's childhood with a soft lens.
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The official, Jon Cordova, among other things, reportedly called Hillary Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster" in one post.
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We hear talk of "trailer trash" in "flyover states" afflicted by "plumber's butt" — open class insults that pass for wit.
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Part of Hillary's response was to go after her as trailer trash, a term she used in private to describe Flowers.
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Nancy is living a working class "trailer trash" existence with a vile step-dad who's physically and emotionally abusive to her mum.
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Some Democrats maligned the women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment, molestation and rape as looney tunes and trailer trash.
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And feminists, eager to protect his progressive agenda on women, allowed the women swirling around Bill to become collateral damage, torched as trailer trash or erotomaniacs.
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And later, when it was politically beneficial, they defended Bill's bad behavior and stayed mute as Clinton allies mauled his dalliances as trailer trash and stalkers.
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"What's sad is that @Viacom has turned @TeenMom into a trailer trash Real Housewives instead of showing what the true struggles of parenting are," he tweeted Monday.
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Time and again, Hillary was a party to demonizing women as liars, bimbos, trailer trash or troubled souls when it seemed clear they were truthful about her philandering husband.
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His wife and other prominent feminists backed Bill back then, and he and Hillary always had henchmen who were willing to smear Bill's girlfriends and victims as trailer trash, cash-for-trash, nutty and slutty.
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This was a woman who did not meet the easy and condescending "trailer trash" criteria that Hillary applied to some of the other women, whom she chose to denigrate for their supposed lack of accomplishment or sophistication.
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" She will also be at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival next week for the premiere of Vincent-N-Roxxy, a crime thriller with Emile Hirsch, Zoe Kravitz, and Kid Cudi, in which she plays Kate, a character who's "not quite trailer trash.
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"I think what has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen," she said at one point during the appearance.
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First-time actress Sasha Lane plays a trailer-trash runaway who joins up with a crew of magazine peddlers run by a mercenary monster (Riley Keough) and her pet sales head (Shia LaBeouf), and all three vie for dominance during the cross-country trip.
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She has planted herself right on top of the line between pop and country, between middle class and trailer trash, between the Palomino Stage and the Mane Stage, like a referee asking if y'all are fixin' to get along or if you need to settle this with fists.
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His theatrics trumped his message about Spears, a 25-year-old woman who got called "trailer trash" for not appearing at an awards show with a flat belly, and Chris became one of the first Americans to become a household name through YouTube, a celebrity phenomenon now known as YouTubers.
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The Langmores are trailer-trash crooks who come into the Byrdes' orbit when the 19-year-old Ruth (Julia Garner), the smartest of the lot, swipes a chunk of the cartel's money from their motel room and Wyatt (Charlie Tahan) takes Charlotte on a joy ride in a stolen boat.
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Prince Harry and wife Meghan MarkleMeghan MarklePrince Harry and Meghan Markle perform last scheduled public duties as royals The Hill's Morning Report - US urges calm over coronavirus; Italy on lockdown MSNBC guest prompts backlash after saying 'many people' consider Meghan Markle 'five clicks up from trailer trash' MORE attended the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday, the couple's final official duties as members of the royal family before they are set to spend their time as private citizens.
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Trailer Trash Tracys are an English experimental rock/dream pop band that originated in London, England.
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Frears quit the project after he was unable to translate the book to film.Solomons, Jason (11 November 2007). "Trailer Trash: Not Match of the Day". The Observer (Guardian News & Media): p.
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The celebrity in Ruby's chair for this particular episode is actress Debbie Reynolds.Debbie Reynolds Online. "Tracey Ullman Special", January 21, 2008. The working title for the project was Ruby Romaine, Trailer Trash.
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Retrieved on August 19, 2017. She subsequently attended the University of Texas at Austin. In June 1997, Zepeda started an online journal called Gwen's Trailer Trash Page. It eventually evolved into Gwen's Petty, Judgmental, Evil Thoughts.
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Lana Del Rey's persona is portrayed as a "cheap trailer trash and everyone knows it" in the song "Boarding School". Trailer park references also appear on numerous other songs, including "Hundred Dollar Bill", "Yayo" and "Trash Magic".
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In the mid-20th century, poor whites who could not afford to buy suburban-style tract housing began to purchase mobile homes, which were not only cheaper, but which could be easily relocated if work in one location ran out. These - sometimes by choice and sometimes through local zoning laws - gathered in trailer camps, and the people who lived in them became known as "trailer trash" with the term dating to at least 1952.Harold H. Martin, “Don't Call Them Trailer Trash,” The Saturday Evening Post, August 2, 1952, Vol. 225, No. 5.
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This other family, The Dumps, consisted of a trailer trash entrepreneur father; Bernie, his conniving daughter Harmony, and his annoying nephew Darren. The Dumps would often try to use the events that fell upon the Mellops for their own selfish gain.
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Trailer trash is a derogatory North American English term for poor people living in a trailer or a mobile home. It is particularly used to denigrate white people living in such circumstances and can be considered to fall within the category of racial/ethnic slurs.
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In south Florida, a high school counselor is accused of rape by a manipulative rich girl and her trailer trash classmate. The cop on the case begins to suspect a conspiracy and dives into an elaborate and devious web of greed and betrayal to find the truth.
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Julian Richards, Gozu + Trailer Trash (a compilation of rare and odd trailers), Cabin Fever with pre- recorded intro' by Dir. Eli Roth. Monday House of the Dead + short The Last Dream, Between Your Legs, Fear X with Nicolas Winding Refn, House of 1000 Corpses with Dir. Rob Zombie.
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Trailer Trash was not a feature in 2004 but was replaced with the second reel of Alien vs. Predator. Also Don Mancini with a rough cut trailer for Seed of Chucky. Monday: The Eye 2, One Point 0, The Hillside Strangler with Prod. Hamish McAlpine, Casshern, The Machinist with Dir.
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The films shown were Meet the Feebles and Creepshow. 2007: Diary of the Dead with George A. Romero, Planet Terror, Savage Streets, Frontier(s), Inside and Trailer Trash. Short film Far Out with Prod. 2008: This year the event took on the format of the long passed Shock Around The Clock events.
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"Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You - Maybe" in Ares 8, Schow, DJ; Simulations Publications, NY 1981, Page 33 Some cinemas also began to show "trailer trash" programs of trailers without a main feature. Similarly, several DVDs containing nothing but trailers for films, typically from exploitation film genres, have been produced for sale.
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Jessica called her "trailer trash" who had slept with her sister's fiancé. Natalie pointed out that at least she hadn't hidden behind her mental illness, and she accused Jessica of enjoying being Tess in order to torture Brody. Jessica had been able to order him around and be a bitch, Natalie added. The argument continued to escalate.
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Steen created the role of J. D. in Shores' hit play The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife for which he won an LA Weekly Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Ovation Award for Acting Ensemble. David Steen continues his work as an actor and writer, dividing his time between Los Angeles and Palm Springs. Steen is married to actress, Bobbie Eakes.
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The dish is featured prominently in an eponymous episode of the sitcom Fawlty Towers on the BBC. It is also mentioned at the end of the 1987 film House of Games; and within Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, season 1, episode 11, where it is referred to as “trailer trash food”. In season 2, Episode 10 of Twin Peaks, a Waldorf salad is served at a large gathering.
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In common usage, "white trash" overlaps in meaning with "cracker", used of people in the backcountry of the Southern states; "hillbilly", regarding poor people from Appalachia; "Okie" regarding those with origins in Oklahoma; and "redneck", regarding rural origins; especially in the South. The primary difference is that "redneck", "cracker", "Okie", and "hillbilly" emphasize that a person is poor and uneducated and comes from the backwoods with little awareness of and interaction with the modern world, while "white trash" - and the modern term "trailer trash" - emphasizes the person's supposed moral failings, without regard to the setting of their upbringing. While the other terms suggest rural origins, "white trash" and "trailer trash" may be urban or suburban. Scholars from the late 19th to the early 21st century explored generations of families who were considered "disreputable", such as The Jukes family and The Kallikak Family, both pseudonyms for real families.
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The trailers themselves - sometimes purchased second- or third-hand - were often unsightly, unsanitary and dilapidated, causing communities to zone them away from the more desirable areas, which meant away from schools, stores, and other necessary facilities, often literally on the other side of the railroad tracks. In the mid-20th century, poor whites who could not afford to buy suburban-style tract housing began to purchase mobile homes, which were not only cheaper, but which could be easily relocated if work in one location ran out. These - sometimes by choice and sometimes through local zoning laws - gathered in trailer camps, and the people who lived in them became known as "trailer trash". Despite many of them having jobs, albeit sometimes itinerant ones, the character flaws that had been perceived in poor white trash in the past were transferred to so-called "trailer trash", and trailer camps or parks were seen as being inhabited by retired persons, migrant workers, and, generally, the poor.
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The Atheist is a satirical play about catching the perfect front-page headline, whatever the cost. The play follows the story of a cynical US news reporter, clawing his way up the journalistic hierarchy from trailer trash roots to notoriety and celebrity. Central character Augustine Early drinks Bourbon and recounts his story like a "how to get famous quick" help book. He is both revolting and charismatic – a cartoon take on the tabloid journalist.
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Foley grew up in the Hopkins, Minnesota area with six siblings who were all interested in music. He played for the Overtones and Things That Fall Down who were among the favorites of Kevin Cole then of First Avenue, and with the Suprees, Snaps, Routine 11, Bang Zoom and Trailer Trash. Foley was a drummer for Curtiss A for ten years when he most likely did not record on Twin/Tone Records.
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Cargill is overcome by suspicions against the Tweeners, so during his rescue he escapes into the woods where he is immediately captured. His captors this time are futuristic nomads or 'trailer trash' called 'Planiacs' who live in floating airships. The Planiacs have rejected civilization and its intolerable psychological pressures. Their airships are stocked and repaired by the Shadows, and they live utterly purposeless lives floating from place to place, occasionally stopping to fish.
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"Trailer Trash: Not Match of the Day", The Observer, Guardian News and Media. Retrieved on 24 April 2008. Sheen said Clough was "one of those people who's decided he's going to shape the rest of the world in his image. Inevitably there's something in us that recognises that that's playing with fire and the gods will have to strike you down." With Frears as director, principal photography was scheduled for the end of 2007.
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The Daily Mirror Beth Neil has observed that during her time on Coronation Street, Becky has morphed "from a thieving tearaway into a vulnerable young woman, clearly damaged from a troubled upbringing." Kelly has commented that Becky finds it hard to rely on others, as she is: "Very out of sorts, because she's a very independent, feisty sort of character." She has stated that she loves Becky's "trailer trash" appearance. Becky Granger as she appeared in 2006.
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In her interview with the police, Nancy Styler said that Pfister was a liar, an alcoholic (Pfister had been arrested on DUI charges) and hated by everyone in the community. Pfister had called her and her husband "trailer trash," and said they should be living in a "trailer park". According to Nancy Styler, Pfister treated her "like a slave", and treated Carpenter the same way. Prosecutors used this to say the Stylers and Carpenter had motive to kill Pfister.
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Dottley is also an award-winning theatre producer. In 2010, Dottley produced Yellow at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood which won him the most prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle "Best World Premiere Play" Award. He has produced and starred in major national tours with icons Rue McClanahan, Delta Burke, Caroline Rhea and Georgette Jones. Dottley produced Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in the Del Shores play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife".
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Roller Derby Team New Zealand member Tuff Bikkies (Meryn McAulay), jamming for Smash Malice in the 2011 Richter City intraleague final. In 2009 and 2010 two teams contested the intraleague competition; Brutal Pageant (pink & red/beauty pageant theme) and Smash Malice (leopard print/trailer trash theme). By mid-2010, a bout attracted a crowd of more than 3,500 people. In 2011 the intraleague competition was expanded to include a third team; Comic Slams (blue & silver/super hero and Comic Sans font theme).
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Steen also starred opposite Beth Grant, Dale Dickey, and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in the Del Shores dramatic festival film, Blues for Willadean. The film, an adaption of Shores' The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife garnered critical acclaim during theatrical runs in New York City and Los Angeles. Steen gives a chilling performance as the abusive husband, J.D. Winkler. Steen co-wrote and produced and starred in the independent film The Corndog Man that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Vicki grew up in a trailer park, and hated it because people regularly made fun of her and the others who lived in Prospect Gardens, calling them names such as "Trailer Trash". Her parents smoked, drank, and fought constantly. Every Friday, Vicki would usually have to baby-sit her sister Jeannie, however, occasionally she would ditch her and run off to smoke, drink or do dope with her friends. When Vicki was twelve, a man asked to speak at the dance.
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His 2009 short film Mixtape (2 mins) starring Bill Milner was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film and won the Virgin Media Shorts competition. The film features music from The Kinks and Heart. Jason Solomons singled out the film in his Trailer Trash column for The Guardian in the build up to the BAFTA Awards in 2010. He stated that he was "Immediately charmed by its retro story of a boy who makes a cassette of songs for the girl next door".
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In the end of the second season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, she played a young Vorta called Eris in "The Jem'Hadar". She appeared in three episodes of the third season of Becker, she also appeared on Seinfeld as Sister Roberta, the Latvian Orthodox novice that Kramer nearly took from the church, and a cooking teacher on Friends. She played a trailer trash mother in a Jerry Springer-based movie, Ringmaster. She played Diane McAllister in the 1999 movie Election opposite Matthew Broderick.
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Born in Anaheim, California, Buckley was the only son of Mary Guibert and Tim Buckley. His mother was a Zonian of mixed Greek, French, and Panamanian descent, while his father was the son of an Irish American father and an Italian American mother.Browne (2001), p. 16 Buckley was raised by his mother and stepfather, Ron Moorhead, in Southern California, and had a half- brother, Corey Moorhead.Browne (2001), pp. 62–63 Buckley moved many times in and around Orange County while growing up, an upbringing Buckley called "rootless trailer trash".
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In February 2007, the New York Post reported that the hotel's front desk manager was nearly fired when Lindsay Lohan tried to book three rooms. Owner Jeff Klein was reportedly overheard yelling at the manager, "If that piece of trailer trash so much as enters my driveway, you are fired. She can't come here with all my chic guests, she'll ruin the place." Also in 2007, Sean "Diddy" Combs showed up with an entourage to attend a Golden Globes party, and was told his name was not on the list.
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Legal scholar Victoria Phillips relied on interview data to show that, despite the team's declared intent, most Native Americans find the use of the term redskins to be disrespectful and dehumanizing. Phillips argues that the continued registration and use of the 'Redskins' trademark is an appropriation of the cultural identity and imagery of Native Americans that rises to the level of a dignity taking. Regulatory property actions also dehumanize in the context of mobile trailer home parks. People who live in trailer parks are often dehumanized and colloquially referred to as trailer trash.
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Spark is a 1998 film directed by Garret Williams and starring Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker. Williams made his directorial debut with this tale of an urban black couple trapped in a desert town of rednecks after their car breaks down after hitting a dog. Byron (Terrence Howard) and Nina (Nicole Ari Parker) are driving a BMW from Chicago to L.A. to take Nina to school when they experience a back-road breakdown. Teen Mooney (Brendan Sexton III) tows them to a white-trailer-trash town where they are charged $500 for repairs.
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His last public performance was playing with Minneapolis Countryswing band Trailer Trash at Lee's Liquor Lounge in late 1994. They performed a version of Lefty Frizzell's "Lil 'Ol Wine Drinker Me". In 2010, Sonny Vincent compiled all the songs he recorded with Stinson over the years into the album Cow Milking Music, which he released under the name Model Prisoners Featuring Sonny Vincent And Bob Stinson. The album was released on vinyl, with CD included, along with many photos of Stinson from Vincent's archives and a four-page story detailing the history of their collaboration and friendship.
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Once there, Ren and Ethel attend church and get their first glimpse of the minister Shaw Moore a conservative minister who is a big authority figure in the town. After a long sermon lambasting the evils of "rock and roll" music and its "endless chant of pornography", Moore's daughter Ariel runs off to a gas station to meet her "trailer trash" boyfriend Chuck Cranston, along with his buddies Travis and Lyle. Chuck and Ariel are only together for the sex ("The Girl Gets Around"). While they embrace, Moore shows up and catches Chuck with his hands around his daughter, much to his displeasure.
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Wynonna is a present-day descendant of the famous lawman Wyatt Earp, and she's the top special agent for a special unit known within the US Marshals as The Monster Squad. She battles such supernatural threats as Bobo Del Rey and his redneck, trailer-trash vampires that are pushing a new killer designer drug called "Hemo", and the Egyptian mafia's mummy hitman, Raduk, Eater of the Dead, who's out to do in all the other crime bosses. In her subsequent adventures she finished some outstanding Earp family business while dealing with Hillbilly Gremlins, and Zombie Mailmen alongside her fellow marshals.
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The two travel to Chloe's home, where Frank shoots Chloe's father and Roxy stabs Chloe's mother. Roxy convinces Frank to let her join his killing spree by revealing that she is trailer trash who is at the mercy of a drug-addicted mother and rapist step-father. They visit a cinema to watch a documentary about the Mỹ Lai Massacre, and several teenagers begin acting obnoxiously. Frank and Roxy shoot all of them except for the one who did not do anything rude, and Frank thanks her for it before killing a man who is recording him on a smartphone.
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She also guest starred on The Gavin Crawford Show as Jenna. In 2001, her career took off when she became a regular in the Canadian TV Show Paradise Falls as Roxy Hunter, the trailer trash girl who has many personal troubles, such as being kidnapped, bound, and gagged in a cabin by a mysterious villain. The first season had 52 episodes. She also had a supporting role in the TV movie Danger Beneath the Sea as Lisa Alford, the pregnant wife who's left alone in a town where she does not really know anyone after her husband leaves for the submarines.
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Liam Lacey at The Globe and Mail gave the film three stars, calling the introductory information about S-14 "clumsy", but added "What makes the flaws forgivable is Dolan's love of his characters". On 21 May 2014, Mommy received a four-star rating from The Guardian reviewer Peter Bradshaw, who described the film as "a splashy, transgressive treat, from trailer-trash chat to unexpected sex and surprising emotional depth". Following Dolan's receipt of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Guardian writer Xan Brooks introduced the film as "a boisterous Oedipal comedy". Peter Debruge of Variety called it "A funny, heartbreaking and, above all, original work".
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Billy Ray Cyrus' song "Burn Down the Trailer Park" and Toby Keith's song "Trailerhood" contain humorous lyrics about living in a trailer park. Colt Ford's song "No Trash in My Trailer" (2009) tells of a redneck-type male who throws his girlfriend out of his mobile home, the message being "there ain't no trash in my trailer, since the day I threw you outta here." The song "Trailer Trash" appears on Modest Mouse's album The Lonesome Crowded West (1997). Eminem refers to himself as "Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park, the White Trash God" in his song "Rap God" from the album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013).
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He remarked that the "trailer trash setting" of the film was influenced by Harmony Korine's Gummo (1997) and John Waters' Female Trouble (1974). He also said that the filming budget of under £1000 was a homage to "the spirit of John Waters." All the extras featured in the film were real inhabitants of Sheppey, and to film a scene in a local cafe, they walked in and asked the proprietors if they could shoot there. Although they had planned to tell any enquirers who approached them that they were shooting a horror film, during the shoot none of the locals expressed any interest in the crew's activities.
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The album received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone commenting "Raw emotion blends with slashing,whirling guitars to inject paralysis with weird power" and Q Magazine praising the way in which the band "Manage to make humdrum everyday existence sound quite magical.". Artrocker premiered a stream of the album a week prior to release. Throughout 2012, the band toured with bands including The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Wave Pictures, Let's Wrestle, and Trailer Trash Tracys, prompting Clash Magazine to hail them as "one of the most exciting prospects on the [live] circuit". The band's name references the undertaker in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.
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Based on the Imperium Comics series of the same name, Trailer Park of Terror follows six troubled high school students and their leader, the optimistic youth ministries pastor, Lewis (Matthew Del Negro). As the group return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains they become lost on the back roads after their bus crashes during a raging storm. The luckless group seeks refuge for the night in a seemingly abandoned trailer park down the road, managed by the strange and seductive Norma (Nichole Hiltz). As the night progresses they find that the park is anything but empty as Norma and her undead trailer trash buddies pick them off in imaginative ways.
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Little is known about Lemansky outside of his job as a Strike Team member, except that his surname is of Polish origin. In one of the series DVD commentaries, Michael Chiklis mentions that all of the characters are from the same areas the actors are from, implying that Lemansky was originally from New Haven, Connecticut. Lem's tombstone, shown in season 6, indicates he was born in 1963. In season 1, he has a relationship with Tigre Orozco, the sister of a reformed gangbanger and in season 5, Ronnie Gardocki implies that Lem's parents were "trailer trash" and so poor that the Strike Team didn't even bother asking them to help post bail for Lem after his arrest by Internal Affairs.
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Blake Butler of AllMusic praised the album's diversity, noting the range of "quiet, brooding acoustics like 'Bankrupt on Selling' and dark and pounding thrashers like 'Cowboy Dan'", and called the album "indie rock at its very best." Pitchfork ranked The Lonesome Crowded West at number 29 in their list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1990s, and the song "Trailer Trash" reached number 63 in their list of the 200 greatest songs of the decade. Spin ranked the album at number 59 in their list of the 100 greatest albums of 1985–2005, and Entertainment Weekly included the album in their list The Indie Rock 25. The A.V. Club has described The Lonesome Crowded West as the band's breakthrough recording.
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It was later featured in the movies D2: The Mighty Ducks and Mystery, Alaska, as well as on television program Malcolm in the Middle. The Gear Daddies in 2016 performing in Rochester, Minnesota After the dissolution of the band, Zellar began an active career of performing and recording with the band that became known as Martin Zellar and the Hardways, taking with him long-time friend and bassist Nick Ciola. Electric guitarist Randy Broughten is currently a physical education teacher in Eagan, Minnesota. As well as being a member of The Cactus Blossoms, he has also been the steel guitar player for many years with Minneapolis country band Trailer Trash, who are known for their annual Christmas shows, and who also had a cameo in the mockumentary film Dill Scallion.
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Dmitri becomes romantically involved with Daphne, a fashion designer, but through mistaken identity is deceived into having sex with Daphne's conniving employee Taylor. Concealing a trailer trash past while working secretly as a call girl, Taylor then supposedly becomes pregnant with Dmitri's child. Ivan marries Julie Whitmore, the daughter of another wealthy local businessman, but then reveals he is gay as he is undeniably attracted to Francisco, a male houseguest in the Carlisles' home and one-time flame of Natalia's. Sasha pursues a career as a serious musician but is frustrated at being typecast as a teen idol in the style of Aaron Carter; indifferent and easily distracted, he breaks the heart of Cherish, a high school classmate with a hard crush on him who is also his most loyal fan.
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The negative perception of trailer parks was not improved by the creation of emergency trailer parks by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina, the quality and temporary nature of which was disputed.Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many, New York Times, July 12, 2007] Many stereotypes have been developed regarding people who live in trailer parks, which are similar to stereotypes of the poor and the term trailer trash is often used as an adjective in the same vein as the derogatory American terms white trash or ghetto. Though trailer parks appear throughout the United States, they are often associated with the Deep South and rural areas. More recently referred to in the U.S. as "mobile home parks" or "manufactured housing communities", the stereotypes are often just that.
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Pierre a stuffy, self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure. The building's lift is malfunctioning, and they receive visits from unwanted callers: Katia, a depressed transvestite who tries to hit on Pierre, M. Preskovic who lives in the same building and always turns up unexpectedly to offer them various unappetizing pastries and Josette, a heavily pregnant woman on the run from her violent fiancé Félix. Félix is working as a Santa Claus during the season and turns up on her trail in costume and brandishing a gun. Félix and Josette, a caricature trailer trash couple, end up struggling over the gun and accidentally shooting dead the lift repairman, whom they then butcher and feed to zoo animals.
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Despite many of them having jobs, albeit sometimes itinerant ones, the character flaws that had been perceived in poor white trash in the past were transferred to trailer trash, and trailer camps or parks were seen as being inhabited by retired persons, migrant workers, and, generally, the poor. By 1968, a survey found that only 13% of those who owned and lived in mobile homes had white collar jobs.Isenberg, Nancy (2016) White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America New York: Penguin. pp.240-47 Trailers got their start in the 1930s, and their use proliferated during the housing shortage of World War II, when the Federal government used as many as 30,000 of them to house defense workers, soldiers and sailors throughout the country, but especially around areas with a large military or defense presence, such as Mobile, Alabama and Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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