While good-natured towards his friends and family, Ricky is also selfish, foul-mouthed, volatile, and aggressive, and almost always manages to anger, offend, and alienate those around him.

He seems to believe that any form of evidence of wrongdoing can be dispensed by simply flinging it into the air from where he is standing or by submerging it in a nearby lake.

A lifetime of drinking, smoking dope, shoplifting, vandalism, destruction of property, theft and slacking off have left Ricky with a below-average intelligence, for which he is often ridiculed.

However, he has moments of cleverness and displays practical expertise, as in growing marijuana (at which his skill is unsurpassed), fixing cars, siphoning gas, playing ball hockey, and cooking.

He is also extremely adept at fast-talking, negotiating himself and his friends out of seemingly impossible situations with a mixture of quick thinking, confident acting and overwhelming subjects with nonsensical yet somehow credible arguments.

In the Season 3 premiere, after discovering that he squandered all of his earnings on a successful drug deal from Season 2, Ricky was forced to pick between purchasing his own trailer or buying encyclopedias that he ordered for Trinity; Ricky chose the latter at the expense of having to kiss Lahey's bare buttocks in front of the rest of the trailer park residents after losing a bet with him.

Although he often tries to take the easy way out by breaking the law instead of getting a real job, he occasionally demonstrates dedication to work and education to prove that he's more than a criminal lowlife.

He usually wears black track pants and a Houndstooth patterned shirt and enjoys listening to Canadian '80s rock bands such as Helix, April Wine, and Kim Mitchell.

For most of the series, Ricky lives in and drives the "Shitmobile", a dilapidated 1975 green Chrysler New Yorker that used to belong to Julian's grandmother.

"[5] In 2005, Robb Wells in character as Ricky, along with Mike Smith and John Paul Tremblay as Bubbles and Julian, threw out the first pitch at the home opener of the 2005 Toronto Blue Jays season at the Rogers Centre.