OKLAHOMA CITY — Attendees at Chat Pile’s Halloween show universally agreed that singer Raygun Busch was dressed as Randy from the TV show “Trailer Park Boys” despite the rest of the band wearing normal clothes.
“When Busch rolled on stage without a shirt and some stupid looking pants, I immediately got excited,” said audience member Amalia Pace. “Because I love ‘Trailer Park Boys’ and Randy is my favorite character. I guess if I think about it, Busch might have been wearing the same thing when I saw him 4 months ago, but you can tell it was different this time. It was just so much more Randy-esque somehow. Really fun holiday atmosphere at the gig.”
Other members of Chat Pile believed Busch to be in costume as well.
“I really wanted to get my Weed Smoking Grimace outfit together, but it just wasn’t working,” said Chat Pile drummer Cap’n Ron. “I got a full mascot costume and everything, but couldn’t figure out how to fix the arms so I could drum while also not looking stupid. And when we got to the show, I just assumed everyone forgot. But then when Raygun walked on stage with his guns out, I was like ‘Hell yeah, Randy’s here.’ He really saved our asses so we didn’t look lame on Halloween.”
Despite the broadly held excitement, some were less enthused.
“It’s just fundamentally not a good costume,” said “Trailer Park Boys” subreddit moderator Cheryl Pena. “The hair was way off, those pants clearly were made from something other than khaki, the belt and the shoes were the wrong color. This is frankly offensive to the sanctity of the show, and I’m getting tired of removing posts about it. I mean, it’s like he wasn’t even trying to dress up as Randy at all.”
When asked for comment, Busch actually confirmed Pena’s suspicion by claiming he was not Randy, but instead dressed as “a guy from OKC I saw on the news who drove his car into the side of his house.”
Photo by Moy Hidalgo