 In "" Ray seemingly died as the result of an explosion at the dump where he lived, but it was later revealed that he performed a life-insurance fraud scam and is actually alive and living in a Florida dump.Like Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles, Ray's surname was never spoken on-screen.However, in Season Eleven, while Julian and Bubbles are trying to determine whether or not Lahey is Ricky's biological father, Bubbles informs Julian that Ray's last name, "LaFleur", was changed to "Flower" because of other truckers' habit of mocking his seemingly French last name.