Well, all in all, I was pretty impressed. The maid was dead sexy, and the gay bar scene at the end was pretty funny. Also, I’m happy to see Jamie Pressly’s breasts getting work.
My question for you is, what do they do for the 259th episode?
I hope it lasts that long. I liked it, mostly because I lurve Jason Lee. My only hope is that Earl has some items that take multiple weeks to cross off.
Oh, and Jamie Pressley? Is looking to’ up! Damn.
It wasn’t hilarious, but it was a good show that I’ll keep watching if I don’t have to work. Good stuff!
Start working on Randy’s stuff? It’s ten-plus years off. 
I liked it too. Politically incorrect but in a good (new) way – not for shock value, but just because that’s how some folks act and think.
Biggest chuckle for me – when he’s running from Kenny’s house and says something like “I know now that I didn’t have to run.”
“Karma. The secret of life. Straight from the mouth of Carson Daly to my morphine-laced ears.”
I loved it. Especially the part where they discovered the gay porn and backed slowly out of the house in shock and horror.
Me too, I was thinking about quoting it in the OP. Quality line. It’s formulaic and all, but still was enjoyable. I expect it to get better as the show gets developed. Pilots are always a bit hit or miss, even for good shows.
Certainly was a hell of alot better than The Office so far.
I think it’s off to a good start…I never knew that Nena was considered gay-friendly music…
I’d give it a solid B, which is pretty high for a sit-com. Some of the jokes were a bit lame (nobody has even heard of karma? I see it mentioned on bumper stickers regularly), but Jason Lee is pretty darned watchable, so I’ll hang in. Jamie Pressley seems to be turning into a troll doll, but the maid was hot.
Well, if you buy into the characters as redneck, high-school drop-outs it doesn’t feel like such a stretch that they hadn’t heard of a tenet of Buddhism, and eastern religions as a whole. He plays scratch-off lottery tickets for god’s sake.
I like it.
Earl struggling to find the word homosexual-american? was pretty damn funny.
I liked it. I’ll be tuning in next week. Who is Jamie Pressly?
Played the cheating, blonde ex-Wife. Had a pretty good run a few years back as a scorching hot FHM/Maxim cover girl and seems to always find herself playing the role of hot, white-trash skank.
A Tara Reid wanna-be. She played Earl’s wife.
We definitely enjoyed it. It was more than a little over the top, but that didn’t detract from the fun. Plus we’ve both known enough folks like Earl to buy the premise without much of a stretch.
A nitpick, but it’s Jaime Pressly. And Nadine Velazquez plays Catalina.
The show looks promising. I’ll keep watching it to see how it develops. I like Jason Lee. And it’s nice to see Ethan Suplee getting a job from someone besides Kevin Smith.
Anyone else notice Leo Fitzpatrick from Kids and Bully? He was the guy on the bicycle. He’s not exactly mainstream, so I thought it was pretty interesting that they cast him- though it seems he’s only listed for the pilot.
Good show, though. For a premiere, at least (The Office was just paaainful-- hmm, kind of like the second season of the UK version, I guess). I, too, enjoyed the sweetly ignorant gay jokes.
Well, I’d say co-starring in a sitcom starring Smith regular Jason Lee is almost the same as “getting a job” from Kevin Smith!
One thing that surprised me a bit was that Jason Lee’s performance was definitely a cut above the typical television rendering of anybody poor, white and rural as an illiterate, mean-spirited, mulletted, gap-toothed goober. Earl’s definitely a mess – a drunk, a thief and ignorant in a lot of ways – but is at least capable of growth and comes off as a real person and not just a “slack-jawed Cletus” stereotype.
Of course, maybe I’m just excited to see a sitcom that isn’t set in New York. 
“Hey, Crab-Man.”
“Hey, Earl.”
Still being cool with the black guy that cuckolds you with your wife? Priceless.
I got in late (8:08 pm CST) but I liked it. A lot. My hubby and I laughed at several scenes. I will definitely be back.