# My Name Is Earl, 05/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631 "2007-05-11T00:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/21 "2007-05-11T13:55:20Z")
I particularly liked the bit where Marlee covered her eyes and said to Earl, “I’m not listening to you!” ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/22 "2007-05-11T14:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] This episode seemed much more “vintage Earl” than others as of late … really enjoyed this one. I especially appreciated the nod to _Boogie Nights_ (snapping firecrackers going off while Night Ranger’s _Sister Christian_ played in the background). [/QUOTE] For me, the episode was worth watching for that alone. I’ll admit I haven’t enjoyed Earl that much this season, but this episode was really good. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/23 "2007-05-11T15:34:48Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] And Dog the Bounty Hunter, followed by an A&E commercial touting the new season. 😃 Now, for a dose of reality…wouldn’t Ruby get in trouble for knowingly letting Earl commit perjury? Joy did it, Earl and Ruby know she did it, but Ruby let Earl take the fall for Joy. [/QUOTE] If its reality you want, and if I recall correctly from this season’s first episode, Earl and Randy were committing kidnapping while Joy was stealing the truck. Earl and Randy deliberately kept the truck driver tied up in the back of the truck for a considerable length of instead of immediately setting him free once they discovered him, and that technically constitutes the crime of kidnapping. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/24 "2007-05-11T18:39:17Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Now, for a dose of reality…wouldn’t Ruby get in trouble for knowingly letting Earl commit perjury? Joy did it, Earl and Ruby know she did it, but Ruby let Earl take the fall for Joy. [/QUOTE] I should add that reality and Camden County don’t mix, and that’s a good thing! But if reality did apply, in real life, Ruby would not have been allowed to be Earl’s attorney in State v. Earl Hickey due to Ruby having an obvious conflict of interest, represention of another defendant in the companion case, and a not so obvious conflict of interest, Ruby and Earl having been lovers. Earl wouldn’t have been convicted the same day that Joy was acquitted, because any attorney that Earl hired or had appointed for him would ask for a new trial date and time to prepare a defense. Earl’s defense would be that the state did not have any corroboration of Earl’s admission to stealing the truck. I agree with Ivylass that Earl could probably be prosecuted for perjury. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/25 "2007-05-11T22:14:00Z")
Congrats to Jaime Pressly on the birth of her son, Dezi James! 🙂 Woo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/26 "2007-05-12T00:01:47Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] I particularly liked the bit where Marlee covered her eyes and said to Earl, “I’m not listening to you!” [/QUOTE] Best line of the night…regardless of the show, channel or time on planet earth. I lost my shit. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/27 "2007-05-12T00:03:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] I can’t believe they actually sent him to jail. I’m honestly left wondering how they’ll resolve this. [/QUOTE] There was a live blog last night on the NBC web site after the show, with Greg Garcia. He said that they are going to play out Earl in jail during the beginning of the next season. He promised no pardon and that it wasn’t going to be a “dream.” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/28 "2007-05-12T16:52:27Z")
I thought this was the best of the season (even if it didn’t have enough Catalina in it.) Most of you have caught all the parts that made me laugh. Thanks Bambi for the translation! ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/29 "2007-05-12T18:03:11Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I thought this was the best of the season … [/QUOTE] Yep, couldn’t agree more. I’ve really loved the entire season, even the weaker episodes, but this one was just fantastic. And I blubbed a bit when Earl decided to take the rap because Joy’s family needed her. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/30 "2007-05-12T19:12:07Z")
[QUOTE=5que] There was a live blog last night on the NBC web site after the show, with Greg Garcia. He said that they are going to play out Earl in jail during the beginning of the next season. He promised no pardon and that it wasn’t going to be a “dream.” [/QUOTE] If there’s no pardon, then how is he getting out? If he’s only in jail for the first part of next season, then that’s clearly not the two years he was sentenced for. I’m guessing Earl gets a lot of other inmates to adopt lists of their own, and the jail turns into a nice place to be, so the parole board lets him out after less than a year. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/31 "2007-05-12T20:17:17Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] If there’s no pardon, then how is he getting out? If he’s only in jail for the first part of next season, then that’s clearly not the two years he was sentenced for. [/QUOTE] The show doesn’t enforce show time passing in sync with real time. When Earl went back to school, they sped up time so it happened within 1 episode. I doubt he studied for his GED and passed within the span of 30 minutes (or even 1 week’s time). It’s possible for him to spend 2 years in prison in the span of a few episodes without breaking any “rules”. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/32 "2007-05-12T21:07:23Z")
I think the average expected is that you serve 80% of your sentence. Maybe he gets additional time off for good behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/33 "2007-05-14T15:28:48Z")
A good episode with which to end the season. The ASL-to-Chinese-to-English translation was a hoot. “Your witness, bitch!” Loved the 911 tapes: “Wow.” Loved Crabman’s gradual Joy-less disintegration. Loved Randy’s voice changing when he said to Earl about Earl Jr. and Dodge, “If you wake them, I’ll kill you.” When Marlee showed three images on an easel to the jury to argue that someone else might have boosted the truck, what were the pictures of? Couldn’t make them out, our reception was so bad. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/34 "2007-05-14T15:44:19Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] When Marlee showed three images on an easel to the jury to argue that someone else might have boosted the truck, what were the pictures of? Couldn’t make them out, our reception was so bad. [/QUOTE] All I could make out was people with shopping carts, but I couldn’t tell if they were people we’ve seen before on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Ad\_Here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b2d939/32.png) [@Your\_Ad\_Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Ad_Here)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/35 "2007-05-14T16:52:36Z")
IIRC, they were translator with three different people in shopping carts, taken at relatively short intervals. I guess the goal was to prove that while the camera catches Joy running towart the truck, she actually might not have stolen it. I believe the joke was that the three different people were three different adults. Each one larger than the next one. I only saw it once though… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/36 "2007-05-14T18:30:37Z")
The first was a child in the cart, then an adult, then an old man. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631/37 "2007-05-14T18:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] The show doesn’t enforce show time passing in sync with real time. When Earl went back to school, they sped up time so it happened within 1 episode. I doubt he studied for his GED and passed within the span of 30 minutes (or even 1 week’s time). It’s possible for him to spend 2 years in prison in the span of a few episodes without breaking any “rules”. [/QUOTE] True, but he also didn’t spend _that_ much time on it, since Joy was pregnant when he started, and still pregnant when he was done. It will be interesting to see if he can do any list items while in prison. I realize they took the list from him, but if he made the list, then he clearly remembers at least most of the items. Plus, being in prison could remind him of other bad things he’s done. Maybe Randy, Joy, and Crabman start doing list items for him? Earl might object at first, but then he realizes that all his good karma was making them do good things too, so in the end it’s ok if they do the items. “Hey, Crabman!” “Hey Crabman…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-05-10/403631.md?page=1)