I particularly liked the bit where Marlee covered her eyes and said to Earl, “I’m not listening to you!”
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.
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.
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.
Congrats to Jaime Pressly on the birth of her son, Dezi James! 
Woo hoo!
Best line of the night…regardless of the show, channel or time on planet earth.
I lost my shit.
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.”
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!
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.
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.
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”.
I think the average expected is that you serve 80% of your sentence. Maybe he gets additional time off for good behavior.
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.
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.
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…
The first was a child in the cart, then an adult, then an old man.
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…”