did anyone catch that Earl marathon on Saturday. I just saw bits and pieces, but they had the episode where Earl had faked his death to break up with a girl.
In the final scene, when Earl is using the paper mache Earl as a pinata, Randy is sitting there eating Frosted Flakes.
I wonder if this episode was supposed to come after the one where Earl buys him the Frosted Flakes and tells him he’s on the karma train. (choo choo).
Anyway, I said this last week and I’ll say it again. This show has done more character development in the couple months it’s been on than Friends did in 10 years.
Is it just me, or is intelligent TV starting to make a come back?
Has Ethan Suplee (sp?) ever played a smart character? I guess cause he looks so goofy, he’s pigeonholed into the idiot role. I guess his part as rabid comic fan in Chasing Amy may have been a smart person, we’re not really told.
I thought originally it was set in the South, but it is clearly set in Maryland. All the towns mentioned in the golf show were Maryland towns, and the crab shack fits. So, southern but not south.
I don’t think Earl has much of a sex drive myself. He doesn’t seem to even notice Catalina.
That’s only because Randy called “dibs” when they first saw her. Not sure if the “old Earl” would have persued her despite losing the “dibs”, but the “new Earl” certainly wouldn’t try to do anything to ruin the thing that Catalina & Randy have.
He played a college student in The Butterfly Effect. He was also a big creepy punker, but he must have been smart enough to get admitted! I never saw the end of the movie, so I’m not totally sure what happened to his character.
I agree on the probable setting (it’s filmed in California, thus the stray palm tree here and there), but I think MD was chosen so that they could fully exploit some southern gags. Jaime Presley/Joy is pure Alabama/Mississippi brother, no doubt about it.
Maryland can be really damn trashy, though, at least in other portrayals in the media. Have you ever seen any John Waters movies? Everything, from Pink Flamingoes to Cry-Baby to Pecker, is set in and around Baltimore, and Waters paints it as a city full of quirky white trash, weird rednecks, and lowlife sickos.
I mean no offense to the good people of Baltimore, of course.
I have and in the last Earl thread I commented on the Waters-esque nature of parts of the show, but Presley’s accent is pure south (I think she’s from some small town in NC)
But in the pilot, Joy got Earl drunk and drove him to Vegas to get married. It would have been tough to have kept him from sobering up somewhere between Maryland and Nevada.
[hijack]You need to see the end of this movie! I’m not gonna spoil it, but I will say that he plays a lot more than just the punker you see in the beginning of the film. I was surprised at how good that movie was![/hijack]
I think “Scrubs” is the obvious pairing with “My Name is Earl”, since it’s a lot of the same kind of humor. Now if only they’d get off their asses and start the new season…
It’s not the Scrubs producers’ fault. NBC shelved Scrubs to be a mid-season replacement, starting in January. Then it will most likely replace The Office, or perhaps get scheduled on Thursday night.
I taped the show for my husband (he was away on business) and we just watched it last night (along with Lost and Survivor). Great episode. I think something’s wrong with me, though – I totally have a crush on Earl. His messy hair, his porn-star mustache – and, yowza! – his hairy chest. My husband says I’m sick, but is it just me? Am I the only one who thinks Earl is just hot as hell?
And the best line belongs to Joy – “It’s not the lying that screws you up – it’s the finding out!” Funny and true!
I must say I was rather squicked out to find that stars Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee (as well as guest star Giovani Ribisi) are Scientologists. Not that it will keep me from watching and enjoying the hell out of the show, but I wonder if they pull a Tom Cruise and submit the cast and crew to Scientology pitches?
Oh, ad Earl is hot in a “your friends would disapprove” way, but in real life he’d be annoying, smell like beer and cigarettes and probably be bad in bed . . .
