I liked seeing the One-Legged Girl stalking Earl like she was a character from a horror film. Hopping up the motel stairs… one… stair… at… a… time. :eek:
Good to see Beau Bridges return as Earl’s long-suffering dad. When they first showed his mom talking to the one-eyed postal carrier, I presumed she would be the only parent to appear. I didn’t get the gag with her, the baby and Earl peeing on the living room carpet, though. Was that meant to suggest a fast-forward from Earl as a kid to Earl as a drunk adult, or was there actually a baby in the house when Earl peed on the carpet?
Earl’s drooping spirits, as his friends mentioned all the wrong he’d done them, was funny.
Who was Catalina dancing with at the motel-room party? What was she passing back and forth with him? Randy, her husband, didn’t seem to mind.
Sorry Patty the Daytime Hooker couldn’t make it to the party. She always livens things up.
You were supposed to think that it was baby Earl in the flashback, but it was actually Dodge, Joy’s older kid. Earl’s mom was babysitting while Earl got drunk with his friends, then he came home and peed on the carpet, just when you were expecting the naked baby to do it.
It was the guy she told Earl about who has a promotional button/pin* company (like the “Birthday Boy” one Earl was wearing) which doesn’t do very well so he tips her with the buttons when she dances. He was giving her more buttons.
*Those round pins with slogans are called buttons, right?
An episode or two, Randy gave up on Catalina, after she unsexied herself as much as possible with rotten cheese and fish and fake armpit hair, before they had sex for the first time. Randy, in one of his flashes of intelligence, realized that if Catalina would go to such an extreme to repulse Randy, then he’s wasting his time on her. At the end of the episode, Randy laid it down “this is nothing more than a green card marriage.”
To the episode:
I loved Randy’s ultimate pickup line: “Are you drunk enough to have sex with me?” That smooth talker.
And yeah, it was great watching everybody just make Earl feel more and more horrible about his past, but then have the real party in the hotel room, with a great gift, crossing off a good twenty items from his list (everybody at the party got to scratch one out, right?)
It is now my goal in life to learn how to do the beer robot Earl always does on his birthday if hes drunk enough. I’m guessing it will require lots of drinking.
The flip side to that is that Catalina realized how wonderful a lover Randy was ( :eek: ) and that it was the best sex she’d ever had. Now she has a little Randy-Crush but Randy is oblivious.
Right, except that I don’t think it was Randy feeling he was “wasting his time on her”. If I recall, he was repulsed by how she looked, felt, and smelled, after she did all that stuff. And even when she begged and said she could clean up, he said something like it wouldn’t get rid of it all in his memory. I recall something about one of the smells reminding him of mom, or something.
I didn’t get the impression that it was hurt feelings on his part – just not being able to get rid of the sense of physical revulsion after that time.
This episode felt a little off and on for me, but I loved the filling in of the backstory on how he came to steal the car from the one-legged girl (since that reference always keeps coming up as a repeat gag in prior episodes). Especially how they don’t make it obvious that this IS the one-legged girl (even though we’ve seen her briefly in other episodes) until he wakes in the morning. When he picked her up in the bar, I didn’t recognize that it was her. Then when she hopped away from bed – HA! That was great.
I don’t think Randy realized anything of the sort. She made him associate sex with her with the image of his parents having sex, and he just couldn’t overcome that image in his mind without gagging.
Exactly, classic misdirection, like when Crabman says “Remember that time that you got me stoned” and they play up the pot brownies, only to have him really stoned (“It was real biblical”).
Another great ep, and the kid who plays Earl as a kid is getting better and better at mimicking Lee’s looks.
I thought it was a great play on a clip show. When I read the program description I thought it was going to be a standard sitcom clip show (“Remember when we got stuck in the water tower?” <show clip>). Naturally I should have expected them to play against standard sitcom conventions.
Can’t wait for Earl to make up with the One Legged Girl…
Yes – I loved how that bit played out. The actual biblical stoning. Great misdirection on that one.
That’s another thing I noticed in this episode, too. There was one particular look that the kid-Earl gave where I immediately said, “Now that looks just like grown-up Earl!” Nice touch.
Were there any The Young & the Restless fans watching last night? Because I knew that young Earl’s friend’s mom reminded me of somebody, but it took me a while to realize that she looked like the girl who used to play Nikki on Y&R – only much older, which she would be, I suppose. I haven’t watched that soap for 15 or 20 years. Anybody know if that was really her? I don’t remember her name.
Have they ever explained Crabman’s grandma? Since he’s in the witness relocation program it wouldn’t make much sense for him to live with her, but that’s twice now they’ve mentioned it.
Also, not so much last night as in past weeks, have you noticed how Darnell’s gotten a bit more “learned” since it was revealed he graduated college at 14?
And while it didn’t happen last night, am I going to hell for cracking up everytime Joy imitates Marlee Matlin while talking about how “my deaf lawyer cracks me up… wucky bwake”? (I don’t think so- obviously Matlin isn’t offended, but if I am I hope they’ll have a great episode in the DVD library with the one-legged girl.)
My Tivo didn’t record it last night, and I can’t figure out why. It’s right there in my Season Pass, and I’m nowhere near capacity.