I always thought that Earl Jr. was Crabman’s son. I guess not. It seemed a slow ep for me, although I loved the Cindy-Lou Who bit. And Randy’s robot dog. Randy as President.
Maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought. 
StG
Good point - maybe the other kid (what’s HIS name??) was the first-born.
IT was a new episode? F—! I swear the guide said repeat.
They psyched you out by showing a repeat and then the new one.
Earl Jr is Darnell’s son. When Joy met Earl, she was sixth months pregnant. She named her first son after where he was conceived, Dodge.
Earl realized Earl Jr wasn’t his after he was born, but it was Joy that divorced him after he got hit by the car, but before she realized he’d won the lottery.
Actually, I think the gag was he was conceived in a Ford, so she named him Dodge.
Could be. All I know is she named him Dodge.
I liked the fact that the store had gone six years suffering without a take-a-number machine without bothering to replace it. That just make’s Earl’s return that much more important.
I also liked the fact that they all kept using the same numbers the whole time, apparently not realizing that whichever one picked a number first would rule the rest of their lives.
MY DirecTV Tivo showed the previous episode (Crazy Eyes’s Mom and the Smoking) as one where Joy holds Randy hostage in an attempt to get ahold of Earl’s money.
???
-Joe
How about the looks exchanged when Joy observed that the take-a-number machine was like the one at the free clinic?
Joy gets her arm stuck in the blood pressure machine: “Y2K! Y2K!”
“It’s ok, I scared it off!”
Oh, right! Dodge was the baby she was pregnant with when this ep airs. Okay, I’m done with my Randy moment.
StG
“Don’t eat that cookie, Randy! It’s poison!!”
[long pause… look changes from disappointment to dejection to hope]
“How poison?”
They do seem to run blithely into continuity problems. How can Crab Man be in the Witness Protection Program? We’ve met his mom.
Nobody mentioned Crab Man’s birthday card.
I can’t believe they got that one past the censors…
Good point. And why couldn’t he steal from little old ladies? Not to mention that he seemed a lot smarter in the car than he ever has. Maybe Cumberland County has an IQ suppression field - it would explain a lot.