My Name is Earl - Episode 3 and general comments

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First of all, ROFL!

I’m really enjoying this show. I hope it’s getting an audience. I heard the commercials weren’t very good and may have turned away some possible viewers. I don’t watch TV during the off season so I didn’t catch 'em.

Anyway, another great one last night. Yes, it’s predictable to an astounding extent at some times, but I’m willing to overlook it. A few good moments:

Darnell the Crab Man tries to pick up where Earl left off, providing for his woman with a life of crime. He snatches an old woman’s purse, but stops before he gets too far and returns it.
“I shouldn’t-a did that.”
“You poor thing, are you hungry? I think I have a little candy bar in here…”

Joy at the bank trying to get a loan sends the crab man out to the car because she thinks they won’t give a loan to a black guy. Of course, the loan officer ends up being black. Predictable, yes, but her reaction was worth it.
“I think I left something in the car.”

Speaking of the loan officer, what did he say to Darnell as they were leaving? “Nice pool?” I missed it, and haven’t bothered to Zapruder the recording yet.

Kenny thanks Earl for helping him out of the closet, mentioning that he’s made friends that he had no idea were gay before. He mentions his coworker who he’s worked with for years, never knowing he was gay too. As they’re talking the coworker has a problem with one of the copiers.
“OH YES YOU WILL COLLATE!”

And of course, everything Randy says and does is comedy gold. I loved that his science fair project was the potato in the glass of water. :smiley: His performance in the football game was great too.

Anyone else watching?

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I missed this episode, but I see that NBC will be rebroadcasting all of the episodes back to back on Saturday, starting with the pilot. Time to catch up! Karma!

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Let’s hope he learned his lesson and puts his money in a slightly safer place. Like under his mattress.

I loved Catalina’s snarky “Where I’m from, we have these things called ‘Banks’.”

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I thought the loan officer said, “nice pull”.

Like “you pulled in a good one”, or something.

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This Saturday? Sweet, because my fricken DVDR didn’t record it last night even though I’m there watching as it says it is! That’s the third time it hasn’t worked in the last week.

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I’m really enjoying the show. Obviously, it’s completely divorced from reality, but the characters are so much fun, who cares?

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“The Office” was pretty strong last night as well. This is shaping up to be the best hour of comedy on television.

Now if only we can get Scrubs on the schedule, somehow.

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I am enjoying it. I like that throwaway characters are showing up.

I also love Crab Man. Joy has just threatened the boys and he gives a “Hey, Earl!”

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This is definitely my favoite completely predictable show on the air right now. I don’t care that I know what’s going to happen because what’s good about it is HOW it will happen, with lots of humor and heart. This is actually one of the least cynical shows I can think of. Will there eventually be reemption for Joy?

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I also liked Earl and Catalina trying to pick Randy up because he had always wanted to experience that. His little “oops” gesture every time he messed up in the football game was great.

I love the cast. Every one of them. I love that they are mostly unknowns, and that most of them aren’t typical Hollywood beautiful people. Actually, I like that about The Office, too.

Definitely a show I will make a point of watching every week.

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See if you can get Fox to drop Arrested Development and get NBC to pick it up and slap it on Tuesday nights too. That’d be a night to block off. :smiley:

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Just bring back Scrubs to go along with it!

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Thank you! For no good reason I lost the DirecTV signal for a couple of hours last night, so I missed Earl and Supernatural.

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Yeah, I think it was “Nice pull, brother!” He was staring at her ass at the time.

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NBC just announced they’re picking up the show for a full season of 22 episodes. Hooray!

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I thought they were great. You know that line, “You had me at hello?”. Earl had me at “I’m exactly who you think I am”. :smiley:

This is fantastic news. I tuned in late for the first episode, last week NBC kind of blew up on my affiliate, and yesterday I wasn’t home. I really want to see this.

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My favorite line was “Why were you standing so close? You knew what time it was.”

I was giggling for the rest of the episode after that.

I’m not a sitcom fan, and honestly I wouldn’t go out of my way to catch this, but my husband likes it so we record it. And once it’s recorded, I tend to watch it. And laugh like a fool.

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That need’s to be on a T-shirt!

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I don’t know where that apostrophe came from in my above post.

To think I am wasting a perfectly good apostrophe while there are children in other countries who cannot even afford an apostrophe!

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Exactly. I watch Earl and The Office on Wednesday afternoons, by myself, and I sit there giggling out loud. Like an idiot. ('cause I just hafta watch The Amazing Race) live.
Funny shows, both of them.