If only Jason Lee wasn’t a Scientologist…
I’d kinda like to watch this show, because it sounds like it would be fun. Unfortunately…
Oh, well.
Thanks for telling me. Now I’ll have to try and ignore it.
I’ve always figured anyone who’s a scientologist is too dumb to be held accountable for being a scientologist.
Self-serving maybe, but it was that or quit watching The Simpsons.
I kept waiting for the Rubber band man theme song to play every time he entered the scene.
I thought it was funny.
Jason Lee has great timing on some of that stuff. . .
“You got great boobs, Debbie”
“It’s Joy.”
“You got great boobs, Joy.”
and the aforementioned, “I know now that I didn’t have to run.” Then he says something like, “It was the first time I ever met a gay.” A Gay.
I also liked when the hooker said, “I even whipped out my good boob.”
I counted 3 “boobs” and one “son of a bitch”. But, beyond that. . .yeah, Jason Lee was good. I liked the brother. They didn’t play the “white trash” thing just for laughs.
The black-baby gag was funny. It seems like an old joke, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it from the delivery-room point of view before. The scene when Earl and Kenny were kids was funny.
The only thing shortcoming I found was that the ending in the gay bar seemed a little sappy, “Earl, you taught me to have confidence in myself”. A little too “after school special” for me.
I guess I better get used to that though, because the whole show is about righting old wrongs. I don’t know how you’ll get around that.
I think the most “controversial” part of the show was that in 2005, on American network television, the main character smoked a cigarette! He inhaled! Without immediate negative repercussions, or learning a valuable lesson on the evils of smoking! This is the country where there’s advocacy group pressure against a hero smoking in the movies!
I expect eventual outcry from some watchdog group or another.
You’re a Carson Daily fan, too?!
As far as this:
Make sure you’ve got the time-line right- Jaime has been on the scene, as far as significant roles go, a little longer than Tara. I first remember her from Poinson Ivy 2, but first actually saw her in the short-ish lived Jack & Jill ('97), which brought fame to Amanda Pete. You might also remember her from Joe Dirt or Not Another Teen Movie. Taras big break was either Cruel Intentions or the much bigger role- American Pie ('99).
Regardless, I remember (but can’t find, nat’ch) Jaime being quoted somewhere saying “I worked damn hard for this body and I’m going to show it off as much as possible.” Brings a tear to a mans eye, it does…
If you’ve seen it, you know she has our best interests in mind.
Why does his choice of cults matter? I am not asking the question to be difficult or start an argument, I am just asking. Is he going to try to convert me through the TV? Should I wear my tinfoil hat when I watch?
A column in the paper about Earl suggested that in a few years, Earl will join Groundhog Day and the Simpsons in discussions of religion and morality in America. Comments?
Seriously.
I mean, I might think Scientology is stupid, or even harmful. But no more so than I think that of Xianity, Muslim, Buddhism, Hindu, or Atheism.
Sounds like a sophomoric protest.
Over the top? Lady, with the people I know it could’ve been a documentary! It was nice seeing a show about real people. I don’t know about “discussions of religion and morality in America,” but I did give an unconscionable amount of thought to how they were portraying the Universal Human Lifestyle: working just enough to keep a roof over their heads and a beer in their hands, supplementing (or replacing) that with a little Welfare and petty thievery, and spending as much time as possible drinking, watching TV, gambling, hanging around, and screwing. Instantly recognizable from America to Zambia.
Any chance they might air the pilot again? We thought it was being recorded on the DVR in the office, but we were wrong - and since Tuesdays are a big TV night in our house, we missed it. I’d like to see if I enjoy it or not.
E.
I thought it was pretty damn funny. Maybe it’s because I come from a little town full of Earl’s and Randy’s, I don’t know.
It’s a refreshing change from Friends, Will and Grace, and fat husband/bitchy wife shows.
I noticed him, but not from Kids or Bully. He had a recurring role in HBO’s “The Wire” where he played an absolutely strung out, bottom of the barrel, crackhead.
I didn’t even notice that.
Tommy Gavin smokes like a chimney on Rescue Me. Denis Leary was on one of the talk shows last week, talking about how much fun he had at an awards show (Golden Globes maybe, I forgot) because he could smoke! He said smoking was a big part of his life. He was disappointed when he was told he couldn’t smoke at the Emmys.
Do you think he (Earl) smokes in real life, or if it was written into his character? It feels right. I don’t have a cite, but I’d expect that this is a segment of society where the anti-smoking movement hasn’t quite taken hold.
Scientology may be stupid even harmful, I agree. However Christianity, whose basic is “treat each other well”, led to the Crusades and the Inquistion. Fanaticism is what is harmful. (my 0.02)
Whenever feasible, I try not to support in any way or by any means Scientology or any other cult I have strong feeling about. Watching this show would aid and abet Jason Lee being employed. It can be skipped with impunity, so I will. Personal decision that is in no way binding on anybody else. Just commented about.
OTOH, I teach sophomores, so some of it may have rubbed off. 
Strictly speaking, unless you’re a Neilson family, watching the show wouldn’t do anything, would it? You might actually want to watch and take note of the sponsors so as to avoid their products. That seems to me to be the only way to do what you want to do.
Am I wrong? Do we actually support tv by passively watching.