# "My Name Is Earl" returns tonight! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801 "2007-04-12T14:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/1 "2007-04-12T14:14:26Z")
Just a reminder – after many weeks of repeats, “My Name Is Earl” returns tonight! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/2 "2007-04-12T15:32:53Z")
I thought it returned last week - don’t remember the Rosanne ep they showed - but if I recall, my on-screen TV guide didn’t call it new, either. Maybe I blacked out one week. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/3 "2007-04-12T16:10:20Z")
Hey, great! I’d missed last week’s and thought it was a new one. The Roseanne ep was a repeat, though - she played an ex-nun who’d lost her faith because of Earl’s and Randy’s practical joke. I’m long overdue for a return to Camden County… ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/4 "2007-04-12T16:14:16Z")
Finally. This show is one of my top five. Randy is such a great character. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/5 "2007-04-13T02:42:35Z")
Surprising that nobody has yet commented on the actual viewing of the episode, so I guess I’ll start. I hated it. Not a single laugh in the entire episode. Randy is becoming too much of a whiner. Too little of Catalina. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/6 "2007-04-13T02:45:52Z")
I did find it a bit flat. And if Randy was going to wear a Mexican-themed hat, why wasn’t he wearing the Amigos de Garcia one? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/7 "2007-04-13T03:47:34Z")
That was a long hiatus, it wasn’t one of the better shows. Patty the daytime hooker asking the reporter if anyone every told her she looked like a daytime hooker was funny. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/8 "2007-04-13T04:07:45Z")
I didn’t laugh either, except for Joy being color blind and Crab Man hiding from the camera. The Randy subplot was actually kinda sad. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/9 "2007-04-13T04:23:06Z")
Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed. Some good laughs there, though: Randy and Earl doing Crazy Arms. The TV news reporter getting punk’d over and over. Randy freaking out in front of the green screen when his shirt “disappeared.” Dodge and Earl Jr. in their clubhouse moments before Earl flattens it… and then drunkenly realizes that he left Randy back at the bar. And gets _back_ behind the wheel. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/10 "2007-04-13T05:07:14Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] The Randy subplot was actually kinda sad. [/QUOTE] Was it sad because the character was assumed to be mentally retarded already? (I’m a new viewer, and I thought the “edited” news footage of him was pretty funny.) Sitcom producers walk a fine line sometimes— dumb is endearing and funny, provided they’re unlikely enough to not appear authentically disabled. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/11 "2007-04-13T05:56:18Z")
Sad because there’s a fine line between funny and pitiful. Tonight’s episode made me wonder what would become of him if he didn’t have Earl. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/12 "2007-04-13T11:56:22Z")
I thought the only funny part was Randy being Pac-man during the weather report. ---
**Author:** ![running\_piglet\_cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@running\_piglet\_cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_piglet_cheese)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/13 "2007-04-13T13:53:59Z")
You guys should check out the My Name Is Earl section on [NBC.com](http://NBC.com). They have these hilarious extra videos, Randy asking the internet questions, A Telenova Earl starring Catalina, and a Bad Karma situation with Kenny with Jason P playing a drag queen hooker. Funny stuff. One throwaway line tonight was Earl explaining why Joy had the video recorder so handy. “She had it close because she had been recording Wheel of Fortune.” Joy: “I’m racially color blind. See, I have one white kid and one black one, but I can’t tell which one is which.” Randy: I remove body parts from you all the time while you’re sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/14 "2007-04-13T15:21:30Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] I thought the only funny part was Randy being Pac-man during the weather report. [/QUOTE] Yep, that was my one laugh too. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/15 "2007-04-13T17:27:33Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Randy freaking out in front of the green screen when his shirt “disappeared.” [/QUOTE] I thought that was the best part. Also liked how Joy was “taping” a show by filming it with a handheld video camera (rather than just using the VCR). As for how the reporter creatively edited the story – totally saw that coming. They advertised that way too clearly, especially with the “I pooped my pants!” line while filming (coming shortly after Earl saying about Randy, “He’s special”). ---
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/16 "2007-04-13T18:32:43Z")
No one else liked Randy’s eight-hour dream about a ball of yarn? That had me on the floor! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/17 "2007-04-13T21:56:37Z")
Last night’s episode was not very good. I hope the next few episodes (there are not that many left to air this season) are better than this stinker! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/18 "2007-04-14T04:57:13Z")
Another good bit - Joy heckling Randy from her car: “Run, Forrest, run!” And then that wonderful cackle that Joy does so well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/19 "2007-04-14T11:44:53Z")
So do you think they’ll ever get Randy & Catalina back together? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-earl-returns-tonight/399801/20 "2007-04-14T16:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] So do you think they’ll ever get Randy & Catalina back together? [/QUOTE] I would like to see that happen eventually. I hope they play up the “her attraction to him/his revulsion to her” angle for a while, though. It would be amusing to see her try and fail to win him back a few times before they finally get back together!