# My Name Is Tangent (Earl 1/11) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649 "2007-01-12T02:29:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/1 "2007-01-12T02:29:26Z")
When Randy started doing the voiceover, I started giggling. I laughed out loud when his title screen came up! I was prepared for the rest of the episode to be all from Randy’s POV, but they just kept on switching it up on us. But, Dammit! Why didn’t they give us a “My Name Is Catalina” segment? I wouldn’t have picked Joy for a Faith Hill girl, but that made it all the more funny. The Crabman’s ‘eulogy’ to the little fish was priceless: “Sorry I got the pepper confused for the fish flakes. That’s a terrible way to go. If it makes you feel any better, I put fish flakes on my eggs. I didn’t die, though.” I loved how all of their separate stories intertwined. Reminded me a little of Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/2 "2007-01-12T02:35:24Z")
My favorite bits were: Joy: I buried them right at the spot where I was standing when Earl, Jr was conceived. Darnell: I buried him in a special spot. Where Joy and I had our first date. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/3 "2007-01-12T02:39:15Z")
I couldn’t imagine how that fire started in the bushes. Randy – “His stuff was just like my stuff”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/4 "2007-01-12T03:32:56Z")
That is now two episodes in a row without Catalina. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/5 "2007-01-12T03:34:23Z")
So, my question is; Was that the real Boris from Boris and Natasha? Great episode. We get a little more background on crabman, graduated college when he was 14…Hmmm that pot really had it’s way with his brain, didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/6 "2007-01-12T05:50:34Z")
[QUOTE=Yeeter] So, my question is; Was that the real Boris from Boris and Natasha? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if you’re referring to the live-action film or the animation, but the “guy who sounded like Count Chocula and looked like Frankenberry” is neither. [Dave Thomas](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858686/) portrayed Boris Badenov in the live-action film, and [Keith Scott](http://www.keithscott.com/inpersons/function.html) is the current character voice. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/7 "2007-01-12T06:14:14Z")
I thought the episode started off strong, then lost steam at the end. Randy really is as dumb as he appears to be. Joy really is hot. She looked particularly stacked when she was throwing Earl out of the bedroom. Crabman’s origin is basically as unclear as ever. Am I the only one upset that Joy basically ruined the historical value of the silverware? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/8 "2007-01-12T15:28:23Z")
My Name is Rashomon. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/9 "2007-01-12T16:06:55Z")
So let me make sure I have this straight: Joy dug up the silverware first and replaced it with trailer park silverware. Randy dug up the silverware next and took the box of “silverware” to Russian dude. While burying the fish, Darnell found the now tarnished silverware and took it to the library/museum. Earl, the last one to dig up the silverware, found only dirt. Are Randy and Catalina still married? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/10 "2007-01-12T16:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=NicePete] My Name is Rashomon. [/QUOTE] Except that none of the accounts were contradictory; they just supplied different parts of the same picture. I, too, was hoping for “My Name is Catalina”. My favorite line might be: “The library is also a museum, so you can learn stuff instead of just readin’ books.” ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/11 "2007-01-12T16:13:49Z")
I love how Randy’s fear of papercuts make him afraid to even touch a book, much less read one. And his reaction to “Randy, peacock!” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/12 "2007-01-12T16:29:39Z")
Brilliant, I tell you, just brilliant! I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. Randy to gay guy on park bench: “I need the stuff! Have you got the stuff? 'Cause I really need the stuff!” Earl trying ten staggering paces as if he were drunk. Earl talking about the homeless guy and the dye pack: “Don’t worry, he’s on my list too. I still see him around town now and then. He’s still purple.” Darnell looks at the camera meaningfully as his voiceover says, “That bitch is crazy,” and Joy cackles out of the window. The shift to each character’s POV, including theme music and the title card shot of each standing in the motel parking lot: “My Name is Earl… Randy… Joy… Crabman… Dotty.” OMG, Dotty! Zany and wonderful. But **Robby** , as a history buff, I too was saddened to see Joy reduce the Civil War general’s prized silverware to a bunch of blackened, tarnished lumps. That’s Joy for you! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/13 "2007-01-12T17:21:38Z")
“C for cilverware. That’s brilliant.” “We couldn’t sell the silverware because it was a big item. I guess that would be like us trying to sell that Webster kid from _Diff’rent Strokes_.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/14 "2007-01-12T17:38:12Z")
Why couldn’t Joy melt the silver? Was her torch not hot enough, or maybe it wasn’t really silver? ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/15 "2007-01-12T17:54:35Z")
I would imagine that Joy’s torch had the heat to melt the silver. That requires a lot of heat. She probably just oxidized the outside of it. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/16 "2007-01-12T17:57:54Z")
I left out a “not” in my post. Joy’s torch did NOT have the heat sufficient to melt silver. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/17 "2007-01-12T17:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Darnell looks at the camera meaningfully as his voiceover says, “That bitch is crazy,” and Joy cackles out of the window. [/QUOTE] I lost my shit at that line. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/18 "2007-01-12T18:11:25Z")
[QUOTE=BobT] I would imagine that Joy’s torch had the heat to melt the silver. That requires a lot of heat. She probably just oxidized the outside of it. [/QUOTE] She also changed the shapes…they were all flat. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/19 "2007-01-12T18:35:27Z")
I suspect there was another scene in there that was cut- they were flat and in the closeup at the end, they had hammer imprints in them. My guess is after Joy scorched them with the torch, she pounded the hell out of them to try & soften them up, then gave up and buried them. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/20 "2007-01-12T18:44:28Z")
You know the kind of woman who looks like a quiet librarian during the day but then takes the pencil out of her hair and it falls down looking all sexy? Sigh, that’s not me. My Name is Dotty. And it reminded me of our library: I’d like to make a donation. …joke about weed… Ok, I’ll get the shoebox! Our library doesn’t have fines but if you feel like it you can donate to the conscience box, which is an old metal Band-Aid box. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649.md?page=2)