# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/21 "2007-01-12T19:02:15Z")
Great episode. When he said “My Name Is Randy” I had to pause it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/22 "2007-01-12T19:22:46Z")
I’m just a big enough geek to be bothered by the fact that last week’s COPS CAMDEN episode had Darnell/Crabman/Charles Monroe’s grandmother when it’s been established twice now that he’s in the witness protection program. I loved the virtuoso cellist revelation, though, and my favorite line not yet quoted: “You know the kind of girl who was destined to become the next Faith Hill but somewhere along the way discovered peach daiquiris… … …raising two kids in trailer park hell. My name is Joy” spiel. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/23 "2007-01-12T19:31:31Z")
Another great episode. The staggering 10 paces reminded my daughter of Pirates of the Caribbean. I might have missed the last minute, was there anything after the “Sigh, that’s not me. My Name is Dotty”? Jim ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/24 "2007-01-12T19:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I’m just a big enough geek to be bothered by the fact that last week’s COPS CAMDEN episode had Darnell/Crabman/Charles Monroe’s grandmother when it’s been established twice now that he’s in the witness protection program. [/QUOTE] It’s just so cluelessly sweet Crabmanish for him to be in the witness protection program but still be in such complete contact with his family that he lived with his Gramma and everybody showed up for his wedding. “Unclear on the concept–ANY concept” can be used to describe most people on that show. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/25 "2007-01-12T22:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I might have missed the last minute, was there anything after the “Sigh, that’s not me. My Name is Dotty”? Jim [/QUOTE] Unfortunately not, just the credits. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/26 "2007-01-12T22:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Unfortunately not, just the credits. [/QUOTE] Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/27 "2007-01-12T22:14:32Z")
PS- I still subscribe to a listserv from the grad school where I got my Masters in Library Science (MLS). A lot of librarians are extremely easily offended about stereotypes. (“HEY! We’re not just a bunch of old women with hairbuns and no fashion sense! We’re also middle aged women with hairbuns and no fashion sense, and gay men!”) There’s of course a message today from one of the “MLS-holders Offended About Nearly Everything Remotely Sensitive” (MOANERS) with NBC’s address asking us to protest this. Sigh… GET A LIFE PEOPLE! And actually a couple of the coolest people I’ve known in the profession have been Dotty-like. They may be old and frumpy but they can surf the net with the best of 'em, refer patrons to books on anything from Satanic ritual to anal eroticism without getting even the lightest pink tinge of embarassment or judgmental, and they often have ribald senses of humor when you know 'em in private. ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/28 "2007-01-12T22:29:12Z")
I thought Dotty was funny. She seems like the type of person who _would_ work in a library (and I don’t mean that in a bad way). And I liked the fact that the show poked fun at the old “boring, stuffy old librarian becomes sexy without her glasses and letting her hair down” stereotype- I think librarians would be happy that this was being satirized more than anything else. ---
**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 13, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/29 "2007-01-13T05:07:07Z")
One other memorable moment: Joy’s beatific expression as Earl stumbles his way through saying Grace before dinner. Og I love this show!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/30 "2007-01-13T07:42:30Z")
Out of curiosity, a poll for straight male (or gay female) Dopers: Joy or Catalina? If I were straight I’m pretty sure it’d be Joy for me. ---
**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 13, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/31 "2007-01-13T08:01:52Z")
Catalina for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/32 "2007-01-13T08:49:10Z")
Apologies for the hijack, but on New Year’s Eve I was in, oddly enough, a bowling alley at midnight. The first song played after Auld Lang Syne was House of Pain’s JUMP AROUND and I and at least two dozen other drunks immediately started doing Catalina’s “dance” from Club Chubby. (Warning: don’t do that for very long when drunk and holding a 14 pound ball- you’ll regret it the next morning.) ---
**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:** [January 13, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/33 "2007-01-13T14:26:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Out of curiosity, a poll for straight male (or gay female) Dopers: Joy or Catalina? If I were straight I’m pretty sure it’d be Joy for me. [/QUOTE] The characters or the actresses? Both characters are great looking and both have some major flaws. I find Catalina better looking than Joy and she has a nicer personality. So **Catalina**. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/34 "2007-01-13T15:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Sigh… GET A LIFE PEOPLE! And actually a couple of the coolest people I’ve known in the profession have been Dotty-like. They may be old and frumpy but they can surf the net with the best of 'em, refer patrons to books on anything from Satanic ritual to anal eroticism without getting even the lightest pink tinge of embarassment or judgmental, and they often have ribald senses of humor when you know 'em in private. [/QUOTE] I read that last line as “often have ribald senses of humor when you show 'em your privates”. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/35 "2007-01-13T15:55:26Z")
I’ve said before that I was losing enthusiasm for this show. But they reeled me back in by featuring Social D as background music! Can’t recall ever hearing them on commercial TV before. Snap! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/36 "2007-01-13T20:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Out of curiosity, a poll for straight male (or gay female) Dopers: Joy or Catalina? [/QUOTE] Yes, please! ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/37 "2007-01-13T23:36:49Z")
Suggested replies for Sampiro’s MOANERS: 1. I’d really like to, but I already wrote them about the Circus People one. 2. I’d really like to, but I admire their research on trailer park denizens too much. ---
**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 14, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/38 "2007-01-14T05:15:39Z")
Catalina, hands down. Better looking, and a MUCH better personality. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/39 "2007-01-14T06:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] “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_.” [/QUOTE] Actually what made that quote even funnier was that he called the silverware “famous” (like Webster) not a “big item.” Good call, tho! The “C for silverware” one…I laughed out loud and said “HA! C for silverware!” to my dog. She didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649/40 "2007-01-14T06:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Out of curiosity, a poll for straight male (or gay female) Dopers: Joy or Catalina. [/QUOTE] Coin flip. Whoever would do me first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-tangent-earl-1-11/387649.md?page=3)