“Indian teeth!”
:eek:
“They can color the face in with a Sharpie.”
“Maybe she’s looking for an Asian man to have sex with so she can have one of each.”
:eek:
“Lenny was humping Squiggy… hee hee.”
And … Gerbil toss!
Btw, I also taped & watched 30 ROCK for the first time and I will now do that for as long as it runs!
I feel that some day there will be an episode where we get to meet Dodge’s biological father.
How will Joy recognize him? Lots of guys drive Fords and the subset of Ronnie James Dio fans is still large.
They’ll probably wind up having to do a DNA test, which will give Earl a charge because he’ll think that it’s a T&A test. Randy will then chime in that he hopes the test isn’t in essay format, because he likes multiple-choice a lot better. And Crabman will declare his admiration for Watson and Crick.
And Joy will tell them all to shut up.
And it should all happen on a Jerry Springer-type show. And a fight will break out where they start throwing chairs at each other.
“I’m going to throw your gerbils out the window!”
“You won’t do it.”
“Sorry little guy…”
This line was particularly funny to me. My mom’s second husband is black. One of the “congratulations” cards they received had a very lovely, olde worlde-looking scene of a prince and princess on the front … and Mom’s friend had colored in the prince’s face with a black ink pen. That was in 1999, and Mom still has that card because it was so frickin’ hilarious.
Good show!
Overall, I’d say it was a farnicous episode.
Not enough of the brother for my taste. The brother cracks me up.
I’m not the most PC person but I cringed when Joy said
“We can do it on the pinball machine like that porno that Jodie Foster did.”
and simultaneously laughed my ass off.
Then this exchange:
Crabman: What about Joy and the kids? Who’s going to take care of them?
Randy: Earl said their real daddy can.
Crabman: What if the real daddy can’t? What if things are complicated with the real daddy right now? What if Joy doesn’t seem to love the real daddy anymore and the real daddy’s fiscal instability, volatile living conditions, and possible secret identity doesn’t lend itself to creating an environment that’s conducive to raising a child right now?
Darnell cracks me up.
The line that made me laugh the most was “Son, nine months ago your wife had sex with a black fellow.”
And then the doctor claps him on the shoulder. Now there’s a good bedside manner!
I loved Earl’s explaining who the woman in the nursery was with the white baby he claimed as his own. When she picks the baby up and begins to nurse, he mutters something like, “OK, that crossed a line.”
I also liked Crabman’s objection to humping Joy in the walk-in freezer. You know Network Broadcast Standards are truly moribund when a line like “My balls got frozen to a case of beer” can be heard on a primetime show.
“Carl, drink some orange juice!”
I meant to add, there was some genuine pathos and sadness when Earl realized that Joy had not given birth to his own son. That was about the most serious I’ve ever seen the show. Nicely done.
And then there was Randy running out on the lawn to catch a gerbil flung by his dad. “I wanna play, too!” 
I must admit, I was entirely on Earl’s side. There is no way he should have been roped into caring for Joy, once he realized she’d cheated on him. The first one, okay, he bit the bullet and decided to be a father, but then when she got pregnant again and it wasn’t his child, all bets are off.
That reference to the Jodie Foster movie was cringe-inducing, but it’s a testament to the show that you don’t find it offensive so much as an indication that Joy is an idiot.
Agreed. I am not at all tolerant of infidelity.
I thought it was contrived that Carl, who had just shown he had no interest in pretending to be a grandfather, would then turn around and tell Earl he was obligated to pretend to be a father.
I didn’t get that reference. What’s it…umm…referring?
That would be The Accused, in which Jodie Foster is raped upon a pinball machine.
Is Earl the first network show to say “balls” in reference to testicles in primetime? I remember back during the COPS spoof episode when Earl said, “Shut up, baby, you had me at ‘balls.’”
Thanks for the confirmation because I was thinking “He didn’t just say what I thought he said!”