My Name Is Earl
| My Name Is Earl | |
|---|---|
| File:My-name-is-earl.JPG Earl (Lee), title character of My Name is Earl. | |
| Created by | Gregory Thomas Garcia |
| Starring | Jason Lee Ethan Suplee Jaime Pressly Eddie Steeples Nadine Velazquez |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 20, 2005 – present |
My Name is Earl is a sitcom that premiered on NBC on September 20, 2005. It stars Jason Lee as the titular Earl who, after winning $100,000 in the lottery (and nearly losing it after being struck by a car), sets out to right all of the wrongs he committed in his past in the quest for good karma. He is introduced to the concept when he catches Carson Daly talking about it on TV.
The premiere episode drew in 15.2 million viewers in the U.S., earning a 6.6 rating.
Cast
- Jason Lee - Earl J. Hickey
- Ethan Suplee - Randy Hickey
- Jaime Pressly - Joy
- Eddie Steeples - Darnell ("Crab Man")
- Nadine Velazquez - Catalina
The List
Listening to Daly talk about karma while under the influence of morphine, Earl comes to believe that his bad luck has been because of his lifestyle. He decides to make a list of everything bad he has ever done, with the intent of making up for all of his mistakes and crossing the items off as he goes. In the pilot the audience was told the list had 259 numbered items, but in episode 2 he added one, bringing the count to 260. There have been continuity errors in the list, for example in the first episode #64 was that Earl had "picked on Kenny James" but the list that appears in the opening sequence of episode 2 shows #64 as "Spray painted the bridge." As of episode 2, Earl had made up for 4 of the listed items.
- 23 - Peed in the back of a cop car (Episode 1)
- 41 - Snatched a kid's halloween candy when he came to my trailer to trick-or-treat (Episode 1)
- 49 - Been wasteful (Episode 2)
- 56 - Stole liquor from liquor store (Intro sequence)
- 57 - Told Jay Dan Dodd messed himself (Intro sequence)
- 58 - Fixed a high school football game (Intro sequence)
- 59 - Everything I did to Dad (Intro sequence)
- 60 - Pulled fire alarm (Intro sequence)
- 61 - Everything I did to dad (According to Episode 1); Stole Mom's car - but I gave it back (According to intro sequence)
- 62 - Threw Carol's alarm clock out window (According to Episode 1); Faked death to break up with (According to intro sequence)
- 63 - Wasted electricity (Intro sequence)
- 64 - Picked on Kenny James (Completed in Episode 1); Spray painted the bridge (According to intro sequence)
- 65 - Cost Dad the election (Intro sequence)
- 66 - Let mice out at school play (Intro sequence)
- 67 - Stole beer from a golfer (Intro sequence)
- 68 - Blew up mailboxes (Intro sequence)
- 69 - Cheated on school tests (Intro sequence)
- 73 - Always took a penny, never left a penny (Episode 2)
- 86 - Stole a car from a one-legged girl (Episode 1, 2)
- 102 - Harmed and possibly killed innocent people with second hand smoke (Episode 1, Completed in Episode 2)
- 112 - Let Donny Jones serve jail time for a crime I committed (Completed in Episode 2)
- 136 - I've been a litterbug (Episode 1)
- 260 - Took Donny away from his mother for two years (Unnumbered, added to list (see 112) and Completed in Episode 2)
Trivia
- The pilot episode featured the 1980s songs "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock and "99 Luftballons" by Nena.
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