My Name is Earl 4.27: Dodge’s Dad
If, as has been mentioned in various places, it’s possible that this will be the last season for the show, it can be said that it went out with a bang. The mystery of Dodge, the “igellitimate” (in Earl’s word) son Joy was pregnant with when she met Earl and tricked him into marrying her, [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.26: Inside Probe II
Friday, May 8, 2009
Part II of last week’s mystery episode turned out to be more of the same, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. This episode lacked the novelty of last week’s, but it did have some very funny bits, most of which centered on Geraldo Rivera, the intrepid journalist. Yes, he’s been more of a punchline these [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.25: Inside Probe
Friday, May 1, 2009
After last week’s somewhat unsettling episode, this week we got one that had no real agenda other than reliving the glory days of the classic “Our COPS is On!” episodes. This was a hugely dense and complicated episode built around one of the most pointless mysteries in the show’s history: What happened to Ernie Belcher, [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.24: Gospel
Friday, April 24, 2009
So, I’m a little taken aback. For 3 seasons, we’ve seen Crabman as the voice of reason on this show, the one person who could rein in Joy’s worst impulses. In this week’s episode, however, he revealed a true dark side when he decided to kill Catalina rather than allow her to cause Joy to [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.23: Bullies
Friday, April 17, 2009
It was interesting seeing the full opening credits for this week’s episode, since they’ve only been seen one other time this season, and apart from that not once since the first season. In many ways, this actually was like an episode from the first season, meaning it was a funny self-contained episode about a list [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.22: Pinky
Friday, March 27, 2009
There are some episodes that are undone by continuity errors, predictable writing, and rather convenient plot twists. Then there’s this week’s episode, where even though some of the writing was a bit dicey, it doesn’t matter because the emotion and humor is so strong that it’s ultimately easy to overlook the flaws. There may have [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.21: Witch Lady
Friday, March 20, 2009
My Name is Earl has always been very good at using guest stars-who knew, after all, that Marlee Matlin was a gifted comedienne until her guest stint? Betty White (The Golden Girls) faced some pretty stiff competition this year, what with Danny Glover, Erik Estrada, and Jenna Elfman with goo dripping out of her eye [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.20: Chaz Dalton’s Space Academy
Friday, March 6, 2009
I guess it’s hard to follow up a stone classic episode like the previous one with Danny Glover. “Chaz Dalton’s Space Academy” was a decent enough episode with a few good laughs, but it was pretty minor overall. It’s always welcome to see Curtis Armstrong (or Herbert Viola, for those of us who grew up [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.19: My Name is Alias
Friday, February 20, 2009
Now that’s more like it. Not only was this one the best episodes of the season, rivaled only by “Darnell Outed”, but it fills in one of the longest-running holes in this show’s canon: Where did Crabman come from? Since the first season, fans have been wondering just what Darnell did to end up in [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.18: Friend With Benefits
Friday, February 13, 2009
Last week I complained that the previous episode took a well-written idea and didn’t do a good job of making it funny. This week, I sort of had the opposite problem. I laughed out loud a lot, easily as much as I have with any good episode this season. The actual story, though, was a [...]
Continue reading...My Name is Earl 4.17: Randy’s List Item
Friday, February 6, 2009
After the spectacular high of the recent two-parter, it would have been hard for any episode to match up. Erik Estrada pretty much wrecked the curve for the whole season. Still, it was a bit disconcerting to see what a truly mediocre episode we got this week. The opening, which repeated the introduction to the [...]
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