Jason Lee brought us a hall of fame mustache in this series which died before it's time. Probably not much before, but before none the less. Either way, this NBC comedy about a scumbag who turns his life around was an original and fucking brilliant show with a great premise and great characters. Greg Garcia, Creator, has now got another show on TV, Raising Hope, which also has a weird premise and some of the actors from Earl have gone on to guest star in that series, currently on hiatus from FOX. We also find out in the pilot for Hope, that Earl has finished his list, but the newscast is cut short, so we don't know everything that happened. I hope someway they eventually decide to at least end the story somehow, they could probably make a film on a reasonably low budget. But lets reminisce shall we?
The beginning of the pilot starts with Earl smoking a darb, with a voice over about how much of an arsehole he is/was. Earl went into the convenience store and bought a scratchie, in which he won 50 grand. He then gets hit by a car and loses the ticket. On his hospital bed he sees Carson Daly talk about Karma on TV and decides he want's a better life, inspiring him to write his famous list with all the bad stuff he has ever done and one by one, he will make up for it. This is what we enjoy for the next four seasons, except for some shit in season 3, but Alyssa Milano is present and that's obviously good.
Because she's pretty.
Throughout the four seasons, the main characters are Earl, Randy, Joy, Darnell and Catalina. Randy is Earl's sweet but idiot brother, Joy is Earl's bitch of an ex-wife, Darnell is Joy's new husband and Catalina is the maid in the hotel where Earl and Randy live. Early on, Joy broke up with Earl after having been sleeping with Darnell during the marriage and having a black baby. Earl stuck around and raised his two illegitimate sons as his own until Joy fucked him off and nicked his trailer. So after he gets out of hospital, he starts making up his life of crime and he finds the scratchie, therefore affirming his faith in Karma for the remainder of the series.
Damn.
A metric fuck-tonne of guest stars over the 96 episodes, Earl fixing his relationship with his parents, Earl going to jail for Joy, Earl being in a coma, Earl shagging Joy's deaf lawyer, Earl appearing on COPS numerous times, Earl accepting Kenny as gay, Joy being a surrogate for her half sister, Joy trying to kill Earl, Joy just generally being a horrible person, Darnell's commitment to Joy and the boys, Darnell working at the crab-shack, Darnell in the witness protection program, Catalina being deported, Catalina and Randy marrying after Randy being in love with her, Catalina then falling for Randy who is now disgusted with after sleeping with her, (she didn't shower and rubbed fish on herself and put mental images of his mother in his head during the sex), Catalina being a stripper, and finally in the last episode, finding out that Earl is actually his white sons biological father and that Darnell is not his sons. You see, we got an awesome cliffhanger, and then a cancellation, 4 episodes short of the 100th milestone. Season 5 could have been 6 episodes long for all I cared, as long as we found out some shit.
Randy and Earl. They did always come through for each other.
With Golden Globe and Emmy nominations and wins, Earl did better than a lot of shows with Jaime Pressly, Joy, taking home some trophy's for her role. We also had a clay-mation episode in which Christian Slater guest starred, and Giovanni Ribisi stealing every scene he was in as the gangs old friend, Ralph. Earl also fucked Ralph's mother, by the way.
He seemed to be naked a lot.
And that's about it. I hope Earl rests peacefully in TV heaven.
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