My Name Is Earl

Father Figure

By DeAnn Welker | Aired on 05.14.2009

Dodge's Dad - Earl tells us in voiceover that Darnell's nervous to go to Dodge's career day at school, when parents come in and talk about their careers. Darnell's rehearsing for Earl and Randy. He talks about going to the fish market,...

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4-27 Weecap	Father Figure Dodge's Dad - Turns out Dodge's father has been right under his nose, but Earl Jr.'s might not be anyone we know.	05.14.2009	A-	DeAnn Welker
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
4-26 Weecap	They Keep On Probing Inside Probe, Part 2 - Geraldo sticks around long enough to solve Ernie Belcher's disappearance. But do we really care?	05.07.2009 05.11.2009	C	DeAnn Welker
4-25 Weecap	Probed Again Inside Probe, Part 1 - Yet another episode where we watch the characters watch a TV show about themselves. Meta? Or redundant?	04.30.2009 05.04.2009	C-	DeAnn Welker
4-24 Weecap	Father Hash Brown Gospel - Earl encounters a gang-member-turned-reverend who he's wronged a handful of times, while Joy and Darnell kidnap and threaten to kill Catalina. When they don't do it, there are hugs and thank-yous all around. Because, you know, it's totally love.	04.23.2009 04.27.2009	D	DeAnn Welker
4-23 Weecap	Shark Attack! Bullies - Randy injects shark adrenaline into his scrotum and turns into the Incredible Hulk, while Earl tries to make a huge bodybuilder feel like less of a pansy.	04.16.2009 04.20.2009	A-	DeAnn Welker
4-22 Weecap	Randy Loves Joy! Pinky - You read that right. We find out that the love of Randy's life up until now was someone he knew as "Pinky" when he was a kid. Turns out it's Joy.	03.26.2009 03.30.2009	A-	DeAnn Welker
4-21 Weecap	Betty White is a Witch! Witch Lady - Betty White steals the episode from our regular cast as she plays a lady who everyone thinks is a witch, but who we assume will be a regular lady. But she's actually a witch. Until she gets mental help and becomes a sweet old lady again. Phew!	03.19.2009 03.23.2009	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-20 Weecap	Faking It Chaz Dalton's Space Academy - Earl's lesson of the episode is that sometimes faking your identity can be a good thing. I'm sure victims of identity theft would not agree, but then, they've never met the real Chaz Dalton. Or Joy.	03.05.2009 03.09.2009	D	DeAnn Welker
4-19 Weecap	Who's Your Spy Daddy Now? My Name Is Alias - Danny Glover is getting too old for this $#!&, as he plays a stone cold secret agent who cuts a swath through Camden and Coto de Caza to get his hands on his son, Darnell.	02.19.2009 02.23.2009	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-18 Weecap	Real Housewife of Camden County Friends With Benefits - With a little help from Earl and karma, Joy wins over all of the plasticized housewives in her gated community. And, while Earl's out of town, Randy gets a new boyfriend.	02.12.2009 02.17.2009	A	DeAnn Welker
4-17 Weecap	Brotherly Karma Randy's List Item - Randy becomes Earl when he wins the lottery and then is immediately hit by... a bicycle. Darnell and Joy spend the episode shopping for a new identity.	02.05.2009 02.09.2009	B	DeAnn Welker
4-16 Weecap	A Rosenstein by Any Other Name Darnell Outed, Part 2 - Earl and Randy hunt for Joy and Darnell, who are given their ridiculous, algorithmically created identities: as Phyllis and Marty Rosenstein.	01.22.2009 01.26.2009	A	DeAnn Welker
4-15 Weecap	Estrada or Nada Darnell Outed - You’d think having Erik Estrada on would only be good for the show, right? Well, there’s a (slight, slight; this is a comedy after all) possibility it might have just meant the end of Joy and Darnell, so I’m going to go ahead and declare it a negative -- even if Estrada or Nada is the best fake game show ever.	01.15.2009 01.19.2009	A	DeAnn Welker
4-14 Weecap	No Turtles Were Harmed In This Episode Got the Babysitter Pregnant - ...But we learn there's a Shetland pony at the bottom of the hotel pool, which is unsettling. We also learn that Randy wouldn't make a bad Earl if he had his own Randy to drive around in a golf cart, but that Earl would worry sick without his Randy to take care of.	01.08.2009 01.12.2009	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-13 Weecap	Repeat the Scamming Joy Orphan Earl - After witnessing a scam, Earl remembers a scam he and Joy pulled, and finds the scam is still going on, and that there are now two additional scams, so he pulls a scam to scam the scammers.	12.11.2008 12.15.2008	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-12 Weecap	Ape Man (We Don't Mean Randy) Reading is a Fundamental Case - Earl works on two list items this week: Recovering a Bookmobile he left stranded in the woods, and bringing an ape man back to civilization. He finds out that only one of those is the right thing to do.	12.04.2008 12.08.2008	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-11 Weecap	Giant Swirly Wind Thingies! Nature's Game Show - A tornado hits Camden. And then another one hits. And then another. And another. No one’s hurt, and nothing bad really happens to anyone, though, so I’m thinking Earl’s done a lot to get karma on Camden’s side.	11.20.2008 11.24.2008	B+	DeAnn Welker
4-10 Weecap	It’s Earl and Joy’s World; Darnell’s Just Living In It Earl and Joy's Anniversary - Earl and Joy have been broken up since this show began, yet we get another episode about their relationship. Meanwhile, Darnell, Joy’s HUSBAND, spends the episode trapped in a phone booth with a bunch of other also-rans.	11.13.2008 11.17.2008	B	DeAnn Welker
4-9 Weecap	People Suck! Sold A Guy A Lemon Car - Earl turned a guy against humanity a long time ago by selling him a lemon car, and now he wants to convince him people are actually good. In Camden? Yeah, good luck making that argument convincing with the evidence you have on hand. Meanwhile, Joy continues to lie and deceive, but things still go her way -- disproving the whole “karma” theory this show is based on.	11.06.2008 11.11.2008	C	DeAnn Welker
4-8 Weecap	Voodoo Child Little Bad Voodoo Brother - Magnum P.I. meets The Exorcist in this very special racist episode: Randy adopts a smuggled-in Mexican boy; Joy remembers her Mammy's voodoo; and she reminds us that Darnell's hair gets "all crazy" when it gets wet. Sometimes it's hard to tell if it's the characters who are racist, or the show.	10.30.2008 11.03.2008	C-	DeAnn Welker
4-7 Weecap	Snitching Pays! Quit Your Snitchin' - Contrary to the episode's title, this episode teaches us that you should not quit snitching, because snitching on the right person can start off a domino effect that just might help you get your dream car back. If your dream car happens to have a pickup bed.	10.23.2008 10.27.2008	C	DeAnn Welker
4-6 Weecap	Rah! Rah! Randy! We've Got Spirit - Randy steals the show again, as Earl and Randy head to cheerleading camp. It’s a great episode, if you can ignore the “eye milk.” That’s right: Eye. Milk. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.	10.16.2008 10.20.2008	A	DeAnn Welker
4-5 Weecap	50 First Headaches Sweet Johnny - As if sitcoms aren't repetitive enough, this one lets us live through the same events over and over and over. If that's not bad enough, David Arquette is the star of this ever-recycling nightmare. Oh, and there are more butt jokes than you can shake your tush at.	10.09.2008 10.10.2008	C-	DeAnn Welker
4-4 Weecap	Pigsquatch! Stole an RV - Earl tries to give a war veteran a reason to live, but it turns out that reason is to cut off his old war buddy’s ear. That’s a new twist for the list.	10.02.2008 10.03.2008	B	DeAnn Welker
4-3 Weecap	Joy's Toe Woes Joy in a Bubble - Homeless Joe, a swollen toe, and the El Camino all play their parts when Earl gives Joy a used hot tub so he can cross her off his list.	10.02.2008 10.03.2008	A	DeAnn Welker
4-2 Weecap	Eye of the Tiger Vote For This And I Promise To Do Something Crazy At The Emmys - Earl and his dad are ready to fight a dweeb named Clark Clark -- and, believe it or not, it has nothing to do with his obnoxious name.	09.25.2008 09.26.2008	A	DeAnn Welker
4-1 Weecap	Lights! Camden! Action! The Magic Hour - Seth Green plays a Make-A -Wish kid turned needy movie star. Earl's producing. And Randy's playing the president. This can't end well.	09.25.2008 09.26.2008	B	DeAnn Welker
3-17 Weecap	Country Roads... Camdenites, Part 1 and 2 - Earl chooses The List over Billie, and Billie goes on a rampage trying to undo all the good that Earl has done.	05.15.2008 05.16.2008	A	Kim
Mondo Extra	Karma Time The Greg Garcia Interview - My Name Is Earl's mastermind shares his love of TWoP, his hatred of Wikipedia and his plans for more adventures for everyone's favorite mustachioed karma king.	09.18.2013 05.15.2008	N/A	Daniel
3-16 Weecap	No Meat With Soap! Girl Earl - Earl gets his wish when he starts his marriage with Billie, but he soon finds out that Billie might not be the girl he though she was.	05.08.2008 05.09.2008	B+	Kim
3-15 Weecap	Hunka Hunka Burning Love Love Octagon - Billie has many admirers: Earl, Frank, Stuart, and even a newly lesbian Catalina. Who will she choose?	05.01.2008 05.02.2008	B+	Kim
3-14 Weecap	Weekend At Earl's Killerball - It's Weekend At Bernie's time, with Randy getting Earl out of the hospital and into a Murderball game.	04.24.2008 04.25.2008	C	Kim
3-14 Recap	No Heads And A Duffel Bag No Heads And A Duffel Bag - Earl's parents leave the Hickey boys to housesit (as a trust exercise) while they go on vacation. Within half-an-hour, they're making plans to sell pot. Let's file this one under "Maybe Next Time, Mom"	04.17.2008 04.18.2008	A	Daniel
3-13 Recap	Stole a Motorcycle Stole a Motorcycle - Randy believes that Earl tried to kill him during one of their criminal escapades, but it turns out that he tried to kill Earl first.	04.10.2008 04.11.2008	B	Kim
3-12 Recap	I Won't Die With a Little Help From My Friends I Won't Die With a Little Help From My Friends - Earl is still unconscious, and it's up to Randy to figure out how to bring him back.	04.03.2008 04.04.2008	C-	Kim
3-11 Recap	Bad Earl Bad Earl - Earl loses faith in karma.	01.09.2008 01.11.2008	C-	Kim
3-10 Recap	Early Release Early Release - Earl hatches an escape plan.	12.05.2007 12.07.2007	B-	Kim
3-9 Recap	Burn Victim Burn Victim - Earl uses up the rest of his lottery winnings to throw a prison prom and burn off the rest of his prison term.	11.28.2007 11.30.2007	B	Kim
3-8 Recap	Midnight Bun Midnight Bun - Earl and Randy try to find Frank while Joy tries to go into labor.	11.14.2007 11.16.2007	B-	Kim
3-7 Recap	Randy In Charge (Of Our Days And Our Nights) Randy In Charge (Of Our Days And Our Nights) - Randy and Earl argue over who's really in charge these days.	11.07.2007 11.09.2007	C+	Kim
3-6 Recap	Our Other Cops Is On! Our Other Cops Is On! - Turns out Cops returned to Camden County for a second helping of white trash.	10.31.2007 11.02.2007	B	Kim
3-5 Recap	Frank's Girl Frank's Girl - It's conjugal visit time, and Frank's girlfriend (Alyssa Milano) shows up, then breaks up with him, so Earl has to get them back together.	10.24.2007 10.26.2007	B-	Kim
3-4 Recap	Creative Writing Creative Writing - Earl and the gang let their imaginations fly, and we get to see the results.	10.17.2007 10.19.2007	A	Kim
3-3 Recap	The Frank Factor The Frank Factor - Earl meets up with an old pal in prison, and we get to learn how all of the main characters ended up in Camden County.	10.10.2007 10.12.2007	A	Kim
3-2 Recap	The Gangs Of Camden County The Gangs Of Camden County - Earl has to solve the problems of racism and homophobia. No problem! He's got thirty minutes this week!	10.03.2007 10.05.2007	B-	Kim
3-1 Recap	My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 My Name Is Inmate 28301-016 - Earl learns how to get by in prison, since it looks like he's going to be in there for a while.	09.26.2007 09.28.2007	B-	Kim
1-8 Recap	Joy's Wedding Joy's Wedding - Earl tries to be friends with Joy, and in doing so, he first ruins her wedding to Darnell, then tries to make up for it by planning another wedding for her, then ruins it again by sleeping with her. It's just another example of how Bruce, Demi, and Ashton ruin lives.	11.14.2005 09.12.2007	B	Potes