Tuesday, October 18, 2005
My Name is Earl - ep "Teacher Earl"
Network: NBC
Airtime: Tuesdays, 9pm
Intoxicant: Mickey's Big Mouth
Meal: Donut (Krispy Kreme, creme filled)
Discussion:
My Name is Earl is the best new show for a looooong time. The setup - Earl (of title) is not a nice person. He wins the lottery, is immediately hit by a car, decides its karma and makes a list of all the wrongs he has done upon others in life. Each episode shows him righting a previous wrong (or two) with his brother and their friend Cataline (Nadine Velazquez) who is also a maid in the hotel where they live. The spoiler is his ex-wife, Joy (Jaime Presley) who divorced him after he gets hit by a car, but before he collects his winnings. She tries to foil his plans by making his life miserable to collect her share of the winnings.
In this episode, Earl decides make amends for all the times he's made fun of people who "talk funny" (people with accents). Following a montage of Earl laughing a a number of people from different countries, he takes on a class teaching English as a Second Language.
Enter a friend from his previous life who is still being bad. Earl has to decide if Karma will forgive him for standing by while his friend does wrong.
As always, the show is hilarious, with the bad people getting theirs in the end.
Notable:
Their friend/maid is one of the few genuinely hispanic characters on network television (obviously not including Univision). She is really hot as well. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1229204/
Airtime: Tuesdays, 9pm
Intoxicant: Mickey's Big Mouth
Meal: Donut (Krispy Kreme, creme filled)
Discussion:
My Name is Earl is the best new show for a looooong time. The setup - Earl (of title) is not a nice person. He wins the lottery, is immediately hit by a car, decides its karma and makes a list of all the wrongs he has done upon others in life. Each episode shows him righting a previous wrong (or two) with his brother and their friend Cataline (Nadine Velazquez) who is also a maid in the hotel where they live. The spoiler is his ex-wife, Joy (Jaime Presley) who divorced him after he gets hit by a car, but before he collects his winnings. She tries to foil his plans by making his life miserable to collect her share of the winnings.
In this episode, Earl decides make amends for all the times he's made fun of people who "talk funny" (people with accents). Following a montage of Earl laughing a a number of people from different countries, he takes on a class teaching English as a Second Language.
Enter a friend from his previous life who is still being bad. Earl has to decide if Karma will forgive him for standing by while his friend does wrong.
As always, the show is hilarious, with the bad people getting theirs in the end.
Notable:
Their friend/maid is one of the few genuinely hispanic characters on network television (obviously not including Univision). She is really hot as well. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1229204/
