Sat, 1 December 2007
With the strike in full effect, I've been rather desperate for alternatives (see thread below). This weekend, I finally fired up all the MY NAME IS EARL episodes I've had sitting on my DVR since the new season began.
As I've said before, I was a fan of MY NAME IS EARL before I started watching THE OFFICE. In fact, the only reason I started watching season two of THE OFFICE was because it came on right after MNIE, and I was too lazy to change the channel ("The Dundies" did the rest). I started losing interest in season two of MNIE because they went with a season-long plot arc where Earl's ex-wife Joy was arrested for committing a kidnapping/ robbery and was looking at being sent to prison. I thought the Joy stuff was boring, felt the show had lost the edge it had in season one, and didn't bother to see the last half of the episodes last year.  Season three started with another gimmick -- Earl is now in jail, serving the time for his ex-wife. Seemed lame, but now that I've caught up with all the third season episodes, I admit the error of my ways. The prison thing adds a whole new level to the show's insanity, and I find myself remembering why I liked the show in the first place. NBC's Video Rewind has the last 6 episodes online.
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-- posted at: 4:56pm EDT
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I\'m ready for Earl to get out of jail but that seems unlikely after this past week\'s episode. A couple of them have been OK, but most of the show\'s charm for me has been in the ensemble. Putting Earl in prison takes a lot of that away. The afterglow from the \"Y2K\" episode, the first \"Cops\" episode and the one where Earl married his friend\'s mom can only get a girl so far. I have to have a warm feeling for a show that inspired my husband to whisper to me \"Baby, you had me at balls\" at the altar on our wedding day.
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