Thursday, January 18, 2007

"Kept A Guy Locked In A Truck" - Season 2

In voiceover, Earl complains that he keeps getting "trapped." After getting locked in the bathroom, he heads to The Crab Shack where he has to endure Slow Roger drone on about his favorite movies. Locked in his car afterwards, he realizes that karma is trying to tell him something. Months before, he'd assisted Joy in an accidental kidnapping where the pair had locked a man, Josh, inside Joy's truck.
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To make amends, Earl decides to give Josh a free massage courtesy of Tammy, Camden's only "legit" masseuse. However, when Randy and Earl arrive at the man's apartment, they find him dead - the victim of an accident in a retractable bed. The death saddens Earl but brightens up Joy, who sings "Ding Dong, the witch is dead!" Meanwhile, Randy tells Earl that he needs a new apartment for his pretty new "greencard wife," Catalina.
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To get back his karma, Earl decides to pay his respects at Josh's funeral. At the funeral home, he and Randy encounter a kooky manager who props his victims up in weird costumes. They discover that nobody has claimed the body. A subsequent trip to Josh's building reveals that his neighbors don't care, either. Randy and Catalina continue their apartment search.
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Earl crosses Josh off his karma list but can't sleep at night. Josh comes to him in a dream, begging Earl to give him a respectable funeral. He returns to the funeral home and asks the funeral home manager for a dignified and respectable box. Joy offers an old suit of Darnell's to bury the corpse in. Earl invites all of Camden to the funeral.
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The funeral is a disaster. Guests prop a cigarette in Josh's mouth and Darnell complains to Earl that his prized wedding suit is being worn by a dead man. Earl promises to return it to Darnell after the reception. In the bathroom, he practices his eulogy.
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Returning to the funeral, Earl is furious to discover a full-blown party. His eulogy is interrupted by a falling casket and he orders everybody out. Later that night, Josh comes to Joy in a nightmare sequence. Ravaged by guilt, she confesses to Earl that they ought to throw Josh a proper funeral.
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Combing through Josh's apartment, Joy and Earl discover he has a circle of friends on the worldwide web: poker friends, music buddies and a dinner companion in India. They contact Josh's friends and most of them show up for the respectable funeral he asked for. Catalina and Randy are now the proud new owners of Josh's old apartment.

Monday, January 8, 2007

"Buried Treasure" - Season 2

Earl returns to Joy's trailer park to complete Number 52 on his list - Dig up and return buried treasure. Earl recalls how he first came across treasure in the first place and it all began when he was married to Joy and was into stealing stuff for money. Earl, Joy, and Randy ended up at the library looking for valuables.
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After finding out the value of the silverware he stole, Earl had decided to bury it like treasure. He needed the money, so then he decided to write a ransom note to the library. He watched from some bushes as the Librarian dropped off the ransom money. Then, Earl watched as a homeless man took the bag of money and the cops trampled him!
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Word got out that Randy and Earl had stolen some expensive silverware. A con artist approached Randy at The Crab Shack hoping to get Randy to give up where the silverware was hidden. Randy agreed to sell the silverware to the con artist.
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What Randy didn't know when he sold off the valuable silverware was that Joy had already gotten to it and replaced it with cheaper silverware. She was disappointed when she couldn't find a pawnshop that would take her stolen silverware. She decided to re-bury the treasure.
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Darnell had a little secret from Joy. When his fish died, he decided to bury it. During the burial, he came across the stolen silverware that Joy had re-buried. Darnell took the silverware and returned it back to the library, where it had been originally stolen.
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Earl returned to the library to make a cash donation in order to cross them off his list for stealing their silverware. Randy and Earl came across the stolen silverware in the library display case and realized that they had no clue how it was returned, but it was. He was able to cross the library off his list.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

"Our 'Cops' Is On" - Season 2

Everybody is gathered around the television at The Crab Shack to check out an old episode of "Cops." It's the episode when they came to Camden County and it features Joy, Randy, and Earl fighting in a trailer park.
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On this episode of Cops, they follow different citizens around Camden County. The cops came across Earl and Randy in a quarrel with a cashier at the convenient store. When the cop was distracted, Randy and Earl escaped the store with stolen batteries.
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The cops came by the trailer park with their camera crew to find Joy on top of her trailer roof. She had gotten in a fight with Earl and was throwing all of his belongings off the roof. The cop had to intervene before Joy did anymore damage.
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The cops responded to a break-in at a local house. When they arrive, Earl and Randy were caught red handed stealing from the vacant home. Just then, Earl dropped everything and ran from the scene. Randy just sat there and continued to talk to the camera crew from the show. Earl ended up stealing the cop car!
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Earl showed up at Joy's front door with the cop car. She was turned on by Earl's generosity and especially when she found out there was a cameraman in the back seat. She asked the cameraman to later film her and Earl having sex. Later, she and Earl had fun pulling over strangers with their stolen cop car.
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Darnell was hiding from the cops because they found his marijuana stash. It wasn't that hard to find him - he buried himself in leaves, but his hair gave his hiding place away. While another cop found Randy crying on top of a tree.
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When Cops ended, everybody at The Crab Shack applauded. Earl, Joy, Darnell, and Randy were proud of themselves for actually making it on television, even if it was on Cops and it was years ago. They all felt special and famous. The episode even reminded Earl of a few things to put on his list.