"My Name Is Inmate 28301 - 016" - Season 3

Earl survived his first night in jail, but discovers that his cellmate escaped.
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Since Earl’s cell had a hole in the wall he had to move to general population. Earl quickly learned that when one person broke the rules, everyone paid the price…and got thoroughly searched.
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Darnell, Catalina and Randy all came to see Earl in jail. Catalina gave the inmates something to stare at, Darnell brought some religious reading for Earl and Randy had a stack of questions, but time was up before he got to ask them.
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Earl thought he had found the right prison gang to hang with, the old timers.
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During Joy and Randy’s visit with Earl he asks Joy to let Randy move in with her and Crabman. Clearly Randy is having some trouble adjusting to life with Earl behind bars.
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Earl runs into an old friend in prison that shows him the way to survive…be invisible.
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Earl has realized that while he’s in prison, he must put the list away and put nice Earl away for a while to survive. And once Earl’s new friend Sunny rats him out to Glen, another inmate, Earl steps up to Sunny and gets thrown in the hotbox with the Glen.
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Joy is quickly realizing how dependent Randy is on Earl, and she is starting to lose her patience. To help Randy a bit, Catalina created a sock puppet named “little earl.”
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Joy and Darnell are woken up by Randy’s incessant questioning and Joy is about to lose it, but she finds away to keep him quiet.
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To make up the past to Glen, Earl made him a weapon however; Glen used it to stab Earl.
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Earl finds out that Glen messes up his chances at parole every time and he wants to know why, but Glen doesn’t make it easy for Earl to help.
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Earl helps Glen collect his Scout badges and enlists the assistance of the other inmates.
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Earl realized that by helping people inside, just as he did on the outside was how he would survive in prison.
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Randy leaves Earl’s shirt behind and starts making decisions for himself; He steals a car thinking it will allow him to move in with Earl, at the prison.

"The Trial" - Season 2

It's Randy and Earl's last night in the motel because they're finally moving to a real apartment. Realizing that he cheated himself out of being an adult, Earl has put himself on his own list - and moving is the third step, after getting his G.E.D. and a real job.
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Despite the new apartment, Earl feels like something's missing in his quest to become an adult. The phone rings - Joy needs Earl to come down to the jail right away. It all started last fall when Joy stole a truck and got arrested - her third strike. She took an unscheduled vacation to Mexico, where she ran into Dog, the Bounty Hunter. Now Joy's deaf lawyer Ruby needs Earl to find character witnesses so Joy won't have to spend the rest of her life in prison.
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Randy and Earl check on Darnell. The kids have gone wild and the Joy has literally gone out of his life - Darnell can't live without the other half of his heart. Earl realizes that what he's missing is a woman to share his life with. He met Alex a while back, but karma didn't think he was ready for a relationship and sent bees to sting their faces. Earl calls Alex, but she's married now. Meanwhile, he's having a hard time coming up with character witnesses for Joy.
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Joy's deaf lawyer, Ruby, thinks Earl will make an excellent character witness and he thinks he's finally met a woman to share his life with - Ruby's accent really turns him on. They meet with Joy to rehearse, but Earl's more interested in trying to ask Ruby out. Realizing that Earl wants to jump Ruby's bones, Joy lets the cat out of the bag. Earl fears the worst, but Ruby asks him to dinner.
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Earl fumbles the date, but Ruby tells him that he can cross "being a lazy lover" off his list. Life is finally perfect, but not for long when Ruby spies herself on Earl's list. A couple of years ago, Earl and Randy robbed the only deaf person living in Camden, knowing it would be real easy. They even stole her cat. Even though it's been one of the best nights of Earl's life, Ruby storms out, saying it was all a mistake.
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Before the trial begins, Ruby's sign language translator, Doug, eats a lemon square that Darnell has baked for Joy and cuts his tongue on a razor blade. The only translator available speaks Mandarin, so they need a third translator. Ruby is a great lawyer and has no problem discrediting the evidence against Joy - and Earl's testimony helps. But when the prosecutor plays several 911 tapes from when Earl and Joy were married, the jury turns against her.
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Earl feels terrible. All he can think about is Joy's family being torn apart, so he claims that he stole the truck, offering evidence to prove it. Joy doesn't get it, but Earl explains that he doesn't have three strikes, or a family. Joy thanks Earl and Ruby forgives him. Judge Miller complements Earl for saving Joy, while acknowledging that he's a piece of trash for waiting this long to do it. Earl is sentenced to two years in the state pen.
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Earl took the fall for Joy so she wouldn't have to give up her life, but now he's giving up everything - job, apartment, and a pretty deaf girlfriend - not to mention his freedom. Earl's old buddy Ralph is relieved to see Earl, his new cellmate, and hands him a sock full of batteries. Seems that Ralph spit in a skinhead's eye, and he's coming after them later in the yard with a pipe gun.

"Get A Real Job" - Season 2

Earl and Randy don't usually set the alarm clock, but today is their first day at their new jobs - stocking appliances for Mr. Waadt. Up until now, Earl has kept himself from becoming an adult - Number 273 on his list. Once he got his GED, it was time to start looking for a job. Earl learns that it's easy to get a job, but hard to find one you want to keep.
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While Earl's feeling good to be part of the workforce, Joy is enjoying her own little dose of reality. After stocking up on green punch, she and Darnell run into her deaf lawyer's "word talker," Doug, in a parking lot. Joy insults Doug, mistaking his old-looking wife for his mother. Miffed, Doug reminds Joy that her trial starts next week, and maybe she shouldn't have bought all that punch - Joy might be going to jail.
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Supervisor Reggie explains the perks of the job to Randy and Earl - everyone gets a one-week vacation and a store credit card. Twice a day the guys eat snacks from the vending machine. After four hours, Earl's already not sure if he can perform this job for the rest of his life. When salesman Ricky calls Earl to the sales floor, it's just like the first day he drank chocolate milk and realized he wanted to have a moustache for the rest of his life - Earl wants to sell appliances in the front of the store.
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Reggie explains that no one's ever moved from the back to the front of the store. It's a little ironic - the salesmen all wear Dockers, but they call the guys who work in the back "Dockers," because they work on the loading dock. The Dockers wear Dickies, which is what they call the guys who work in the front, because they are. Meanwhile, Joy prepares for the possibility of prison by trading in the Brat for a car that will accommodate her family, buying a life-like sex doll for Darnell, and learning to speak Mexican.
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Earl goes the extra mile to show Mr. Waadt that he wants to be a salesman. The Dockers think Earl is sucking up, despite his claims of being a regular guy. Earl remarks that he's spent his whole life making fun of people who try to get ahead - maybe he was wrong. All the Dockers (even Randy) try to sabotage Earl, but Mr. Waadt takes notice of his hard work and gives Earl a shot. If he can sell $5,000 in appliances by end of day Sunday, he's in.
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Now that Earl's wearing Dockers, all the salesman - led by smarmy Ricky - promise they'll do whatever it takes to keep Earl from joining their ranks. On Sunday, it looks like Earl has failed to reach his goal, when a little old church lady comes in to the store to purchase a boatload of appliances for a soup kitchen. Earl asks the Dockers to load the truck, but they refuse, so Earl does it himself. The guys are amazed - no Dickie has ever pulled his own stock! While he's busy, Ricky lies to the church lady and scoops the sale.
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Stress will make you do crazy things, as Darnell finds out, when he wakes up next to the sex doll. Joy has left him a video, explaining that she traded in the Brat because she needed a bigger trunk and learned Mexican because she's going on the lam to Mexico to escape prison! She begs Darnell's forgiveness and promises to send for him and the kids as soon as she can. It's closing time at the store and despite a rousing don't-give-up speech from Reggie, Earl turns his in his tie and name tag to Mr. Waadt.
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Reggie knocks on Mr. Waadt's office door. He puts down his store credit card, demanding to buy a refrigerator from Earl. Ricky's protests fall on deaf ears, as all the Dockers line up to buy appliances from Earl in a show of solidarity for one of their own. Earl wins the day and is promoted to salesman. Sadly, Joy's not having the same luck in Mexico.

"GED" - Season 2

Earl is let down when his credit card application gets denied. He feels like a child and wants to take more responsibility for his life. Catalina suggests that if Earl feels like he screwed himself out of being an adult, he should put himself on the list.
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Earl decides to start becoming an adult by getting his GED from the local high school. Earl has trouble with the entire test. He decides to go back to his old high school teachers in hopes that they'll help them.
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Earl is saddened to find all of his old teachers had lost their enthusiasm for their jobs. It turns out that after Earl left school, the students became nastier and nastier to their teachers and the teachers were losing all hope. Earl offers to get through to the snot-nosed kids, knowing it's going to be a challenge.
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Earl's students refuse to pay attention to him in class, so he takes them to his motel to show them what happens to guys who goof off in school. He wants to get across to the students that school is important. They all come to the conclusion that Earl is a loser.
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Earl is touched when one of his students, Summer, comes to him for advice on how to avoid being a loser. In exchange, Summer helps Earl with his studying for the GED exam. It turns out that Summer set a trap for Earl. While he was getting tutored, the rest of the students flipped his car.
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Earl is so fed up with the students that he gathers the rest of the teachers to get revenge. The teachers start pulling pranks but their pranks backfire when one of the teachers accidentally blows up a student's car. Turns out that's what scared the students straight. The teachers are so relieved they invite Randy and Earl to attend classes, too. After attending all the necessary classes, Earl finally passes his GED exam.

"Two Balls, Two Strikes" - Season 2

Only one person in town is capable of making people afraid from beyond the grave and that's Richard Chubby. The town's most powerful businessman was eccentric and unpredictable in life, not to mention mean. At his strip club, Chubby threatens Randy with a pistol. Luckily, it's filled with vodka, providing a good laugh and fatal grounds for confusion. Thinking he's freshening his drink, Chubby picks up the wrong gun and blows his own head off.
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There's a huge crowd at Chubby's funeral, because attendance for employees is mandatory, and the service is scheduled during their unpaid lunch break. Earl wonders why no one is leaving and Catalina informs him that the new boss is even worse. A white limo pulls up and the new boss gets out. Little Chubby, Chubby's son, is back in town to take over the family business.
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Before Little Chubby left town, his favorite hobby was messing with people, usually resulting in injury and/or humiliation. One day, Little Chubby cuts off Randy's rat-tail, stuffs it in Joy's drink, and forces her to swallow - or risk the loss of her hairdo. Joy wants Earl to kill him real slow - so he has to get creative. Donning an orange afro wig, Earl sneaks up on Little Chubby at The Crab Shack and kicks him in the nuts, drawing a standing ovation and high fives from the crowd.
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The day after the funeral, Earl visits Little Chubby at the strip club to fess up. Little Chubby thanks Earl for providing the turning point in his life. It was the pain in his heart to know that everyone hated him that Little Chubby couldn't shake. After walking the earth and visiting some aborigines, Little Chubby is now kinder and gentler. He thanks Earl for making him a better person.
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Now that Little Chubby's a whole new guy, everyone enjoys hanging out with him. He gives Randy a new rat-tail and invites the gang to the mansion for a pool party. Little Chubby's just happy to share with his friends. Earl still wants to do something to make up for what he's done, but it's going to be hard, since Little Chubby now has a perfect life. When Little Chubby's robe falls open, revealing his freakishly damaged little chubbies, Earl knows there's two giant problems.
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When Darnell suggests that Little Chubby's injury may have affected his libido, Earl accompanies him on a visit to the doctor. The doctor informs Earl that he has taken the jingle out of Little Chubby's Bells - he's no longer making testosterone. Earl stands by on the day of the big surgery. Little Chubby is scared and misses his Mom, who his father pushed out of a moving car. He asks Earl to fill in by holding his hand, stroking his hair, and singing him a Lynyrd Skynyrd song.
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Within a few days the testosterone starts flowing and Little Chubby's back to his old mean tricks. The gang tells Earl to fix the situation, so Earl goes by the strip club. Little Chubby offers Earl a drink, then smashes it against the back of Earl's head. When Earl comes to, he's tied to a backstop. Little Chubby has rigged up a pitching machine to deprive Earl of his manhood in a game of tit for tat.
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Earl reminds Little Chubby that he was happy being nice, and didn't want to end up like his Dad - sad and alone. After all, Little Chubby is his mother's son, too. When Earl starts singing "Free Bird," the softer side of Little Chubby finally comes out. He stands in front of Earl, taking the baseball hit, not to protect Earl, but to protect himself from himself. Once again deprived of his testosterone, Little Chubby reverts to the life of a nice guy and throws another pool party.

"Harassed a Reporter" - Season 2

During another sleepless night alongside Randy, Earl watches TV news reporter Nicole Moses, who's been relegated to the "Up Before Dawn" show. Years before, Randy and Earl clowned around behind Nicole as she covered a meth lab explosion. The brothers gained notoriety with their "crazy arms" dance and embarked on a quest to harass Nicole during all her live reports.
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Nicole finally had a meltdown on camera, beating Randy and Earl with her microphone and sending her career down the tubes. Nicole is now Number 28 on Earl's list, so he and Randy visit her at the TV station. Nicole thinks she can redeem her career with a heartwarming story pulled from Earl's list and he promises to help.
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Now that he cares what people think, Earl is nervous to appear on camera, but Randy's excited to be on TV even though Nicole isn't interested in him. Earl closes his eyes and picks a story from his list - losing an important client for a business woman. When the woman turns out to be Patty, Nicole exclaims that she can't do a heartwarming story about a hooker.
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Earl comes up with a better story - he'll make up for the time he obliterated Earl Jr. and Darnell Jr.'s beloved playhouse with his El Camino. Nicole loves the idea of building the kids a new playhouse, but informs Randy that he won't appear on camera, because it's not his story.
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Dejected, Randy seeks solace from Joy, who advises him to break away from Earl and be his own man. Excited, Randy resolves to make a list of all the good things he's done and mess with those people while wearing a sombrero. Later, Earl and Catalina are shocked to see Randy doing a "crazy head" routine on Nicole's weather report.
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Randy arrives at the motel wearing a sombrero to get his own news story, and when he does, he's going to make sure Earl's a part of it, because that's something Earl wouldn't do. Earl apologizes, promising Randy that they'll build the new playhouse together.
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Nicole's not happy with Randy's participation, but Earl makes sure that Randy gets plenty of camera time. Later, everyone's at The Crab Shack to see Nicole's piece on the evening news. Nicole announces that Earl's heartwarming story is all about how he takes care of his mentally disabled brother, Randy. Embarrassed, Randy takes off.
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Randy runs to the TV station to confront Nicole. She explains that she had to make the story more interesting and all she did was make him look stupid on TV - just like he did to her, "it's karma." Earl offers to ask Nicole to re-edit the piece, but Randy is satisfied - karma finally noticed him. Using their crazy arms, the brothers cross Number 28 off the list together.