My Name Is Earl“Stole a Motorcycle”
Original Aire Date: April 10th, 2008
Laura Kelley, TwoCents Reviewer
Though Earl may be, according to Randy, “out of the reach of modern medicine,” he’s not out of the reach of karma. In My Name Is Earl’s second week back, little has changed in Camden County as well as in Earl’s subconscious. As Randy, Joy and Darnell rather humorously try to make Earl choose an item from the karma list, Earl is still married to Billie in his sitcom dream world, and he seems too happy to leave it just yet.
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Original Aire Date: April 10th, 2008
Laura Kelley, TwoCents Reviewer
Though Earl may be, according to Randy, “out of the reach of modern medicine,” he’s not out of the reach of karma. In My Name Is Earl’s second week back, little has changed in Camden County as well as in Earl’s subconscious. As Randy, Joy and Darnell rather humorously try to make Earl choose an item from the karma list, Earl is still married to Billie in his sitcom dream world, and he seems too happy to leave it just yet.
The item Randy must cross off is stealing a motorcycle from two men, played by Paul Teutul Sr. and Paul Jr. If you regularly watch Orange County Choppers or in my case, live with someone who does religiously, you know what to expect: lots of fighting and several ludicrous comments from the dimwitted Mikey, who is sort of OCC’s very own Randy Hickey. Since Mikey left the keys in the ignition, Earl and Randy, out on a “crime walk” stole it. My favorite line of the episode was Earl’s assertion that “a motorcycle with keys in it was the best thing to fall in our laps since Mitzi the stripper.” Earl and Randy take the motorcycle and try to sell it to Jasper, but wind up with a chicken suit. They get “waking-up-on-a-school bus” drunk, and wake up on a school bus, no motorcycle in sight. It could happen to anyone.
Meanwhile, in Earl’s dreamworld, he’s having doubts about Billie’s fidelity after hearing her on the phone with Joy. After Earl’s clumsy attempt to attack the “gigolo,” Billie tells him she’s pregnant. Randy struggles to recall his night of “general jackassery” back in the real world, where he wore the chicken suit to nickel wing night at the Crab Shack because “his comedy always has a message.” I loved that part of the episode; few things are better than a man in a chicken suit screaming at wing-eating patrons that “you’re eating my brother!” Randy soon discovers from Homeless Joe that Earl pushed him in front of two motorcycles, and is conflicted because Earl tried to kill him. I thought that part of the storyline dragged on a bit too long, but I did love Randy’s reasoning behind his refusal to believe Earl would do such a thing: “that’s like peanut butter trying to kill jelly, and they’re in the same sandwich!”
After losing the motorcycle during their night of jackassery, Randy and Earl steal two tiny cars from the Knights of Camden and get in a chase. They hide from the cops on top of a trailer and each wear half the chicken suit, because in Randy’s mind, “the cops are looking for a giant chicken, not two half chickens.” Sound reasoning, in my opinion. Randy then remembers that Earl tried to kill him because of an accidental smothering, and Earl awakes and chases him with the “Pantenna,” which I loved. It’s basically Camden County’s version of “he loves me, he loves me not.” Randy, Joy, and Darnell find the motorcycle atop Deaf Charlie’s trailer and return it to where it was stolen from. Randy, racked with guilt that he almost killed Earl, jumps off Deaf Charlie’s trailer. Earl dreams that Billie’s baby is born, and grasps Randy’s hand to indicate that Earl will hopefully be back to crossing items off the list himself.
I didn’t enjoy this episode as much as last week’s, but the “Pantenna” sequence was a riot. Is everyone else feeling that the subconscious sitcom premise can successfully carry over a few more episodes, or would you rather have Earl back already?