My Name Is Earl“Girl Earl”
Original Air Date: May 8th, 2008
Laura Kelley - TwoCents Reviewer
laurakelley@thetwocentscorp.com
Following their surprise wedding in last week’s episode, Earl and Billie spend their “honeymoon” in Earl’s old hotel room. After an apparently rough night that may require Earl to take a buck knife to his “husband parts,” Billie tells Earl she’s made a Karma list of her own, and Earl is thrilled. Marriage starts to wear on him soon after, when Billie takes all his chips and says that Sammy Hagar made for a better Van Halen, a claim which has the power to destroy even the strongest of marriages.
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Original Air Date: May 8th, 2008
Laura Kelley - TwoCents Reviewer
laurakelley@thetwocentscorp.com
Following their surprise wedding in last week’s episode, Earl and Billie spend their “honeymoon” in Earl’s old hotel room. After an apparently rough night that may require Earl to take a buck knife to his “husband parts,” Billie tells Earl she’s made a Karma list of her own, and Earl is thrilled. Marriage starts to wear on him soon after, when Billie takes all his chips and says that Sammy Hagar made for a better Van Halen, a claim which has the power to destroy even the strongest of marriages.
A slightly regretful Earl “knew marriage was about give and take, but wasn’t prepared for how much I’d have to give.” Had it been me and my spouse said he preferred Sammy Hagar, I would have been en route to the Bahamas for a quickie divorce. Even worse, Billie has no boundaries, and when you consider that along with the Sammy Hagar thing, you start to think that maybe the marriage wasn’t such an awesome idea for Earl.
The first person Billie wants to cross off her list is Joel, played by guest star Jon Heder, who I’m always disappointed to see not wearing moon boots and dancing to Jamiroquai. He plays competitive bagger Joel, from whom both Earl and Billie stole something while he was competing in the bagging championships. Earl and Billie go to Joy and Darnell’s still tipped-over trailer to retrieve the carpet stolen from Joel. On the way to Joel’s house, Randy recounts the story of his head injury and gets the best line of the night: “man, brains are funny. Shake ‘em around hard enough and it’s like, ‘who’s steering this ship?’”
Earl and Randy had tried to replace the rabbit ear antenna from Joel’s TV, but ended up with an earless rabbit, which Randy spends the episode trying to give away. Earl quickly becomes frustrated with the way Billie rushes through her list, and takes matters into his own hands by going to the store to help Joel, who was unable to bag due to a seriously grotesque hand injury. Joel wishes he had Earl’s adept hands “instead of this clump of spastic meat,” and so Earl agrees to compete in his place.
Earl wins the first three rounds of the bagging championship and has to compete in the finals against “Bagger Lance,” a cocky superstar in the world of competitive bagging with a mustache that almost rivals Earl’s own. But before the competition, Billie breaks Earl’s finger while they’re arguing over the list forcing Earl and Joel to compete as a kind of bagging Siamese twin. After Lance drops a pineapple, they win the championship and Joel meets two “grocery groupies.” Billie realizes how much it means to see the list through, and tells Earl she will do so. In what may be the final nail in her coffin, she also tells Earl to shave off his mustache. I think it’s about time their relationship bit the dust.
What did you all think of the episode? I’m getting a little tired of Alyssa Milano’s character, but that may just be my love for David Lee Roth talking. Leave your Two Cents in the comments below!