Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck

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My Name Is Earl episode

"Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck"

Episode no.:	38
Prod. code:
Airdate:	January 18, 2007
Writer(s):	John Hoberg Kat Likkel
Director:	Eyal Gordon
Guest star(s)	John Waters

"Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck" is an episode of the American sitcom My Name Is Earl.

1 Synopsis
2 The List
3 Songs
4 Trivia
5 Quotes

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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.

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 snitch is dead!” Meanwhile, Randy tells Earl that he needs a new apartment for his pretty new “green card wife”, Catalina.

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 (John Waters) 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.

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.

The funeral is a disaster. Guests prop a cigarette in the corpse’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.

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.

Combing through Josh’s apartment, Joy and Earl discover, ironically, he has a large circle of friends on the worldwide web: poker friends, music buddies, a dinner companion in India who is also a call center agent; who are wondering what has happened to their friend (in the form of Instant Messaging pop-ups) when Joy and Earl accidentally bump into Josh's computer and active it from sleep mode. 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.

[edit] The List

Main article: The List (My Name Is Earl)

Item	Number	Source	Status
Kept A Guy Locked In A Truck	270	2.14	Completed when Earl gives him a proper funeral

[edit] Songs

#	Song Title	Artist
1	The Humpty Dance	Digital Underground
2	High School Never Ends	Bowling For Soup

[edit] Trivia

The football fan lying in state at Walter's funeral home is wearing a Washington Redskins jersey and hat, and has a Redskins helmet sitting on his legs.
Nadine Velazquez (Catalina) appears for the first time since South of the Border, Part Dos. She and Randy are both wearing wedding rings.
Josh is shown in a flashback posting as the user WhoJackie on the website Television Without Pity, discussing his displeasure of meta-references on television shows. This was part of an elaborate meta-reference, as producers/writers of the show had posted as WhoJackie and other usernames on the website, both well before and after the episode aired, referencing and incorporating scenes from the episode.
Josh's screenname: "WhoJackie", is the enthusiastic phrase that Ed (the chain-smoking brother of Billy Reed) in Episode 1x18, shouts at the beginning of each drag race.
Randy is seen wearing protective glasses while cutting Earl's nails because in a blooper video a nail hits Ethan's eye while shooting a similar scene in episode 1x08.
Earl makes a remark regarding the screensaver in Josh's apartment. This is a continuation of a joke in episode 1x16, where the laptop he uses, also has an aquarium screensaver as well.
On February 12, 2007, Three short sketches supposedly based on Josh's computer were released on YouTube by NBC. The sketches featured are of Earl, Randy, and Darnell.

[edit] Quotes

Slow Rodney: Did you catch that Saving Private Ryan last night? There was this guy that died on the beach, then there was this other guy who died on the beach... then there was this guy who got shot in the helmet... he didn't die on the beach, then he took his helmet off... and he died on the beach.

Randy: I never had a legal massage before. What's the point? It's like drinking non-alcoholic beer!

World War 2 Gamer: Hold on BigDog! Help is on the way! I just got to mow down this wall of Nazis!

Funeral Attendee: Man, Josh could make me LOL. I'd always be ROTF LMAO. And he was there when you needed him, he'd never give you a BRB, or an AFK.