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"Pilot" |
September 20, 2005 |
1-01 (1) |
| Earl J. Hickey is a small-time thief with a messed-up life. He wins a $100,000 lottery scratcher, but is immediately hit by a car and watches the ticket blow away. In the hospital recovering, Earl's wife divorces him, and Earl is introduced to karma while watching an interview with singer Trace Adkins on Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides to try to make up for all the bad things he has done and makes a written list of 259 items. After leaving the hospital he starts on his list and right away he finds his lost $100,000 scratcher. Figuring karma works pretty well, he resolves to continue making up for items on the list. |
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"Quit Smoking" |
September 27, 2005 |
1-02 (2) |
| Made up for #112, "Let Donny Jones serve jail time for a crime I committed." Made up for #102, "Harmed and possibly killed innocent people with second hand smoke", and also added and made up for a 260th item, "Took Donny away from his mother for two years", by quitting smoking and extending her life by helping her quit too. (It was a miracle message). |
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"Randy's Touchdown" |
October 4, 2005 |
1-03 (3) |
| Made up for #58, "Fixed a high school football game", by returning the $100 to the bookie, and added a 261st item, "Took away Randy's touchdown" and tried to make up for that. |
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"Faked His Own Death" |
October 11, 2005 |
1-04 (4) |
| Made up for #84, "Faked death to break up with a girl", by finding Natalie Duckworth and telling her the truth. Natalie's current boyfriend likes the scam so much that he fakes his own death, and moves into a room at the hotel where Earl lives. Earl becomes conflicted, and tries to comfort Natalie, but ends up as her boyfriend again. |
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"Teacher Earl" |
October 18, 2005 |
1-05 (5) |
| Made up for #27, "Made fun of people with accents", by teaching an ESL class. Meanwhile, Earl's old partner in crime Ralph gets out of jail, and decides to pay Earl a visit. |
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"Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" |
November 1, 2005 |
1-06 (6) |
| Made up for #153, "Broke Joy's fancy figurine." Earl discovers he can't buy another since they're the first prize in the Balboa & Sons Mother and Daughter Prettiest Pretty Princess Pageant. Earl finds Shelly Stoker, who has won several competitions, and helps her and her daughter practice their knife-throwing talent so they can win and give him the trophy figurine (a princess riding a "487 side-discharge, self-mulching lawn mower") to give to Joy. |
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"Stole Beer from a Golfer" |
November 8, 2005 |
1-07 (7) |
| The fair is in town, but before they can go Earl has to cross an item off his list. Earl secretly fixed a ton of golf games for a golfer when he finds out that the golfer celebrates by buying everyone at the bar a free beer. When Randy slips and tell others about the scam, Earl and Randy have to stop. When they find the golfer to give him the beer they scammed him out of, they find that because the golfer thought he was going to go pro, he neglected his life for golf and lost his job, and is now living in his car. Since the golfer's life has tanked, and it is Earl's fault, Earl has to get him his old job back and get him back together with his girlfriend. |
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"Joy's Wedding" |
November 15, 2005 |
1-08 (8) |
| Made up for #262,"Ruined Joy's Wedding." Joy and Darnell have their wedding and invite Randy but not Earl. Earl becomes upset at the fact that he and Joy aren't close and he crashes Joy's wedding after getting drunk, managing to break her nose by accident in the process. After Joy recovers, Earl convinces her to let him fix what he did by planning her dream wedding. While helping Joy plan her wedding, Earl ends up having sex with Joy, and now has to add Darnell to his list, because he slept with his fiancee. |
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"Cost Dad the Election" |
November 22, 2005 |
1-09 (9) |
| Earl tries to make up for stealing a car from a girl who only had one leg, and gets beat up by her boyfriend with no legs. When her boyfriend is hitting him with a campaign sign, Earl remembers #4, how he cost his father the last mayoral election, and against his father's wishes Earl signs him up to run again. His father is at first angry at Earl for doing this, but after hearing the public's response, decides to go ahead with it. |
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"White Lie Christmas" |
December 6, 2005 |
1-10 (10) |
| Earl has wrecked every Christmas he's spent with Joy, so he, Randy and Catalina try to win a Dodge Neon in a contest wherein they had to keep their hands on said car, in an attempt to get Joy the car for a Christmas present. Earl is eliminated when he goes to shake hands with Randy, so it's up to Catalina and Randy to win the car. Earl decides to correct his mistake of wrecking Dodge's and Earl Jr.'s Christmas one year in the meantime. He then finds out that Joy never told her parents that she and Earl were no longer married, and lied about his absence by saying he was serving in Iraq. She explains to Earl that her father is a racist and would freak if he knew she were married to Darnell. Joy's mother has also been struck with rheumatoid arthritis and kidney failure, and needs dialysis and is in a wheelchair. Earl finds out that this is a lie, and Joy's mom was taking the money for her dialysis and gambling it away at an Indian casino. Earl's got a lot of work to do if he wants this Christmas to go well. |
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"Barn Burner" |
January 5, 2006 |
1-11 (11) |
| Earl goes back to the Camp for Troubled Boys to make up for #164 "Burned down a barn at camp" that got him and his relatives banned from the camp, so that Joy's kids can go. After building an Ostrich pen to make up for it, Earl finds out that Randy burnt down the barn. This means that Randy is responsible for all of Earl's bad doings after that point, which is about 100 things. |
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"O Karma, Where Art Thou?" |
January 12, 2006 |
1-12 (12) |
| Made up for #202,"Stole a wallet from a guy at the gas station." Earl gives back a wallet he stole, along with the $1000 that was in it. Earl finds out that the guy was going to use the money for his honeymoon, and now that he has the money, his wife wants to go on a real honeymoon. However, the guy can't get time off from work, so Earl volunteers to fill in for him at the fast-food restaurant he works at. However, the boss is a mean guy who is constantly stealing things from work. Earl has to keep his cool, or else end up getting the guy he's replacing fired. |
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"Stole P's HD Cart" |
January 19, 2006 |
1-13 (13) |
| Made up for #159,"Stole P's HD Cart." After Earl returns a hot-dog cart that he and Ralph stole, his efforts are undone when Ralph, working for the competition, sets fire to the cart. Earl sets off to get the money to replace the cart from the competition, but that's harder than it sounds. |
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"Monkeys in Space" |
January 26, 2006 |
1-14 (14) |
| Earl needs to make up for #18 "Told an inappropriate story at Hank Lange's birthday party" before Hank gets shipped off to the State Penitentiary. Meanwhile, Randy looks for a job. |
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"Something to Live For" |
February 2, 2006 |
1-15 (15) |
| Earl's having car trouble, and sees it as a sign to make up for "Sucked gas out of a hose." When he finds the man he stole all the gas from, he finds out that he is suicidal. Earl can't just leave him, so he makes it his duty to give him a reason to live. |
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"The Professor" |
February 9, 2006 |
1-16 (16) |
| While Earl and Randy are trying to return a laptop they stole, they accidentally knock over a bus stop sign. Earl promises to fix the sign, but gets sidetracked by the laptop's owner, the beautiful college professor Alex Meyers. Alex takes an interest in Earl and his List, and they begin dating. Earl soon notices that he is the target of bad accidents and random acts of violence, and remembers that he hasn't fixed the bus stop sign yet, and Karma is punishing him. Meanwhile, Randy has taken an interest in college life. |
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"Didn't Pay Taxes" |
March 2, 2006 |
1-17 (17) |
| Earl finds a check from an old odd job he did and feels he cheated the government because he didn't pay taxes. When he finds out the government doesn't want his money, he tries to find unorthodox ways of repaying his debt. |
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"Dad's Car" |
March 16, 2006 |
1-18 (18) |
| Made up for #266,"Never gave Mum a good mothers day." and #108,"Lost Dads Mustang." It's Mother's day and Earl decides to make up for all of the horrible mother's days he's given his mom. So Earl & Randy help her have a perfect mother's day but when they watch some old home videos, his Dad sees the old Mustang that Earl lost and Earl decides to make up for it. |
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"Y2K" |
March 23, 2006 |
1-19 (19) |
| Earl goes to make up for #24, and recounts how the gang met during Y2K. |
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"Boogeyman" |
March 30, 2006 |
1-20 (20) |
| Earl and the gang tried to rob a house, but the owners returned. Earl ends up stuck hiding in a kid's bedroom under the bed. When he tried to sneak out the kid mistook him for the boogeyman and has since been afraid of the dark. Earl tries to make up for this mistake, #239 "Made a kid afraid of the Boogeyman", and ends up with more than he bargained for. |
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"Bounty Hunter" |
April 6, 2006 |
1-21 (21) |
| Earl recounts his life prior to marrying Joy, and introduces Jesse, a clerk at a Bounty Hunter company, who he dated right before getting married to Joy. After Jesse found out that Earl had married Joy, Joy knocked out her two front teeth. Now that Joy has a bounty on her head, Jesse is out for revenge. |
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"Stole a Badge" |
April 27, 2006 |
1-22 (22) |
| #127 "Stole a Badge from a police officer". Earl tries to make up for stealing a police badge, and finds that the officer got demoted because of him. Earl now has to make it up to the officer by getting him promoted. |
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"BB" |
May 4, 2006 |
1-23 (23) |
| #147 "Shot Gwen Waters with a BB gun". Earl goes down to the courthouse to pay some tickets and meets Gwen Waters, a woman he shot with a BB when he was young. |
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"Number One" |
May 11, 2006 |
1-24 (24) |
| Earl has to deal with item #1 "Stole $10 from a guy at the Camden Market", which he used to buy his winning lotto ticket. |
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"Very Bad Things" |
September 21, 2006 |
2-01 (25) |
| Earl helps Joy try to get rid of a stolen delivery truck, which becomes harder when they discover that someone is still in the back of the truck. |
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"Jump for Joy" |
September 28, 2006 |
2-02 (26) |
| Earl and Randy ask Catalina to return to her old job at the strip club, but they don't tell her that they need her to do it so that the club's owner will pay for Joy's bail. |
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"Sticks & Stones" |
October 5, 2006 |
2-03 (27) |
| Earl makes up for teasing a mustached girl in school, and it forces him to confront his fear of taking his shirt off in public. |
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"Larceny of a Kitty Cat" |
October 12, 2006 |
2-04 (28) |
| Randy has a crush on the next woman on Earl's list, so he pretends to be a cat lover. But based on Randy's past experiences as a poser, Earl knows that this one will end badly. |
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"Van Hickey" |
October 19, 2006 |
2-05 (29) |
| Earl has to get his old band back together to take care of an elderly man on his list. But it only brings out a nasty secret which ultimately forces Earl to marry Ralph's mom. |
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"Made a Lady Think I Was God" |
November 2, 2006 |
2-06 (30) |
| Earl wants to make amends to an angry, bitter trailer park manager for playing a trick on her. But the trick caused her to change her life for the better, and the apology makes her even angrier than she ever was. |
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"Mailbox" |
November 9, 2006 |
2-07 (31) |
| Catalina helps Earl cross #75 off his list which involves delivering mail which was found in a mailbox which Randy and Earl used as a waste basket. Earl then falls in love with a woman at the gym who was a recipient of one of the letters. |
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"Robbed a Stoner Blind" |
November 16, 2006 |
2-08 (32) |
| After Earl and Randy attempt to make amends with a former drug addict, Earl decides to join him for a week at a commune and then tries to prevent global warming from spreading. |
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"Born a Gamblin' Man" |
November 30, 2006 |
2-09 (33) |
| Earl decides to cross #146 off his list by helping one of his gay friends become more masculine when he introduces him to gambling. |
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"South of the Border, Part Uno" |
December 7, 2006 |
2-10 (34) |
| Earl and Randy head south to bring Catalina back to America, but run into a few roadblocks along their way. |
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"South of the Border, Part Dos" |
December 7, 2006 |
2-11 (35) |
| Randy looks to marry Catalina so she can get her green card and return to America. |
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"Our "Cops" Is On" |
January 4, 2007 |
2-12 (36) |
| The townspeople gather around the Crab Shack's TV to watch an episode of Cops featuring Camden County. |
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"Buried Treasure" |
January 11, 2007 |
2-13 (37) |
| Earl decides to cross number 52 off his list: “Dig up and return buried treasure”. |
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"Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck" |
January 18, 2007 |
2-14 (38) |
| Earl sets out to atone for having locked a man in a truck, only to discover that that man has since died, and puzzles over how he can make amends. |
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"Foreign Exchange Student" |
February 1, 2007 |
2-15 (39) |
| Earl wants to make up for number 44 on his list and flies a former foreign-exchange student to America. Catalina holds back the truth on how she really feels about Randy. |
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"BLOW" |
February 8, 2007 |
2-16 (40) |
| Earl takes on number 101 on his list, "Stole a girl's identity." The girl turns out to be Joy's half-sister that she never knew about. |
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"The Birthday Party" |
February 15, 2007 |
2-17 (41) |
| Hoping for his good deeds to be recognized, Earl celebrates his birthday but is instead reminded of more unresolved issues on his list. |
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"Guess Who's Coming Out of Joy" |
February 22, 2007 |
2-18 (42) |
| Joy's pregnancy with Earl Jr. makes Earl reflect on his marriage between him and Joy. |
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"Harassed a Reporter" |
April 12, 2007 |
2-19 (43) |
| Earl tries to make amends with a television reporter, Nicole, whose career went down after reporting false news that Earl and the gang had given. Nicole interviews Earl about his past and the list in hopes that it will bring back her career. |
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"Two Balls, Two Strikes" |
April 19, 2007 |
2-22 (44) |
| As Little Chubby (Norm Macdonald) goes around the world, he is praised by the people because of a physical deformity that he has. |
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"TBA" |
April 26, 2007 |
2-20 (45) |
| The Bank of Camden is giving out free shirts to people who qualify for a credit card. Earl is thrilled to maybe finally get a legitimate credit card in which he hasn't stolen. But, with no home, occupation, or education, he is denied the credit card. Earl realizes he isn't living like the average adult citizen. |
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"TBA" |
May 3, 2007 |
2-21 (46) |
| Earl works as a salesman in an appliance store and gets his customers stolen away by other staff. Joy left Darnell a tape which said that she was going away for a while. |
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"The Trial" |
May 10, 2007 |
2-23 (47) |
| Earl tries to find some witnesses for Joy's trial. He tries to persuade Joy's cousin Lulu, but she still resents Joy for having made a pass at her husband and trying to drown her. Next, he checks if Joy's minister would be a witness, but he remembers when Joy used to come to church drunk and wearing a bikini. |
