Randy Hickey

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Randy Hickey

First appearance	Pilot
Information
Gender	Male
Age	30s
Family	Carl Hickey (father) Kay Hickey (mother) Earl Hickey (brother)
Relationships	Catalina Aruca
Portrayed by	Ethan Suplee
Created by	Greg Garcia

Randy Hickey (born c. 1976) is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, played by Ethan Suplee, (though young Randy has been played in various flashbacks first by Phoenix Smith, later by Ryan Armstrong).

[edit] Character history

Randy is Earl Hickey's dimwitted younger brother who assists Earl with righting his wrongs. Randy had been Earl's partner in crime ever since childhood, and following Earl's life-changing experience (being hit by a car and discovering karma), Randy continues to help Earl in his new life completing his list. He has a boyishly innocent nature, and often sees things with a childlike naiveté. Randy initially assumed he and Earl would resume stealing once Earl completed his list. He seems to have a difficulty remembering things, and frequently uses an incorrect word or phrase for something relatively well-known. He tends to go off on long-winded tangents, explaining things that are otherwise extraordinarily simple. Despite his poor intellect, he often says profound things and has proven to be extremely helpful to Earl in his missions, though he is sometimes resentful when Earl's list forces him to make sacrifices.

Earl says Randy is a better liar after drinking four beers but becomes unpredictable if he drinks more. When Randy is hungry, his bloodsugar levels fall, and he becomes an angry, dizzy hulk. He likes vending machine food, Smokey and the Bandit, and old school rap. Whenever the song "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock is played (B7 on the Crab Shack juke box), Randy will say "Oh no you didn't" or some close variation usually followed by, "Tell me you didn't just go old school!", and then walk onto a dance floor pretending he is "fishing" someone else across the room, who will respond as if they are hooked, and join Randy on the dance floor. Whenever his heart is broken, Randy listens to Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". He cannot seem to keep a girlfriend for longer than two weeks. He has a schoolboy crush for Catalina Aruca (although he sometimes has lustful thoughts about her), the maid at the motel where Earl and Randy live. He often goes out of his way to do whatever he can to spend time with her. It is also revealed that he has an extreme fear of birds. He is also afraid of the Pope's mitre because he thinks there might be a chicken under it. He has also claimed to fear paper cuts, saying, "they might as well make books out of knives." He hates cats and is very allergic to them.

In a running gag, when Randy tries to do something foolish, Earl generally has to tell him not to do it twice—once in a normal tone, which Randy usually protests, and a second time, where Earl, obviously frustrated, must tell him again, much more insistently.

He recently married Catalina so she could get her Green Card.

[edit] Trivia

Twice in the series, Randy has uttered the words "poopie trim" while waking up. A euphemism for anal sex, the phrase is from the film Mallrats which starred both Suplee and Jason Lee (Earl Hickey). The phrase was also spoken by Chris Rock's character Rufus in the film Dogma. It is generally uttered as the character is waking up or snapping out of a daze.
Randy is apparently uncircumcised; in the second-season episode "Larceny of a Kitty Cat," he mentions having gotten his foreskin caught in his pants zipper.
Whenever Earl wakes up Randy, it seems that Randy has his hands on his penis, with Earl saying something along the lines of "wakey wakey, hands off snakey" or "erky perky, hands off jerky."
In the episode Larceny of a Kitty Cat, Randy states that he hates cats, but in Dad's Car, Randy mentions he had a cat named Crackers
In the episode Number One (My Name Is Earl) Randy solves a Rubik's Cube in Paul's basement.