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| "Something to Live For" |
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| Episode no.: |
15 |
| Prod. code: |
1ALJ15 |
| Airdate: |
February 2, 2006 |
| Writer(s): |
John Hoberg, Kat Likkel |
| Director: |
Marc Buckland |
| Guest star(s) |
Adam Goldberg as Philo, Peter Spruyt as Salesman |
"Something to Live For" is an episode of the American sitcom My Name Is Earl.
[edit] Synopsis
Earl's having car trouble, and sees it as a sign to make up for "Sucked gas out of a hose". When he gives the man he stole all the gas from, he finds that Philo is suicidal. Earl can't just leave him, so he makes it his duty to give Philo a reason to live. They try many things, such as teaching Philo to play Motel Hockey and renting him a book on tape called "Something To Live For." Philo then says that there is a girl he is in love with, so Earl and Randy decide to approach this girl in hopes of getting her to fall for Philo and pull him back above water. When they clean him up to go talk to the girl, he points at her house, and we see that it's Joy. Joy agrees to go out with Philo in an effort to get back at Darnell after finding his staff of pornographic magazines. Joy shows up overdressed for the occasion (much to Philo's amazement and liking). Throughout the date, she makes Philo touch her and get close while Darnell busts tables and watches. Darnell tells Philo to get off Joy, and the married couple runs off together. Earl and Randy find out and go to get Philo, fearing he'll kill himself. They speed back to his house to find him inside his car, presumably dead, but he was just listening to the book on tape. Earl tells him of his fear that Philo would have committed suicide, but Philo says he never would have killed himself because he has friends now. While Randy and Earl spent all that time trying to help Philo find a reason to live, he found it on his own, and the episode concludes with the two brothers going into Philo's home to watch TV.
[edit] Quotes
- Joy: Boys, get momma's plastic stripper shoes out of your lego box!
- Darnell: My heart feels like blood is gushin' in and out of it!
Philo: Actually that's what hearts are supposed to-
Darnell: Shut up!
[edit] The List
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| Item |
Number |
Source |
Status |
| Siphoned gas |
62 |
1.15, NBC.com |
Completed when Earl replaces the stolen gasoline and is forgiven. "Running out of gas was Karma telling me it's time to do number 62 on my list." (1.15) |
[edit] Trivia
- Philo is never seen again in Season 1.
- Randy guesses 7, 8, and 47 as the number of times Philo vomited without dying.
- After taking out Darnell's stash of pornographic magazines, Joy asks where issue February '04 is. She then says "I don't know why you need Miss February when you got all this right here." Jaime Pressly posed for the February 2004 issue of Playboy.
- On the Season 1 DVD release of My Name is Earl, the Rock and Roll Part II was edited out from the scene. This is assumably in light of the charges of child molestation pressed upon Garry Glitter in late 2005.
