My Name Is Earl

TV Series
2005–2009
TV-14
22m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

112K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

767

Jason Lee, Jaime Pressly, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Steeples, and Nadine Velazquez in My Name Is Earl (2005)

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Quirky Comedy Sitcom Comedy

A ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization!A ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization!A ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization!

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

112K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

767

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 5 Primetime Emmys
- 15 wins & 74 nominations total

Episodes96

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TopTop-rated4 seasons5 years

Trivia
The items in Earl's list shown during the opening sequence read as follows:
56: Stole liquor from liquor store.
57: Told Joy Dan Dodd messed himself on the (rest cut out of frame).
58: Fixed a high school football game.
59: Everything I did to Dad.
60: Pulled fire alarm
61: Stole Mom's car (but I gave it back).
62: Faked death to break up with a girl.
63: Wasted electricity.
64: Spray-painted the bridge.
65: Cost Dad the election.
66: Let mice out at school play.
67: Stole beer from a golfer.
68: Blew up mailboxes.
69: Cheated on school tests a lot.

Goofs
When Joy is shown counterfeiting 20's in 1996, they are the bills that were redesigned in 2004.

Quotes
[repeated line]
Darnell Turner: Hey, Earl!
Earl: Hey, Crabman!

Crazy credits
The "Amigos de Garcia" production company card in the closing credits features a different friend of Executive Producer 'Gregory Thomas Garcia' every week.

Alternate versions
The DVD releases change several of the songs that originally aired with the episodes.

Connections
Featured in The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 (2006)

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Review

Featured review

This Show is So Good That I Expect It To Be Cancelled

I rarely watch sitcoms any more because they are normally both inane and indistinguishable from one another. This show may actually induce me to watch it on a regular basis. If you liked "Raising Arizona", you just might like "My Name Is Earl". After I watched the first episode I did an online search to find out who the creative forces were behind it. In doing so I stumbled into a review that described Earl as the illegitimate son of Nicholas Cage in "Raising Arizona". That just about nails the character. In In fact, while recounting the season opener to a friend who had missed it, I nearly called Earl, Hi. Catch it before it's gone. If you didn't think the first episode was brilliant, then this show is just not for you.