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List Price: $49.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 3914
Released: September 19, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Karma is a funny thing. Just ask Earl (Jason Lee) who's learning the hard way that when you do something bad it has a way of coming back and biting you in the ass! Hoping to turn his life around Earl's got a lengthy list of detestable deeds to make up for. Also starring Jamie Pressly Ethan Suplee Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez My Name Is Earl is wildly offbeat and hilariously irreverent the #1 new comedy of the season!System Requirements:Running Time: 624 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543260790 Manufacturer No: 2236079
Description of My Name is Earl - Season One:
The most original comedy since Arrested Development, My Name is Earl marked the launch of a lovable new loser. Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) sleeps all day and drinks all night. The pattern ends when he buys a "scratcher"--and wins $100,000. Seconds later, he's hit by a car and loses the ticket. While in the hospital, wife Joy (Emmy nominee Jaime Pressly) leaves him for Darnell the Crab Man (Eddie Steeples). Doped up on morphine, he's watching TV when Carson Daly says something about karma. Earl decides that's his problem: bad karma. He resolves to spend the rest of his life making up for all the harm he's ever done. In the pilot, Earl and brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) start by picking up litter around their motel (Joy got the trailer). While they're at it, Earl finds the lost ticket and collects his bounty. The plan is working! Along with comely maid Catalina (Nadine Velazquez), they set off to right more wrongs. Created by Greg Garcia and teamed with The Office, My Name is Earl put NBC back on the must-see comedy map. Unlike most sitcoms, it drops the studio audience in favor of flashbacks, freeze frames, first-person narration, and extensive So-Cal location work. A soundtrack heavy on blue collar favorites, like Lynyrd Skynyrd, completes the picture.
Throughout the season, Earl gives an old girlfriend self-respect ("Faked My Own Death"), plans his ex-wife's big day ("Joy's Wedding"), and makes up for the birthday he ruined ("Monkeys in Space"). First year guests include Brett Butler ("White Lie Christmas"), Juliette Lewis ("The Bounty Hunter"), and Emmy nominee Jon Favreau ("O Karma, Where Art Thou?"). Giovanni Ribisi and Beau Bridges also stop by as, respectively, Earl's pal Ralph and father Carl. Speaking of originality, "Dad's Car," which takes place during Mother's Day, features commentary from the mothers of Lee, Suplee, Garcia, and director Marc Buckland. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Stills from the First Season of My Name Is Earl (click for larger image)
My Name is Earl - Season One Reviews:
my name is earl season 1 
2008-09-30 - one of the best citcoms on tv. racy, rednecky, ironic, it's like the simpsons in real life. start from the first episode and you'll be hooked!
Classic Already
2008-08-18 - This is one of my favorite television shows of all time, and they are cranking out seasons too fast for me, I just got Season One last month. This is perhaps my favorite season, season 2 was not as good in my opinion; alot of the "prison eps" I just couldn't get into, but maybe in time I will.
I could watch these over and over, nice commentary on select eps, always love the backstory on a favorite show, and to have it to watch whenever is great, commercial free of course who could top that?
These are characters I've grown to love, and many quotes and scenes are slowly slipping into my everyday life...it is absurd at times, maybe not THIS crazy, but you never know, Karma is a funny thing. Doing good things is not always the answer, but it's the hope that eventually it will is what perhaps keeps us going, and this show is just so hilarious and original that it keeps us entertained to the point we forget our problems anyway, nice escape into the world of Earl and the many characters of Camden County.
No, my name isn't Earl, but after this show, I kind of wish it was!
2008-07-20 - You know, it isn't too often that a TV series will, at the end of nearly every episode, leave you sitting there with a stupid grin on your face and a sense that humanity in general is better than you've been lead to believe. That "My Name is Earl" manages to accomplish this feat is nothing short of amazing.
Consider the premise: deeply flawed man decides to go straight and turn his life around. He's not ordered to by the courts, his family isn't after him to do it, and he's skating through life well enough to be mostly content. No, he just up and decides to do it one day in a pain-killer induced haze after losing a $100,000 lottery ticket (he thinks karma, as explained by Carson Daily, caused him to lose it). This is somewhat similar to my own life when, after having my wisdom teeth pulled, I spent two days recovering from the anasthetic and made up my mind to change high schools for my second senior year (don't ask). Like Earl's choice, mine turned out to be a pretty good one!
His mind made up to get a better life, Earl makes up a list, checks it twice, and sets out to go from naughty to nice (forgive me). The entire series then centers around his efforts to make up to the people he's wronged. This might include, as it does in the first episode, something fairly shallow ("I gotta get him laid!"), to something more deep, like trying to recover an old car he'd told his father was destroyed. The results of that effort end with one of the more touching episodes in the series.
This first season contains many great episodes. It's the best so far, though My Name Is Earl - Season 2 is just about as good. The third season... well, the first two were great, and hopefully season four will rock!
This DVD set includes all the episodes of the first season, some deleted scenes, plenty of commentary and a wonderful "Mirror Universe" episode of the show with special guest stars Brian and Stewie Griffin!
If you haven't caught an episode of the show yet, please do. It's worth seeing, and buying on DVD. For a series like this, there's so many, many ways this series could've ended badly, but thanks in large part to an excellent cast and some very tight writting it's far better than it should be. I love the fact that so many of the supporting characters return through out the season (Patty the Daytime Hooker is one of my favorites), and that we get to see some of the long-term consequences of Earl's actions. I like that about the show. It gives it some nice continuity lacking in most sitcoms.
Besides, where else will you have someone ask a woman about her mother and have her say, "Oh, my mother is dead." Then when offered condolences she just shrugs and says, "It was her or me."
Classic. :)
WORST NAME FOR A SHOW EVER!!! 
2008-07-03 - Fox is the most disgraceful company in the world for creating such lame and unfunny shows. If Fox really cared, they might as well sell classic shows like St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart, Fall Guy, and other stalled to independent companines and have it all over with! Once they do, they can fully release more new stuff, for all I care. I will not buy or watch that BUM on DVD!
Very Funny
2008-06-26 - This is the funniest show... if you like to laugh at someone else's misfortunes and tailor trash. I can't get enough of this show!
