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Originally Posted by Sly
Last week I watched an episode of My Name is Earl. It was decent, nothing special, but I kept getting the feeling that I would like it a lot better if I knew more of the story and saw it from the beginning. So could someone please explain to me the story behind it?
Oh and I couldn't believe how much weight the actor who plays his brother has lost. He's been in a few movies and he was HUGE. Even in Earl he's a pretty big and overweight guy, but damn he had to have lost at least 100 pounds since I've seen him last. Good for him.
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Earl has been a bad man all his life, and because of this, he has bad karma. One day, he buys a scratch-n-win ticket and wins $100K. As he's jumping for joy, he gets hit by a car and loses the ticket. While laid up in the hospital, he catches a few minutes of Carson Daly's show. Carson's guest asked him how he's so successful and Carson explains that he believes that if you do good things, good things will happen to you.
Earl contemplates the concept of karma (which he thinks is something invented by Carson Daly) and makes a list of every bad thing he's ever done and decides he's going to right his wrongs. As he works on his first good deed (picking up trash since he was a litterbug), he finds his winning lottery ticket. He decides to use his winnings to fund his crusade to right his wrongs.
His trailer trash ex-wife, who divorced him while he was in the hospital, believes she is entitled to a cut of the winnings and tries to kill him, since she has a video will of him saying if he dies, she'll get everything.
That's sums up the first 2-3 episodes for you. (I'm bored!)
[Kristina]