My Name Is Earl

My Name Is Earl
Title card featuring Jason Lee as Earl.
Created by	Greg Garcia
Starring	Jason Lee Ethan Suplee Jaime Pressly Nadine Velazquez Eddie Steeples
Narrated by	Jason Lee as Earl J. Hickey
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	42 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Greg Garcia Marc Buckland Tom Palmer
Camera setup	Single camera
Running time	21 minutes
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 20 2005 – present

My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. It is currently in its second season and is broadcast on the NBC television network Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern time. On Wednesday, January 17th, 2007, NBC President Kevin Reilly announced My Name Is Earl has been picked up for a third season.^[1]

The series stars Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly and Eddie Steeples. Lee stars as Earl J. Hickey, a petty crook with occasional run-ins with the law, whose newly-won $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is hit by a car. While lying in his hospital bed after the accident, he develops a belief in the concept of karma when he hears about it during an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides he wants to turn his life around and makes a list of all the bad things he's done. After a few good deeds, his $100,000 ticket comes back to him. He sees this as a sign and, with his new lucky money, he proceeds to cross items off that list, one-by-one, by doing good deeds to atone for them.

Suplee plays Earl's simple but kind-hearted younger brother, Randy Hickey, who is his sidekick as Earl seeks to atone for his past transgressions. Pressly plays Earl's ex-wife Joy Darville. The show also stars Eddie Steeples as Joy's husband Darnell Turner, whom Earl calls "Crabman", and Nadine Velazquez as Catalina Aruca, a good-hearted and beautiful jumping stripper/illegal alien/maid at the motel where the Hickey brothers live. (This show can be watched in Latin America, at 23 of the monday on FX)

According to interviews on the first season DVD, the character of Earl is partly based on creator Greg Garcia's step-father, also named Earl. Like Earl Hickey, the real-life Earl met and married a woman while she was pregnant with another man's child. She also eventually had a second child with an African-American man, just as Joy did. The real-life Earl had been involved in some questionable activities in the past but eventually reformed, as Earl did.

Garcia wrote the pilot while working on another sitcom, Yes, Dear. He initially pitched the series to FOX, who passed on the series. He then approached NBC who optioned the pilot on a cast-contingent basis, meaning they would order the pilot provided a suitable cast could be assembled.

Jason Lee was approached for the lead role, but was uninterested in working in television and passed on the series twice before finally agreeing to read the pilot script. Though he liked the pilot, he was hesitant to commit until after meeting with Garcia.

The series premiere on September 20, 2005, drew in 15.2 million viewers in the United States, earning a 6.6 rating. By the airing of the third episode it was apparent that My Name Is Earl was the most popular of NBC's new fall offerings, and a full season (22 episodes) was ordered.^[2] In its first month, it was also the most popular new sitcom of the season to air on any network and was the most popular sitcom on any network in the coveted 18–49-year-old demographic. The show was renewed for a second season, which although has seen a dip in average viewers (around 10 million or so in Season 2 compared to 12 million for Season 1) is still a critics juggernaut and has recently been renewed for a third season along with The Office.

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• Earl J. Hickey (Jason Lee) — The protagonist and narrator of the show. In flashbacks, we see Earl before he began reforming himself: a jobless ne'er-do-well with no respect for authority or just about anyone. Self-described as the guy who would've stolen anything that wasn't nailed down, Earl now stands by the principle of good karma by doing good things and avoiding bad ones. He was supposed to be named after his father, Carl, but an extra loop on a cursive "C" was Earl's first step into a life of misfortune. Earl has never had a photograph taken without blinking at the wrong moment, something regularly demonstrated throughout the show.
• Randy Hickey (Ethan Suplee) — Earl's dimwitted brother who assists Earl with righting his wrongs. He initially assumed he and Earl would resume stealing once Earl completed his list. 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. He has a boyishly innocent nature. He has a schoolboy crush on Catalina. 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 mistakingly believes that ET is not an alien, but a monkey. He hates cats and is allergic to them. He holds the Camden County record for staring at the sun.
• Joy Turner (née Darville, previously Hickey) (Jaime Pressly) — Earl's ex-wife, Darnell's current wife, and mother of Dodge and Earl Jr., neither of which are Earl's biological children. She operates a nail parlor in her home. Though she puts on a front of self-centeredness, she fully appreciates the people around her, even Earl, and has been found to be a dedicated, loving mom. She is also a very good fighter, a fact she puts down to "watchin' a lot of Springer" — when she was pregnant with Dodge, Joy knocked Earl's girlfriend Jessie (and her front teeth) out.
• Catalina Aruca (Nadine Velazquez) — A sexy maid at the motel where Earl and Randy currently reside. She is an illegal immigrant who entered the United States on January 1, 2000 (just as Earl and the gang assumed they were the last humans alive). She learned English a year ago. She worked for a month as a pole dancer at Club Chubby and was very successful at it because instead of dancing, she jumped. She has a fear of snakes and rape. Her mother is dead but Catalina tells others not to feel sad, as "It's OK, it was either her or me." She also says her brother killed her father, and her cousins were slain execution style in the Festival of Redemption. She and Joy have a mutual hatred stemming back from when they first met. (The first thing Joy ever said to Catalina was "who's the whore?"). During Season 2, Catalina went back to stripping in order to help Earl, although she had to help Joy along the way. She seems to be very fond of Earl, even hitting on him when they first met. Earl appreciated but rejected the pass because Randy called "dibs." Her last name, Aruca, hasn't been mentioned on the show but was revealed in a newspaper article in Bad Karma. She recently married Randy to get back to America after being deported. While she originally found Randy to be unattractive, she later became infatuated with him after they had sex. But she was later sorry and admitted her boy friend in the homeland was better.
• Darnell "Crab Man" Turner (Eddie Steeples) — Joy's new husband and father of Earl Jr. Despite this, he and Earl are good friends (although they rarely do anything together, they greet each other every episode with the famous lines: -"Hey, Earl!" ... "Hey, Crabman!"). Darnell works as a cook at the local Crab Shack (hence his nickname). It was revealed that his real name is "Harry Monroe," but he was forced to change it through the Witness Protection Program. Although generally calm and soft-spoken, Darnell is implied to be quite intelligent (graduated college at age 14) and occasionally makes highly intellectual statements, which the others usually ignore or brush off. He has a fondness for cheese and a pet box turtle named Mr. Turtle. Before marrying Joy and moving to the trailer park, he lived in Camden with his grandmother, where he grew a large amount of marijuana in his bedroom; his grandmother simply thought he enjoyed gardening.

• Dodge (Louis T. Moyle) — Joy's oldest son, born June 10, 2000. Joy was six months pregnant with Dodge when she and Earl got married the day after they met. In the pilot Earl tells us, "Joy didn't remember much about the boy's real father, except that he drove a Ford. So, we named him Dodge."
• Earl Jr. (Trey Carlisle) — Joy and Darnell's son, born April 3. After introducing Dodge in the pilot Earl explains, "A few years later we were having our first child from my own personal seed. Doctors had already told us he was going to come out a boy, so we went ahead and named him." But as the doctor holds up a newborn black baby, Earl gets a confused look on his face and finishes: "There he was — Earl Junior."
• Kenny James (Gregg Binkley), played as a child by Andy Pessoa — Former victim of Earl's bullying as a child. The two became friends when Earl helped Kenny come out with his homosexuality. Kenny helps Earl with completing his list whenever he can with his job at a copy shop (fake birth certificates and résumés for example), usually to his comedic detriment. After his boyfriend dumped him, Kenny asked Earl to help him become more of a manly man, which unwittingly led to both of them having a gambling addiction, though Kenny is currently seeking treatment.
• Patty the Daytime Hooker (Dale Dickey) — A prostitute completely devoid of shame, who typically works in the day. The viewers' introduction to Patty is her trolling for johns at a school bus stop in full view of children. She can speak Bengali. She once had the winning lottery ticket stuck to her boot but she didn't notice. Has been known to trade sexual favors for fast food. Holds a masters degree.
• Ralph Mariano (Giovanni Ribisi) - A lifelong friend of Earl. Used to be part of "The Gang" along with Earl, Randy and Joy. Got out of jail one day early for good behavior, and immediately tried to get back to his crime. Seems to understand Earl's new outlook on life but has trouble staying out of trouble. Got a job as a lamp salesman and stole all the lamps from the store. In an episode where Earl brings together his old band to make up for destroying an old man's dream of being a rock star, he is forced into marrying Ralph's mom. After the band's only show, years ago, Ralph's mom was the only one around and he was drunk. Ralph threatened to kill him if he didn't marry his mom and "make her an honest woman."
• Willie the One-Eyed Mailman (Bill Suplee) - A local mailman with a patch over one eye, Willie is friendly but somewhat lazy as he has been seen throwing mail on the floor of someone's home or simply throwing it in the garbage. He nearly got Earl's winning lottery ticket when it blew away in the wind, but his lack of depth perception prevented him from picking it up. He has one eye after Joy threw a bowling ball on a glass Def Leppard mirror, which shattered and a shard of glass hit him in the eye.

For a complete version of The List, see The List (My Name Is Earl)

While hospitalized and under the influence of morphine, Earl hears Carson Daly talk about karma on TV and comes to the conclusion that his bad luck has been caused by his lifestyle. (It is typical of Earl that he believes Carson Daly invented the concept of karma.) He decides to make a list of everything bad he has ever done, with the intention of making up for all of his mistakes and crossing the items off the list as he goes.

Earl's first good deed, picking up garbage, leads to him finding his lost winning lottery ticket.

Karma is a recurring theme throughout the show, and its effects are shown not just on Earl, but also on other characters, such as Earl's ex-con friend Ralph, who ends up wanted by the police again after refusing Earl's offer to help him change his ways and trying to steal Earl's money.

In some instances, Karma exists not only as a theme, but also a character that dictates Earl's actions. Earl will occasionally address Karma directly as if it were a deity or an otherwise omniscient and powerful being, and will (almost) always yield to whatever he perceives as its will. Earl proclaims in one episode, "I am Karma's bitch." The List is portrayed as the physical manifestation of Karma. Karma is also portrayed in the final episode of the first season as the old woman who ran Earl over in the first episode ("I saw Lady Karma again")

Earl's behavior raises an interesting question of morality: Is he motivated only by his desire to gain good 'karma', thus acting only in his own self-interest, or is he truly sorry for everything he has done, and has turned his life around? The show is somewhat ambiguous on this matter, with different episodes suggesting different answers. For example, in episode 1.04 Earl intends to confess to his ex-girlfriend that he faked his death to get away from her because she was too clingy. When Catalina points out that this will hurt her feelings and asks him what's more important, his list or someone's feelings, Earl responds, "I dunno. My list?" On the other hand, Earl shows true empathy in episode 2.02 when Joy is arrested. He eventually passes out from worrying about Joy. When he asks Catalina why that happened, she responds, "Because you're a good person, Earl."

In episode 1.15, however, Earl states that while he has crossed someone off his list, when he discovers that the person is going to kill himself, that he can't not help him. Earl even says that the list is making him feel things he didn't feel before. It's been suggested that while Earl may have started the list for his own ends, he has eventually come to genuinely care about righting many of the wrongs in his life.

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Season Releases

DVD Name	Release dates		Ep #	Additional Information
	Region 1	Region 2
Season One	September 19 2006	September 25 2006	24	The four disc box set includes all 24 episodes. Bonus features include deleted scenes, commentary tracks on selected episodes, selections from the season's gag reel, and a "mini-episode" vignette.
Season Two	May 14 2007[citation needed]	TBA	23

The season one "mini-episode", titled Bad Karma, is an alternate version of the events of the pilot episode featuring what would have happened if, instead of seeing Carson Daly talking about karma while in the hospital, Earl saw Stewie Griffin of Family Guy talking about vengeance.

The season one DVD set also came in two "special" versions only available at certain stores:

• At Best Buy locations the set came wrapped in a cosy replica of Earl's flannel shirt and contained a limited-edition bonus CD with three songs, including the show's theme song. There were at least two variations of the material used for this flannel replica as well as two types of buttons. Pictures of these bonus items can be seen here.

• The DVD set at Target stores featured a limited-edition bonus DVD with extra bloopers and other bonus features.

On July 17, 2006. it was announced that a comic book based on the series is going to be released by Oni Press. Hunter Covington, the script coordinator and a writer for the show, will be among the first to write an issue.^[3]

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• Main actors Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are scientologists, as well as three-times guest star Giovanni Ribisi.
• In the opening scene of episode 27, "Sticks and Stones," the word "Amish" is edited out of the line "You know how those Amish people all show up when it is time to build a barn..." This was shortly after a gunman killed five Amish girls at a school in Pennsylvania and Garcia has said^[4] it was done to avoid starting a comedy show with a reminder of unhappy news.
• The pilot episode featured the 1980s songs "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock and "99 Luftballons" by Nena as well as the songs "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction and "Do The Monkey" by The Wiggles.
• In Australia, where the series is broadcast by Channel Seven, episodes are screened out of order. The second season began with the remaining un-aired episodes from season one.
• The wayward lottery ticket may have been influenced by a Bette Midler short film called "The Lottery" where piano teacher Bette tries to chase down a winning $1 million lottery ticket that disappears out her window. In the short, Bette is beset by calamity during the chase [6].
• The show is unusual among sitcoms not only for its lack of a laugh track, but also for its soundtrack. The music on the show includes bands as widely varied as Thin Lizzy, The Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blue Oyster Cult, Buckethead, Meshuggah, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Steepwater Band, Nick Drake, Eric Clapton, Guns N' Roses, Queen, The Cardigans, Nancy Sinatra, AC/DC, Jet, Cat Stevens, Ted Nugent, Santana, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Doors, The Wiggles, Dire Straits, Canned Heat, Bob Marley, ELO, Joni Mitchell, Los Lobos, Social Distortion and Beastie Boys, as well as a blues underscore by composers Mark Leggett and Danny Lux.
• The scene in which Earl is hit by a car was shot on Pennsylvania Ave. in Beaumont, CA, near the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave and E. 6th St. The car wash and convenience store are easily visible in the background.
• Whenever Earl wakes up Randy, the first thing that Randy says in his half-awakeness is "poopie trim." This is an homage to the 1995 Kevin Smith movie Mallrats, in which whenever Ethan Suplee's character, Willam Black, is interrupted from trying to see a Magic Eye, he says, "poopie trim."
• The street scenes (seen in most episodes, most famously during the drag racing scene in "Dad's Car") are shot on Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, CA, next to the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. Joy's wedding and the Win a Dodge Neon contest ("White Lie Christmas") take place at the Recreation Area.
• The exterior hotel shots are filmed at the Hometown Inn in North Hills, California.
• The set for the trailer park where Joy and Darnell live is situated in the parking lot of a church in North Hills, California. The church itself appeared as the orphanage Joy visits in "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" (1.6).
• Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee also co-starred in numerous films directed by Kevin Smith, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. A "View Askewniverse" reference was made when Earl claimed to have robbed a "Quick Stop," which was where Smith's breakout feature, Clerks, took place. Clerks is the only Viewaskewniverse movie that neither actor has been in. Incidentally, they are both in Clerks II, the sequel to Clerks.
• During "Cost Dad the Election," Beau Bridges (who stars in Stargate SG-1) claims that Earl has paid money back to John Sheppard. This is the name of one of the main characters in Stargate Atlantis.
• The state in which the show takes place is never mentioned. When they take road trips, though, they seem to end up in Western Maryland (in Hagerstown to find the dog and at Frostburg State University, Greg Garcia's alma mater, to return the computer). There is a Texas shaped, "Lone Star State" neon sign inside the Crab Shack which may indicate that the show is actually set in Texas. Another neon sign at the Crab Shack that might tip off the location is a Busch Beer sign that includes the St. Louis Blues logo (it is common for neon beer signs to incorporate the logos of local teams, such as NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA teams), which implies that Camden County, Missouri might be the setting of My Name Is Earl. There are four states in the U.S. that contain a Camden County: Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey and North Carolina. There is also a town called Camden in South Carolina. However, given the multiple Maryland references (Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, Frostburg State) and the fact that the characters spend most of their time in a crab restaurant, it would seem that the location is Western Maryland, where the Show's creator spent time.
• In "Y2K," Timothy Stack makes a cameo as the grand marshal of the Camden County New Year's Day Parade as himself. On the car is a sign that reads: "TV's Tim Stack from Son of the Beach," however, Son of the Beach had not yet premiered when the scene takes place on January 1, 2000.
• In "Y2K," the Ring can be seen in the background on the TV as they go to sleep and prepare for the next day after Randy comes up with the idea of using tickets.
• In the episode "The Bounty Hunter", Jaime Pressly remarks that she "watches a lot of Springer." Pressly herself was the star of Jerry Springer's film, Ringmaster.
• Each time Earl and Darnell meet, the greeting procedure is Darnell saying, "Hey, Earl," and Earl replying "Hey, Crabman." Even though Darnell starts most greetings, it does vary from episode to episode. The only exception in the wording seems to be the very first time Darnell is shown in the "Pilot" (1.1) where the dialogue is "Thanks, Crabman," and "No Problem, Earl," regarding the delivery of free crab meat. In "O Karma Where Art Thou" (1.12) Earl greets Darnell and his turtle while in the restaurant, "Hey Crabman, Hey Crabman's Turtle" and "Hey Earl. That's from both of us". In "Van Hickey," a drunken Earl responds to Darnell's "See ya, Earl" with "See ya, Earl."
• In what may be yet another reference to Jason Lee's admitted "man crush" on actor Burt Reynolds, Joy's maiden name of Darville is shared by Reynolds' character in Smokey and the Bandit, Bo "Bandit" Darville.
• In the pilot episode, a character named Sonny is introduced, shown playing "beer can tag" with Earl. It is implied that he is one of Earl's friends. Though it seems that Sonny would have become a major or recurring character, he has yet to appear in any subsequent episodes.
• In episode where Joy gets sent to jail after stealing the truck, during Earl's flashback her first strike is counterfeiting twenty dollar bills. The bills she is copying are from 2002 or 2003, yet Earl says she is copying the twenties in 1996.
• The scenes involving the ransom drop in the episode "Buried Treasure" were filmed on High Street in Moorpark, California.

Several bits of trivia were made public at a February 2006 event held by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences:^[5]

• Garcia first pitched the show to Fox, which passed on it. About eighteen months later, people at NBC got interested after reading the pilot script that Garcia had sent to several networks.
• The show takes place in the fictional town of Camden County (not to be confused with the actual Camden Counties in New Jersey, Missouri, Georgia, and North Carolina). Creator Garcia said that the town is named after his son. The references to Maryland locations (such as Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, and Frostburg State University) are due to his familiarity with an area he hails from and that "the show doesn’t technically take place anywhere ... we like to think it’s anywhere. We don’t really say exactly where it is," although the accents and lifestyles of many of the characters suggests a setting in the American South or Appalachia. However, the pilot episode showed that Earl and Joy drove from Camden County to Las Vegas, Nevada within a single night, suggesting a location in the American Southwest.
• Although Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee had worked together before, Garcia did not discover Suplee because of that. Garcia discovered him while watching the DVD version of Without a Paddle, looking at the film because another actor in it had been recommended to him. What convinced Garcia to bring Suplee in for an audition were comments about him he heard on the DVD's commentary track. One of the actors in the commentary told the story of a dispute between the film's director and Suplee. The scene the actor described was one where Suplee's character was supposed to be pointing a gun at some people Suplee and others had captured. The commentary noted that Suplee had insisted that he shouldn't point his gun at them after all, since in Suplee's mind, it had taken so long to capture the people that it had given the character time to rethink his motives. Suplee got his way in the scene, over the director's objections. The fact that Suplee would think so much about such a small detail was enough to get Suplee an audition. Garcia and the show's writers have subsequently used Suplee's attention to detail to the show's advantage, in various "pestered by a bee" background activities that Suplee's character does in various scenes. The first such scene was an improvisation in the pilot, where Suplee is looking up at the ceiling with his mouth open.

• Earl and Randy fight over getting on or off a vehicle 3 times (twice over a bus, once over an airplane).

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• In "Randy's Touchdown" (1.3), when Earl is in the copy store, Randy is in the background holding a handwritten sign that reads "High Def Rocks." The sign can only be seen when the show is viewed in 16x9 widescreen associated with high definition digital broadcasts.
  • Also in the episode, when Kenny mentions Earl helping him out of the closet, a sign behind him reads "Color flyers only $265." Also only visible in widescreen.
• Another sign legible only in widescreen reading "Carl Hickey loves High Def" can be seen among the campaign materials in "Cost Dad the Election" (1.9).
• In "Something to Live For" (1.15), when Earl brings Philo to the Crab Shack to see Joy, the beer spigot (out of frame in 4:3) says "HD Draft". The second season is being broadcast in letterbox format on standard-definition channels, so further widescreen gags are unlikely.
• In "Barn Burner" (1.11), it appears that Catalina is cursing out Joy in Spanish. Actually, what she says is "I want to thank the Latino audience that tunes in to watch the show every week. And to those of you who aren't Latino, I want to congratulate you for learning another language."
• In "Number One" (1.24), Catalina responds to Joy's drunken insults with what appears to be a slew of invective in her native español. What she actually delivers is another message to Earl's viewers: "Con esto, concluimos nuestra primera temporada de Earl! Estamos muy agradecidos con su acompañamiento, y anticipamos verlos el próximo otoño!" ("With this, we conclude our first season of Earl! We're very grateful for your company, and we hope to see you next fall!")
• In "Robbed a Stoner Blind" (2.8), Catalina's cartoon delivers the following message: "Esto iba a ser yo sacándome la cabeza limpiando polvo con ella, pero los dibujos animados son tan costosos, así mejor me puedes ver bailar-r-r-r!" ("This was going to be me taking my head off to dust with it, but animation is so expensive, it's better you see me dance!")
• In "Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck" the character of "Josh" posts online at TelevisionWithoutPity.com under the name "whojackie." Visiting the site's forum dedicated to this show, "Josh's" post was actually put there, word-for-word, by "whojackie" the day before this episode originally aired. "Whojackie" had been posting for over a year, including, two months prior to the airing of this episode (and thus, around the time of the taping of this episode) questioning the safety of a Murphy Bed, which eventually killed the character. The day after the episode aired, "whojackie" posted on TelevisionWithoutPity.com again, as the character of "Joy" informed the online community that "Josh" had died (which was what "Joy" did in the episode). At the end of "Joy's" post, she gives an e-mail address that still elicits in-character replies.
• In "Foreign Exchange Student" (2.15), when young Pierre is talking to the four girls, a message on the blackboard behind them says "Screw the cheerleader, destroy the world," which is a reference to Heroes the television series.

• Nominated for 2006 Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy.
• Jason Lee nominated for 2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy.
• Jason Lee nominated for 2005/06 Screen Actors Guild award for best actor in a comedy series.
• Cast nominated for 2005/06 Screen Actors Guild award for best ensemble in a comedy series.
• Jaime Pressly nominated for a 2005/06 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
• Marc Buckland won the 2005/06 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (episode: Pilot).
• Gregory Thomas Garcia won the 2005/06 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (episode: Pilot).
• Jason Lee nominated for 2007 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award for Best Actor.

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV Network(s)	Series Premiere	Weekly Schedule
United States		National Broadcasting Company	September 20 2005	Thursday 8:00pm ET
Canada		Global Television Network	September 20 2005	Thursday 8:00pm ET Premiered on CH
Chile	Mi nombre es Earl	UCV
Australia		Channel Seven	June 29 2006	Thursday 8:00pm AEST
Denmark	My Name Is Earl	TV3
Finland	Kovan onnen kundi	Subtv	February 19 2006	Monday 8:30pm (+2 GMT)
France	My Name Is Earl	Paris Première & M6	October 29 2006
Belgium	My Name Is Earl	Kanaal Twee		Sunday 8:05pm CET
Germany	Earl	RTL	planned fall 2007
India	My Name Is Earl	Star World	Thursdays 8:30 pm 15th March 2007
Ireland		Channel 6
Israel	קוראים לי ארל	yes+ (until 2007) yes stars 2 (2007 - )	April 10, 2006	Tuesday 10:20pm local time
Italy	My Name Is Earl	Italia 1	September 9 2006	Monday 11:55pm
Japan	My Name Is Earl	FOX
Malaysia	Nama Saya Earl	ntv7
The Netherlands		RTL 5	3 july 2006	Monday 9:00pm
New Zealand		TV3 (New Zealand)	12 January 2006	Sunday 8pm
Norway	My Name Is Earl	TV3	January 12 2006	Thursday 10:30pm
Pakistan	My Name Is Earl	Star World	March 22 2007	Thursday 10:30pm (+5 GMT)
Philippines		Jack TV
Portugal	O Meu Nome é Earl	2:, FOX	November 11 2006	Saturday 10:30pm GMT
Brazil	My Name Is Earl	FX Network		Tuesday 11:00pm local time
Russia	Меня зовут Эрл	Ren-TV
Saudi Arabia and Arab World		Showtime Arabia, Paramount Comedy Channel and Paramount Comedy Channel +2
Singapore		Channel 5
South Africa		M-Net
Spain	Me llamo Earl	La Sexta, FOX	October 18 2006
Sweden	My Name Is Earl	TV3, TV6	March 1 2006	Monday 10PM on TV6
Switzerland	Earl (Mauvais Karma)	Télévision Suisse Romande	October 22 2006
Thailand		True Series	October 30 2006	Mondays 9PM
Turkey		CNBC-e	Removed
United Kingdom	My Name Is Earl	Channel 4 (first run) and E4 (re-runs)	January 6 2006	Friday- Around 21:30 GMT First Showings. Repeat Showings Are Various Times Around Midnight GMT
Argentina	My Name Is Earl	FX		Monday 11:00pm local time

• September 2005 - December 2005 -- Tuesdays 9:00pm/8:00pm
• January 2006 - May 2006 -- Thursdays 9:00pm/8:00pm
• September 2006 - present -- Thursdays 8:00pm/7:00pm

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• My Name Is Earl at NBC.com