"My Name Is Earl" Barn Burner (2006)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Ken Whittingham

Writers:

Gregory Thomas Garcia (creator)
Brad Copeland (written by)

TV Series:

"My Name Is Earl" (2005)

Original Air Date:

5 January 2006 (Season 1, Episode 11)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Plot:

Earl has to make up for burning down a barn at a boys' camp when he was a kid. But he later finds out that he's not the one who burned the barn down. |

Plot Keywords:

Turtle | Karma | Ne'er Do Well | Beer | Motel

Cast

Jason Lee	...	Earl Hickey
Ethan Suplee	...	Randy Hickey
Jaime Pressly	...	Joy Turner
Nadine Velazquez	...	Catalina
Eddie Steeples	...	Darnell Turner
John Ducey	...	Camp Counselor
Noah Crawford	...	Young Earl
Ryan Armstrong	...	Young Randy
Louis T. Moyle	...	Dodge
Trey Carlisle	...	Earl Jr.
Jeremy Slate	...	Bud
Abdoulaye NGom	...	Nescobar-A-Lop-Lop (as Abdoulaye N'Gom)
Christopher Grey	...	Married Man
Cesar Flores	...	Hector (as Cesar D. Flores)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Josh Phillips	...	Man in Apt.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The slogans used for The Right Choice Ranch: - Touching Bad Boys Since 1963. - Bringing Boys To Their Knees Since 1963. - Forcing Boys To Turn Around Since 1963. - We Don't Do Anything Inappropriate to The Boys Since 1963.

Quotes:

[as Catalina bandages Earl's hand after he accidentally drives a nail through it]
Catalina: There you go. Now do it to the other hand - I want to take you to my church and see all the old ladies cry.

Soundtrack:

Give It Away

The Birds

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Joy and Darnell are tired of their "little monsters", Dodge and Earl Jr., so they decide to put them in a camp for discipline. But they still have the last name Hickey and that last name is not well appreciate in the discipline camp so is the perfect time for Earl to fix the barn that he burned at that camp. In that camp Randy must face his phobia to birds and at the same the truth about that burned barn because he was the real guilty so Earl feels like it was Randy's fault that he became in a bad person so suddenly the karma list is now Randy's list.

This is a very good episode but maybe too sentimental because of the lesson that the "little monsters" teach to Earl that makes him forgive his brother; "You two are a couple of fruits", said Joy, "I think it's sweet", said Darnell. And yes, I think they look like a little of the two. Anyway, the flashbacks and the gags with Randy's phobia to birds are just great, feeling threatened of the ostrich even inside his own room. And also the little detail of Catalina's speech, dedicated to the Latino audience is really cool and funny because it looks like she is insulting Joy.