My Name Is Earl: Season 1, Episode 9

Cost Dad the Election (22 Nov. 2005)

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Earl convinces his dad to run for mayor again and tries to help, so that he can make up for ruining his last election.

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Earl convinces his dad to run for mayor again and tries to help, so that he can make up for ruining his last election.

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In the opening credits, there's a shot of Earls list and #65 is "Cost Dad the election". When the episode of Earl helping his Dad win the election, he refers to it as being #4 on his list. See more »

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Joy: Come on Darnell, you can sign up too.
Darnell Turner: I'm already registered to vote.
Joy: What?
Darnell Turner: Not that it matters. Cause until we reform the electoral college, the popular votes will be ignored and we'll keep electing presidents that only get a minority of the votes.
Joy: That must be some black stuff, I don't know what he is talking about.
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It's the same old story
12 November 2008 | by (Mexico City) – See all my reviews

This episode starts in a different way with Earl trying to finally fix the problem for stealing a car from a girl who only has one leg, before the traditional opening credits. Actually is the second time we can see something about this point of the list but is not time yet to finally see how Earl tries to fix this problem. So suddenly the new objective of Earl is to help his father for be the mayor because sometime ago he ruined the election that his father was winning.

In this case will be the same old story but Earl realize that even if his father would win the new election, he can't erase him from the list because he was a real headache for his father so is going to take some more time and more dedication.

I liked this episode but I think it could be much more better since is the very first time that we can see the parents of Earl and Randy but still the flashbacks are hilarious, specially when Randy is dressed like a nun.


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