"My Name Is Earl" I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends: Part 1 (2008)

Director:

Marc Buckland

Writers:

Gregory Thomas Garcia (creator)
Gregory Thomas Garcia (writer)

TV Series:

"My Name Is Earl" (2005)

Original Air Date:

3 April 2008 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Plot:

Earl is in a coma after being hit by a car. Randy steals an ambulance to get him to the hospital, but getting there proves to be difficult and complicated. |

Plot Keywords:

Coma | Offscreen Rape | Peeping Tom | Breast Squeezing | Defibrillation

Cast

Jason Lee	...	Earl Hickey
Ethan Suplee	...	Randy Hickey
Jaime Pressly	...	Joy Turner
Nadine Velazquez	...	Catalina
Eddie Steeples	...	Darnell Turner
Alyssa Milano	...	Billie
Beau Bridges	...	Carl Hickey
Mike O'Malley	...	Stuart
Jane Lynch	...	Sissy
Billy Gardell	...	Officer Hoyne
Nancy Lenehan	...	Kay Hickey
Ravi Kapoor	...	Indian Doctor
Anthony De Marco	...	Five Year OId Earl
Joel Spence	...	Sitcom Actor
Kincaid Walker	...	Sitcom Actress

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:6

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

[Amazon trucker Sissy mounts comatose Earl and puts his hands on her breasts, not knowing she's being peeped on]
Sissy: So where were we, lover?
Catalina: Oh, snap!
Joy Turner: [to Catalina] Oh, hell no. You are not gonna try to steal that.
Randy Hickey: [breaks in] Get yo' boobs off my brother!
Sissy: Please don't take him from me. God left him to me on the front of my truck. He usually just leaves me bugs and birds. Anyway, you can't take him from me. We already exchanged vows.

Earl's journey to hospital with "help" from his friends

This episode is more of a slapstick type farce than many of the better, well scripted episodes we come to expect from "My Name is Earl". After Earl is hit by a car in the previous episode he is taken to hospital by Randy and the other usual characters. In his unconscious state he imagines himself in a 50's type sitcom, with events in the outside world affecting his imaginings in his mind. This results in half the episode being written like a 50's sitcom, complete with lots of canned laughter etc. The jokes are of a similar style - well dated. This is not one of the better episodes, perhaps this is something to do with the Hollywood writers strike?