Karma and Underwear: New Show Flops
"My Name is Earl"
By Andrea Salisbury, 09.22.05
He is crude and offensive. Yet oddly loveable. His name is Earl.
Jason Lee (Almost Famous) stars in NBC’s new comedy “My Name is Earl” on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. At the core, the sitcom is about a man who tries to right all past wrongs to improve his Karma. In Lee’s style of comedy, the show is littered with sexual innuendos.
Earl, a redneck stereotype, wins $100,000 on a scratch ticket. He is then hit by a car and losses the ticket. While he is recovering, Earl watches “Late Night with Carson Daily.” Carson enlightens his audience with his theories of Karma, if does good; good will be returned.
“From Carson Daily’s lips to my morphine dripped ears,” Earl said.
He makes a list of all the past wrongs and the sitcom begins. Earl hits the streets of his hometown to make amends. For his first good deed, Earl attempts to bring happiness to a boy he pick on in grade school. Earl figures a woman would improve the situation, but in an ironic, yet obvious twist, the man is gay. Or as Earl said “Homosexual-American.”
Though, I want to say this sitcom is base humor that will not make it past the first season, I could be wrong. Jason Lee is a master at situational comedy, no matter how controversial the topic.
My Name is Earl, NBC at 9 p.m. on Tuesday 
A family underwear company coined, Arnold Undergarments, is being handed down to twin sisters Mitchee, (Sara Gilbert), and Farrah, (Molly Stanton). One is a brainiac and the other a giggly lingerie model.
