Original Air Date: 9/27/05
Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, Eddie Steeples, Silas Weir Mitchell, Kathryn Joosten
Director: Marc Buckland
NBC, 20th Century Fox
Guy wins lottery. Guy gets hit by car and losses lottery ticket. Guy learns about karma in hospital. Guy makes list of bad deeds. Guy starts making up for bad deeds. Guy finds lost lottery ticket cementing belief in karma. Guy uses lottery winnings to make up for bad deeds. That’s the premise of “My Name is Earl” as succinctly as I can put it. To say Earl Hickey was a bad guy probably isn’t accurate enough. While he wasn’t the devil either, the pre-list Earl did seem to be devoid of any moral compass when it came to relationships outside his circle of friends and family.In this, the second episode of the series, Earl is forced by his friends to confess to Donnie Jones that he went to prison for a crime Earl committed. Fortunately for Earl, “crazy eyes” Donnie found Jesus in prison. When asked “What would Jesus Do?” Donnie, peaked into his shirt at his crucifixion tattoo and simply asked Him. Earl was forgiven. Luckily, we as Christians are forgiven as well. But, that wasn’t the end of this story.
Donnie’s mother overhears their conversation and becomes enraged. She attacks Earl with her large print Bible for taking Donnie away from her for the two years he was in prison. Earl reasons that he must put Donnie’s mother on his list and that the only way to cross her off is to help her quit smoking thus adding (hopefully) at least two years to her life. Earl, a smoker himself, kidnaps her and together they quit smoking.
Jesus forgave our sins while He was on earth but that wasn’t the end of that story either. There was still a price that had to be paid (Romans 6:23). That’s why He had to die. All the items on our lists were crossed off by that one act. We don’t need to do anything to earn redemption except give our lists to Jesus and our hearts to God. That’s why Christianity will trump karma every time.
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