Earl Hickey returns for another season of karmic adventures as he tries to right all the wrongs on his list. This season has a bevy of guest stars and keeps up the comic mayhem that the first season wrought.
Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) won a ton of money with a convenience store lottery ticket, but as he ran out of the store a car hits him and the ticket flies away in the breeze. While in the hospital he happens to see a show about karma and decides to make a list of all those that he wronged in his life of crime and correct those past wrongs so his karmic plate will be clean. He’s joined on his quest by his dim brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) and the maid at the hotel where they stay, Catalina (Nadine Velazquez).
He can’t really count on too much support from his ex-wife Joy (Jaime Pressly) who is more interested in helping herself, but her new husband Darrell “Crab Man” Turner (Eddie Steeples) is helpful enough. This season finds Earl convincing Catalina to get her old job back at Club Chubby, a strip bar run by Chubby (Burt Reynolds), to help out Joy (well until she finds out that getting the job back will actually help her rival Joy). Randy fakes being a cat lover to date a gal (Amy Sedaris) who he and Earl stole a show cat from.
Telling a woman named Millie Banks (Roseanne Barr) that it wasn’t the voice of God that made her turn her life around but Earl who had discovered that her hearing aid picked up their walkie talkie signals. Help out a stoner named Woody (Christian Slater) that he and Randy robbed blind, but during this episode Randy gets a new sight when he tries an “herbal remedy.”
Catalina gets deported and Earl and Randy have to go down South to retrieve her and one of them ends up marrying her to get her green card. Joy is going on trial for stealing a truck and her deaf attorney Ruby Whitlow (Marlee Matlin) doesn’t know if she can get the very pregnant and very combative Joy out of a prison sentence.
These and many more adventures await you on your hilarious karmic journey through Earl’s list spread across four discs. The series only continues to get funnier and fans will thank their lucky stars that season two is finally on DVD.
My Name is Earl is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) and enhanced for 16x9 televisions. Special features makers are making sure their karma is good since they’ve packed this set with them. Disc one contains 5 minutes (total) of deleted scenes for “Very Bad Things,” “Van Hickey,” “Made a Lady Think I was God,” and “Mailbox,” with an introduction by show creator/executive producer Greg Garcia.
There are also three commentaries. On “Sticks and Stones” we hear from Garcia, writer/producer Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, actor/producer Jason Lee, and actors Ethan Suplee and Giovanni Ribisi. On “Larceny of a Kitty Cat” we hear from Garcia, writer/story editor Hilary Winston, Suplee, and Amy Sedaris. On “Van Hickey” we hear from Garcia, Lee, Suplee, and Ribisi. Disc two has 2 minutes of deleted scenes from “Born a Gambin’ Man,” “South of the Border,” and “Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck” with an intro by Garcia.
“Our “Cops” is On” has a commentary from Garcia, writer/consulting producer/actor Tim Stack, Suplee, and Jaime Pressly. “Kept a Guy in a Truck” has a commentary from Garcia, Lee, and Suplee, and fans Beth Perry and Alesia Lewis. Disc three has 1 minute of deleted scenes for “B.L.O.W.,” “The Birthday Party,” and “Two Balls, Two Strikes” with an intro by Garcia. “Foreign Exchange Student” has a commentary by Garcia, writer/producers Bobby Bowman and Mike Mariano, Suplee, and Nadine Velazquez. “Guess Who’s Coming Out of Joy” has commentary by Garcia, Pressly, Eddie Steeples, and Beau Bridges (“Carl Hickey”).
Disc four has commentary on “The Trial” by Garcia, director Mike Fresco, editor Billy Marrinson, Lee, and Suplee. The 9 minute “Karma: Take 2” is a hilarious blooper reel. The 38 minute “The Stoner Files” examines “Robbed a Stoner Blind” through all the various stages of production.
The “Web Cam” section has contributions from Earl (48 seconds), Randy (3 minutes), Joy (48 seconds), Catalina (1 minute, who knows what the Internet’s all about), Darnell (1 minute), and Earl and Randy (48 seconds). The 1 minute “My Name is Earl as a Telenovela” is a Spanish language TV commercial version of the show (and makes Catalina the main character!).
My Name is Earl is a joy to behold and is one of the most consistently hilarious shows on television. The second season only improves on the laughs and the DVD is highly recommended for the special features and belly laughs.
My Name Is Earl - Season 2 is now available at Amazon . As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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