Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5034 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: PAL, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Greek, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 501 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The most original comedy since Arrested Development, My Name is Earl marked the launch of a lovable new loser. Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) sleeps all day and drinks all night. The pattern ends when he buys a scratch card--and wins $100,000. Seconds later, he's hit by a car and loses the ticket. While in the hospital, wife Joy (Emmy nominee Jaime Pressly) leaves him for Darnell the Crab Man (Eddie Steeples). Doped up on morphine, he's watching TV when Carson Daly says something about karma. Earl decides that's his problem: bad karma. He resolves to spend the rest of his life making up for all the harm he's ever done. In the pilot, Earl and brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) start by picking up litter around their motel (Joy got the trailer). While they're at it, Earl finds the lost ticket and collects his bounty. The plan is working! Along with comely maid Catalina (Nadine Velazquez), they set off to right more wrongs. Created by Greg Garcia and teamed with The Office, My Name is Earl put NBC back on the must-see comedy map. Unlike most sitcoms, it drops the studio audience in favor of flashbacks, freeze frames, first-person narration, and extensive So-Cal location work. A soundtrack heavy on blue collar favorites, like Lynyrd Skynyrd, completes the picture.

Throughout the season, Earl gives an old girlfriend self-respect ("Faked My Own Death"), plans his ex-wife's big day ("Joy's Wedding"), and makes up for the birthday he ruined ("Monkeys in Space"). First year guests include Brett Butler ("White Lie Christmas"), Juliette Lewis ("The Bounty Hunter"), and Emmy nominee Jon Favreau ("O Karma, Where Art Thou?"). Giovanni Ribisi and Beau Bridges also stop by as, respectively, Earl's pal Ralph and father Carl. Speaking of originality, "Dad's Car," which takes place during Mother's Day, features commentary from the mothers of Lee, Suplee, Garcia, and director Marc Buckland. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Synopsis
The enormously popular sitcom MY NAME IS EARL stars Jason Lee (MALLRATS) as reformed criminal Earl, who sees the light when he loses a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000 after getting hit by a car. While in hospital, Earl ponders his life and decides his bad luck can be chalked up to bad karma, and sets about making amends with everyone he has ever wronged. Having written a very long list, Earl starts with number 64 and visits Kenny James--a former victim of Earl's schoolyard bullying--whom he helps to come out of the closet. A visit is also paid to a one-legged girl from whom Earl once stole a car. Each episode features Earl attempting to right a wrong from his past. The unique comedy style of MY NAME IS EARL has earned it both cult affection and mainstream success. Ethan Supplee (ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL) plays Earl's slow but good-hearted brother and sidekick Randy, Nadine Velazquez plays Randy's motel maid Catalina, and Jaime Pressly (NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE) plays Earl's ex-wife, Joy. Guest stars on the show include Beau Bridges as Earl's father, as well as Giovanni Ribisi. Features every episode from the first series of the show.

Customer Reviews

The Hickey Redemption
What happens when you write down everything bad you've ever done and then work your way through the list putting each one right? Well that's Earl's way of staving off Karma getting even with him in this hysterically funny show. Earl Hickey is or rather was a bad guy. What he could steal, he did. Whoever he could defraud, he did. But when he won $100,000 in the lottery and got mown down by a car he twigged that there was such a thing as Karma, cause and effect, so Earl made his list and set out to put his various misdemeanours right. Earl is accompanied along the way by his 'slow' brother Randy, sometimes hindering, sometimes helping, but always there.

"My Name is Earl" is amongst the best US imports for many years now after suffering seasons of homogenised humour repeated ad nauseum on E4 and Paramount. The humour is sometimes a little dark, but as yet I've not witnessed any extremes of language or anything particularly offensive - hey they can be funny without upsetting anyone! A quality show with some gut busting belly laughs. Pay specific attention to what Randy says in his "Forrest Gump" style, and don't forget to say "Hi Crabman" every time you see Darnell come into shot.

When this show hits the shelves in DVD form it is going to be a sell through hit. Hint to anyone who knows me: this would make a fine present :-)

My Name Is Earl is good karma
This is my favourite US comedy of recent years. Jason Lee is note perfect as Earl and is backed by an excellent cast portraying the best collection of oddballs and off-the-wall characters since The Simpsons. In fact, imagine The Simpsons made flesh.

Here is the DVD breakdown

"MY NAME IS EARL" SEASON ONE DVD COLLECTION:

Presented in full screen 1:33:1 aspect ratio, the set also features English Dolby 5.1 Surround and English and Spanish mono and English, as well as Spanish and French subtitles. Individual disc content as follows:

Disc One
Pilot [Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee]
Quit Smoking
Randy's Touchdown
Faked My Own Death
Teacher Earl [Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi and Ethan Suplee]
Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine
Stole Beer From A Golfer

Deleted Scenes
-Pilot
-Broke Fancy Figurine


Disc Two
Joy's Wedding [Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Jason Lee and Eddie Steeples]
Cost Dad The Election
White Lie Christmas
Barn Burner
O Karma, Where Art Thou?[Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Jason Lee, Jon Favreau and Ethan Suplee]
Stole P's Hd Card
Monkeys In Space

Deleted Scenes
-O Karma, Where Art Thou?
-Monkeys In Space

Disc Three
Something To Live For
The Professor
Didn't Pay Taxes
Dad's Car [Includes commentary by the mothers of Greg Garcia (Natalie Garcia), Marc Buckland (Mary Buckland), Jason Lee (Carol Lee) and Ethan Suplee (Debbie Suplee)]
Y2K
Boogeyman
Bounty Hunter

Disc Four
BB
Stole A Badge
Number One [Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee]
Deleted Scene: Stole A Badge
"Karma Is A Funny Thing" Blooper Reel
"Making Things Right": Behind The Scenes Of "My Name Is Earl" featurette
Bad Karma: An Earl Misadventure - DVD EXCLUSIVE SHORT [Includes commentary by Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee] This is an excellent unbroadcast episode where Earl makes a list of all the people that did him wrong and sets about giving them their comeuppance.

American Comedy At Its Best
My Name Is Earl.. What a TV show. Its absolutely brilliant.
If you havent seen it before, then heres the lowdown.

It is about a guy named Earl who has been a criminal his entire life. However, Earl has a miracle, he wins $100,000 on a scratchcard. However, after revealing the lucky symbols, he goes out, gets hit by a car and loses the ticket.

It then hits him- Karma. He then realises to have a better life he must have better ways. So, whilst in hospital recovering, he writes a list of everything bad he has ever done, and puts right what he did wrong.

After doing a few good deeds, he finds the ticket.

This comedy is brilliant and is well worth watching, and for 22 half an hour long episodes, this product is well worth getting!