Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2098 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

karma is a funny thing
when this was on TV i missed a lot of the episodes and the only one i saw was the last episode so i decided to buy this for myself and i could not believe what i had missed. when i asked my friend if he had seen it he said yes and we both loved it. when i saw this i was not dissapointed.So if you like a comedy that's full of laughs this is for you.

Best US comedy series since "Friends"
In my opinion, "My Name Is Earl" is one of the best post-"Friends" US sitcoms, it's funny, origional and most episodes manage to deliver a good message.

In the first episode we meet Earl Hickey and see right away that he is basically a "bad" person - makes fun of people, steals etc - until he wins $100,000 on the lottery and while goin to collect his winning, gets hit by a car, looses his winning ticket and ends up in hospital. While in hospital he has a revelation and decides to make a "karma list" - a list of everything he has done wrong and all of the people that he has wronged and decides to set about making up to these people and crossing them off his list. He crosses his first bad deed off the list during the episode and finds his winning lottery ticket again. Seeing this as a mesage from karma he decided to spend his winnings on crossing all the bad deeds off his list, with the help of his brother, Randy and often his ex-wife Joy and her new husband Darnell (AKA Crabman).

This is a brilliant series, every episode is hillarious, clever and has a good message about how you should treat others. The characters are all unique and brilliant.

The DVD Box set includes the entire first series, plus deleted scenes and an alternate first episode in which Earl writes a "revenge list" of all the people who have screwed him over.
I would highly recomend this show to anybody.

At last - a good American comedy!
I've heard the odd person over here say that American comedy is better than the comedy we produce ourselves. It's something I strongly disagree with, with the likes of The League of Gentlemen, Spaced, Black books, etc - I think our recent comedy machine is running strongerer (I know it's not a proper word) than the American equivalent.

But My Name Is Earl is a true gem, a fantastic comedy. Most of the American imports we get over here are so cheesy. They are full of shallow middle class people leading lives we are meant to envy, they all have perfect hair and wear the latest fashions. This is refreshingly different.

Earl wins a fortune on a scratchcard, only to end up dropping it when he is hit by a car. During his time in hospital his wife leaves him and he is left watching a program about Karma. Whilst zonked out on morphine he convinces himself that bad things happened to him because he's been a bad person, he resolves to put things right and makes a list of all the people he's been nasty to.

The series follows as he goes around helping the people he has mistreated in the past. The great thing is, apart from his quest to right his wrongs, he is essentially the same person.

Jason Lee declined the role twice before agreeing to read the pilot scipt, he is a very talented actor and his big screen experience makes his portrayal of Earl one of perfection. The character is one of the most lovable characters I've ever seen on telly, even given his redneck bawdiness and layabout lifestyle.

Earl is accompanied by his 'special' brother Randy (Ethan Suplee), again a brilliant character, and one played so convincingly.

Kevin Smith fans might notice the odd reference to his films, not totally unexpected really considering Lee and Suplee have appeared in his films and seem like good sports.

Anyway - switch off all that 'Will and Grace' style of so-called comedy and watch something about real characters with real depth, My Name is Earl - a modern classic.