My Name is Earl Recap: Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine
One day when Earl and Randy were setting off bottle rockets, they used a small tractor with a girl on it as their "bottle".
As it turned out, that wasn't a good idea, as it broke into little pieces, and the only way you can get the little figurine is to win one in a mother-daughter beauty contest. Joy won hers with her mom some years before, and her arch-enemy has won just about every year since, and Joy's mom just won't enter again.
Since Joy can't get her mom to enter again, she wants a hot tub, since she can't get a new figurine to replace the old one. Earl thinks he can get a new one, so he approaches the arch-enemy and asks nicely, but that doesn't work either. He ends up as a prop for the talent contest - throwing knives.
In the end, it all works out of course. Joy and the Crabman smoke a bunch of cigarettes and Joy enters the contest with "her mother" in an urn (the rules don't state that the mother has to be living). The little girl who had trouble with knife throwing hits Earl with one of them, at his request, so she doesn't have to enter the contest any more and can be a doctor.
Joy wins (with her dead mother), since the little girl stuck Earl with a knife, which means Joy wins, and gets a figurine, so that item is off the list. And Earl doesn't have the heart to tell Joy that he told the little girl to hit him with the knife so she could be a doctor, so she gets her hot tub. Everyone wins.
Also keep an eye out for the ever-enjoyable Ellen Albertini Dow in a small role as Gertrude Balboa.
