July 2006 Archives

My Name is Earl Recap: BB

When Earl was but a boy, he liked a girl. That girl, as it turned out, liked other boys. As luck would have it, Earl was also a horrible shot with a BB rifle, and so when Earl shot one of the other boys, he shot the girl right in the bottom, and to this day, that’s where the BB remains.

So when he was feeding the meters one day, to pay back another of the items on his list (stealing coins from the meters), he gets a ticket, which requires him to go to court, where he sees the girl. Karma is tough to get around.

There he finds that she has become estranged from her father (Geoffrey Lewis), a situation exasperated by him, for the father never believed that she was shot by a BB (partially because Earl said he didn’t do it, and she believe this delinquent insted of his own daughter).

So Earl and Randy then try to bring the two together, and as it turns out, she finds out that her father just isn’t worth all the pent-up anger she has stored, allowing her to free herself of years of anger towards him – and Earl to cross her off the list.

Don’t Trust They Neighbor. The teams magically made their way from Montana to Massachusetts, and once again stayed in a bed and breakfast. We learned that the Grad Student team had decided to drop out of the hunt due to the injury of one of their memories, which paved the way for the return of the Brown Family. An interesting twist, which is sure to ruffle some feathers, but I have to say that it makes things interesting – knowing that no one will be eliminated because someone has dropped out takes some of the fun out. Bringing back a team that is eliminated ups the ante a bit. I like it.

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