My Name is Earl Recap: Dad's Car
The episode starts off with Crabman taking the kids away for a week as Joy's Mother's Day present. This in turn makes Earl feel like he needs to do something for his mom, so he recalls a coupon book that he and Randy gave his mom one Mother's Day, but never honored (no word on whether he plans to pay back the kid they stole it from). They spend the day honoring those coupons.
Then they get to the last coupon, which is "Mom's Choice", and she wants Earl to do something for his dad (Beau Bridges). This in turn leads to the Mustang that Earl lost in a drag race when he was 11, which he feels bad about. But it turns out that this was actually to be Earl's car, so he ends up doing something for himself - fixing up the car.
In the process, he finds out that his dad wants to work on it too, and the two end up putting it back together and spending some quality time together - the first quality time that they've ever spent together. In the end, when the car is fixed up, Earl lets his dad hang onto the car for him for the time being, giving them an excuse to work on it together - but supposedly for the reason that Randy won't slide across the hood like he's always wanted to do.
