My Name is Earl Recap: Mailbox
When Catalina is feeling down, Earl suggests that she help him with an item on the list because it always makes him feel better when he does something for someone else. She gladly agrees. So they find an item on the list - where Earl and Randy used a mailbox as a trashcan, rather than walk across the road to where they moved the dumpster. So they open up the mailbox and clean it out. No word on whether opening a mailbox is itself a crime worthy of being added to the list. Probably not.
When they clean out the mailbox, they find two letters inside that were stuck to all the gunk that they shoved in, so it's up to them to deliver them, since it's their fault that they weren't delivered. It's decided that Randy will take one, since his milkshake seems to have been the guilty party on that one, while Earl and Catalina will take the other.
Randy has a problem though - the addresses are completely smeared and he can't make them out. He goes to Joy for help figuring out who sent the letter (or who it was sent to). Since she has three strikes on her, she just opens it up. Inside, she finds a letter sent by none other than Darnell, and it's sent to the witness protection program. But it's sent using what is apparently his real name: Harry Monroe.
The only problem here is that Joy wants to know about his past, so she plasters a billboard in town with the instruction to call her on her cell phone with any information. Needless to say, it would be bad if this happened, so Darnell tries over and over to get her to stop, finally saying that he doesn't want to leave her - he left that old life behind because he didn't have anything to lose. Now he does. This convinces her, so finally she gives up the search for his past.
Meanwhile, Earl and Catalina find Will, who hasn't done well since he sent the letter. Apparently his was a love letter, that he sent to Wendy (Jenny McCarthy), who he liked and he thought liked him, but he couldn't be sure because she sent so many mixed signals. When he sent the letter and she never responded, he quit his job and sank into a depression.
To make matters worse, they worked together at the gym, and since he hasn't worked out since he quit, he isn't in very good shape. He asks Earl to hang onto the letter while he gets back into shape and he'll try again. Meanwhile, he asks Earl to keep an eye on her so she doesn't fall in love with someone else. This is a problem, as Earl just happens to be very attracted to her himself.
In fact, when she comes over to use the pool, she sees the letter and thinks Earl wrote it for her, leading to a very sticky situation. Luckily Catalina is there to help things along. She gets them all together at the Crab Shack, which reunites Will and Wendy, and that gives her the good feeling she wanted, and lets Earl cross another item off his list.
