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This episode starts off in the normal format, but then it takes a slightly different tack along the way, which makes it sort of fun, but also it makes you wonder if perhaps the series is nearing the end of its run. It isn't that it's bad so much as it seems to be resorting to more trickery this season, what with the claymation of Robbed a Stoner Blind and all. It will be interesting to see what happens.

In any case, in another twist, Earl has decided to tackle an item on his list, without actually mentioning the list. In fact, now that I think of it, I don't think I've heard mention of the list for a while now. Definitely a new approach.

Anyway, sticking with the theme of robbing, this time he wants to repay the library for some fancy silverware that he and Randy and Joy stole one night. Apparently that was the first time they had been to the library, and they only took the silverware because Joy needed some, but when they heard on the news that it was worth $2000, they decided to fence it instead. Unfortunately, it was too hot and they couldn't move it, so they decided to bury it. So now Earl is trying to dig it up so he can return it. Only he can't seem to remember just where he buried it. It seems that there is more to this story than meets the eye.

My Name is Randy. Which shifts us to the first retelling of the story, by none other than Earl's brother Randy. It even starts with a little introduction from Randy, telling us about himself. Frankly, I think this may be the point where the show Jumps the Shark, but what do I know?

Regardless, while Earl was trying to figure out how to ransom the silverware (by writing one of those notes made up of letters cut from magazines), Randy decided that he better do something about it, because he had met a guy at The Crab Shack who could turn the money into a lot more money. Of course, Randy was being set up because he may not be the brightest in the bunch. But since Earl was too busy with his own scheme, Randy went ahead on his own, and dug up the silverware and took it out. He ended up giving the silverware to the guy and not getting anything in return, so he thinks he knows why Earl can't find it.

My Name is Joy. Joy has her own reasons for thinking she knows why Earl can't find the silverware, and she's enjoying every bit of it. It turns out she wanted to have the money as her own little secret stash, in case she needed to buy some shoes, so before Randy could dig it up and give it to his "investor", she dug it up and replaced it with some regular old silverware. That means Randy gave the guy trying to scam him stuff that wasn't worth anything. Too bad he didn't get anything out of it. That would have been funny.

Once she had a chance, she tried to melt down the silver herself, but she didn't do a very good job of it, producing what looked like old utensils, but they were still recognizable enough that their fence wouldn't take them, so she decided she would just bury them in the backyard until she really needed them, and that's where she believes that they are, and why the boys can't find them.

My Name is Crabman. It turns out that Darnell is the only one who knows where the silverware really is, because when he went to bury one of the goldfish in the backyard, he dug up the silverware, thinking it was from an ancient civilization. He did what any concerned amateur archaeologist might do - he took it to the library, who put it on display, not realizing that it was the missing silverware all along.

When Earl can't find the silverware, he decides to go back to the library and just give them some cash. But when he does, he notices this beat up silverware in a display case, and sees the little "c" on them, which he recognizes as the ones that were on the silver that he stole so long ago, so somehow karma managed to get there ahead of him.