Earl has a new person on his list: Himself. What’s more, he has more than one item. A huge line at the Crab Shack is formed to get free t-shirts along with a credit application, and when Earl has nothing that might qualify him – no job, no diploma, not even a permanent address, he figures that it’s time to become an adult. So as Catalina suggests, he becomes item #273.
Then he adds some items under it: Finish high school, get a real job and move out of the motel. First up, to try and graduate. Unfortunately, Earl is very good. So he talks to the teachers, and finds out that he might be better as a substitute teacher, so he tries to get a job first instead. Or at least, that’s what it seems like.
The teachers are completely apathetic about their jobs. Something about being terrified by the students will do that to you. So Earl tries to talk to the kids. They don’t listen. One girl does, but while Earl is talking to her about how bad his life is, the other kids turn his car up on its side, so he decides to talk to the teachers and get them to fight back. That may or may not have been a good idea.
Getting the teachers going isn’t hard – they start playing pranks on the students, and are really getting into it. They even rig the car of the gang leader to do something. I say something, because we don’t really know what it was supposed to do. We just know what it does. It blows up. Spectacularly. And that pretty well does it. The teachers are back in control. Score one for Earl.
Now he just has to figure out how to learn. And move out of the motel.
