DVD Releases September 30, 2008: My Name is Earl : New DVD Releases

My Name is Earl
From IMDB

Plot

Earl is a low-life who buys a winning lottery ticket, only to get hit by a car, losing the ticket in the process. He then realizes in the hospital that his bad luck is the result of karma in which fate punishes him for all the rotten things he's ever done in his life; therefore, he then decides to dedicate his life to making amends to all the people he has hurt in his life. Written by B&M

Earl Hicky was the kind of Guy who did bad things & had a bad life. After he'd won $100,000 on a scratch card, he got hit by a car while jumping for Joy & lost it too. His hospital TV told him about Karma, how if you do good things, good things will happen. This gave Earl an epiphany that turned his life & luck around. He decided to list all the bad things that he'd done in his life & one-by-one he'd make up for it. This hit US comedy, with a hilarious cast of colorful characters, shows us the bumpy journey Earl takes to improve his life. Written by Phoebe

Earl Hickey is a ne'er do well without a job or a direction in life. Instead, he spends his days drinking beer, stealing whatever isn't bolted down and being a leech on society. But when he wins the lottery of a lifetime, Earl thinks his luck may have just changed...until he's hit by a car. As he recovers in a hospital bed, Earl realizes that maybe the reason why he's there is because of a simple five letter word: karma. For every rotten thing he's done, a rotten thing comes right back to him; and the only way he can stop that is to make good for every bad deed. Having compiled a lengthy list of things he's done to people, Earl sets out to right all the wrongs from his past. All of this on the promise that maybe, he can enjoy his fortune once and for all, but only if he can finish the list first. Aiding him is his lifelong best friend and brother, Randy and an ensemble of characters to assist, observe, amuse, berate, or are just there for Earl Hickey. Written by mystic80

My Name is Earl - Season Three
From 20th Century Fox
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Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #121 in DVD
Released on: 2008-09-30
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Original language: English
Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
Number of discs: 4
Running time: 462 minutes

Customer Reviews

HEY, EARL!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of the beauties of DVD is the low costs of picking up entire seasons of TV series you may have missed. Be it work related, child related or simply not having time related, it's nice to be able to get a whole season and watch episodes back to back. Like this week's release, MY NAME IS EARL SEASON THREE.

For those of you who have yet to watch EARL, Jason Lee (star of numerous Kevin Smith movies) stars as Earl Hickey, a bumbling goofball whose life has consisted mostly of low end scams, thefts and mischief in general. Earl's life changes when he scratches off a winning lottery ticket...only to watch it fly away after being hit by a car.

While recuperating, Earl has an epiphany. Karma had worked its magic on him, causing him to lose the ticket in return for all of the bad things he's done in his life. While lying there, Earl writes up a list of all the people he has done wrong with the intention of correcting his mistakes. As he sets out to do so, the ticket finds its way back to him.

Each episode of EARL features Earl and his bumbling idiot-though-lovable brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) trying to track down one of the people on his list and making up for whatever Earl did to them in the past. Season three starts off with Early not being able to do so since he made a big correction at the end of season two.

Earl took the rap for his ex-wife Joy (Jaimee Pressley) and is now in prison. Fortunately for Earl, a number of the people he made mistakes with can be found there as well. And in helping them, he finds himself owing favors to others in prison, including the warden (Craig T. Nelson).

As Earl tries to do right, Joy feels guilty so takes Earl's brother in with her. Talk about a conflict of interests. Joy is self centered, cheated on Earl with crab cook Darnell "Crabman" Turner (Eddie Steeples) to whom she is now married and is the biggest stereotype of trailer trash foul mouthed gorgeous redneck that you will find on film. Randy on the other hand is about as simple minded as you can get without having brain damage. The two together are like oil and water.

The first half of the season is spent in prison with Randy dealing with the loss of his brother that evolves into Randy becoming a guard at the prison (after scoring a 55 on the tests, the highest score ever). Joy deals with being the surrogate mother to her half sister's baby, requiring her not to have labor induced or have any pain meds during birth. And Earl? Earl does his best to pay back Karma.

Want an example of the comedy involved here? It's difficult to choose from one of the many scenes that are side splittingly funny. But how about the one where Randy at the Fourth of July fair finds his head covered in cotton candy. It appears that he got so involved watching the guy make it that he got dizzy and fell into the cotton candy machine resulting in his head being covered in enough cotton candy that he can't see. Okay I know, it loses something in the translation but trust me, it is funny as all get out when you see it.

The guests in episodes help make this show one of the funniest on TV. But it is the core players who make it worth watching week after week...or in this case disc after disc. Jason Lee is a treasure, performing as the smart alek with attitude who isn't near as smart as he thinks he is. But in the end, Earl always sees the bright side of things and offers a touch of wisdom that makes the episode a morality fable.

Pressley as Joy is hilarious. Her mouthy attitude, strong willed character and ability to see that the world actually DOES revolve around her (at least in this trailer park) are a joy to behold. And Suplee as Randy does an incredible feat in making a bumbler not only appealing as a sympathetic character, he makes it easy to laugh when he messes up as well.

The rest of the casts are just as acceptable but it is these three that stand out. Season three made me laugh out loud more than once and on more than one occasion, I found myself having to pause the disc because I was laughing so hard. If you are in need of a laugh, you can't do much better than this show. This is not just one to watch, it is one to include in your personal collection.

I haven't seen it yet!! In fact, it doesn't exist yet! But I'll write a review anyway!!
Guess what? I haven't seen this product yet. And do you know why? Because it hasn't been released yet! So why am I doing this? Because I figured that if all these other people can review products that aren't out yet, well, maybe they know something I don't yet. So I figured I'd give it a try and see if I could learn the trick. So far, i'm not sure if i'm doing it right. Er, I like this series, although it was tough to follow this year because of the writers' strike, and then we had a flood, and the living room lamp broke, but I guess you don't care about that anyway because you just want to know about the experience of watching the DVD set and not watching it on TV, especially not at my house, but then again, the product does not yet exist so I guess all I can really write about is what it was like watching at my house with the snoring relatives and silly cat that jumps on you. So my advice, don't get a cat and don't let the relatives fall asleep and, above all, ignore any reviews written on any product that were written before it exists because they can't possibly be the list bit useful to anyone probably.