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First heard about on Ethan Suplee’s Twitter feed, and confirmed by Zap2it today, My Name Is Earl isn’t on NBC’s 2009 fall schedule. I guess we’re disappointed, but not totally surprised. As a follower of the show from the beginning, and a blogger of the show for the past two seasons, I’ve observed the show’s steady decline. But it always felt like Greg Garcia and company still had plenty of list items left in them, and I was hoping that getting back to simpler stories of a guy and his list in Season 4 might spark a comeback. Alas.

Perhaps if they’d only taken our advice and used more Dan Coscino.

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Darnell is getting ready for Career Day at Dodge’s school, the day in which the dads come in to talk about their jobs. Crab Man is all ready for his presentation on crabs, but Dodge wants to have his real dad there instead of his stepdad. The problem: Joy hasn’t told Dodge that Earl isn’t his real dad. Since Earl ruined Dodge’s 2005 Career Day (he stole some X-Ray equipment as posed as a doctor), he goes to school to talk about his career as Chief List Maker/List Doer. Some of Dodge’s classmates wonder why Dodge doesn’t spend weekends with Earl, which gets Earl wondering who really is Dodge’s father. Joy can’t seem to keep her stories straight: Was it the guy at the Ronnie James Dio concert or the guy selling nachos at the Molly Hatchet show? She finally admits that Little Chubby (Norm MacDonald), the son of the late Big Chubby (Burt Reynolds), is Dodge’s real dad.
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The investigative news series Inside Probe with Geraldo Rivera continues its story on the 2001 disappearance of Crab Shack owner Ernie Belcher. Earl and Randy have been cleared of any involvement in Ernie’s disappearance, so the investigation is back to square one. It’s soon discovered that there were reports of bright lights in the sky and UFO sightings on the night Ernie vanished. As they stick the probe even deeper inside, Geraldo learns that Ernie was big into the Civil War — he was profoundly loyal to the Central, the little-known neutral side of which Camden County was a part, that couldn’t decide whether to join the North or the South. Ernie continued to fly the flag of the Central on the Crab Shack’s roof, even though it was unpopular. It’s also discovered that Ernie was big into underground kinky sex, and was proprietor of the site ErniesFetishShack.com. (It does not exist. We checked.) Ernie also had hidden cameras all over the women’s restroom of the Crab Shack.

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In sort of a throwback to the Camden County COPS episodes from a few seasons back, the investigative news show Inside Probe with Gerardo Geraldo Rivera is in Camden, looking into the mysterious 2001 disappearance of Ernie Belcher, owner of the Crab Shack. Geraldo interviews the various residents of Camden — and two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip — to get their memories of Ernie, trying to piece together the puzzle of his disappearance and narrow down the list of possible suspects. After the police searched Ernie’s office and discovered threatening letters from Randy, the cops arrest Randy and Earl, his suspected accomplice. But two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip gives the boys an airtight alibi, since he went out drinking with them the night of Ernie’s disappearance. But we have to wait until next week’s Inside Probe to find out what happened to Ernie, thanks to network executives not ordering enough episodes … douchebags.

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Earl and Randy don’t go to church very often — they’re usually hungover on Christmas and Easter — but they’re happy to go to the church festival. Joy is happy, too. She drank 25 Dixie cups of wine. And Catalina has had great luck at the carnival games. She even won an AM/FM radio headset! But no such luck for Joy. As she’s taking the drunk walk home from the festival, she steals a riding lawnmower, and runs Catalina down with it. Joy drives the lawnmower into a storage shed with Catalina pinned against it. Catalina threatens to go to the police, but Joy can’t have that. She’s already got two strikes. So she leaves Catalina stuck in the shed.

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Randy’s having a lot of fun getting toys from the claw machine at the Crab Shack, but Joy keeps stealing all of them — even the bird dressed up for a wedding. This reminds Earl of a scrawny, sensitive kid named Wally “Pansy” Panzer he bullied in school. Earl goes to Wally’s house to cross him off the list, and finds that Wally has grown into a hulking beast of a man. Fearing a beatdown, Earl says his name is Cliff and that he’s responding to the ad Wally placed in the Pennysaver looking for a workout buddy. So Earl and Randy follow Wally to the gym, where Earl feels the burn, sweats it out, and gives 110 percent. Randy’s looking to bulk up so he can fight off his 32-C bra sized bully. Two guys at the gym say that Randy just needs a confidence boost — in the form of pure shark adrenaline, injected straight into the, um … scrotum.

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Randy is lamenting his lost love, the Camdenite girl who lost her head and died in that car accident. Just kidding. They broke up. But this reminds Randy of his real first love, a girl he met in the summer of 1984 at the lake where his morbidly obese aunt Gail lived. Her name was Pinky because of her pink hair. Randy’s name was Skipper, because he skipped rocks on the lake. It was love at first sight for Pinky and Skipper, until they were supposed to meet one night on the bridge and Pinky didn’t show up.

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When the Crazy Witch Lady (Betty White) walks into the Crab Shack, Earl realizes that she is No. 186 on his list. Earl, like most people in the neighborhood, thought Griselda Weezmer was a witch, and they did mean things to her. Earl explains to Griselda that he was sorry and wants to make it up to her. She’s lonely, and she invites Earl over for tea. But Earl’s tea is drugged, and he wakes up chained in Griselda’s basement.

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Dodge wants to attend Chaz Dalton’s Space Academy, but like all future astronauts, he must first do the dishes. This reminds Earl of one of his happiest childhood memories, attending the space camp created by former astronaut Chaz Dalton (Matthew Glave). But Chaz is also on Earl’s list — Earl stole Chaz’s treasured spacesuit, played around in it, washed it and shrunk it to infant size. Earl goes to visit Chaz’s academy, and sees that Chaz still loves teaching kids about space. Chaz forgives Earl, but Earl is determined to get him a new spacesuit, so he goes to the local NASA office (doesn’t every town have one of those?).

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Earl and Randy miss Joy and Darnell, who are hidden away under witness protection. While Earl is getting sentimental over a photo of him with Darnell and his family, there’s a knock on the door, and it’s someone (Danny Glover) looking for Darnell. Suddenly Earl and Randy find themselves handcuffed to a suitcase bomb, and it’s going to go off in five minutes. After failed attempts to break free, they pretty much figure they’re going to be blown to pieces. But the bomb is fake, and the man reveals himself to be Darnell’s dad, Thomas. He’s a special agent for a covert government spy agency, and he wants to find Darnell to make amends for being a bad father.

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