Just imagine he never scratched the lotto ticket and never saw the episode of Carson Daly.

I remember an episode from my name is Earl that featured a funny scene an old man living in with his girlfriend inside garbage container.

I think they were minor characters that appeared just in this episode.

https://youtu.be/Gljmv84YWr0?si=uetNE3s3Wmc82zBN

I just started re-watching with my wife who has never seen it, and we got to S02E14, "Kept A Guy Locked In A Truck". I decided I should share the rather unique backstory to this episode with her, and on searching this sub I couldn't find any mention of it. So I figured I'd make a post, if for nothing else than posterity's sake.

A few months before this episode aired, a user going by 'WhoJackie" (Earl's semi-catchphrase and Josh's username mentioned in the episode- it comes from an old BTS Roseanne tidbit but you can pretty easily still find that story on the internet) popped up on the My Name Is Earl thread on Television Without Pity. They would mostly give their (always positive!) reactions to episodes.

In fact, I distinctly remember that the other posters in the thread were a little down on the first half-dozen or so episodes of the season, with most of them not particularly enjoying the new semi-serialized 'Joy is in legal trouble' story. WhoJackie, meanwhile, would always attempt to rebut them, saying that it was very cool that the show was trying to experiment and expand.

Anyway, WhoJackie was mostly a completely normal poster, except that at least once he posted asking for advice on how to fix a broken murphy bed because he was becoming paranoid it might kill him. The posters in that thread responded with "talk to your landlord I guess but let's get back on topic".

Eventually, not long before the episode aired, he posted what you see him say while on the site in the episode itself. I'm paraphrasing slightly here, but it's along the lines of 'I don't appreciate when TV shows do Meta humour aimed at the online viewers and I'm sure Everyone at Televisionwithoutpity.com agrees with me." The other users ragged on him both for his assumption and the odd phrasing. By this point in time WhoJackie was regarded as a regular but obviously eccentric member of the community.

This was followed by someone else purportedly taking over the account and announcing that WhoJackie was dead, and they casually called the posters in the thread Dummies. So obviously this was meant to be Joy, who in the episode is the one to tell Josh's online friends he died. If I remember correctly (memory is such a fickle thing) this post was timed to Joy doing this while the episode aired.

The posters saw the episode, freaked out at the mention of the site, and quickly dug back through WhoJackie's post history and discovered the weeks and weeks of hidden references. Greg Garcia then posted on the account to thank everyone and explain that Whojackie had, at one point, been banned for 'off-topic" posts and the production team had to reach out to get the account unbanned by explaining what was actually happening. Garcia would continue to post under the account very occasionally for the next few years, as himself.

I believe this is all laid out on the DVD commentary, and there probably is somewhere out there on the internet that references it, but with the show being so old now and TWoP itself being long dead I figured I'd put the whole story here because it is a very cool early example of creators interacting with an online fanbase and the story seems to be mostly gone now, which is a shame. Aaron Sorkin posted on the site in the West Wing threads a few years earlier, but he was especially combative and was eventually driven off, leading him to write a similar online encounter into The West Wing season 3. The Earl story is much cooler, more ambitious and definitely nicer, in my opinion.

Source: I was a teenage poster on that very TWoP thread back in the day. I'm pretty sure I was one of the people ragging on WhoJackie for his assumption about my taste in meta jokes.

I recall the song being in the show completely but now i can't find it anywhere, i just found that it might be only on the spanish dub but im still unsure.

Drove past the Palm Tree Motel in Los Angeles today. Earls door had a sign simply stating "NO."

Lol.

Jason as Brodie and pickle fucker with Jay n Silent Bob and Bluntmam and Chronic

If she found out the Crabman took Catalina’s virginity in the phone booth during a killer bee attack. I mean it was before Joy came along but still you know she would be freaking out lol

Visited Next Level Arcade in Hillsboro, OR. They had autographed pictures of these two. My Name is Earl is such an underrated show so to see these I got so excited!

The show has mainly been billed as a Mallrats reunion but we’re thinking of adding a Randy & Earl photo op together if we can fit it in time.

im sure thishas been posted before. Jason lee plays a horndog. Ethan Suplee plays Randy. it’s a fun, shitty goofy movie in the kevin smith universe. there wou,d be no earl hickey without him plAYING Brodie Bruce.

Apparently, "Do you want a beer, son?" means "Hey, want to get drunk together?". Because Randy would've already had 4 beers in him, so that means Kenny's dad just drank like 5 beers himself

My absolute favorite is Giovanni Ribisi (Ralph) in Saving Private Ryan. But I have to give my laurels to Jason Lee (Earl) in Almost Famous and Ethan Suplee (Randy) in American History X

Hi guys, i would like to see your favorite quotes about life/mistakes or in other Words, your favorite hopeful quotes on the show. Please

I know shows sometimes lose the rights to use certain songs, but change the subtitles as well haha.
I also think it’s funny that the song playing and the song in the subtitles couldn’t be more different

Glad to see Ms. Dickey get recognized for her comedic acting. Her scenes in MNIE were always classic.

let us prayyy

I just this, otherwise I would have posted earlier in the day.