Pilot (My Name Is Earl)

Pilot (My Name Is Earl)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Pilot
Series = My Name Is Earl


Caption =
Season = 1
Episode = 1
Airdate = September 20, 2005
Production = 1ALJ79
Writer = Greg Garcia
Director = Marc Buckland
Guests = None
Episode list = List of "My Name Is Earl" episodes
Prev =
Next = Quit Smoking

"Pilot" is the first episode of the American sitcom "My Name Is Earl".

ynopsis

Earl J. Hickey is a small-time thief with a messed-up life. He wins $100,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket, but is immediately hit by a car and watches the ticket blow away. In the hospital recovering, Earl's wife divorces him, and Earl is introduced to karma while watching Carson Daly. He decides to try to make up for all the bad things he has done and makes a written list of 259 items. After leaving the hospital he starts on his list and right away by picking up trash to make up for #136 I've been a litterbug, he finds his lost $100,000 scratcher. Figuring karma works pretty well, he resolves to continue making up for items on the list. He starts with #64 Picked on Kenny James, a misdeed dating back to elementary school. Earl, Randy and Catalina find Kenny's parents' house, and Earl sends Randy to find out where Kenny lives. Randy is a good liar as long as he has 4 beers. Randy poses as former class president looking for Kenny, but received a beer from Mr. James. Randy mutters "dibs" when he sees Mrs. James while he is mildly drunk, and makes his escape with the address. Earl starts watching Kenny for the next few days, observing him. Kenny had a good job as an assistant manager, a powder blue Renault Le Car, and a nice house, but had nobody to share his life with. So Earl decides to make up for his chilhood ridicule of Kenny by getting him laid. Earl enlists the help of Patty, a daytime hooker. When Kenny refuses free sex, Earl talks to Kenny in person. Kenny is still afraid of Earl and Randy, telling them to take what they want and leave, but Earl tries to help Kenny because he "gave up the chance to have free sex with a daytime hooker." Randy finds in Kenny's nightstand a copy of homosexual pornography. Earl and Randy slowly back away and run out of his house. Earl, Randy, and Catalina return to the hotel, Earl decides not to help Kenny because he was gay. When he steps into his motel room, his ex-wife Joy hits him with a telephone. Joy is angry that Earl didn't bother telling her that he won the lottery, and leaves in her Subaru BRAT. Earl thinks his ex-wife attacking him was Karma's way of saying that Earl should give Kenny another shot. Earl is waiting for Kenny when he comes home, Kenny was about to use Mace on Earl, but accidentally sprays it in his own face. Earl pours milk into Kenny's eyes to soothe the irritation, then asks Kenny why he doesn't have a man. Kenny answers that nobody knows he is gay, but tried to go to a gay bar, but was too scared. Earl agrees to come with him, and takes Randy, who agreed to go when he heard there was going to be bubbles. Kenny is still too afraid to try to talk to any of them, but thanks Earl for giving him back his confidence and no longer feared him. This allowed Earl to cross off #64, as Randy is dancing with a man after drinking 15 beers.

Awards

Marc Buckland won an Emmy for directing "Pilot." [cite web |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20060827atas01 |title=WINNERS OF THE 2006 PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS ANNOUNCED |accessdate=2007-08-07 |format= |work= ] Greg Garcia also won an Emmy in the writing category. [cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/28/DDG10KPF111.DTL |title=So the best didn't win Emmys -- hey, it could have been worse |accessdate=2007-11-26 |last=Goodman |first=Tim |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=San Francisco Gate Chronicle]

Deleted Scenes

Included with Season 1 DVD:Additional Cast: Michael Avery "College Guy"

Earl, Randy, and Kenny are about to enter the gay bar Earl takes Kenny to. Kenny thanks Earl for buying the shirt that he was wearing. A group of college students in a convertible stops. One of the college guys shouts "fags" out the window. Earl walks up to the guy, pulls him out of the car, and punches him in the face, and tells him to learn about tolerance. Kenny stops Earl and Earl asks for the guy's name to put on his list. He explains that he must make up for his mistake. The guy says his name is Marc.
* This would be #260 on Earl's list. However, the scene most likely isn't canon.

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