Hoping to join Earl in prison, Randy steals a car (no one notices), says he’s the notorious Truck Stop Killer (already caught), claims responsibility for some graffiti (“Can you do my kid’s room?” asks a cop), and finally slaps a cop, which lands him in the slammer. Pregnant Joy bails him out, because she’s “a woman of integrity” – even though she has to dip into her Brazilian Wax fund to do it.
I don’t know about you, but man-child Randy needs to grow up! He even brings a pink snowball into the prison during visiting hours and asks Earl if he’ll eat one side while Randy eats the other – like they used to do. Seriously disturbing.
Meanwhile, the prison warden – Craig T. Nelson from Coach -- asks Earl if he’ll intervene and make peace between two warring factions – the Spanish gang and the black gang. This, after the two gang leaders were thrown into solitary together for a month.
Earl works some prison-half-full stuff and gets the two thugs talking to each other. Only, they’re doing more than that. When Earl's back is turned, the two burly-men lock lips in a passionate kiss. Turns out they got pretty cozy during that month in solitary.
Ok, this is an 8 p.m. show, People! My kids are watching! Do we need men kissing each other -- not that there’s anything wrong with that! – and talking about squeezing nipples and man-candy, rolling around on the ground together, ogling each other in wet t-shirts, and seductively licking ice cream bars? Ewwww…
At any rate, Earl arranges to have the two gang leaders “work out their differences” – i.e. have sex – in the warden’s office once a month. Randy passes his prison guard training and ends up inside with Earl. It’s Prison Break with a karmic twist.
I dunno. I’m just not feelin’ the love for Earl this season. Do we really have to take two years of him in prison? What about The List? Free Earl, I say! Before you start losing viewers!
