“If my goose gets nervous, them golden eggs might stop falling from her wrinkled little bottom, and I can’t risk that.” Thus begins Earl’s life on the outside. Those words were spoken by Ralph, a longtime friend of Earl’s who escaped from prison a while back and began impersonating an older widow’s husband after trying to steal her Meals on Wheels food.
Earl goes back to the “dark side,” the side that’s had it with the list. All those good things he’s done over the past two years haven't changed anything, he tells Randy. He’s an ex-con, he’s homeless (the mayor turned his motel room into a homeless shelter), he has to take “whore baths” in a birdbath, and he has a crappy job delivering food for the Camden Foreign Food Restaurant, all while wearing a stupid costume.
Randy tries to steer him back on the karma track by helping him cross something off the list. But alas, Earl just ends up spinning his tassles in a strip club to make up for putting a stripper named Mistletoe in a spinal cast a few years ago. This karma thing just isn’t working out, Earl tells Randy. After all, he got thrown INTO prison for doing something good.
He trashes the list, runs into the street, and ends up getting hit by a car driven by Billie, the girl he fell in love with in prison a while back. While trying to help him, she gets hit by a car, too, leaving them both lying in the street. Hmmm, maybe there’s something to this karma thing, after all. I’m just not sure which side of the karma fence Earl is on right now.
You know, it’s kind of nice to see Bad Earl emerge for a while. I don’t know where this is headed, but it’s fun watching Earl punch Randy in the nose and tip Joy and Darnell’s trailer on its side in a drunken stupor.
