"My Name Is Earl"
Quit Smoking (2005)

Director:

Marc Buckland

Writers:

Gregory Thomas Garcia (creator)
Kat Likkel (written by) ...

TV Series:

"My Name Is Earl" (2005)

Original Air Date:

27 September 2005 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Plot:

Earl decides that the next thing he needs to make right is to quit smoking. However, Randy and Catalina...

Plot Keywords:

Turtle | Maid | Beer | Brother Brother Relationship | Divorced

Cast

Jason Lee	...	Earl Hickey
Ethan Suplee	...	Randy Hickey
Jaime Pressly	...	Joy Turner
Nadine Velazquez	...	Catalina
Eddie Steeples	...	Darnell Turner
Silas Weir Mitchell	...	Donny Jones
Kathryn Joosten	...	Donny's Mom
Jack Axelrod	...	Old Man
Tracy Ashton	...	One Legged Girl
Scott Lincoln	...	Gun Store Owner
Andrew Wasser	...	Prisoner
Joshua Levine	...	Donut Store Clerk
Roy Lee Jones	...	Policeman

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Company:

Amigos de Garcia Productions

Trivia:

Earl completes the following items on his list in this episode: - #73: "Always took a penny, never left a penny". - #102: "Harmed and possibly killed innocent people with second hand smoke". - #112: "Let Donny Jones serve jail time for a crime I committed (Took Donny away from his mother for two years)".

Quotes:

Earl: [voiceover] Quittin' smokin' is kinda like going to prison. If you can last three days, you'll be fine. Me and Donny's mom tried everything. We listened to the tapes, then we tried the patches, then we heard somewhere to try carrot sticks. We tried it, but we couldn't get the damn things to light.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Soundtrack:

Livin' Thing

"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Quit smoking is the new objective of Earl but soon the help of his brother Randy and Catalina will change his plans. Now Earl must deal with Donnie, a man who spends two years in prison for a crime that Earl committed. But actually the real problem is going to be Donnie's mother & her addiction to tobacco and Earl's ex-wife who wants to kill him.

This episode has a great message to all the smokers in the world and focuses in the friendship that Earl and Donnie's mother create thanks to their fight against tobacco. This time the flashbacks are great, when we see how Earl committed the crime is great, and the gags are just hilarious. Randy is just fun, especially with the reference to Darth Vader. The music is great with "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" that is perfect for the episode.

Conclusion: this is a terrific episode; we can say that this is the first one of the series because the previous was just the pilot so is a terrific start. 9 out of 10