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"My Name Is Earl" (2005) More at IMDb Pro »

• The items in Earl's list shown during the opening sequence read as follows: - 56: Stole Liquor from Liquor store - 57: Told Joy Dan Dodd messed himself on the (rest cut out of frame) - 58: Fixed a high school football game - 59: Everything I did to Dad - 60: Pulled fire alarm - 61: Stole Mom's car (but I gave it back) - 62: Faked death to break up with a girl - 63: Wasted electricity - 64: Spray Painted The bridge - 65: Cost Dad the election - 66: Let mice out at school play - 67: Stole beer from a golfer - 68: Blew up mailboxes - 69: Cheated on School tests a lot
  
  
• Part of the show's ad campaign before the series aired included billboard ads with Earl's picture and one of the items from his list printed on the billboard (i.e. "Cheated my way through the seventh grade...twice", "Stole a car from a one-legged girl", "Faked my death to break up with a girl" etc.), with the tag line "...I'm sorry".
  
  
• Every time Earl's picture (or otherwise graven image) is taken, his eyes are closed. This is considered to be a nod to the movie Forrest Gump in which every photograph of Forrest shows him with his eyes closed.
  
  

• The close-up of Earl's driver license shows he lives in Pimmit Hills Trailer Park, Space C-13, Camden County. His date of birth is 4/25/1970 (Jason Lee's birthday), his height is 6'1", his weight is 190, his eyes (closed in the picture, of course) and hair are brown, and he is an organ donor. It's a class 1 license, #023052378, expiring on 4/25/2009, issued on 4/25/1970?
  
  
• Garcia first pitched the show to Fox, which passed on it. About eighteen months later, people at NBC got interested after reading the pilot script that Garcia had sent to several networks.
  
  
• Although Lee and Suplee had worked together before, Garcia didn't discover Suplee because of that. Garcia discovered him while watching the DVD version of Without a Paddle, looking at the film because another actor in it had been recommended to him. What convinced Garcia to bring Suplee in for an audition were comments about him he heard on the DVD's commentary track. One of the actors in the commentary told the story of a dispute between the film's director and Suplee. The scene the actor described was one where Suplee's character was supposed to be pointing a gun at some people Suplee and others had captured. The commentary noted that Suplee had insisted that he shouldn't point his gun at them after all, since in Suplee's mind, it had taken so long to capture the people that it had given the character time to rethink his motives. Suplee got his way in the scene, over the director's objections. The fact that Suplee would think so much about such a small detail was enough to get Suplee an audition. Garcia and the show's writers have subsequently used Suplee's attention to detail to the show's advantage, in various "pestered by a bee" background activities that Suplee's character does in various scenes. The first such scene was an improvisation in the pilot, where Suplee is looking up at the ceiling with his mouth open.
  
  
• Twice when Randy (Ethan Suplee) is woken up he mutters "Poopy trim!". This is a reference to the 'Kevin Smith ' film Mallrats (1995) where Suplee said the same thing when he was brought out a daze.
  
  
• When Earl and Randy are returning the items they stole from the convenience store Earl refers to it as the Quick Stop, the store made famous in 'Kevin Smith' 's _Clerks (1994)_ and referenced in his other movies in which both Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee starred.
  
  
• After helping Kenny James and crossing out his name out of his list in the first episode, Earl says he has 258 lines left.
  
  
• Catalina's last name has never been given on the show but was revealed in a newspaper article in the DVD-exclusive episode "Bad Karma" to be Aruca.
  
  

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