Thursday, September 27, 2007

My name is Scooter

(graphic courtesy of News Corpse)

The NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl began its third season today. It opened with Earl talking about his life in prison (the last episode of the second season showed him being sentenced to a jail term). He mentioned that for the next two years, he'd be known as inmate 28301-016.

That sounded familiar to me, and Googling showed me why. Props to series creator Greg Garcia for a great joke.

Here's the (admittedly sparse) episode guide from tv.com.

Update: Welcome, Eschaton readers! And thanks to Mark Howard of News Corpse for creating the graphic and giving me permission (in comments) to use it here.

8 comments:

Candymarl said...

Ha, ha! Classic.

Blogtopus said...

I love that subtle humor... and you know that red america won't get it so you don't have to worry about idiocy ala 'MoveOn' feigned outrage.

News Corpse said...

Nice work, Anthony.

I made up a graphic that you might like borrow.

Anonymous said...

"you don't have to worry about idiocy ala 'MoveOn' feigned outrage"

I don't know--would you bet your life right now that Democrats in Congress wouldn't go along with a resolution to condemn "My Name Is Earl"?

Tom Hilton said...

That is awesome. I love that show.

alain said...

Anonymous has written some interesting pieces, but the bulk of his output is shite.

John Eje Thelin said...

I'd watch that show if Jason Lee wasn't part of the most odious cult this side of the Bushitas; the Scientologists. I take it as my duty to boycott their work as much as I can.

tom said...

Nice find!