Number One (My Name Is Earl)

"Number One (My Name Is Earl)"

"Number One" is an episode of the American sitcom My Name Is Earl; it is the final episode of the first season.

Synopsis

Earl decides to let Crabman choose which task to complete next on his list. He chooses number one, "Stole ten dollars from a guy at Camden Market". While watching a security tape with him stealing the money, Earl discovers the identity of the man (Paul) as well as another shocking secret: he was going to use the money Earl stole to buy the same winning lottery ticket. Earl decides that he must give Paul all of the winnings, including the money he spent. Randy hates the idea of being poor again, but Earl assures him karma will make everything okay, as long as he keeps completing items on the list.

Randy finds some money in the gutter and uses it to buy a lottery ticket, but it turns out he bought a joke lottery ticket and thus wins nothing. Desperate for money, Earl sells his El Camino for $1,200 (USD) but realizes he still owes Paul and prepares to bring him the money. Randy doesn't want him to, and the two begin to fight. While fighting, the bus they are on hits Paul. They visit Paul in the hospital, and Earl learns more about the day he was hit: as Earl was leaving with the winning lotto ticket, he is hit by an old woman in her car. Paul sees Earl get hit but also sees the winning lotto ticket. Paul chooses to pocket the ticket and forget about the injured man in the middle of the road (the old lady fled the scene as well). Paul was hit by the same woman minutes later, and the ticket then drifted around for several days until it was found once again by Earl. Paul also reveals that the old lady who injured Earl and himself was also the one responsible for Paul getting hit by the bus (she sticks her bus map in front of the driver's face). Paul has a revelation similar to Earl's (he refers to the old woman as "Old Lady Karma"), only he realizes that he should not have the money because he does not like the person it makes him. He gives Earl back the lottery money, Earl buys back his El Camino, and things go back to normal.

Quotes

• As she did in the episode "Barn Burner", when Catalina berates Joy in Spanish she is actually talking directly to the viewer:

Joy: ...which means I'm legal, unlike you (points at Catalina)

Catalina (angrily): Con esto concluimos nuestra primera temporada de "Earl". Estamos muy agradecidos con su acompañiamento. Anticipamos verlos el próximo otoño. This concludes our first season of "Earl". We are very grateful to have had you with us. We'll see you this Fall.

Joy: Blah, blah, blah

The List

Main article: The List (My Name Is Earl)

Item	Number	Source	Status
Stole ten dollars from a guy at Camden Market (used to buy winning lottery ticket)	1	1.24 the season finale, The Vancouver Sun	Gave him the lottery winnings back, but he gave it back to Earl.
Refused to dance with too-tall Maggie at the 8th grade dance	206	1.24	Completed when Earl dances with Maggie
Ruined Joy's chance to get into art school	119	1.24	Completed when Earl lets Joy practice her hole piercing on him

Trivia

• The scene where Randy finds money in the gutter and uses it to buy a lottery ticket is a parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, right down to the music and dialogue.
• The series creator Greg Garcia made a cameo: He plays Maggie's father in the scene where Earl is dancing with Maggie.
• When Randy and Earl go to see Paul at his house, a Gibson Les Paul guitar can be seen in the background.
• In the same scene, Randy completes a Rubik's Cube
• Paul's basement is covered with Farrah Fawcett posters
• In the flashback about art school, Earl is shown wearing a Metallica t-shirt. In the episode Bounty Hunter, he wore that same shirt when he and Joy got back from a Metallica concert
• This episode features Ethan Suplee (Randy) and Max Perlich (Paul). Both Suplee and Perlich starred together in the 2001 film Blow where Suplee plays Johnny Depp's (George Jung) Marijuana dealing accomplice Tuna and Perlich plays Jung's cocaine smuggling associate/informant Kevin Dulli.

Songs

#	Song Title	Artist
1	"Simple Man"	Lynyrd Skynyrd
2	"The Boys Are Back in Town"	Thin Lizzy
3	"Here You Come Again"	Dolly Parton
4	"Hold On Tight"	Electric Light Orchestra