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Meet small time crook Earl J Hickey; a lowlife petty crook living in Camden County with his wife Joy and their two kids Dodge and Earl Junior, (although neither is actually his). His brother Randy lives on their couch and they spend their days pulling minor scams and kicking back with a few brewskis with Darnell at Ernie's Crab Shack.
Meet small time crook Earl J Hickey; a lowlife petty crook living in Camden County with his wife Joy and their two kids Dodge and Earl Junior, (although neither is actually his). His brother Randy lives on their couch and they spend their days pulling minor scams and kicking back with a few brewskis with Darnell at Ernie's Crab Shack.
Things are pretty sweet, but after a life spent stealin', cheatin' and lyin' Earl finally gets a wake-up call when he wins 100,000 dollars on a scratch card, and immediately loses it all when he's run down celebrating in the road. Not only that, Joy then tricks him into getting a divorce leaving him with nothing.
Homeless and woozy in hospital Earl has an epiphany and decides Karma is getting even with him for all his misdeeds and taking Carson Daley's creed to heart, "Do good things and good things happen to you", he writes a list of all his bad deeds he's done and sets out to clear his slate.
Earl's efforts are immediately rewarded when he finds his lost scratch card whilst picking up rubbish (Number 136 – Been a Litterbug), leaving him free to concentrate on the list starting with Number 64 Picked on Kenny James, the kid he bullied at school.
But making it up to him proves harder than Earl imagined when Kenny turns out to be gay, something Earl is not prepared to deal with. However as soon as he decides not to help Joy turns up looking for the lottery money and Randy gets smacked around the head with a telephone.
Which is when Earl realises he may have made the list but Karma makes the rules, and he ends up taking Kenny to a gay bar. One down, 258 to go...
Which is when Earl realises he may have made the list but Karma makes the rules, and he ends up taking Kenny to a gay bar. One down, 258 to go...
Karmic Words of Wisdom
"Some people might think getting so drunk you accidentally marry a woman six months pregnant is a good reason to stop drinking. Personally, I think it's a good reason to keep drinking." Earl
"Hey Sweetie, I'm from Greenpeace. I need to talk to you about the sky, the whales and all that crap." Patty the daytime prostitute
"Thanks for pinning me on the ground, prying open my eyes with your fingers and pouring the milk in." Kenny
"Some people might think getting so drunk you accidentally marry a woman six months pregnant is a good reason to stop drinking. Personally, I think it's a good reason to keep drinking." Earl
"Hey Sweetie, I'm from Greenpeace. I need to talk to you about the sky, the whales and all that crap." Patty the daytime prostitute
"Thanks for pinning me on the ground, prying open my eyes with your fingers and pouring the milk in." Kenny
