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Joy's guilty feelings over Earl taking the rap for a crime she committed suddenly evaporate after she sees an old Crab Shack friend from back in the day during visiting hours. And as it turns out, it's not just Joy who knows Frank; like a butterfly stamping his feet, the whole gang owe their friendships to Frank's actions a few years ago.
Joy's guilty feelings over Earl taking the rap for a crime she committed suddenly evaporate after she sees an old Crab Shack friend from back in the day during visiting hours. And as it turns out, it's not just Joy who knows Frank; like a butterfly stamping his feet, the whole gang owe their friendships to Frank's actions a few years ago.
Having been kicked out by their dad, Earl and Randy end up homeless until they spot a rental opportunity in a trailer park, sub-letting Frank's kitchen with a Mexican called Paco living in the parlour planning to bring his Mexican girlfriend to the US.
With money tight they planned a big robbery but Earl got cold feet and ended up hammered in the Crab Shack the night before the job, which is where a desperate and heavily pregnant Joy made her move – turning Earl's shotgun robbery into a shotgun wedding.
Finding only Randy watching TV with no sign of Frank or Paco after their honeymoon, Earl assumed they were living it up on a beach somewhere spending the cash. As it turned out in the escape Paco spotted the newly-delivered Catalina on the side of the road and crashed the getaway car into the FBI van dropping Darnell off into the witness protection programme.
Without Frank Catalina wouldn't have ended up in the US the first time around, there wouldn’t have been a vacancy in the Crab Shack for Darnell and as Joy quickly realises, her and Earl wouldn't have got married. And if she hadn't dragged him off to Vegas on honeymoon he'd have been serving a 20 year sentence for armed robbery, rather than the two years for her crime. So if anything, Earl owes her!
Karmic Words of Wisdom
"Half the time I don't know whether he’s saying "Sake" or "Sucky"" Patty the Daytime Prostitute
"You're both going to feel awful bad if this turns out to be the baby Jesus or a tumour!" Joy
"I'm not going to be called Miss Hickey, it took me until the fifth grade to get rid of that nickname and I am sure as hell not going back to it now!" Joy
"Half the time I don't know whether he’s saying "Sake" or "Sucky"" Patty the Daytime Prostitute
"You're both going to feel awful bad if this turns out to be the baby Jesus or a tumour!" Joy
"I'm not going to be called Miss Hickey, it took me until the fifth grade to get rid of that nickname and I am sure as hell not going back to it now!" Joy
