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 find a 100,000 dollar scratch card - and immediately loses it when he's run down celebrating in the road.
Homeless and woozy in hospital. Earl has an epiphany and decides Karma is getting even with him for all his misdeeds. 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 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). This leaves 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. Kenny turns out to be gay, something Earl is not prepared to deal with. He decides not to help - but then 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...
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