My Name Is Earl (season 3)

My Name Is Earl (season 3)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	22
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 27, 2007 – May 15, 2008

The third season of My Name Is Earl originally aired from September 27, 2007 to May 15, 2008 on NBC.

Episodes

Originally, 25 episodes were planned for the season, but due to the writers' strike there were only 22 episodes.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
48/49	1/2	"My Name Is Inmate #28301-016"	Michael Fresco	Part 1: Michael Pennie Part 2: Kat Likkel & John Hoberg	September 27, 2007	048/049
Part 1: Earl attempts to go unnoticed in prison; this is made harder when he discovers someone on his list is in prison and is ready to kill him. Meanwhile Randy is having a hard time living without Earl. Seeing that Joy is eager to repay Earl for going to prison in her place, he requests that she and Darnell take Randy in. Part 2: Earl's initial attempts to help Glen only get him stabbed. The key to surviving in prison is not to be anonymous but to be himself. Earl starts by helping Glen do what he could not do before: earn his final scout badges. Joy tries to get Randy to start thinking for himself instead of relying on Earl to help him through life.
50	3	"The Gangs of Camden County"	Michael Fresco	Victor Fresco	October 4, 2007	053
Earl is offered a reduction of his sentence if he can resolve problems between rival gangs. He finds the task harder than he expected, as the leaders of the gangs are lovers. Meanwhile, Randy looks for ways to join Earl in prison.
51	4	"The Frank Factor"	Greg Garcia	Greg Garcia	October 11, 2007	050
Earl reunites with Frank, an old friend and now fellow inmate. They recall how Earl and Randy met Joy. The episode also touches upon how Catalina and Darnell came to Camden County. Guest star Howie Mandel as himself.
52	5	"Creative Writing"	Chris Koch	Bobby Bowman	October 18, 2007	054
The prison holds a class for creative writing, but Earl can't think of anything to write.
53	6	"Frank's Girl"	Eyal Gordin	Danielle Sanchez-Witzel	October 25, 2007	055
Earl feels guilty when Frank's girlfriend, Billie (Alyssa Milano), breaks up with him. Meanwhile Catalina whitemails Joy with an embarrassing photograph.
54/55	7/8	"Our Other Cops Is On!"	Ken Whittingham	Part 1: Timothy Stack Part 2: Vali Chandrasekaran	November 1, 2007	051/052
Part 1: Earl and Randy watch an episode of Cops in Camden County, involving most of the familiar local characters. Meanwhile, Kenny's hatred for Earl is caught on camera. Part 2: As a result of the Cops episode the prisoners' respect for Randy increases.
56	9	"Randy in Charge (...of Our Days and Our Nights)"	Eyal Gordin	Mike Mariano	November 8, 2007	056
The warden offers Earl five weeks off his prison sentence if he creates a Scared Straight program: Earl and Randy are to take convicts to the schools to perform skits designed to steer kids away from crime and to be eco-friendly. Meanwhile, Earl suggests that Randy might not be right for the job of prison guard. After the brothers quarrel over who really is in charge, Randy leaves Earl at the prison when taking the other prisoners for one of the presentations. Randy takes them for ice cream, but loses control and one inmate. Also, overdue surrogate mother Joy is desperate to give birth.
57	10	"Midnight Bun"	Eyal Gordin	Hilary Winston	November 15, 2007	057
An impatient Joy prepares to give birth and pressures Darnell to expedite the process. Frank escapes to collect his hidden loot, and it's up to a bickering Earl and Randy to go find him. Catalina babysits Joy's children.
58	11	"Burn Victim"	Gail Mancuso	Michael Shipley	November 29, 2007	058
After helping the Warden out with numerous tasks, Earl has discovered that his sentence has been reduced to six months left in jail. The Warden is faced in a major dilemma and needs Earl's help. He promises Earl six months off his sentence if he will help him start a program that will mediate a situation between an inmate and their victim. Earl decides on an inmate who was in for running a meth lab that eventually burned his parents' house down. The inmate agrees to participate if Earl would throw a prison prom, because he missed his in high school. Earl turns to Joy to help plan the prom, and soon discovers it will cost him the rest of the money he had left from his lottery winnings. Knowing that paying for the prom will earn him his freedom, Earl agrees to give up the rest of his money and the night is a success. But the inmate reneges on the deal and refuses to reconcile with his parents, leading Earl to settle things in a more direct style.
59	12	"Early Release"	Jason Ensler	Jessica Goldstein & Chrissy Pietrosh	December 6, 2007	059
Thanks to all of the early release certificates that Earl has received from the Warden, the day has finally come for Earl to be released from prison... except he doesn't, as the Warden, not wanting to lose Earl after all the help he's given, has shredded all his early release certificates. Earl confronts the Warden who offers him a new deal: help out around the prison or be thrown in solitary confinement. When Earl refuses, he is thrown in solitary for sixty days which sends him crazy, leading Randy and fellow inmate Frank to devise a plan to get Earl out of jail. With the help of Darnell, Joy and Catalina on the outside combined with Randy and Frank's help on the inside, Earl should be home free. Or will he?
60	13	"Bad Earl"	Eyal Gordin	Alan Kirschenbaum	January 10, 2008	060
Earl's lifestyle in prison seems to be transitioning to his regular life outside of bars. He's having a hard time adjusting back to normal life and continues to hold a grudge with karma. He has no money left; the motel gives away his room; and as an ex-convict he can find only a demeaning job. A half-hearted attempt to cross an item off the list leads to his humiliation and, upon seeing that Ralph is living a lavish life after conning an elderly woman, he decides there is no karma and refuses to do the list anymore. After Earl slaps Catalina's backside, knocks over Joy and Darnell's trailer and forces Randy to sleep in the car on Christmas Eve (having taken over conning the elderly woman from Ralph), everyone partakes in an intervention on Christmas morning to try to make Earl change his ways. Earl rejects his friends and tries to run from karma, but karma catches up to him in the shape of a car, and Billie.
61/62	14/15	"I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends"	Marc Buckland	Part 1: Greg Garcia Part 2: Bobby Bowman	April 3, 2008	061/062
Part 1: Earl is still lying in the middle of the road next to Billie, both of whom are unconscious after being hit by a car. The accident puts Earl in a coma and takes him to an alternate world in the form of a sitcom. Meanwhile, the doctor rejects Earl so Randy, Joy, Darnell and Catalina steal an ambulance to get Earl to the hospital. Karma still seems to be getting the better of Earl when the stretcher is lost and becomes stuck to the front of a truck driven by a crazy lady who claims not to know that he is unconscious. Randy and the others get there and "steal" Earl and take him to the hospital. Part 2: Earl is still in a coma, but the doctors at the hospital refuse to try to pull him out of it. After desperate attempts to wake him up, Randy tracks down a little boy who can cure everything with his finger. The boy refuses to help because he thinks Joy has the devil on her side, so Darnell and Randy try to prove to him that she does not. Meanwhile in the sitcom world, Earl gets a promotion but will have to leave town for good to have it. Has Earl's bad karma gotten the best of him? Will he find the strength to survive his coma? Guest stars Paris Hilton as herself.
63	16	"Stole a Motorcycle"	Eyal Gordin	Kat Likkel & John Hoberg	April 10, 2008	063
Earl is still in a coma, but Randy realizes that each item he completes off Earl's list helps Earl get better. After letting fate pick his next task, Randy gathers Joy and Darnell to help him solve the mystery of a motorcycle stolen from the Teutul family. Randy cannot remember anything about that day because both he and Earl were drunk. He must retrace his steps, with the help of Joy and Darnell, and try to fix the problem before Earl's condition gets worse. Meanwhile, Earl's life in a coma is still in sitcom form and his wife, Billie, is pregnant. Earl and Billie have a baby boy and are very happy. Is this alternate life in Earl's mind his ideal life? Guest starring Paul Teutul, Sr., Paul Teutul, Jr. and cast members of American Chopper.
64	17	"No Heads and a Duffel Bag"	Michael Fresco	Hunter Covington	April 17, 2008	064
With Earl still in a coma, Randy and Joy continue crossing items off Earl's list to improve his recovery. Earl's parents went on a vacation and left the house to Earl and Randy. Upon returning early from the airport due to a flight delay they found a duffel bag full of marijuana in the house. Carl, Earl's dad (Beau Bridges), is very mad and destroys all of it, only to find Earl, Joy and Randy return home with an angry drug dealer holding a gun demanding his entire duffel bag full of weed back. Carl, reluctantly, was left with no other decision than to buy back all the marijuana from the local drug dealer. What will Randy do to amend this situation? Or is this a task that Earl can resolve just by listening to his father? Note: This episode features a voice-over by someone other than Earl.
65	18	"Killerball"	Eyal Gordin	Matt Ward	April 24, 2008	065
Randy decides that putting Earl in long-term care is not the best decision, so he takes care of Earl himself. Joy and Darnell do not approve of Randy's newly adopted responsibility of taking care of his brother, but let it play out for a bit. Randy feels that if they work together to complete tasks off the list, then Earl might recover even faster. Together they tackle the next task off Earl's list. Earl and Randy messed with two kids in the past, handicapped thanks to skydiving gone wrong, and Randy makes up for by having comatose Earl "participate" in a handicapped sport with some fancy remote controls. Meanwhile, Earl and his sitcom world counterparts have suddenly aged into senior citizens, allowing Earl to discover he's living in a fake world and finally emerge from his coma.
66	19	"Love Octagon"	Michael Fresco	Danielle Sanchez-Witzel	May 1, 2008	066
After waking up from a coma, Earl now knew what was important in his life and he was set on going after it. He knew that he had to find Billie, whom he felt karma brought to him to be his soul mate. No one knows where to find Billie and so Earl turned to an unlikely place, Frank. Elsewhere, Darnell and Joy have moved into the Crab Shack, since their trailer is still turned on its side (from the events in "Bad Earl"). The episode is dedicated to one of the show's producers in the Amigos de Garcia Productions logo that states: "Our Amigo Forever!" 1943-2008.
67	20	"Girl Earl"	Eyal Gordin	Ralph Greene	May 8, 2008	067
After karma leads Earl back to Billie, they decide that they were meant to give their relationship a chance. Billie is inspired by Earl's good deeds and creates a karma list of her own. On her list is a champion grocery bagger (guest star Jon Heder) that both Billie and Earl previously stole from so they track him down to make things right. After they find the grocery bagger completely down and out, Earl quickly discovers another side of Billie and what being in a relationship with her is really like.
68/69	21/22	"Camdenites"	Michael Fresco	Michael Pennie & Hilary Winston	May 15, 2008	068/069
Part 1: Earl is still questioning karma bringing Billie into his life. With the troubles in their marriage escalating, Earl turns to friends for advice. He realizes the best advice he gets is to follow his dad's example, which was to just work late and spend less time with his wife. In Earl's world, working late meant spending a lot more time devoted to the list. For a while it seemed to really work. Part 2: Billie grows very annoyed of Earl's karmic list and forces Earl to choose between the list and Billie. When Earl chooses the list, Billie starts to undo all his good deeds by hurting the residents of Camden County. Earl focuses on helping the Camdenites, an Amish-like sect, by convincing one of the young women, Greta, to return to the sect. When Billie hijacks Greta, played by Deborah Ann Woll, (who develops an attraction to Randy), Earl thinks all is lost. But Billie, in an attempt to escape the law, stumbles into the Camdenite compound and joins the religious order. She briefly returns to make amends with Earl, grant him a divorce, and in an act of good karma, gave him the remainder of her insurance settlement amounting to $72,000. With his faith in karma fully restored, Earl reflects afterward that after being sent to prison, rejecting karma and ending up in a coma he is finally back where he belongs.

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