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22 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 27, 200742 mins
Earl begins his jail sentence and discovers that life is not easy behind bars. He persistently tries to find out the best approach to surviving in his new environment. Meanwhile, Joy finds out, after a few failed attempts, the perfect gift to pay Earl back for taking her spot in jail comes in the form of taking care of Randy, who is also having a hard time adjusting to his new life without Earl. In prison, Earl is sought out by a bully, who has lived most of his life in jail as a result of Young Earl's mischief. This new life for Earl behind bars must mean years of bad karma or does it?

Episode 2
Thu, Sep 27, 200721 mins
Earl begins his prison sentence. Meanwhile, Joy tries to repay Earl by taking care of Randy, who is struggling to adjust, and a prison bully is looking for Earl.

Episode 3
Thu, Oct 4, 200722 mins
The warden offers Earl a month off his sentence if he can negotiate a truce between the African-American gang and the Latino gang. But during the negotiations, he learns that the two leaders are actually in love.

Episode 4
Thu, Oct 11, 200722 mins
Earl runs into his old roommate Frank, who is in prison for a bank robbery that Earl and Randy were supposed to help with. However, Earl missed the robbery at the last minute because he married Joy the night before.

Episode 5
Thu, Oct 18, 200722 mins
While Earl struggles to write a paper for his prison creative writing class, Randy, Joy, Darnell, and Catalina have no trouble coming up with creative story ideas of their own.

Episode 6
Thu, Oct 25, 200722 mins
Earl tries to get Frank back together with his girlfriend after she breaks up with him, but he has second thoughts when he discovers that she'd be better off without him. Meanwhile Catalina gets a compromising cell phone photo of Joy.

Episode 7
Thu, Nov 1, 200739 mins
While enjoying TV time in prison, Earl and Randy are excited when they see that the show "Cops" is filming in Camden County.

Episode 8
Thu, Nov 1, 200720 mins
Randy and the prisoners watch a second episode of "Cops," which features the Camden County Police responding to a series of disturbances on the first 4th of July after 9/11.

Episode 9
Thu, Nov 8, 200721 mins
Earl is supposed to set up a "scared straight" lecture for school kids, until he gets in a fight with Randy over who's taking care of whom. Meanwhile, Joy tries to induce labor.

Episode 10
Thu, Nov 15, 200722 mins
Earl and Randy are teamed up against their will to catch Frank, who escaped from a prison van under Randy's watch. Joy and her sister fight over how Joy's baby will be born.

Episode 11
Thu, Nov 29, 200721 mins
The warden promises to take the last six months off of Earl's sentence if he helps him out of one final jam. It ultimately will require him to spend the remainder of his lottery winnings on putting on a prom in the prison.

Episode 12
Thu, Dec 6, 200721 mins
The warden reneges on his promise to Earl to grant an early release, so Earl launches a plan to escape from prison.

Episode 13
Thu, Jan 10, 200823 mins
Earl is out of prison, but he and Randy are broke and homeless. So when he sees Ralph living the good life doing bad things, he declares that there is no karma and throws away the list.

Episode 14
Thu, Apr 3, 200841 mins
Earl is in a coma after being hit by a car. Randy steals an ambulance to get him to the hospital, but getting there proves to be difficult and complicated.

Episode 15
Thu, Apr 3, 200822 mins
Nothing can get Earl out of his coma, so Randy turns to a young faith healer from their past. However, the boy says that he no longer heals people because he discovered how Earl lived his life after he "healed" him the first time.

Episode 16
Thu, Apr 10, 200822 mins
After Randy discovers crossing items off Earl's list improves his condition, he decides to try and cross off "stole a motorcycle." Unfortunately, both he and Earl were drunk as a skunk when they stole the motorcycle which forces Randy to map that night step by step to find out where they left the motorcycle. Meanwhile, comatose Earl is still living in his sitcom fantasy world with Billie, who turns out to be pregnant.

Episode 17
Thu, Apr 17, 200822 mins
Earl is still comatose and Randy tries to make up for ruining their parents' vacation. In a long flashback, we see Earl and Randy as they're supposed to house-sit while their parents go on vacation. When they find a duffel bag filled with marijuana in their truck after shopping for booze with Joy, they decide to sell it. Back at the liquor store to buy some tiny bags to put the pot in, the guy who stashed the duffel bag in the their truck spots them, holds them at gun point and demands they take him to where the bag is so he can get his marijuana back. When they return to their parents' place they find that their parents are home because their flight has been delayed. And to make matters worse, their dad has burned the drugs!

Episode 18
Thu, Apr 24, 200822 mins
Earl is still in a coma but released from the hospital, and Randy finds a way to get him to cross an item off the list by helping out a pair of paraplegic siblings.

Episode 19
Thu, May 1, 200822 mins
Now that Earl is out of his coma, he sets out to find his true love, Billie. However, finding her is difficult, and he discovers that she has several other suitors trying to get her.

Episode 20
Thu, May 8, 200821 mins
Billie starts her own list, and she and Earl help out a grocery store bagger whom they share on their lists. However, Earl soon discovers that Billie doesn't completely understand the concept of karma and The List.

Episode 21
Thu, May 15, 200843 mins
Earl discovers that helping the women he wronged on his list causes karma to improve his marriage to Billie.

Episode 22
Thu, May 15, 200821 mins
When Earl finds out that making up for all the bad things he did to women changes Billie's behavior to the good, he picks the worst thing he ever did to women on his list. Furthermore, Billie also wants him to choose between her and his list.
