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My Name Is Earl Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
The Magic Hour
Thu, Sep 25, 200822 mins
Earl wants to make up for stealing a horse that was supposed to make a dying kid's wish come true ten years ago. When he and Randy visit the kid's mother to ask her what they can do to cross him off the list, it turns out the kid (Buddy) is still alive and wants Earl to help him make a movie in which he plays the hero who saves the day and gets the girl. Earl is the producer of the film while Randy plays the president and Joy the pretty girl. Of course, making the movie turns out to be easier said than done.
Episode 2
Monkeys Take a Bath
Thu, Sep 25, 200823 mins
When they were kids, Earl and Randy once saw their rather sensitive neighbor Clark Clark cry and decided to play tricks on him (like giving him a newspaper stating the suicide rate under babies has increased) just to see him cry again. Not much later, he and his wife moved. Now, Earl wants to make up for this and he visits Clark Clark to apologize and ask him what he can do to cross him off the list. Clark then tells Earl the reason he moved wasn't the pranks, it was because he had sex with Earl's mother! Shocked, Earl goes to his parent's house and confronts his mum. When his dad finds out, he moves in with Earl and sets out for revenge by having a one-night-stand as well.
Episode 3
Joy in a Bubble
Thu, Oct 2, 200821 mins
Earl gives Joy a hot tub he found on the side of the road to cross an item off his list. However, Joy suffers an infection, and Crabman quarantines her in the trailer. As a result, Earl must perform Joy's daily chores.
Episode 4
Stole an RV
Thu, Oct 2, 200822 mins
Earl and Randy make amends for a depressed elderly man whose RV they stole years earlier. Their efforts fire him up enough that the man now wants to take revenge on another man who left him on the front line during the Korean War.
Episode 5
Sweet Johnny
Thu, Oct 9, 200821 mins
Earl needs to make up for sleeping with local stuntman's girlfriend. Joy gets carjacked and feels the need to buy a gun.
Episode 6
We've Got Spirit
Thu, Oct 16, 200821 mins
Earl makes some great personal sacrifices to help Randy realize his dream of going to cheerleading camp, and Joy is upset because her son finds Catalina sexier than her.
Episode 7
Quit Your Snitchin'
Thu, Oct 23, 200822 mins
Earl finds out that he is no longer covered by the criminal code of ethics when someone steals Randy's birthday present from him. When he learns that the law of the underworld no longer protects him, Earl struggles with the idea of going to the police, despite Joy's protests that snitches are the lowest of the low.
Episode 8
Little Bad Voodoo Brother
Thu, Oct 30, 200821 mins
Earl has a chance to cross two items off his list by throwing Joy's boys a Halloween party, and getting Randy a "little brother"--Catalina's nephew. But both could fail because everyone thinks Catalina's nephew is possessed.
Episode 9
Sold a Guy a Lemon Car
Thu, Nov 6, 200822 mins
Earl discovers that the apparent psychopath who has moved in next door to him and Randy at the hotel is actually a guy from his past who is on the list.
Episode 10
Earl and Joy's Anniversary
Thu, Nov 13, 200822 mins
Earl reminisces about his and Joy's near-disastrous first wedding anniversary party, in which Earl finds out that Joy slept with Earl's cousin who is better than him at everything.
Episode 11
Nature's Game Show
Thu, Nov 20, 200822 mins
During a series of tornadoes in Camden County, Earl loses his list, Randy believes that he has super powers, Catalina finds religion, and Joy and Darnell argue over Joy's intelligence.
Episode 12
Reading Is a Funda Mental Case
Thu, Dec 4, 200822 mins
Earl and Randy discover that an old friend is living in the woods in a Bookmobile they stole years earlier, and that he has gone completely crazy.
Episode 13
Orphan Earl
Thu, Dec 11, 200822 mins
When Earl tries to make amends to a man that he conned out of $100, he discovers that Joy and her friends are still conning him.
Episode 14
Got the Babysitter Pregnant
Thu, Jan 8, 200922 mins
Earl tries to help his old babysitter, whom he got pregnant by poking holes in her condom, by whipping her deadbeat son into shape. However, Randy gets mad at Earl when he recognizes the similarities between the man and himself.
Episode 15
Darnell Outed: Part 1
Thu, Jan 15, 200922 mins
Earl tries to get Joy a spot on a reality show starring Erik Estrada. However, he only causes great embarrassment, and accidentally gets Darnell's Witness Protection location revealed.
Episode 16
Darnell Outed: Part 2
Thu, Jan 22, 200922 mins
With Darnell's identity compromised, the Turners receive a new Witness Protection identity as a Jewish family. But what will they do with Joy gets a second chance to appear on "Estrada or Nada?"
Episode 17
Randy's List Item
Thu, Feb 5, 200922 mins
When Randy wins the lottery, he decides to create a list item for himself. Meanwhile, Joy is dissatisfied with her family's Witness Protection identities and locations.
Episode 18
Friends with Benefits
Thu, Feb 12, 200922 mins
Earl visits Joy at her new Witness Protection location to return Mr. Turtle to Darnell, and stays to help her make new friends. Meanwhile, Randy makes a new "friend" while Earl is gone.
Episode 19
My Name Is Alias
Thu, Feb 19, 200922 mins
Darnell's father uses Earl and Randy to track Darnell down and tell him that he can get his old identity back if he agrees to do one more top secret job for The Agency.
Episode 20
Chaz Dalton's Space Academy
Thu, Mar 5, 200922 mins
Earl makes amends to an astronaut on his list who runs a space academy, but in the process discovers that he's a fraud. However, the man he's posing turns out to be no better than the impostor.
Episode 21
Witch Lady
Thu, Mar 19, 200923 mins
Earl tries to make amends to Camden's "Witch Lady," which only sparks her anger and causes her to hold everyone who's wronged her in the past hostage in her basement.
Episode 22
Pinky
Thu, Mar 26, 200923 mins
Randy finds out that Pinky, his first childhood crush, was actually Joy and that Earl went behind his back for selfish reasons to break them up.
Episode 23
Bullies
Thu, Apr 16, 200922 mins
Earl tries to help a man he bullied in grade school, but hides his true identity because the man has become a scary bodybuilder. Meanwhile, Randy begins taking shark adrenaline so that he can finally stand up to Joy.
Episode 24
Gospel
Thu, Apr 23, 200922 mins
Earl's efforts to help a reverend who is on his list multiple times drive the reverend back to his old life of crime, while Joy risks getting her third strike when she hits Catalina with a riding lawn mower.
Episode 25
Inside Probe: Part 1
Thu, May 7, 200922 mins
The investigative television show "Inside Probe" looks into the disappearance of the owner of the Crab Shack.
Episode 26
Inside Probe: Part 2
Thu, May 7, 200921 mins
Part 2 of the "Inside Probe" investigation of the owner of the Crab Shack's disappearance uncovers surprising new revelations.
Episode 27
Dodge's Dad
Thu, May 14, 200922 mins
Joy tells Earl that Little Chubby is Dodge's father, and Little Chubby makes Earl's life Hell after he tells him the news.
