I recently received the My Name is Earl Season One DVD set for my birthday (thanks, Moe!), and it had an interesting extra: a mini-episode titled “Bad Karma” about what would have happened had Earl watched Family Guy instead of Carson Daly while he was full of painkillers in the hospital. The episode is about 15 minutes long and loosely follows the “real” Earl pilot’s plot, but instead of Daly’s philosophy of karma, Earl decided to follow Stewie Griffith’s philosophy of revenge. Earl makes a list not of people he wronged, but of people who wronged him.
And then enacts his plans for revenge.
It was pretty interesting (and funny) to see Earl in a completely different light, but it was even more interesting how the mini-episode felt like a “real” episode of Earl.
So, if you’ve got $35 or so laying around, the Season One DVD set gets a high recommendation from me. Not only do you get the first season episodes of the very smart and very funny series, but a little extra as well.
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