My Name Is Earl
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My Name Is Earl is an American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
Overview
My Name Is Earl is set in Camden County, a fictional location about which creator Greg Garcia says "the show doesn’t technically take place anywhere....we like to think it’s anywhere. We don’t really say exactly where it is". The series stars Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez. Lee stars in the title role as "Earl J. Hickey", a petty crook with occasional run-ins with the law, whose newly won $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is hit by a car. Lying in a hospital bed, under the influence of morphine, he develops a belief in the concept of karma when he hears about it during an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides he wants to turn his life around and makes a list of all the bad things he's ever done. After doing his first good deed, he finds his $100,000 lottery ticket. He sees this as a sign and, with his new lucky money, he proceeds to cross items off the list, one by one, by doing good deeds in correspondence to the list items to atone for them.
