My Name Is Earl is an
American comedy created by
Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the
NBC television network from September 20, 2005 to May 14, 2009 in the United States. It was produced by
20th Century Fox Television.
Overview
Set in fictional Camden County, 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 Americanized concept of karmic retribution when he hears about
karma during an episode of
Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides he wants to turn his life around, and so makes a list of every bad thing he's ever done in an attempt to correct them, as he believes that this is the only way he can gain positive karma. After doing his first good deed, he finds the $100,000 lottery ticket he had previously lost. 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.