My Name Is Earl: 3.16 ‘Stole a Motorcycle’ Recap
Original Air Date: April 10, 2008
Still in a Coma
Following EARL and BILLIE’s double car accident, Earl remains in a coma in the hospital. RANDY has already learned that his brother’s health will improve if he crosses things off on his Karma list for him, so Randy arrives at the hospital to determine which item he should tackle next. Since all Earl does is drool these days, the only way for him to choose the next item is by drooling on the list. His spit lands on “Stole a motorcycle,” to Randy’s great dismay.
Earl and Randy Take a Crime Walk
One day, Earl and Randy were out taking a so-called “crime walk,” scoping out stuff to steal, when they came across a motorcycle in the lot of a garage. The keys were still in it and the garage employees, the Teutul family from TLC’s American Chopper, were off somewhere arguing and distracted, so Earl and Randy hopped on, drove away, and proceeded to get blackout drunk on beer and booze in a park. The next day, they woke up on a school bus full of students, and Randy can’t remember how they got there or where they left the stolen ride.
Billie’s Got News!
Meanwhile, in Earl’s Ozzie & Harriet-style dream sitcom The Hickey’s, Earl overhears his wife Billie praising her new gigolo to JOY on the phone when he picks it up to order takeout for dinner. Determined to catch Billie and her secret lover in the act, Earl pretends to go to work the next day but hides inside the house instead.
He startles Billie when she unexpectedly finds him behind a closet door, and she breaks the big news. She wasn’t talking about an affair on the phone. She was telling Joy about her new doctor, who’s difficult to get an appointment with because he’s so in-demand, and the fact that she’s pregnant.
Motorcycles, Chicken, and the Crab Shack
Back in reality, Randy pays a visit to JASPER, a local guy who’s been shot more times than rapper 50 Cent, to find out what happened to the stolen motorcycle. All Jasper knows is that the Hickey brothers tried to sell the vehicle to him, but he wound up trading Randy a chicken suit for the chain instead. Jasper only wanted the chain to prevent the brothers from driving the bike drunk and possibly hitting kids, some of whom might be his since he’s slept around so much.
Randy goes to the Crab Shack next, where he’s surprised to learn from DARNELL that they came in there that night, too. After committing what his dad calls “general jackassery,” Darnell had to call the cops to get them to leave and stop scaring customers with the chicken costume Randy was wearing to prevent people from eating chicken.
Midnight Run
The brothers then happened past HOMELESS JOE, who saw them drive by at midnight, Randy in a tiny car and Earl in a tiny airplane. When Randy drove off the side of the road, the brothers got in a fight that ended with Earl pushing Randy into oncoming traffic. Luckily, it was just two motorcycles, and the drivers veered around Randy.
Still, Randy’s shocked to learn that Earl tried to kill him, even when he realizes that the way to find the motorcycle is to retrace their steps that night backwards. Another clue leads him, Joy, and Darnell to the Knights of Camden.
An old man there recognizes Randy immediately from the time he showed up at the group’s new member mixer. Earl arrived later with some kind of antenna and attacked Randy, who trampled black tar all over the dance floor. That’s when Randy fled in the tiny car parked outside, with Earl in hot pursuit.
The Knights of Camden even have a picture on the wall of Earl chasing Randy with the antenna, and it brings Randy’s memory back about that night. As Joy clarifies, Earl actually had the pantenna, an antenna from the trailer park covered in panties. Women used to throw their underwear on it to see if their latest flame was true love (panties stay up) or a giver of the clap (panties fall down).
Up on the Roof
Earl and Randy wound up on the roof of Deaf Charlie’s trailer, where the pantenna was located, after they fled from the Crab Shack when Darnell called the police. They were convinced they had to hide the motorcycle because they were sure the police were looking for it. The roof seemed like a good place.
Unfortunately, Earl got the hiccups when the cops arrived, and Randy covered his mouth and held his nose to get him to stop making noise. Randy persisted until the cops left ten minutes later, at which time Earl appeared dead. Grief-stricken, Randy took off the chicken costume and ran away, ending up at the Knights of Camden.
He stepped in a pail of tar on the trailer’s roof before he climbed down, but was too emotional to realize it. Earl wasn’t dead, however, and when he came to and got angry after realizing what happened, he broke off the pantenna and followed Randy’s tar footsteps to the Knights of Camden.
Lost Then Found … Then Lost Again?
Randy, Joy, and Darnell go back to the trailer and find the motorcycle still there. They return it to the Teutuls, which allows Randy to cross off “Stole a motorcycle” on the list. At the hospital, Randy holds Earl’s hand while he reports the development.
In Earl’s dream sitcom, Billie goes into labor and delivers a healthy baby in the hospital’s broken elevator. Randy suddenly shows up on top of it and reaches down to grab Earl’s hand after he removes a panel from the ceiling. Then in real life and the dream, Earl squeezes Randy’s hand.
Joy and Darnell run out to find a doctor, while Randy hugs his brother with joy. It feels so good Randy decides to hug Earl all night. But, he’s too emotional to realize that he’s actually suffocating Earl — again — as the decreasing stats on the machine Earl’s hooked up to indicate.
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