My Name Is Earl: 3.18 ‘Killerball’ Recap
April 29, 2008 by Chandra
Original Air Date: April 24, 2008
The hospital decides to kick out still comatose EARL, and RANDY is offered a choice: put Earl in a state-run home or accept $2000 in Camden cash, redeemable at over six local locations. After he sees the Camden cash can be used for paintball, Randy chooses the second option, of course.
As he reveals to doubtful JOY and DARNELL later, however, his main concern looking after Earl is to get his older brother better so he can start taking care of things on his Karma list himself. In fact, that’s what Randy becomes preoccupied with — identifying those past trespasses on the list that Earl can rectify while still comatose.
After buying a pimp’s pimped-out wheelchair from prostitute PATTY, Randy first determines that Earl can make amends to DERRICK STONE, a fellow trailer park resident who had a 9-to-5 job, until the Hickey boys got him fired when they buried his car under a mountain of dirt, making him late for work.
Why did they do that? Because the noise Derrick’s car made when he started it each weekday morning kept them from sleeping to their normal wake-up time of 5pm. Randy leaves Earl in the back of the car to help Derrick use the carpool lane to get to work faster, unaware that Derrick sold the vehicle to a woman in the trailer park after they buried it and he lost his job and girlfriend, who didn’t want to be involved with a slacker.
Yet, Randy’s actions help Derrick in the future. The pretty new owner of the car becomes afraid to drive alone after her run-in with Earl, and she asks an enthusiastic Derrick if he’d like to carpool with her.
The next thing on the list Randy decides Earl can tackle relates to the time they stole wheelchairs from BRETT and TIFFANY HENSEN, two neighborhood kids they were jealous of because their parents always took them on nice vacations. One trip was skydiving, where the entire family ended up injured and in wheelchairs for life.
When the Hickey boys stole their wheelchairs, the two Hensen children were left out on the ground, in the hot sun. Randy figures he can cross them off the list by leaving Earl outside on the hot ground, too.
Unfortunately, the Hensens were also dry humped by a Doberman, something Randy can’t replicate and finds insanely funny, to boot. He laughs so hard, the now-grown Hensens just roll away when he asks if everything’s even.
Soon, the situation takes a turn for the better when Tiffany offers to let Randy cross her off the list if she can borrow Earl to make her wheelchair-bound ex-boyfriend T.R. jealous enough to take her back. So, she, Earl, Randy, Joy, and Darnell attend a Killerball game featuring wheelchair-bound players to execute the plan.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work very well initially since T.R., who plays on the team competing with Brett’s, seems not to care about Tiffany’s new man. When Brett’s team begins losing and one player stands up, getting himself disqualified because he can walk, it appears Brett’s team will lose on the technicality of being one man down.
Brett then tells Randy that he’ll let himself be crossed off Earl’s list if Earl steps in as a replacement. Randy controls Earl’s chair with a joystick, and Tiffany finally makes T.R. jealous when she yells out that she loves Earl’s fully functioning penis.
T.R. throws the ball at Earl angrily, and the ball ricochets off Earl’s head, allowing Brett to win the game when the ball lands in his lap. The hit to the head also wakes Earl up from his coma, where he’s spent the entire episode imagining himself and BILLIE, still married on the sitcom The Hickeys, and the rest of the gang fifty years later.
