“My Name Is Earl”: Nature’s Game Show

A tornado is hitting the trailer park in Camden County, and the “Finders Keepers” rule is in effect — you basically get to keep whatever piece of debris you find. (This is how Earl got the blue door on his El Camino.) The storm sets off a chain of events in which a flying Bible, a flying gun that shoots blanks and a flying boat are all taken for spiritual signs. As Earl, Randy, Joy, Crab Man, Patty and Catalina end up taking shelter from the tornado in the cellar of a church, they all start to realize the events are just random coincidence, not signs from God or karma. But in the church parking lot, they find a man with his two sons — and the boat, the gun, the Bible and the blue door of Earl’s El Camino all originally belong to him.

What We Learned

McGyver’s not fictional. Fictional characters are in books. MacGyver’s on TV.

Always choose shiny over heavy.

Gun rules trump tornado rules.

Finding out that God made your little brother invincible kind of changes the relationship.

I don’t know how old God is, but He’s got to be getting up there.

Wisdom From Randy: Doing awesome superhero stuff will get you so much ass.

Crab Man Chronicles: Crab Man explains that natural disasters are a time in which people ascribe heightened meaning to random events of physics.

Dan Coscino Sighting!: The first appearance of Dan Coscino this season! He’s got a non-speaking, non-singing role, but he sure does have a liking for women’s shoes.

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