My Name Is Earl continues from where the last episode left off, an odd change from last season. It starts with Joy in the jail, where she wound up last episode. But you didn’t need to see last episode to understand this. Many episodes from season one started off with similarly wacky situations. This is just an extra little bonus for people who tune in from week to week.

Yes, Randy! Raisins in candy bars suck! This show is wiser than I thought!

Burt Reynolds guest stars in this episode as the town’s eccentric entrepreneur. Dry cleaning, BBQ, strip clubs. Chubby owns everything. Oh yeah, that’s his name. Chubby. And he has a mustache. It’s Burt Reynolds. He was born with a mustache.

Chubby wants his best stripper back. That just happens to be a friend of Earl and Randy’s, whose name I can’t spell or really remember. She gave a man a heart attack the last time she worked for Chubby, and vowed to never dance again.

This show is so fun and absurd. The characters and situations are delightfully over the top, but not so far gone that the situations are not possible. They would be tough situations to get into, but that’s what sitcom means. See? Sit means “situation” and com means “comedy.” Lessons!

Joy is a “butt bag.” Butt bag? “That’s a bag of butts.” That’s so simple and stupid but so funny and simple. The end!