NBC’s Must See TV is back and better than it has ever been. The two hour block of side splitting comedy starts with My Name Is Earl.

An Xmas episode? Already? It isn’t even December. Oh well, Earl is making a lot of bologna sandwiches for stealing Gay Kenny’s lunch every day in 5th and 6th grade. Proof positive that you can’t catch gay. You’re born that way, people.

Jonathan Slavin is this episode, as the deaf lawyer’s assistant. He is really talented and funny and weird.

Did you know that 3 Lbs was canceled after 3 episodes? The ads on IMDB don’t seem to know that.

After a misstep with the last super sized episode of My Name Is Earl, the show is back on track with tons of odd humor. Like a man who has a problem with stealing pens.

“Comedy Night, Done Right.” Hmmm. That’s an okay slogan, NBC. Let’s try a couple more first. Brainstorm a little bit, okay? You can do it, guys. And gals.

Earl has a gambling problem, and ends up betting on underground chicken Bingo. How can a problem be so hilarious?

And Catalina got deported. So we have a plot for next episode.

Pretty funny episode. Of course, as funny as My Name Is Earl is, The Office will smash it to bits.

Tonight on NBC, all episode are running 40 minutes long. It starts with Christian Slater on My Name Is Earl. He plays a stoner who was robbed blind by Earl and Randy. He thought they were hanging out with him when they were actually taking one thing at a time. Now Earl is trying to give Woody back his air conditioner. Woody is a hippie now who lives in a home of dung.

To make up the theft, Earl and Randy need to live on the commune for a week. There is your comedy setup for the rest of this super sized episode. Also, there will be clay animation.

Hmmm. The hippies did a theatrical rendition of Friends, but that has been the only funny type part so far. Which is too bad. When your 40 minutes episode is a miss, that’s no good for anybody. Especially the environment. Somehow.

Randy is hallucinating in animation, which is a result eating a bowl full of mystery goo.

Earl is trying to stop global warming. That’ll be easy, since it doesn’t exist. What? Shhhh.

Not very good, My Name Is Earl. Not very good. What happened?

My Name Is Earl is presented by Lincoln tonight. Nothing makes me want to buy a Lincoln Towncar more than watching My Name Is Earl.

Catalina is helping Earl with an item on his list. This is because she felt bad for getting in a fight with someone up in a hot air balloon. Hot air balloons! That should go up there on the list of comedy items with monkeys and pirates.

I had to run up stairs for a couple of seconds, but it looks like Darnell is in the witness relocation program.

And the guest starts keep on coming. Jenny McCarthy presents a dilemma in this episode of My Name Is Earl. Is she still dating Jim Carry? Damn celebrity gossip filling my brain. Looks like I need to eat some more brain prunes.

Earl is trying to get a woman back for some fella. Problem is, Earl is in love with her now.

“I can’t tell you the truth because I love you too much, stupid!” Wonderfully funny.

And just like that, the episode is over. Oh well. It’s always over too fast. Not as fast as The Office though. That half hour flies by. Hey, here it comes!

My Name Is Earl guest stars the hilarious Amy Sedaris, star of Strangers with Candy. Did you know she has a book called I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence coming out next week? That is something you should buy.

Randy and Earl got trapped by the path of a black cat. It was karma for larceny done upon Amy Sedaris’ cat some time back. Earl stole her cat from a pet show and left if at the sleepy cat lady’s house. That is the old lady who is asleep and has a lot of cats. Try and keep up, okay?

It was easy enough to get Amy’s cat back. It will be harder to convince Randy that he isn’t really in love with her. Poor dopy Randy. Do you want to hug him? It’s okay if you are a guy. He looks cuddly.

Randy is allergic to cats, but Amy chose Randy over the cat. There were lots of funny things said in between. I won’t recount it for you. Just force yourself a little laugh and you’ll get the idea.

Ah ha ha ha, since Amy got rid of her cat she is treating Randy like a big cat. It is really funny and smart and dumb. Good work, second funniest show on television. Good work.

My Name Is Earl starts of with Earl making fun of a girl’s mustache in middle school. His goal this episode is to make up for that. Sit back and enjoy the wackiness. You see, the girl grew up to have a full beard. See? Wacky. But it’s well within the universe and expectations created in the show. It is not out of character, and thus is acceptable.

The bearded woman is Kitty from Arrested Development. Hey, Jonathan Slavin too, from Andy Richter Controls the Universe. He is the translator for Joy’s deaf attorney. Then Darnel went and did something that made me laugh from the bottom of my belly, even though I am sick and have a terribly sore throat. It hurt, but it was worth it.

Earl and Andy have been spending this episode getting to know the freaks in a closed community. They are people, just like you and me. Oddly enough, this is the second show this season that involves lobster claw hands. Is anyone else watching Nip/Tuck? It is fantastically ridiculous.

The episodes over. It was funny. You should have been watching.

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!

It’s the return of My Name Is Earl! Hooray! Let’s watch!

I don’t think there was a huge cliff hanger last season, so we can get right into the comedy. Earl gets right into the swing of things. The item on his list this time? Taking his ex-wife’s side for once.

This is certainly the second best comedy on television, right after The Office. Joy stole a truck from a store she couldn’t get a refund from, as revenge. So we have a couple of plots going on. Sorry, I’m getting taken away by the comedy. I’ll start stringing together rational thoughts soon enough.

There was an employee stuck in the truck. Possibly stoned. I assume everyone is stoned. Especially the pope. I don’t know why I would say that. It just seems like everyone is hating on the pope these days. Probably because he can speak a second language. Showoff.

“SARcastic.” Oh Randy, you pronounce words in the funniest ways. The cast in this show is such a great ensemble. I never roll my eyes when there is a plot centered around someone I don’t like. I like them all! My Name Is Earl is one big present.

I’m trying to eat and chat and blog and watch TV at the same time. My brain is about to burst out of my eyes and also my feet. You know that’s bad when it bursts out of your feet.

Joy just used “Ferris Buellered” as a verb. The writers on this show must have a blast.

That was a pretty funny season premier. It’s a good thing the summer didn’t ruin anything, like it normally does. Summer always ruins my streak of not making ice tea. Thanks a lot, summer.