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Camden County
Camden County
Season
1, 2, 3, 4
First seen
Last seen
Warden
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Camden County is a county in which the protagonists of My Name is Earl reside. The most often seen locations within the town of Camden are the trailer park, the motel and the Crab Shack. Every year there is a fair held in Camden, the Camden County Fair. There is a religious group of Amish-type people that live in the outskirts of Camden County, known as the Camdenites who are the descendants of the Camden founders.

The background characters of My Name is Earl and residents of Camden County, including Nescobar-A-Lop-Lop, Donny Jones, Kenny James and Ralph Mariano are often collectively known as the Camdenites.

Camden County Location Theories[]

The state in which the show takes place is never mentioned, but according to the creator, Greg Garcia, the show takes place in the fictional county of Camden (not to be confused with the actual Camden Counties in New Jersey, Missouri, Georgia, and North Carolina, or the city of Camden in New Jersey). Creator Garcia said that the town is named after his son. The references to Maryland locations (such as Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, and Frostburg University) are due to his familiarity with an area he hails from and that "the show doesn’t technically take place anywhere ... we like to think it’s anywhere. We don’t really say exactly where it is."

Location Theories Synopsis[]

Based on all Theories written the location of Camden county has been put into it's own location inside Greg Garcia's Yes-Earl-Hope Universe . It is an area that looks like Southern and central valley of California , has legalese from many less restrictive states, is some how home to tornadoes, Contains both west coast and southern accents, is not in Texas but near Mexico, and not a location with snow. It is also mentioned in S4 E25 that they are in the Central time zone.

However, the following are Effectively locations with which Camden county might reside if it was a real place.

  • Midwest
  • New Mexico
  • Arizona (unlikely; see below)
  • Texas (unlikely; see below)
  • Oklahoma
  • California counties of San Benito, Kings, Monterey

List of Fan theory locations[]

Objects, Towns , Buildings, Geography , Phenomena & People[]

Objects[]
Busch sign[]
  • In many episodes there is a Busch sign with a blue note(st.Louis blues) on it on the wall of the crab shack indicating that camden county is in or around Missouri, of course that is if missouri had palm trees and Pusch was a beer. Although there is also a neon sign in the shape of Texas in the Crab Shack, suggesting Camden might also be in Texas.
Del Taco sign[]
  • A Del Taco sign can be seen in s4-ep2 at time 17:16 Indicating California
Firearms[]
  • Notable scenes with legal gun ownership indicate somewhere other than California
    • S4 Ep5 Joy and others are seen at crab shack open carrying handguns
    • s4 ep24 it is revealed that ak-47s and plastic explosives are legal

Towns[]

Medford, NJ[]

Several episodes mention the town of Medford. Due to the real proximity of Camden County to the actual town of Medford in New Jersey, but it isn't there because the police force received 50 thousand dollars worth of anti terrorism equipment that was supposed to go to Camden New Jersey but they received instead.

  • Homes- address numbers on side walk! indicating California

Buildings[]

  • the Prison Which looks like the Satellite view of Salinas Valley State Prison!

Geography[]

California[]
  • Farms, Greenery, Palm trees, Golden grasses and, Mountains, Mountains to golden valley, Dry dirt, etc.

Phenomena[]

Tornados[]
  • tornadoes

People[]

Tim Stacks[]
  • Tim stacks an actor of show Son of the Beach filmed in Southern California!!!
Amish[]
  • Although no longer in California Amish did once live in Salinas California

Episode Based[]

Pilot[]

  • The Pilot episode showed that Earl and Joy drove from Camden County to Las Vegas, Nevada within a single night, suggesting a location in the American Southwest. Also, the frequent appearance of palm trees as Earl and Randy drive around town imply that that Camden County must be in a southern state. Combined with the fact that immigrants enter Camden directly strongly suggests that Camden is close to the Mexican-United States Border. This suggests it could be in any of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas.

Sticks & Stones[]

  • In "Sticks & Stones", Maggie Lester is introduced as having moved to Camden from Arizona, implying that Camden is not in Arizona. In a later episode Randy asks if they can drive to Arizona, again implying that they were not in Arizona. In "Jump for Joy", Joy goes to jail for her third strike, implying Camden is in a state with a three-strikes law in 2006. In season 4 episode 5 Earl comments that Camden is in the central time zone.

Earl and Joy's Anniversary[]

Inside Probe (Part 1 & 2)[]

  • The Inside Probe (Part 2) It is entirely possible that Camden county is in northern New Mexico region as it borders Mexico possibly suggesting why there are so many illegal immigrants in Camden. New Mexico borders Texas, showing how easily the swarm of killer bees could have flown there from Camden. New Mexico is in the southwest showing how easily Earl and Joy could have drove to Las Vegas. New Mexico was a Union territory that Texas tried to annex during the civil war ... this fits well with the map shown in "The Inside Probe (Part 2)" showing Camden sandwiched between the U.S.A. Union on the north side, and the Southern Confederate states on the south. The only drawback to the New Mexico hypothesis is the fact that a minute fraction, if not none of New Mexico is in the central time zone

BB[]

  • In the episode BB Randy mentions going to Arizona, implying that Camden isn't in Arizona.

Natures Game Show[]

  • In the episode Natures Game Show, season 4 episode 11 it suggests a Camden county is in Tornado Alley; hence, between all theories put together, would make sense it is in Oklahoma, and indeed is more actually known as Cameron, Oklahoma.
  • In addition, during this episode, a tornado which impacts Camden is said to then be heading "toward Texas", indicating that Camden is not within Texas, but likely adjacent and close to it.

Burn Victim

• When John the Artist says he wants to drive an aircraft carrier, the warden claims that there isn’t a navy in the state; therefore Camden cannot be in a coastal state such as California or Texas.

Gregory Thomas Garcia: Yes-Earl-Hope Universe[]

  • A Fictional-Alternate -California, USA {our universe Equivalency Monterey county/ San Benito county/ Kings county. } Based on several factors
    • 1. Geography. Farms, Greenery, Palm trees, Golden grasses and, Mountains, Mountains to golden valley, Dry dirt, etc.
    • 2. The general look of city streets and storefronts corresponds to cities almost anywhere in Los Angeles, California
    • 3. Amish, Although no longer in California Amish did once live in Salinas California
    • 4. Homes- address numbers on side walk!
    • 5. the prison Which looks like the Satellite view of Salinas Valley State Prison!
    • 6. Tv show Raising Hope- ties My name is earl into the same universe. Raising_Hope
      • Ep.1
      • Patty the daytime hooker
      • Chubby's
      • Nathanville
  • SPOILER ALERT- Below for tv show Raising Hope
    • SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
    • Raising hope city of Natesville {our universe Equivalency Salinas, CA area/ Fresno, Ca Area) is both a Flight and drive away from Los Angeles city Raising Hope S3-ep15 &ep16
    • In Raising Hope season 3-17 Sex, Clown and Videotape it is revealed that
      • The chances Maw Maw sold an object-clown doll to a church rummage sale years earlier.
      • tv show Yes dear Couple "Hughes" live in or near "Raising Hope" city of Natesville and purchased said clown from the aforementioned Rummage sale
      • Since the Chances from raising hope Never moved and it was firmly established that YES,Dear was set In LA Logically BAM California
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