Robbed A Stoner Blind is the 8th episode of Season 2 of My Name Is Earl, and the 32nd episode overall. After Earl and Randy attempt to make amends with a former drug addict (Christian Slater), Earl decides to join him for a week at a commune and then tries to prevent global warming from spreading. Randy accidentally eats some medicine which causes him to see everything animated. Earl thinks this is him agreeing with Earl who is confused about this lifestyle at the commune.
Episode guide[]
Earl and Randy want to have a swim in the pool because of a heat wave, but they can’t because it is full of dead mice. Catalina gives them bowls full of ice they can put their feet into, as long they put the ice back in the machine when they’re finished. Randy says he wished they had air conditioning; this makes Earl think about another heat wave a few years ago, when he and Randy broke into someone’s house to find some relief from the heat when the owner of the house, Woody, caught them. Luckily for Earl and Randy, Woody was a stoner and thought Earl and Randy were people that he knew, so they stayed to enjoy the cool air and robbed Woody one piece at a time. Eventually, Earl and Randy left when they stole everything, including the air freshener.
Back in the present, Earl decides to give Woody back his air freshener, which he had given to Joy; he takes the air freshener to Woody’s apartment. However, the landlord tells Earl and Randy that Woody had moved out; he gives them Woody’s forwarding address as a self-sufficient commune called 'Sunshine Collective'. Once there, Earl tells Woody what he had done and gives him his air freshener back, but Woody doesn’t need it because he now lives free of electricity when he stopped taking drugs. Earl tells him that he needs to do something, otherwise he can’t cross him off his list, so Woody suggest that Earl and Randy stay at the commune for a week.
To do this, Earl and Randy spend a week living the way the members of the commune do - which involves sleeping on a mattress made of straw, taking hot showers heated by a boiler and going to the toilet in a bucket. Randy doesn’t enjoy himself, so Woody tells him that the commune will put on Friends for him and Earl as a treat, but Randy isn’t happy when 'Friends' turns out to be a stage show based on an episode which is acted by the commune, instead of actually being on TV, causing him to get upset and starts yelling, before he gets dizzy and falls over. The commune gives Randy a mysterious sort of medicine to cure him, but Randy eats it because it smells of butter and syrup. Earl questions Woody about the community living in a dumb way if they are smart people; Woody tells him that it’s good for the environment and helps to stop global warming. Earl doesn't know what global warming is, so Woody gives him a presentation that he showed to high students; this changes the way Earl looks at the world. Meanwhile, Randy’s medicine starts to change his vision, making everyone he sees look like they are made out of clay, causing him to stay quiet because he is stunned.
By the end of the week, Earl is so demented to save the planet when he returns to Camden, that he starts riding a bike instead of driving, causing Joy to laugh at him as she drives by. Earl tries to make Joy and Darnell care about global warming, but fails. Earl then realises that he is being ignored by everybody, so he tries breaking car tyres' air valves and damaging electricity supplies, until he saw on the news that he was being cancelled by China so runs to Sunshine Collective yelling that they are going to die. The commune calms Earl down; he tells Woody he wants live there with them, but Woody tells Earl that his list had opened his eyes, but he cannot fix everything in the world, it’s his destiny to complete the list. However, he is making his problems too big and should only act local by fixing the Earth five minutes a day, which is what Earl does. Meanwhile, Randy’s vision soon goes back to normal and he starts talking again. That night, Earl and Randy have a conversation of who would win if the Muppets and other characters had fights before going to bed.
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Notes[]
- This episode originally aired as a super-sized episode on NBC that ran 24 minutes without commercials. It was later cut to 21 minutes for syndication. DVD and streaming versions use the original super-sized edit.
- When Randy sees Catalina as a cartoon she says: "Esto iba a ser yo sacándome la cabeza y limpiando el polvo con ella; pero los dibujos animados son tan costosos, así mejor me puedes ver bailar". Translation: "This was going to be me pulling off my head and dusting with it; but cartoons are so expensive, it's better to watch me dance."
Catalina as a cartoon
- The animations in this episode were created by Jargon Ent. based in Burbank, California. Their credits include Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the TV series The PJs, Robot Chicken and Moral Orel. The animations took four weeks to make and were made with silicone cast over wire armatures.
- When the people are re-enacting the "Friends" scene, Woody says the episode is "The One with the Evil Orthodontist," and Randy says later that this is the one where Chandler hooks up with Monica. But "The One with the Evil Orthodontist" was in season 1, and Monica and Chandler did not hook up until season 4.
- At the end of the episode, Randy makes reference to the 1986 British-American sword-fighting fantasy action film Highlander when discussing who would win out of a fight between several fictional characters.
Flashbacks[]
List[]
- Earl completes the following items on his list in this episode:
- - #26: "Robbed a Stoner Blind".
Featured music[]
- "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James and the Shondells
- "Good Morning Starshine" by Oliver
- "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan
- "I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After
- "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
- "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, sung by Cast
Memorable quotes[]
- Joy: What about what nature is doing to us? I saw a show the other day where this two caribous attacked an innocent hunter. I mean, he shot them, but still those animals are vicious!
Joy and Crabman as cartoons
- Woody: You guys seem like a couple of big polluters. You've been here a half hour and your car's still running.
- Earl: That's just to keep the fan going. We've got a couple of sodas in Styrofoam cups and we don't want 'em to get warm.
- Earl: Look! Shampoo that's not tested on animals. I feel bad for those lab animals running around with dirty hair, but if it's better for the environment, that's the sacrifice they have to make.
- Woody: Whoever said laughter is the best medicine never had gonorrhea.
- Earl: You guys make your own wine? I tried to make tequila once, but I didn't know what was in it besides worms. Pretty gross. It still got me drunk though.
- Randy: Who do you think would win in a fight, Muppets or Sesame Street?
- Earl: I don't really think they'd fight, they're both pretty peaceful.
- Randy: What if they had to? Like in that head-choppin'-off-movie, where there could be only one.
- Earl: Muppets.
- Randy: Ok, what about Muppets or Fraggles?
- Earl: Muppets.
- Randy: Ok, what about Muppets or He-man?
- Earl: Just He-Man or He-Man and his friends?
- Randy: Just He-Man.
- Earl: Muppets.
- Randy: That's what I had. Good night, Earl.
- Earl: Good night, Randy.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Jason Lee as Earl Hickey
- Ethan Suplee as Randy Hickey
- Jaime Pressly as Joy Turner
- Nadine Velazquez as Catalina
- Eddie Steeples as Darnell Turner
Guest starring[]
- Christian Slater as Woody Maruzak
- Eve Sigall as Nora
- Michael Patrick McGill as Feminist Shirt Guy
- Sandy Brown as Newswoman
- James Martin Kelly as Workman
- Steven Huey as Hippy Guy
- Jennifer Kenyon as Hippy Girl
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| #01 | Very Bad Things | #07 | Mailbox | #13 | Buried Treasure | #19 | Harassed a Reporter | |
| #02 | Jump for Joy | #08 | Robbed a Stoner Blind | #14 | Kept a Guy Locked in a Truck | #20 | Two Balls, Two Strikes | |
| #03 | Sticks & Stones | #09 | Born a Gamblin' Man | #15 | Foreign Exchange Student | #21 | GED | |
| #04 | Larceny of a Kitty Cat | #10 | South of the Border, Part Uno | #16 | B.L.O.W. | #22 | Get a Real Job | |
| #05 | Van Hickey | #11 | South of the Border, Part Dos | #17 | The Birthday Party | #23 | The Trial | |
| #06 | Made a Lady Think I Was God | #12 | Our 'Cops' Is On! | #18 | Guess Who's Coming Out of Joy | |||