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CHARACTER was a member of Earl's band Phiso Tahko .
Before Season 2
When Earl was singing with Randy and Ralph Mariano outside a drive thu he had the idea of starting a band, Tom asked though the speaker if he could join their band Earl agreed but then discovered when picking up the food that Tom was an old man. The band got a gig at the Crab Shack but Tom's age was preventing Earl, Randy and Ralph from picking up girls so they made a vote to kick Tom out of the band which angered and upset him a lot.
Season 2
Tom was now living in a nursing home where he saw Earl one day filming Joy inside with the other old people to sway her jury prove that she was a given member of society. Earl wanted to making it up to Tom to cross him off his list but Tom would only forgive him if they put him back in the band as being in one would have been he only thing he could but Earl took him away from him and everyone in the home that had something to look back on expect for him so Earl decides to get the band back together. When the band was together at the Palms Motel Ralph apogizes to Tom for kicking him out of the band as he had no father figure growing up telling him to respect his elders , but when Catalina came in and asked "who's the old guy" Ralph wants to kick him again but Tom say that they can't kick him out as he's on Earl's list in between Been wastful and Slept with Ralph's Mom which happened after Phiso Tahko's gig. Ralph was upset and threaten to kill Earl but then decided to make Earl marry his mom instead. After Phish Tahko performed at the Crab Shack Earl went to get drunk as Ralph had threaten him to sleep with his Mom that night and was not to remember sleeping with her again. While his vision blurred Tom flirted with Ralph's mom which ended up getting in to bed with and got caught by Earl. Earl knew it was clear he didn't belong with Ralph's Mom so got a divorce and she and Tom continued seeing each other, Ralph wasn't mad because Earl had made an honest woman out of his Mother and finally got the Father figure he never had.