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* BeingEvilSucks: The entire series is started by Earl having nothing and realizing he's lived a terrible life and deciding to make up for his past misdeeds to improve things for himself.
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* BookDumb: Badly uneducated outside of a partial high school education. He's also uninformed about things happening in the world, mostly because he lives in a run-down motel where news doesn't get around fast. He decides to wise up after the bank treats him like a kid and gets a G.E.D. Slowly but surely, Earl's brainpower's getting better.
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* BookDumb: Badly uneducated outside of a partial high school education. He's also uninformed about things happening in the world, mostly because he lives in a run-down motel where news doesn't get around fast. He decides to wise up after the bank treats him like a kid and gets a G.E.D. Slowly but surely, Earl's brainpower's getting better. He compensates for his lack of education with genuine curiosity and willingness to learn and possessing a great deal of street smarts and very good people skills, allowing him to maintain ties and call on people for help when he needs it.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Lampshaded in an episode where he neglects his list in favor of spending time with a beautiful woman and LaserGuidedKarma causes trouble for both of them.
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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Lampshaded in an episode where he neglects his list in favor of spending time with a beautiful woman and LaserGuidedKarma causes trouble for both of them. To it's credit, karma is also willing to reward him when he does things right, such as letting him find his lottery ticket after he earnestly decides to go straight.
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* CosmicPlaything: Earl led a life of hedonism and selfishness; when he got a winning lottery ticket, he was hit by a car while celebrating. If he turns away from his path of redemption, karma punishes him in order to reign him in and keep him on his path. Though on the flip side, he will also occasionally be rewarded for his good deeds and continued determination.
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* CosmicPlaything: Earl led a life of hedonism and selfishness; when he got a winning lottery ticket, he was hit by a car while celebrating. If he turns away from his path of redemption, karma punishes him in order to reign him in and keep him on his path. Though on the flip side, he will also occasionally often be rewarded for his good deeds and continued determination.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he still had some ethical standards as seen in flashbacks. He helped rais Joy's kids so that they wouldn't grow up without a dad, refused to take advantage of a woman when she passed out from excess alcohol, and beyond making fun of people with accents, always frowned on racism.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he still had some ethical standards as seen in flashbacks. He helped rais raise Joy's kids so that they wouldn't grow up without a dad, refused to take advantage of a woman when she passed out from excess alcohol, and beyond making fun of people with accents, always frowned on racism.
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* KavorkaMan: While not unattractive, Earl is ''very'' scruffy, technically homeless and is more or less a loser all around. While his NiceGuy attitude and general heroism makes romance seem more plausible, the majority of his relationships occurred ''before'' his HeelFaceTurn.
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* KavorkaMan: While not unattractive, Earl is ''very'' scruffy, technically homeless and is more or less a loser all around. While his NiceGuy attitude and general heroism makes romance seem more plausible, the majority of his relationships occurred ''before'' his HeelFaceTurn.HeelFaceTurn where he did admittedly possess a very charismatic personality and could be very fun to be around.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Exactly what he dished out to the boss of a fast food joint after having to suffer untold humiliation and got talked down to like he was a butt-scratching chimp. Because he beat the guy up, the boss also gets his due for his crimes of cheating and stealing.
** In the past, he ended up kicking Little Chubby [[GroinAttack right in the balls]]. This was before his {{Heel Face Turn}}, and he only did so because Joy nagged at him to do it, but Little Chubby was an AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who repeatedly tormented and threatened people for fun, so it comes off as Karma using Earl long before he even knew of it.
** In the past, he ended up kicking Little Chubby [[GroinAttack right in the balls]]. This was before his {{Heel Face Turn}}, and he only did so because Joy nagged at him to do it, but Little Chubby was an AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who repeatedly tormented and threatened people for fun, so it comes off as Karma using Earl long before he even knew of it.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Exactly what he dished out to the boss of a fast food joint after having to suffer untold humiliation and got talked down to like he was a butt-scratching chimp. Because he beat the guy up, the boss also gets his due for his crimes of cheating and stealing.
** In the past, he ended up kicking Little Chubby [[GroinAttack right in the balls]]. This was before his {{Heel Face Turn}}, and he only did so because Joy nagged at him to do it, but Little Chubby was an AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who repeatedly tormented and threatened people for fun, so it comes off as Karma using Earl long before he even knew of it.
** In the past, he ended up kicking Little Chubby [[GroinAttack right in the balls]]. This was before his {{Heel Face Turn}}, and he only did so because Joy nagged at him to do it, but Little Chubby was an AxCrazy {{Jerkass}} who repeatedly tormented and threatened people for fun, so it comes off as Karma using Earl long before he even knew of it.
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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: In the ''COPS'' episodes, which took place before he came out..
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* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: In the ''COPS'' episodes, which took place before he came out..out.
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* LateComingOut: He remained closeted until he met Earl again in his thirties.
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%%* HeroesWantRedheads
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* BigFatFuture: Sheila used to have a slim figure in the past. In the present, her slim figure packed on a few pounds, around the hips, thighs and butt.
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* FormerlyFit: Sheila used to have a slim figure in the past. In the present, her slim figure packed on a few pounds, around the hips, thighs and butt.
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* BreakUpToMakeUp: Earl convinces him to (gently) break up with Billie again so that she could get back on the right path.
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* BreakUpToMakeUp: Judy and Randy break up so they can each live a better life. They break up on pretty good terms too; Randy doesn't even feel the need to wallow in grief and play "Time After Time" by CyndiLauper on endless loop like he usually does when he gets dumped!
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* AmicableExes: She and Earl are divorced but still are friends with each other. Earl even said right after their divorce that despite how crazy she was, he did miss being married to her.
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* AmicableExes: She and Earl are develop into this as the series goes on. They get divorced in the pilot, and at first they don't get along at all (largely because Joy wants the money Earl won), but over the course of the first season they come to an understanding. While there's still are friends with each other.friction between them, for the most part they're on good terms. Earl even said right after their divorce that despite how crazy she was, he did miss being married to her.
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* CheerfulChild: They've both got generally sunny and friendly dispositions, if very hyperactive.
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* CheerfulChild: They've They're children and they've both got generally sunny and friendly dispositions, if very hyperactive.
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Joy's two sons; Dodge was conceived 6 months before she met and married Earl, and Earl Jr. during her affair with Darnell. [[spoiler: Except Darnell isn't Earl Jr's biological father, and Dodge turns out to be Earl's]].
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Joy's two sons; Dodge was conceived 6 months before she met and married Earl, and Earl Jr. during her affair with Darnell. [[spoiler: Except Darnell isn't Earl Jr's biological father, and Dodge it turns out to be Earl's]].Earl ''is'' Dodge's biological father]].
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* CheerfulChild: They've both got generally sunny and friendly dispositions, if very hyperactive.
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Anything That Moves is a disambiguation
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* AnythingThatMoves: Well, anything that moves and pays her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Prior to the events of the series, Earl used to make fun of people with accents and he was initially freaked out by Kenny's homosexuality. As Earl himself mentions in one of his monologues; this was before the [=LGBT=] were more accepted in America, plus he lives in a small town and neither he nor Randy had any idea on how to conduct themselves around a gay person. Throughout the series, Earl does become more open-minded and accepting of people with different sexual identities, ethnicities, and cultures. He does refer to transvestite/transexual prisoners as "Trannies" but this wasn't done maliciously; he still refers to them by their chosen gender identity and that particular episode was aired in 2007-2008, 9-10 years before "Trannies" was considered a slur in 2017. Judging by Earl's character, he wouldn't have used the word if he knew it was offensive.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Prior to the events of the series, Earl used to make fun of people with accents and he was initially freaked out by Kenny's homosexuality. As Earl himself mentions in one of his monologues; this was before the [=LGBT=] were more accepted in America, plus he lives in a small town and neither he nor Randy had any idea on how to conduct themselves around a gay person. Throughout the series, Earl does become more open-minded and accepting of people with different sexual identities, ethnicities, and cultures. He does refer to transvestite/transexual prisoners as "Trannies" but this wasn't done maliciously; he still refers only objected to dating them by their chosen gender identity and that particular at prom because "They're all spoken for" rather than any actual prejudice. [[note]] This episode was aired in 2007-2008, 9-10 years before "Trannies" was considered a slur in 2017. Judging by Earl's character, he wouldn't have used the word if he knew it was offensive. [[/note]]
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* HotbloodedSideburns: He has a mustache with sideburns as part of his facial hair. Before turning his life around, he was hot-blooded and quick-tempered as he often physically hurt people when they provoked him. After discovering Karma, he's still prone to fits of anger and can still be destructive but he's controlling himself a lot more.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he still had some ethical standards as seen in flashbacks. He helped rais Joy's kids so that they wouldn't grow up without a dad, and beyond making fun of people with accents, always frowned on racism.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Before his HeelFaceTurn, he still had some ethical standards as seen in flashbacks. He helped rais Joy's kids so that they wouldn't grow up without a dad, refused to take advantage of a woman when she passed out from excess alcohol, and beyond making fun of people with accents, always frowned on racism.
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* DemotedToExtra: Catalina starts out as a supporting character in Season 1, but gets more screentime and plot relevance as the season goes on, and by Season 2 she's a major and vital part of the show, having her own ongoing subplot and quite a bit of development. Then, by season 3 her role gets diminished again, and apart from a few ADayInTheLimelight episodes she spends most of the final two seasons as a very minor character who only has a couple of scenes in any given episode, if that.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Will get caught in a loop sometimes while trying to think things through or his brain will take a long way around to work out a conclusion. Just don't mention the words Catalina and half-naked in the same sentence, or he'll blank out over and over- maybe not so much now after the UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo. He also gets stuck in a loop after watching ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', according to Earl.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Will get caught in a loop sometimes while trying to think things through or his brain will take a long way around to work out a conclusion. Just don't mention the words Catalina and half-naked in the same sentence, or he'll blank out over and over- maybe not so much now after the UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo. He also gets stuck in a loop after watching ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', according to Earl.
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* HiddenDepths: As the season 4 premiere reveals, he's a surprisingly decent actor and imitator.
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-> Played by: Creator/TamalaJones
Creator/TamalaJones, Brooklin Yearwood (as a child), Arreale Davis (as a teen)
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-> Played by: Creator/GreggBinkley
Creator/GreggBinkley, Andy Pessoa (as a child)
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* FairCop: she dresses as one for her conjugal visits with Frank
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* FairCop: she She dresses as one for her conjugal visits with FrankFrank.
