Thursday Night, Feb. 8, 2007

My Name Is Earl: #101: Stole a girl’s identity
Years ago, Earl and Joy stole the credit card of Joy’s sworn enemy: Liberty Washington. Now turns out, Liberty is Joy’s half-sister, spawned during one of her dad’s interracial trysts. Liberty wants to be a professional wrestler, her husband wants a baby (My dad was a Ray. I’m a Ray Ray. I want a Ray Ray Ray!), Joy wants to get pregnant to make the jury like her better, Crabman doesn’t want to have to take care of another child without a mother if Joy goes to jail. In the end, Liberty deals with her jealousy of the attention Joy got from their shared father, and Joy becomes Liberty’s surrogate. awwwwww

Funny stuff:
Joy: “Yeah, great like a weenie wart!”
The stuff Joy and Earl used Liberty’s money for: Paid for a homeless guy to get laser eye surgery and hired him as their butler for the day: “Your pockets are hot!”
Klanimal!
Randy gets to live his dream of “getting beat up by a woman in tights”
Joy whips open her robe at Randy, and growls sexily, “You know where babies come from Randy?” He points at her “Yeah, at the bottom of that fuzzy lightning bolt.”
Catalina sniffs Randy’s hair! Poor girl
Black Ladies of Wrestling (BLOW)
Joy: “And that’s for paying my prom date to stab me!”

The Office
Michael makes an unbelievable fool of himself at Phyllis’s wedding. Of course, we find out the only other wedding he was in was his mother’s. And he wet his pants coming down the aisle as the ringbearer. The stepdad’s dog had to finish for him. Pam notices Phyllis stole every detail of her wedding from PAM. Including the dress, the flower arrangement with P&R on it, etc. Pam and Jim still miss their chances. Jim’s with Karen, which pushes sad Pam back into Roy’s arms, unknowing that Jim is open to another chance.

Funny/meaningful stuff:
The greatest prank yet! Jim pulls a Pavlov on Dwight, over the period of a couple of weeks, restarts his computer over and over. Every time it makes the restart noise, he offers Dwight an Altoid mint. Now, Dwight’s mouth tastes bad and his hand shoots out for a mint every time he hears that noise. Oh man, you had to see it.
Michael is offended that Phyllis’s wheelchair-bound father decided to walk most of the way to the altar because “Me wheeling in Phyllis’s dad was supposed to be the highlight of the wedding.” The old man gets up, everyone claps, everyone’s emotional, Michael mutters “This is bullshit!” He also feels he basically paid for the wedding, being employer of the bride.
There were honestly too many horrible Michael moments to even mention.
Phyllis actually manipulated Michael into getting 6 weeks off!
“Do you, Bob Vance, of Vance Refrigeration, take…”
Jim convinces Dwight there are wedding crashers at the wedding, so Dwight determines he will find them and ends up kicking out her delusional old Uncle Al.
Kelly wears WHITE, and Ryan knocks the bouquet out of her hands!
I keep wanting to mention the millions of horrible Michael moments!!! Seriously. Too many.
Creed swipes someone’s card off a present and replaces it with his name.
Scrantonicity plays! (Also Pam’s idea)
Jim tells Pam she’s a cute dancer, tells the camera that hypothetically, if she were interested…walks off.
Pam sadly watches Jim dance with Karen; he catches her. She walks off, only to be rescued by Roy, who admits he wasn’t involved enough in the wedding and has paid Scrantonicity to play their song (which is not a song by the Police) then asks her to leave with him. She does.
Jim sees. Tells the camera angrily: “Here’s something that’s NOT hypothetical. I’m really happy I’m with Karen.”
Karen sings, Toby’s hot gym girl catches the bouquet (Yay, Toby!)

Michael is soooo hateable in this episode, but they always manage to give us an explanation that makes us pity the way he turned out. Watching him run wet-crotched from his mother’s wedding then run from Bob Vance’s grip yelling “I HATE YOU!” was so sad But mostly he was horrible.

Yes, I understand that Karen has always been straight-forward with Jim, unlike Pam, but Pam had reasons. She honestly believes her ship has sailed. She’s in Jim’s former position. He’s with someone now. She wants to be honorable. Plus, she wouldn’t want to be rejected. If he’s with someone else it must be because he no longer wants to be with her, right? Jim had three years to tell her how he felt, but he never did. He was trying to be honorable, yes, but now that she’s free, he could have tried again…although it’s understandable that he wouldn’t want his heart shattered again. It’s all just bad timing. No one’s fault. What’s Pam supposed to do? Roy knows her well. He knows how to get her back in his good graces. And Pam is going to go back to exactly what she was before if Jim doesn’t save her from it. Karen is straight-forward because she never had the obstacles to overcome that Pam did.

Toby is finally getting some LOVE!

Dwight and Angela are the cutest couple on TV by far. Their private dance was so precious.