My Name is Earl -"Bad Earl" --01/10/08
01-15-08 | 08:08 PM
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I thought it was a little weird that this episode took place in and around the Christmas holiday but NBC decides to show it in January. It just seems that they could have played this the week before Christmas since there was only one episode left to air.
Why wait until January to air a Christmas-themed episode?
Why wait until January to air a Christmas-themed episode?
01-15-08 | 08:32 PM
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Not to mention you have a dude running around New Jersey in his undies and everyone else in short sleeves at Christmas. I could have sworn it was cold up there this time of year. 
01-15-08 | 11:13 PM
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From: WAS looking for My Own Private Stuckeyville, but stuck in Liberty City (while missing Vice City)
Originally Posted by countingcrow
Why wait until January to air a Christmas-themed episode?
01-16-08 | 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Rogue588
Because that's the thing to do now? House just aired theirs last night..
01-16-08 | 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Rogue588
It's possible I read an outdated article. Still, that would be even worse...
Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Not to mention you have a dude running around New Jersey in his undies and everyone else in short sleeves at Christmas. I could have sworn it was cold up there this time of year.
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01-16-08 | 06:56 PM
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From: WAS looking for My Own Private Stuckeyville, but stuck in Liberty City (while missing Vice City)
Originally Posted by rfduncan
And this would surprise you why? Hasn't FOX routinely aired The Simpsons "Tree House of Horrors" episodes after Halloween for several years running now?
Originally Posted by rfduncan
Have they ever really established what state they're in? I always thought they were in like Arizona or something. That motel was nothing like Jersey and every location seems very flat and open with warm weather...
The state in which the show takes place is never mentioned, but according to the creator, Gregory Thomas 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). Creator Garcia said that the town is named after his son.
The references to Maryland locations (such as Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, and Frostburg State 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." 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.[2]
The street scenes seen in most episodes are shot on Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, CA, next to the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. Joy's wedding and the Win a Dodge Neon contest ("White Lie Christmas") take place at the Recreation Area. The exterior hotel shots are filmed at the Palm Tree Inn in North Hills, California. And the set for the trailer park where Joy and Darnell live is situated in a vacant lot on Louise Ave. and Roscoe next to a church in Van Nuys, California. The church itself appeared in an episode as the orphanage Joy visits in "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" (1.6). The scenes involving the ransom drop in the episode "Buried Treasure" were filmed on High Street in Moorpark, California. The exterior of the convenience store where Earl bought the lottery ticket and the street where he was hit by the car in the first episode (with the car wash in the background) are in Beaumont, CA.
The references to Maryland locations (such as Hagerstown, Cumberland, Shady Grove, and Frostburg State 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." 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.[2]
The street scenes seen in most episodes are shot on Woodley Avenue in Van Nuys, CA, next to the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area. Joy's wedding and the Win a Dodge Neon contest ("White Lie Christmas") take place at the Recreation Area. The exterior hotel shots are filmed at the Palm Tree Inn in North Hills, California. And the set for the trailer park where Joy and Darnell live is situated in a vacant lot on Louise Ave. and Roscoe next to a church in Van Nuys, California. The church itself appeared in an episode as the orphanage Joy visits in "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" (1.6). The scenes involving the ransom drop in the episode "Buried Treasure" were filmed on High Street in Moorpark, California. The exterior of the convenience store where Earl bought the lottery ticket and the street where he was hit by the car in the first episode (with the car wash in the background) are in Beaumont, CA.
01-16-08 | 08:22 PM
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There you go. I could have sworn they made a reference to Jersey.
