My Name Is Earl - On NBC! - Page 2  

Guys,

what did you think of the pic quality overall. It maybe be difficult to compare due to the different providers but in OTA in my aread the pic qulaity was not as good as the other stations. It looked kind of grainy. Not sure if that was on purpose though.

Loved it! Best show on TV! Picture quality was film like in my area.

My only complaint was that it only lasted 30 minutes. It was movie quality and a 2 hour film of 'Earl' would have been better. Hope they can keep the quality up and we see allot more of Jamie Pressly.

In case you don't know who Jamie Pressly is, check out this picture.


IB

OT for a second, but I don't get the "I won't watch if it has a laugh track" crowd. Are you kidding me? You'll turn away from a quality show simply because a studio audience or canned laughter is piped into a broadcast? How obtuse.

Then I guess you wouldn't enjoy such classics as "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H" (the early years), "Cheers," "Seinfeld," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Welcome Back Kotter," "WKRP in Cincinnati," "The Cosby Show" - I could sit here all day and list the great shows with a laugh track/studio audience laughter. A great show is a great show, who cares who is or isn't laughing?

Back OT, I thoroughly enjoyed "Earl." I watched it again with my wife last night to see what she thought and she couldn't stop laughing either. Usually pilots make us squirm, but not this one. The kids strapped into the back of the El Camino (I think that's what the vehicle was), running away from Kenny as if he had some communicable disease when they realized he was gay, the getaway driver in the Bin Laden mask at the strip club - we were rolling. It'll be interesting to see if they can keep it up though.

Laugh tracks are most annoying when the material just isn't funny, or when they are done very poorly where every sentence spoken is a joke.

Seems to me this could be a new HTPC feature--Laugh track removal. ;)

Also, liked the show, PQ was fine.

Not if "House" keeps having storylines like they did the last one. Heart-tugging and suspenseful.

Wolfie

On a good show, you can look past the laugh track. Seinfeld was a must-watch show, and it was usually something funny when the canned laughter kicked in (I was laughing with them). But when a bad show adds it in, especially when something wasn't that funny (Two and a half men premiere comes to mind), it becomes highly annoying and not worth watching a marginal show because of it.

Several have mentioned the lack of a laugh-track, noting it as a benefit. I remember that the funniest show ever on television was actually cancelled after only six episodes because the producers refused to add a laugh-track, while the network execs demanded one.

The show was "Police Squad!" on ABC (in color).

Nice theory, but that's not why Police Squad only lasted six episodes. As Leslie Nielsen himself once told me: "America just wasn't ready for it" (true story!). Ratings were abysmal; people just didn't have the attention span for a show that had 3 or 4 sight gags going on simultaneously in every scene.

BTW, where's the DVD set of that show? It would sell a zillion copies...

If the comedy is good enough, a luagh track won't hurt. But it's definitely not necessary.

An interesting contrast is Seinfeld and Curb your enthusiasm. Both hilarious and similar, one with a laugh track one without.

Very funny show! This one gets a season pass. I was ROFLMAO for the 30 minutes. Earl has the quirkiness of the Nicolas Cage character in the Coen Brothers movie Raising Arizona. Many of the other characters seem to come from Napoleon Dynamite (the couple Earl's brother was trying to get the address from after 4 beers).

I think she is from the Wilmington, NC area. They have a pretty large Movie Studio down there and many movies are filmed out of there. Such as "Riding Miss Daisey", "Forest Gump", ect.

.....Cape Fear, I know what you did last summer.....

Excellent show. Definately had a Raising Arizona feel with the style of scrubs. If you enjoy Scrubs and Family Guy, then Earl is right up your alley! :p

I laughed my butt off even though as mentioned... many of hte punchline scenes were given away in the previews.

This show will definately occupy hard drive space on my MCE2005 PC in HD! Yea baby!


Dibbs!

Excellent show. Definately had a Raising Arizona feel with the style of scrubs. If you enjoy Scrubs and Family Guy, then Earl is right up your alley! :p

I laughed my butt off even though as mentioned... many of the punchline scenes were given away in the previews.

This show will definately occupy hard drive space on my MCE2005 PC in HD!

Dibbs!

I suspect "Riding Miss Daisey" was probably filmed somewhere closer to Los Angeles. :D

Yeah I want a copy of that film!

My guess would be Chatsworth.

Yup, the San Fernando Valley is the "Hollywood" of the porn industry.

Unless you live in the geriatric ward you won't be viewing this classic porn film. It is distributed strictly on an over 70 years of age basis. After all the "elderly porn" market is quite limited. Some critics even say the market is dying. :)

Based on a interview I heard with her on Stern a year or two back... I'm guessing she's not acting...

I laughed my ass off watching tonight's episode. Much better than the first one. If it keeps being this funny it will last a while.

I don't find it that funny, but I will give it another try.

i thought this ep was really good...Darnell (Crabman) cracks me up...is that the same guy from the OfficeMax commercials? good to see the guy that played Donnie Jones can do "funny crazy" (tonight's ep) and "crazy crazy" (Prison Break from a few weeks back)...man, i watch A LOT of TV.

Love the show, i think its hilarious.

set it to record the rest of the series now that the first 2 episodes were so good.

That's what I was thinking tonight. Is he the "rubber band man"?

I am very selective about the shows I watch on TV and only add a precious few to my weekly schedule. This one is getting added.

I am curious. What does the relative minority on this thread who actually don't like the show watch on a regular basis? If your shows are truly better than this, then I'd like to take a look at them.

It just gets better and better! :D

I knew I recognized those eyes from somewhere ....

Missed the premier but saw the 2nd episode: pretty good so far. Hope NBC stays with it and puts "Scrubs" on before or after "...Earl".

I know it's been just two episodes, but there is not a funnier show on network television right now.