List of My Name Is Earl characters
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The American sitcom television series My Name Is Earl, created by Greg Garcia for NBC, features a variety of characters, most of whom live in the fictional town of Camden and Camden County. The show centers on Earl Hickey (Jason Lee), a small-time crook who after an epiphany involving karma, makes a list of items in which he had done wrong to others, and proceeds to make amends to the people involved. The characters listed include Earl's immediate family, friends and acquaintances, as well as general townsfolk who have appeared over multiple episodes and storylines.
Main characters
Earl Hickey
Earl Jehosephat Hickey (played by Jason Lee) — the titular and viewpoint character, he has a long history of petty crimes and other repugnant acts of bullying classmates and taking advantage of others. In the opening episode, he wins a lottery scratcher but is immediately hit by a car; during his recovery, he watches a Carson Daly interview where the latter talks about karma, and he realizes he has been a bad person and tries to turn his life around by making a list of all the bad things he has done and doing good deeds to cross them off the list. He discovers that when he does good things he is rewarded by karma, first by getting the lottery ticket back. But when he ignores the list, as especially demonstrated in the episode "The Professor", bad things continue to happen. One of the recurring gags regarding Earl is that he always has his eyes closed when his picture is taken. He has a mustache and tends to wear flannel shirts, often with concert T-shirts from classic rock bands underneath. He is a huge fan of southern rock and heavy metal bands such as AC/DC, Def Leppard, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden and Metallica.
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