Louis T. Moyle

Upon discovering that he is the holder of a winning ticket, Earl is hit by a car and the ticket blows out of his limp hand as he lies unconscious in the street. While recovering in the hospital and watching television, Earl has a karmic epiphany.

Earl's list of misdeeds grows when Joy makes it very clear that he's not welcome at her wedding to Darnell, scheduling it for his birthday so that no one can celebrate with him. This leaves him with just one possible course of action.

Earl tries to win a beauty pageant trophy for Joy to make up for breaking one that she had won, so he enlists the help of her former nemesis, but Joy wants to stay on Earl's list so that he will owe her a hot tub.

It's Mother's Day and Earl is feeling particularly disgusted with himself for never having given his mother a Mother's Day gift. Just as he and Randy are about to finish carrying out his long overdue gift, his mother decides her repayment should include Earl doing something for his father too.

When trying to enrol her children into the Right Choice Ranch for troubled youth, Joy finds her application blocked because of a barn-burning incident at the hands of a younger Earl. So Earl, Randy and Catalina travel to the camp to make amends for the barn burning by building a pen for the camp's ostrich.

Earl decides to return a hot dog cart that he and Ralph stole, but Ralph has other incendiary ideas forcing Earl, Randy, Joy, Catalina and Darnell into a stationery stealing spree.