Harry Karp

With a new, unlikely love interest, Earl is on the road to maturity; Earl commits the ultimate good deed to help Joy as her trial arrives.

When Hope starts imitating the dogs at her day care, Jimmy decides to enroll her in an expensive, high-end center. But the blemish on Burt’s record needs to be expunged before Hope has any chance of getting accepted. However, when trying to turn Burt’s past around the rest of the family ends up in a bind of their own and must pull together to straighten things out with the law.

Earl decides to take Joy's side when she gets into an argument with Darnell; the purchase of an entertainment center does not turn out the way Joy planned.