Talk:List of My Name Is Earl episodes

message: RESHMA BABANNAVAR  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reshma babannavar (talk • contribs) 10:17, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

message: All the episode overviews for Season 2 have been copied from TV.com My Name is Earl episode guide. This clearly violates TV.com Terms Of Use. VillaFan 05:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright Violations in Season 2 Overview

message: The later episodes of season 3 (starting at around 3-12) plot summaries seem to be taken from somewhere, but I can't tell where. It may or may not violate a site's terms.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.17.193 (talk) 19:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More Violations in Season 3?

message: Should this page be broken up, so that each episode has its own page, and this page just has a little info and link to the episode, like the pages for The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park? JQF 16:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, if the individual episodes are analyzed in greater detail.  If short plot summaries are is far as it goes then this article will be big enough at the end of Season One, and a new one should be started for Season Two. — RandallJones 21:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, started the ball rolling, creating individual pages and moving info. JQF 04:47, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Alright, created templates, put info on pages (used synopsis from NBC.com for those without decent/limited info on this page), info needs to be cut down on this page, and the episode pages need to be edited to a more professional standard. I'll leave that to the rest of you. JQF 06:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Break up the page

message: Hey, MNIE fans! The following episode pages have NO info on them:
*Randy's Touchdown
*Faked His Own Death
*Cost Dad the Election
*Stole P's HD Cart
*Monkeys In Space
So be a fan, and help update them! JQF 03:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Two down, three to go! Lets keep it up! JQF 15:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All five now have info. Adimovk5 05:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode Pages 

message: Can anybody explain the title?  I couldn't figure out how it fit into the episode?  Might be an interesting fact for the page. -- MisterHand 06:27, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not quite sure what it's suppost to mean (but it is the real title). It might be a refference to something like Monkey Wrenchs, that using Monkey's in science experiments (like sending them into space) was their first widly documented job, it may be an in joke for somebody at MNIE, or it may just be some random title ment to keep us (the viewers) occupied while they make the next episode. JQF 16:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monkeys in Space? 

message: I propose we name all new episode articles with a disambiguator included even when not technically necessary, for example all Episode Title (My Name Is Earl) or even Episode Title (My Name Is Earl episode).  This appears to be standard practice with other TV series any time an episode name collides with another article, as Monkeys in space recently did for us, so why not just be explicit for all the episodes?  I looked here and here and here but as far as I can tell no WP:MoS standard for episode article naming has been established.  Comment? —RandallJones 06:52, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a good idea, but how about we shorten it to be Episode Title (MNIE), or something like that, just so that the title doesn't get to long. After all, some titles are items off The List, and those can get long. JQF 15:51, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are naming conventions about this issue. please take them under consideration - The DJ 23:49, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode article names 

message: Is it really necessary to mention the UK airdates? In my eyes anything other then "Original airdates" is useless, because when we start naming them for one country we open the door for all 162 countries. In my eyes it doesn't contribute to the articles. It would be different if the show was originally French for instance. Or if the list of this US show was on the Dutch wikipedia. But for UK vs. US, i simply cannot be bothered beyond original airdates. What can be done in my eyes is to mention when the season was broadast in the uk. Like "Season 1 was broadcasted in the UK from 8 december 2006 untill 16 july 2006". - The DJ 23:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Airdates

message: I think the air dates in the ep list are getting to be to much. Should all the air dates but the first be moved into the respective episode article? JQF 16:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is standard to only list the air date of the originating country.  You are the second person to mention this. Feel free to delete the UK and AUS times. — Scm83x hook 'em 16:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Dates 

message: The current MNIE episode infobox doesn't have room for an image, as far as I can tell.  We need to find a way to put images on the individual episode pages now that we have them. - Peregrine Fisher 01:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox and images 

message: There is a lot of mis-capitalization in the episode names, or is there.  Monkeys In Space (My Name Is Earl) for instance.  Or is "In" supposed to be capital?  It's hard to know because "My Name Is Earl" has a capital "Is." - Peregrine Fisher 09:41, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed all of the episodes to conform to WP:NC. Evan Reyes 22:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

text: "Is" is capitalized because it's a verb.134.84.103.21 22:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode names ain't right 

message: The Internet Movie Database lists the two-part season premiere as My Name is Inmate #28301-016  rather than simply My Name is Inmate as Wikipedia lists it now. Is there any reason that the pages shouldn't be moved to include Earl's apparent inmate number? Nowah Balloon 09:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: My Name is Inmate (#28301-016)

message: I started making the article for Season 1 in my sandbox. I intent to put short plot summaries of each episode, the items of the list accomplished/started in season 1 (optional, maybe we have to omit that since Earl's list is detailed enough) and songs heard (optional as well).
If they are any comments, objections, suggestions please right them here. You are welcome to edit to Sandbox in order to improve the article.
Since, I don't have enough time I may take a while to do it. -- Magioladitis 21:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, these will be redirected. If you need the information, you can just take it from the redirects. TTN (talk) 18:14, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging Season 1

message: I don't get it. Every single episode of The Simpsons has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Seinfeld has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Futurama has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of American Dad has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Family Guy has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of South Park has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Charmed has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Angel has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Lost has its own wikipedia page. Every single episode of Heroes has its own wikipedia page.     The list of television series with a wikipedia page for every episode goes on and on. 
How is any particular episode of Futurama or American Dad more notable than any particular episode of My Name Is Earl? Wikipedia isn't a book with a limited amount of available pages. I wish people would just stop trying to get rid of perfectly legitimate articles. I didn't contribute to any of those episode pages of My Name Is Earl but I did thought they were rather well written. Those individual episode pages were useful in tracking the evolution of Earl's list. They were also useful in identifying the songs used in each episode and which songs were missing on the dvd releases. Could those individual pages be improved? Sure. That does not mean they should be rid of, only expanded and elaborated upon. 
I've read the discussion on this talk page and I do not see any consensus anywhere that the episode pages should have been rid of. All I see are a lot of irrelevant discussion and one particularly controversial individual with an apparent obsession with merging articles. An individual that many other people apparently have a problem with. 
* User talk:TTN
* Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters
My intent was to revert all the redirects that this above user has made relating to My Name Is Earl. That is until I realized that the individual has been engaging in this same sort of behavior all over wikipedia and that the only likely outcome of my intended action would be a revert war that I have little interest in engaging. For those unaware, you can still visit the missing episode pages. Search the episode name on wikipedia and when you wind up on the list of episodes page, click on the link in the (redirect from episode name) at the top of the page. You will then be taken to another page that only has a link to the list of episodes page. Click on the history tab at the top of the page and then click on the last date before the user above made all his redirects. --60.241.170.216 (talk) 09:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the above. I think TTN has just deleted... oh I'm sorry, I mean "made it difficult to find and halted updates on", a very valuable resource, that I for one found useful. I hope at some point in the future, what he's done gets reversed - rst20xx (talk) 16:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Missing Episode Pages 

message: In "Bad Earl", there is a mention of a "Billie". In an encyclopedia, it is confusing to not see any explantion of who Billie is at all (not even on the main My Name Is Earl page). So, who/what is he/she/it? Where has he/she/it appeared before? Can we edit it in somewhere so it isn't so confusing?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.246.0 (talk) 19:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is Billie? 

message: I have to say that as well as disagreeing with having descriptions on the episode list at all, the descriptions themeselves are particularly poor.  By this I mean they demonstrate poor use of language including grammar and appear to have problems with punctuation too.  I'll cite some examples: "karma catches up to him in the shape of a car, and Billie" (poor use of language), "For a while it seemed to really work," (incomplete sentence), "Earl starts dating Joy's deaf lawyer when he still has a void in his life that an education and a job couldn't fill." (incorrect grammar/structure).
Why have the seperate pages for the episodes been deleted?  As was noted above, many other shows have seperate pages for each episode, and on their own list of episodes do not include descriptions.  I personally think this makes the My Name Is Earl pages less in line with the Wikipedia standard for TV shows.  If this show goes on for several more seasons and the same layout is used, this article is going to be bloated.  I think The Simpsons template (#/Original airdate/Prod. Code/Title) should be used and seperate pages created for each episode, as was the standard before.
I'd be more than happy to tidy up this section and create pages for all the episodes as I really enjoy the show, but as I understand it there have been petty edit wars and I don't want to waste my time if my work is going to be deleted.  I definately think something needs to be done though.
Garyd (talk) 00:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor Descriptions 

message: How about some information on why some Thursdays have been skipped for new episodes? The next new episode (Bullies) won't air until April 16th, with two weeks skipped since "Pinky" was broadcast March 26th. Production problems? Crazy network executives that think randomly skipping weeks for new episodes entices the viewers to not jump ship to a different show in that timeslot?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 02:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Skipped Thursdays

message: I don't know how to edit the wiki but season 2 should have Born a Gamblin Man as a separate episode 11/30/06.  then South of the Border Part Uno is it's own episode and aired on the same day as South of the Border part dos on 12/7.  This increases the overall ep count by one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blakeandcat (talk • contribs) 21:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Season 2 missing episode 

message: I use the page to try to figure out which disks I have already rented from Netflix.  If the episode descriptions included (or were organized by) which disk they are on (as well as which season) it would help a lot.  
e.g., for season 4, episodes by disk are concisely listed here: 
*Episodes divided by disk, Season 4
—68.165.11.125 (talk) 20:39, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You can check your Netflix history here. —Tamfang (talk) 17:05, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodes need to be broken up by disk 

message: "...,he and Randy trespass on the water tower and steal the flag but no one cares, a plane flies over them and jump up and down to get their attention but fall through the roof. The Government saves after three miserable days. And Earl receives a big check which he is more than happy to pay out." This doesn't make sense. Can someone clarify? 72.152.141.249 (talk) 14:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: water tower

message: For "Faked My Own Death", IMDb lists Pressly and Steeples as "credit only", meaning that Joy and Darnell do not appear.  Is this accurate? —Tamfang (talk) 17:01, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faked Two Characters' Absence 

message: I NEED to know who Earl Jr's real father is!!
WHY DID IT END ON SUCH A CLIFFHANGER?!
Suggestions, please! Joe Morris (talk) 20:49, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened next?!?! 

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