Articles by Ryan Berenz

As a kid, Earl had a crush on his babysitter Rachel. But Rachel was with her boyfriend Daniel. Earl didn’t take too kindly to that, so he sabotaged Daniel’s condoms. But as Earl wants to cross the misdeed off his list, he discovers that Rachel (Faith Ford) and Daniel are happily married — but their twentysomething son that Earl had a hand in conceiving is a bit of a freeloading loser. So Earl takes it upon himself to give their son, Ronnie (Adam Rose), a little tough love so he can learn to survive on his own. But Randy starts […]

Earl is helping the Camden County Bookmobile by reading a story to children, and the story sounds a little like something that once happened to Earl and Randy. Years ago, Earl and Randy decided to take their lonely eccentric friend Raynard (Ewen Bremner) out for a night on the town. Pretending to be the opening act for U2 in order to pick up some women, Earl stole the Camden County Bookmobile to use as their tour bus. After a night with the groupies, they abandoned the Bookmobile out in the wilderness. Years later, Earl and Randy returned to where they […]

A tornado is hitting the trailer park in Camden County, and the “Finders Keepers” rule is in effect — you basically get to keep whatever piece of debris you find. (This is how Earl got the blue door on his El Camino.) The storm sets off a chain of events in which a flying Bible, a flying gun that shoots blanks and a flying boat are all taken for spiritual signs. As Earl, Randy, Joy, Crab Man, Patty and Catalina end up taking shelter from the tornado in the cellar of a church, they all start to realize the events […]

Earl is doing some items on his list at the Crab Shack, and one of them is repairing the dent he put in the bar. Which reminded him of how it got there. Back in 2000, Randy ruined the piece of stolen wedding cake that Joy had been saving to eat for good luck on her and Earl’s first anniversary. To make it up to Joy, Randy throws a party for them at the Crab Shack, inviting people from Joy’s address book. But it turns out that Joy’s address book is really a list of guys she’s foned boned. One […]

Earl and Randy have a new neighbor at the motel, a creepy guy named Lloyd (played by Courtney Gains, who was Malachai in Children of the Corn) who makes a ruckus with hammering and welding into the wee hours of the night. Joy recognizes Lloyd as the guy who she and Earl sold a hillbilly tuned-up lemon to. Lloyd wanted to take a cross-country drive, but he didn’t get out of Camden County before the car broke down. The incident scarred Lloyd emotionally, and he lost his faith in human goodness. Earl suspects that Lloyd is building a bomb in […]