http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/12/MY-NAME-IS-EARL----The-Frank-Factor.aspx I guess time doesn’t fly while you’re hanging out in prison, even if your brother’s now employed as a prison guard.  Even though Earl (Jason Lee) is making the most of his jail time experience he’s still locked up and that sucks.  The first person to admit this is Joy (Jamie Pressly), Earl’s ex-wife and the reason he’s in jail.  During her visit this week Earl tells her that she has got to stop feeling badly about the fact that he’s doing hard time so she wouldn’t have to.  While Joy’s explaining that she’s feeling “more and more terribler” each day that goes by and Earl is still in jail with the sorts of fellows that could slit his throat if he looks at them wrong she notices another inmate she knows, Frank (Michael Rapaport) & Earl knows him pretty well too. Turns out about seven years prior, Earl & Randy’s (Ethan Suplee) parents kicked them out of the house & they spent the better part of a week looking for a place to live.  Behind a flyer on a telephone pole Earl notices a poster saying there’s a room for rent.  This room is the kitchen in Frank’s house.  Frank is both the brother’s roommate and their landlord as they shared the trailer space along with one other man, Paco who rents the living room.  Meanwhile, Joy’s in deep trouble of her own.  After a one night stand with an anonymous stranger she ends up pregnant.  Once she starts to show her parents kick her out prompting her to yell at them “YOU’LL BE SORRY IF THIS IS THE BABY JESUS OR A TUMOR!”  Damn straight they’ll be sorry, if that was the case there’d be money made in selling her story to the press.  So Joy packs her things and moves into the motel in Camden.  She realizes she’s got to nab a man to help her raise this baby so she sets into action. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/12/MY-NAME-IS-EARL----The-Frank-Factor.aspx 77 60