In the end Christian Slater's comment to Earl was "If everyone would take 5 minutes a day to do something they normally wouldn't do then we wouldn't have this problem" (may God be with my quote if I missed something). Ok Christian, I gonna drive an extra 5 miles in my SUV and teach a bear to smoke...something I wouldn't NORMALLY do....dumba$$e$.

For the record, EARL will stay on at most two more years (not faulting the actors by the way just the speaking of the show's realistic life expectancy and in acting years that is pretty damn nice). It is a sketch turned into a currently successful comedy because nothing but pure sh!t is on during the Thursday 8:00 pm hour. Dudes do watch TV and dudes don't watch "Fugly Betty".

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The politicization of our entertainment is creeping upon us more and more...I sure miss Seinfeld, it was the last great sitcom...maybe...maybe, one will come along but for the MOST PART Seinfeld avoided the pitfalls of megamoniacalism that seems to infect almost every producer, directer, writer and actor in Hollywood today.

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Based on the events in the show, Darnell may secretly be smart. Hence, it was nice to know that the one smart guy in the bunch is the only one that spoke a hint of truth.

And while the show did propagate the global warming mantra, it did point out how crappy being a true environmentalist truely is: houses made of cow pies, bland diet with no meat, getting hot water for your shower takes an hour or two, and stinky neighbors. Of course they didn't touch the lack of medicine or that a lot of their natural living was dependent on modern tools , or the fact that their low-impact life style could not support a population of 300 million.

But I guess I could look at it with kind eyes... the show is about an uneducated simpleton that fell for the lies of global warming.

I'm ultraconservative,and I think Earl is a good show with a good message overall. It's about doing good things and righting wrongs; learning from one's mistakes and improving one's lot in life by trying to be a better person. It's about taking personal responsibility for the things you do. It's about trying to overcome ignorance and not blaming society for creating bad people. It makes it clear that bad people make their own choices and that  bad people can choose to stop being bad people. I can embrace all of that!

In this episode, they made it clear that the people in the commune were idiots, and they said the guy who gave the Gore-like speech (Christian Slater) hadn't "regrown the brain cells he killed" while he was a whacked-out stoner. So I don't think they were intending the global warming message to come across as credible. Nor were they trying to portray those who believe it as intelligent or right. When Earl fell for it, it was a sign of his uneducated ignorance, which they have played up in the series from the beginning for comic effect.

I'm pretty sure the only thing we were actually supposed to "buy" out of that whole thing was the 5-minutes-a-day part, which is not loony. It's certainly not a Laurie David or Al Gore type belief system, is it? I think they were just saying that, if one is concerned on any level about the environment, then being an environmentalist wacko is not the answer. If you want to make a difference, find something reasonable you can do in five minutes that you're comfortable with and do it. You don't have to go try to convert the world to living in dung houses and giving up hairspray.

Only furthers my contention that television sitcoms, dramas and even many children's shows  (network & cable) have become daily propaganda outlets for the left-wing.

“Oh, and, uh, you know what they said about eating an apple a day? Don't, 'cause they're loaded with pesticides.”

Just like.... Don't use DDT anymore, bad for the environment don't you know...matters not that thousands have died from malaria because of the ban....

Don't sweat the small stuff....after all, whats a human being when we are saving the planet...

Nut-cases all!

You know, I gotta say that this show never hooked me. I don't watch it. And I love most everything Jason Lee does, and think Jamie Pressley is hilarious. Dunno. Just not my cup of tea.

30 Rock last night had a funny episode with product placement, and one seen where Tina Fey tried to get on her soapbox, only to be confused as to what point she was actually trying to make.

I have only seen one episode of "Earl" and I can't say that I was impressed.  After NBC tries a stunt like this, I will probably never want to tune in again to it. NBC has definetly lost their edge for comedies with the exception of "The Office".  It is one of the funnest shows on and doesn't try to be political in the least.  In fact, it pokes a lot of fun at the ways we try to be politically correct in today's world.  Of course, I can also relate to the characters on the show since I also work for a paper company.

How come Al Gore never mentions the Saraha Desert when he preaches global warming? It wasn't but 3500-4000 years ago that the Saraha was one of the lushest, greenest places on the planet, then due entirely to "Global Warming" it changed over a period of about 1500 years into the desolate waste land it is today. Now the question is how did mankind speed this up? Were the Arabic travelers riding too many camel caravans through the land, spewing excessive amounts of greenhouse gasses, (camel farts) or was it something else entirely?

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