My Name Is Earl (TV Series) Pinky (2009) User Reviews

Series picks up its feet in a big way!!

[moviez101 · 10/10 · 27 March 2009]

When Randy learns that Earl thwarted his one and only first love, he demands karmic payback. Even if it means kissing Joy to find the true "Pinky" buried somewhere inside her. Earl learns the hard way, and even gets Darnel to agree to what was suppose to be love's first true kiss over 20 years ago.

If someone tried to pitch this as a movie it would be "Maybe" movie script material (6 out 10), BUT as for a TV series without the excessive hour and a half, it's "Perfect" for TV!!! (10 out 10)

It's so refreshing seeing great writing (has it been over a year since the writer's strike already?) in a 20 min space. I've watched all 4 seasons, and just when I was starting to get to "seen that coming, done that" mind frame, this episode touches a spot not so often seen or heard, at least not for television.

Regardless of who or what we become as adults, that golden time in our lives when the world could be anything with the possibility with that first someone, besides ourselves. To quote the song in the episode...

John Prine's "Day Is Done"

Do you like me? Well I hope you do Cause if you like me Then I think I'm gonna to have to like you too...

A Classic that I found myself watching again and again! Keep it up! It was nice to see Bernie Kopell, Doc from the Love Boat, make an appearance. As well as the other special guests in episodes past!! Always a rare treat!!! (Rossane Barr as a Nun anyone?!?!)

Cue the waterworks

[mofobuss · 10/10 · 15 May 2021]

The most heartfelt episode I've seen on any show in a while...that dang song gets me in the feels.

This episode touched me!

[schmidteren · 10/10 · 29 March 2009]

Well just s SHORT description, this episode was great! :) It reminded me of simpler days, when you where child, and had child loves, and your very first kiss... My very first kiss was also at a summer thing, and I remember it like yesterday... Perhaps even better :D I can go back to all the emotions and happiness I felt that time in life, and watching this episode brought it all back, and it gave me little tears in my eyes...

thank you My name is earl for being a great show in TV :)

Hmmm this have to be 10 lines, what more can I write...

Have a nice day ya all out there :D and be good to each other!... Don't brake of for your best friend or brother, just for selfishness! :) You can ruin something very important! :)

Very funny, very sweet, very touching

[fredcdobbs5 · 10/10 · 24 February 2019]

SPOILER: During a summer stay at a lake resort when they were both children, Randy meets "Pinky"--"the only girl who ever loved me"-- a cute little critter who set her sights on him, and they had a "fling". However, before they could "consummate" their love with a romantic kiss on a bridge at night, Pinky disappeared, leaving Randy broken-hearted, disappointed and bitter.

Twenty years later Randy finds out that Earl was actually responsible for Pinky's disappearance. Furthermore, he finds out that "Pinky" was actually Joy. He demands that Earl make up for breaking up his and "Pinky"'s budding romance.

In addition to being a very funny episode, it is also probably the sweetest one of the series--not sappy or treacly sweet, but it has a genuinely heartfelt, touching sweetness about the power and at the same time the innocence of first love, greatly helped by John Prine's haunting "Day Is Done" playing in the background, which is the absolutely perfect song for this episode.

Bernie Kopell has a small but hilarious part as the owner of the resort where Joy and Randy met so many years before.

All in all, I think this is just about the finest episode of this wonderfully quirky series. If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to. You won't be sorry.