Earl Hickey’s karmic journey comes to an end in Season 4 of My Name is Earl. With prison and his third failed marriage behind him Earl gets back to his list, but he soon inadvertently outs Darrell – forcing Witness Protection to relocate Darrell and Joy, and Earl has to try to get them back. Among other things, Earl makes up for stealing an RV, breaking up Randy and his boyhood crush, ruining an astronaut suit, and wrecking a bookmobile. Yet try as it might, the show just can’t get back to the wit and humor of the first season. The comedy is still overly cartoonish and most of the characters have been turned into goofy caricatures with no resemblance to real people. However, there are a number of funny sketches and the low-brow jokes work to a degree. Additionally, the list of guest stars is quite impressive and features Seth Green, Jerry Van Dyke, David Arquette, Jenna Elfman, Jason Priestley, Jane Seymour, and Danny Glover. Season 4 of My Name Is Earl is the weakest of the series and is more concerned with telling wacky stories than good ones (leading NBC to cancel it).
It's the worst season, lacking the creativity and the crazyness of the previous one and with a cliffhanger that never got resolved, but it's still quite fun and with some occasional stroke of genius.
Shout by DRNKMNKYBlockedParentSpoilers2016-01-10T20:57:57Z
For sure the weakest season of them all. Don't get me wrong, there are still some very funny episodes (e.g. most of the ones with Joy and Darnell in witness protection) but there also are quite a few disappointing ones. I did especially not like episodes 4x24 - 4x26 and there are a few others that I didn't enjoy very much. Therefore, when starting to watch 4x27, I thought "Well... maybe it is not so bad that they quit after this season because everything seems to goes south". However, the hilarious very last episode "Dodge's Dad", with its Cliffhanger ending, made it quite hard for me to understand why the series was shut down!!! Stupid studios!