My Name Is Earl aired for four seasons on NBC before it was cancelled, and the creator has revealed how he would have ended the series if it had continued on to a natural end. The series ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, but Greg Garcia did have a plan in mind for how to wrap things up.
In a Reddit AMA, he revealed how he would have ended the comedy series if he had been able to close it out. He said:
“I had always had an ending to Earl and I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to see it happen. You’ve got a show about a guy with a list so not seeing him finish it is a bummer. But the truth is, he wasn’t ever going to finish the list. The basic idea of the ending was that while he was stuck on a really hard list item he was going to start to get frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. They needed to make up for something bad they had done to Earl. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with list and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.”
Garcia also revealed that he had asked the network if it was okay for him to end the season on a cliffhanger. The network told him to go ahead, and it was only after that NBC decided to cancel the series. Garcia might have written a different season four finale if he had known the network was going to cancel the series.
In addition, Garcia also planned to reveal who Earl Jr’s father was before the show ended. The writers were thinking that it would be someone famous who’d been in town for just one night. The writers didn’t get to decide who that would be, but the baby daddy was intended to be revealed before the series ended.
Were you a fan of My Name is Earl? Did Garcia’s reveal give you closure for this series? Tell us what you think.
I love Ed D it. I’m still waiting g for more
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I like My Name is Earl. I don’t use public TV or cable satellite. Do a contract with net flix and continue your series. Now we know the truth. We will support you .add more seasons we will wathc
Please continuing Earl!! I love this show so much!! It needs to end it in a good way not left us wondering like that
I’m sorry that was wrong haha…we only need about 1,800 more signatures to reach the GOAL of 5,000 not 13,000.
Unfortunately I cannot add the link, (technical errors) but there is a petition for My Name is Earl to be continued through Netflix on change.org . The petition needs 5,000 more signatures and already has about 18,000 it will be sent to NBC and Netflix 🙂 (I already signed it)
Bring back “My name is earl” just finshed it yesterday and I already miss it
*Chants* BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK!
The show was Hilarious and different, wish it had not been cancelled. This show along with Two and a half Men with Charlie Sheen were the two best sitcoms EVER!!! Just sorry they were Cancelled. Come up with some more FUNNY stuff. Thanks.
So sad that such a great show got canceled like this. It would have deserved a true ending. I really hope it will come true some day.
Please bring the show back
Please bring back “My name is Earl”. This was one of the best sitcoms ever created.
Bring back My Name is Earl!
Straight to the point…Bring “My name is Earl” back!!!
Just finish the show please!!!!!! ive been waiting for this for years!!! Do what Arrested Development did at least and have the show be taken over by Netflix to finish it!!!! PLEASE! Give us something funny and good in our lives and finish the darn thing!
Bring back my name is earl it’s a good show they’re are thousands if not millions of viewers I love that show I watched it from day 1 when it first came on tv didn’t get to finish watching it it disappeared I figured they were making more episodes finally found it on netflix just finished it where y’all left off my wife and I are very disappointed