Last season, My Name is Earl left viewers with Earl Hickey (Jason Lee) taking the blame for ex-wife Joy Turner (Jaime Pressly) for stealing a truck and ending up getting sentenced to two years in prison.  But as the third season takes the series in an extremely fresh direction, fans will see a very comical spin on prison life, as well as some sidesplitting action outside the penitentiary.

Read on for more My Name is Earl spoilers.

As Earl begins his jail sentence, he soon finds out that life is not easy behind bars and continually tries to find the best way to surviving in the new environment.  As reported previously, he'll be facing various people this season, including some old faces and some fresh encounters.  Aside from Michael Rapaport (Frank), who will be introduced in next week's episode of My Name is Earl as a fellow inmate, and Alyssa Milano, who will play Frank's girlfriend and may also serve as a possible love interest for Earl, Craig T. Nelson will also be joining the show as the videogame-loving jail warden who happens to be married to the governor.  Nelson is set to appear on tonight's episode entitled “The Gangs of Camden County.”

Furthermore, Earl creator/executive producer, Greg Garcia, reveals that the third season will be graced with more notable stars.

“My new ultimate guest stars would be: Nick Cage since I'm a huge Raising Arizona fan...for the same reason I'd love Holly Hunter to come on.  We'd love to get Steve Buscemi on but haven't been able to work that out yet, but we think these people would fit nicely into our world,” Garcia said in his blog on the show's official website.

Garcia also tips-off some spoilers that will hopefully entice viewers to stick around the rest of season 3.

“We're going to have an episode where we go into everyone's thoughts, which is a lot of fun, and as each of our characters gets bitten by the writing bug they get to tell their own story of what they would write if they could write anything and we get to go into little vignettes of all our characters and it's a lot of fun.  And because ‘Cops' was so popular last year we're doing an hour ‘Cops' episode,” he said.

“We're gonna find out a little bit more about why Crabman [Eddie Steeples] is in witness protection in the beginning of this season and we might just find out everything about why Crabman is in witness protection by the end of the season.  Stay tuned,” he added.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: NBC
(Image courtesy of NBC)