Episode
My Name Is Earl: Dodge's Dad
Overview
When Dodge tells Joy he doesn't want Darnell to speak at career day, she enlists Earl to pretend to be his father. Things don't go well and Earl realizes Dodge needs to know his real dad. Despite Joy's protests, Earl enlists Randy and Catalina to help him hunt down the deadbeat dad, but what they discover is worse than they could have imagined.
Details
- Series
- My Name Is Earl
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 2009-05-14
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Dodge's Dad is Episode 27 in Season 4 of My Name Is Earl. It aired on 2009-05-14. The runtime is 22 min.
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