So, NBC decides to have a "green week." All week long NBC programs are supposed to have an ecological theme. I think the culmination is supposed to be 30 Rock, where Al Gore himself makes an appearance. At least in the clips they showed during Earl, the Goracle seems able to poking fun at himself (well, he let the writers do it).
On Earl tonight, the warden (Craig T. Nelson) puts Earl in charge of doing a "Scared Straight" show and picking three other convicts to take with him to the school.
Seems they'd tried busing in a class once, but it ended rather badly as a little person threw a kid in a washing machine and tried to board the bus wearing his uniform. So now they're gonna take the show to the schools.
Half-way through the program, the warden suddenly, and irrationally commands Earl to give the Scared Straight show an environmental theme -- make it green.
So Earl says something like: won't that seem a little out of place, kind of shoe-horning something in that has nothing to do with the show is about?
But of course the warden overrides him.
So later, as they're getting ready to go out, one of the prisoners says he's going to mention that while he's sorry his footprints lead the cops to him, he feels even sorrier about the large carbon footprint he was responsible for. And another prisoner says he's going to tell the children that he the thing he regrets the most about dumping the body is the littering.
Funny show.
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