When Joy and Darnell get into an argument over her surprise birthday party, Earl jumps at the opportunity to do number 183 on his list -- never took Joy's side. Joy, on the other hand, runs into bigger problems when the purchase of a television set doesn't turn out the way she anticipated. After her frustration of not being able to return the television, Joy ends up in a predicament with a stolen truck and a hostage in the middle of the woods. Going against his established good nature, Earl decides to take Joy's side and help cover up her criminal activities.

Earl needs to raise a lot of money to help a friend in need and goes to the one person he knows with that kind of money, local entrepreneur Richard Chubby, owner of, among other places, the Camden County strip joint Club Chubby. He agrees to loan Earl the money if he can convince Chubby's most popular dancer, Catalina, to return to work.

When Earl watches Catalina give the motel maid a facial wax, he decides to make amends for number ninety-one on his list - made fun of Maggie Lester for having a moustache. Earl and Randy pay Maggie a visit and find out she is working in the Witzel Traveling Carnival as The Amazing Bearded Woman but has dreams to work in another normal field. Joy and Darnell, meanwhile, deal with the repercussions of Joy's breaking the law.

As number 56 on his list, Earl decides to return an award winning cat back to its rightful owner after attempting to sabotage a cat show in Joy's avor. However, when Randy and Earl return the cat back to its owner they find that the once champion kitty has lost all of its award winning qualities. Meanwhile, an attraction forms between Randy and the cat owner, which helps Randy discover a lot about his true self.

Ralph learns something quite upsetting about his mom, which threatens to end his friendship with Earl. This occurs after Earl gets his old rock-and-roll band back together at the request of former lead singer Tom, a senior citizen who got kicked out of the group before they played their first---and only---gig.

When Joy needs a restraining order lifted in order to improve her image for an upcoming trial, Earl decides to confront number 12 on his list - Made a Lady Think I was God. In a mean-spirited attempt to have the manager of their trailer park, Millie Banks, stop harassing them, Earl disguises himself as the voice of God and fools Millie into obeying his absurd commands. As Earl tries to erase Millie off his list, he finds that the once shrewd trailer park manager is gone and has transformed for the better.

Bored with her life, Catalina offers to help Earl take care of number 75 on his list by cleaning out a mailbox that he once used as a trash can. Catalina discovers an undelivered letter stuck at the bottom, and Earl is determined to find its rightful owner. Turns out it's a long lost love letter from trailer park resident Will to his former gym co-worker Wendy. Earl agrees to keep an eye on Wendy while Will gets back into shape for her. Meanwhile, Joy kicks Darnell out after discovering he's in the witness protection program.

Earl and Randy repay a debt to a nonmaterialistic hippie by spending a week at the totally self-sufficient, environmentally friendly commune where he lives, an experience that opens Earl's eyes to global warming, which he decides to stop.

At Christmastime, Earl shows Kenny how to act more manly, and in the process they both develop compulsive gambling habits. Meanwhile, Randy prepares to declare his love for Catalina and Joy enters anger-management therapy.

After Earl accidentally gets Catalina deported, Earl and Randy go on a full-fledged mission to get Catalina back. Earl's fear of flying stalls the process but nothing can stop Randy, a love-struck man, from getting to Catalina. As Earl and Randy get deeper into their plan to save Catalina, the obstacles they face make their mission more and more difficult. Meanwhile, the meds Joy takes calm her temper but the new pleasant Joy frustrates Darnell.

At the end of the first half of Earl and Randy's adventure to bring Catalina back to America, gunmen had kidnapped Earl. While Earl befriends Diego, the fashion challenged criminal who takes him hostage, Randy encounters a married couple that use him to fill a void in their life. Despite whatever hurdles they encounter, nothing can keep Earl from scratching Catalina off his list or Randy from getting the love of his life back. Meanwhile, Darnell finds it difficult to cope with Joy's new happy attitude as their neighbors become more and more invasive.

Earl, Randy, Joy, Darnell and the other Crab Shack regulars spend a boring Sunday afternoon watching a 2003 repeat of the TV show Cops, which was filmed in Camden County and features their unlawful escapades.

Earl doesn't know what happened to his missing buried treasure, but Joy, Darnell and Randy have differing accounts of what they think happened to it.

After Karma gives Earl signs about something he needs to take care of, he decides he needs to fix the time he kept a guy locked in the back of a truck, that Joy stole. However when he finds the guy has died, Earl has to figure out how to make it right and cross it off his list.

As a young kid, Earl tortured Pierre, a French foreign-exchange student, and scared him back to France. In order to scratch # 44 off his list, Earl decides to fly Pierre back to America and show him all the great things the country has to offer. Meanwhile, things heat up between Randy and Catalina and their marriage is redefined -- but not in the way anyone would have ever guessed. Everyone learns more about the power of love and the mysterious ways in which it works.

In preparation for the trial, Joy learns that she has a half-sister whom she could possibly use to invoke sympathy from the jury -- but her half-sister turns out to be her lifelong mortal enemy, Liberty Washington. Coincidentally, Liberty is also #101 on Earl's list -- stole a girl's identity. As Earl tries to right his wrong and Joy deals with the shock of having a new half sister, Liberty works to get herself into a wrestling league. The two women deal with their differences by wrestling them out of each other.

It's a special episode as Earl celebrates his birthday -- but the day not only marks another exciting year in his life, but more importantly, a time for Earl to reflect on all the items he's crossed off his list during the past year. When Randy throws Earl a birthday party at the Crab Shack, however, Earl finds it hard to remember the good things he's done when everybody at the party keeps reminding him of how he's screwed up in the past. Right when Earl thinks his day can't get any worse, everybody has a special birthday surprise in store for him.

As Joy goes through her new pregnancy, Earl finds that it reminds him of when she was pregnant with Earl Jr., and he remembers how he reacted when he realized the baby wasn't his. He also recalls the advice he got from his father on how to handle the situation.

Earl tries to cross another item off his list - the time he and Randy kept ruining a reporter's newscasts. After Earl apologizes, she wants to feature him and his list on the air as a feel-good story - but Randy feels hurt and diminished, and tries to sabotage their efforts.

Local businessman Richard Chubby passes away, and his son arrives back in town to manage the family business. This reminds Earl of the time he kicked Little Chubby in the balls, and when Earl tries to make things right, he ends up making them worse.

When Earl is declined a credit card for being unemployed, homeless, and uneducated, he decides he cheated himself out of becoming an adult. Earning his G.E.D. would be that first step to adulthood, but he doesn't know enough to pass the test. Earl asks his old teachers for help, but finds they've been beaten down by students just like him - so he inspires them to fight back and reclaim their school.

Earl takes a job working as an appliance salesman, but finds having a real job with real co-workers isn't so easy. As Joy's trial approaches, she panics and makes some typical bad choices that affect those around her.

In the season finale, Joy's future lays in the hands of the law as her trial finally arrives, and it leads Earl to do something bigger than anything on his list.