Earl begins his prison sentence and finds that life behind bars is not easy and must find the best way of coping with his new surroundings.

With karma back on his side, Earl is approached by the jail warden to help resolve one of the biggest problems going on in the jail yard. There are feuding gangs constantly breaking out into fights, and Earl is asked to resolve these gangs' differences. If he is able to settle this conflict, he will receive a lesser sentence. Earl accepts the task and finds out a lot more than he bargained for. Meanwhile, Randy is still suffering from Earl withdrawals and continues to search for ways to be reunited with his brother.

Earl is visited by Joy and is surprised that another prisoner also in visitation happens to be someone both Joy and Earl know. Frank, an old friend of Earl and an old coworker of Joy, describes how he ended up in prison. The story takes place right before Joy and Earl met, and helps explain how many of them grew to become a part of each other’s life.

Earl attends a class in prison that focuses on creative writing. After the teacher gave them an assignment to write a story, Earl realized that writing was a lot harder than he expected. Earl informs Randy about the assignment and Randy loves the idea of creating his own make-believe world. Catalina, whos two jobs usually prevent her from writing, lives out her soap opera story, that she wrote on dollar bills, about falling in love with a man named Javier. Soon enough, the whole gang is able to write his or her own creative story and Earl is stuck with a blank piece of paper. In the end, Earl discovers that sometimes the best story does not require the most imagination.

It is conjugal visiting day at the Camden prison. Since Earl has no one to visit him, Frank asks if he will explain to his girlfriend why he cannot be there. Frank's girlfriend breaks up with Frank because of Earl, and Earl feels it is his job to get her back. Meanwhile, Joy gets herself into a messy situation with Catalina.

While enjoying TV time in prison, Earl and Randy are excited when they see that the show Cops is filming in Camden County. The episode features different types of altercations that are all somehow related to Earl. Kenny is featured in the episode as a raffle winner who gets to ride along with a cop. Since the Cops episode was taped prior to Kenny and Earl’s reconciliation, Kenny shows resentment towards Earl.

While enjoying TV time in prison, Earl and Randy are excited when they see that the show Cops is filming in Camden County. The episode features different types of altercations that are all somehow related to Earl. Kenny is featured in the episode as a raffle winner who gets to ride along with a cop. Since the Cops episode was taped prior to Kenny and Earl’s reconciliation, Kenny shows resentment towards Earl.

The Warden asks Earl to take on a task of forming a skit called, Scared Straight that will scare kids from committing crimes and stay out of jail. The Warden asks Earl to incorporate environmental friendly green messages into his presentation, based off a request from his wife, the governor. Meanwhile, Randy gets into a fight with Earl about who is in charge between the two of them, and uses his guard privileges to make Earl’s life difficult.

Joy demands Darnell do something to help speed up the birth of the baby. Meanwhile, escapee Frank is determined to collect his hidden money, and Catalina is left in charge of Joy’s children.

After helping the Warden out with numerous tasks, Earl has discovered that his sentence has been deducted to six months left in jail. However, the Warden is now faced in a major dilemma and needs Earl’s help. He promises Earl six months off his sentence if he will help him start a program that will mediate a situation between an inmate and their victim. Earl decides on an inmate who was in for running a meth lab that eventually burned his parent’s house down. The inmate agreed to comply if Earl would throw a prison prom, because he missed his in high school. Earl turns to Joy to help plan the prom and soon discovers it will cost him the rest of the money he had left from his lottery winnings. Will Earl solve the problem and earn his freedom?

Earl, upset over the warden reneging on his promise of an early release, plans an escape with help of the gang.

Earl, 's lifestyle in prison seems to be transitioning to his regular life outside of bars. He is having a hard time adjusting back to normal life and continues to hold a grudge with karma. With no job, no home and no money, Earl decides that his good deeds are not getting him anywhere, so he reverts back to his old bad ways. Earl's path to trouble starts when he sees that Ralph is living a lavish life after conning an elderly woman. Randy can not handle Earl, 's changed lifestyle, so he turns to Joy and many others to partake in an intervention on Christmas morning. Earl rejects his friends and tries to run from karma, but karma catches up to him in the shape of a car and Billie.

Earl is still lying in the middle of the road next to Billie, both of whom are unconscious after being hit by a car. The accident puts Earl in a coma and takes him to an alternate world in the form of a sitcom. Meanwhile, Randy, Darnell, Joy and Catalina begin doing whatever they can to ensure Earl lives. After several attempts, Earl continues to be stuck in a fevered state and is visited by Paris Hilton in his dream. The group realizes they are all out ideas and turn to their last option, a little boy that can cure everything with his finger. The boy refuses to help because he thinks Joy has the devil on her side, so Darnell and Randy try to prove to him that she does not. Has Earl's bad karma gotten the best of him? Will he find the strength to survive his coma?

Earl is still lying in the middle of the road next to Billie, both of whom are unconscious after being hit by a car. The accident puts Earl in a coma and takes him to an alternate world in the form of a sitcom. Meanwhile, Randy, Darnell, Joy and Catalina begin doing whatever they can to ensure Earl lives. After several attempts, Earl continues to be stuck in a fevered state and is visited by Paris Hilton in his dream. The group realizes they are all out ideas and turn to their last option, a little boy that can cure everything with his finger. The boy refuses to help because he thinks Joy has the devil on her side, so Darnell and Randy try to prove to him that she does not. Has Earl’s bad karma gotten the best of him? Will he find the strength to survive his coma?

Earl is still in a coma, but Randy realizes that each item he completes off Earl’s list helps Earl get better. After letting fate pick his next task, Randy gathers Joy and Darnell to help him solve the mystery of the stolen motorcycle from the Teutul family. Randy cannot remember anything about that day because both Earl and him were drunk. He must retrace his steps, with the help of Joy and Darnell, and try to fix the problem before Earl’s condition gets worse. Meanwhile, Earl’s life in a coma is still in sitcom form and his wife, Billie, is pregnant. Earl and Billie have a baby boy and are very happy. Is this alternate life in Earl’s mind, his ideal life?

With Earl still in a coma, Randy and Joy decide to continue crossing items off Earls list to improve his recovery. Earls parents went on a vacation and left the house to Earl and Randy. Upon returning early from the airport due to a flight delay they found a duffel bag full of marijuana in the house. Carl, Earls dad, is very mad and destroys all of it. Only to find Earl, Joy and Randy return home with an angry drug dealer holding a gun demanding his entire duffel bag full of weed back. Carl, reluctantly, was left with no other decision than to buy back all the marijuana from the local drug dealer, Circus. What will Randy do to amend this situation? Or is this a task that Earl can resolve just by listening to his father?

Randy decides that putting Earl in long-term care is not the best decision, so he decides to take care of Earl himself. Joy and Darnell do not approve of Randy's newly adopted responsibility of taking care of his brother, but decide to let it play out for a bit. Randy feels that if they work together to complete tasks off the list, then Earl might recover even faster. Together they tackle the next task off Earl's list.

Now that Earl has awaken from his coma, he sets out to find the most important thing in his life...Billie. Meanwhile, since their trailer has been deemed unlivable, Joy and Darnell move into The Crab Shack.

Now that Billie and Earl are romantically involved, Earl convinces her to create her own karma list, which includes a grocery bagger in which is now down and out due to her thieving ways.

Earl seeks out romantic counseling from his friends as troubles ensues in Earl’s karma-driven relationship with Billie. Earl’s way of dealing with the situation is to spend all his time working on his list, which irks Billie even more since he no longer has time for her.

When relational problems arise between Earl and Billie, he is forced to choose between Karma and her.