History Heartwarming / MyNameIsEarl

* The flashback episode to Earl Jr.'s birth. Earl is ready to leave Joy for cheating on him, clearly upset that Earl Jr. isn't his son. His father tells him though he needs to be there for the kids. Earl decides to stay and in his narration reveals he has no regrets because he was there when they needed him and until Crabman was able to step in and be their father.

* After Joy finds out Darnell is really Harry Monroe, she kicks him out and rejects all his attempts to win her back. In a final act of desperation, Darnell says that he can't tell her because he'll have to relocate again, and can't imagine his life without her. It works.
--> '''Darnell''': "When I was Harry Monroe, I had to give up everything because of what I knew. And I didn't care. But if I tell you my secret now, I could lose everything again, and this time I do care! Because I love you! I can't start my life over without you! Don't you understand? I can't tell you the truth because I love you too much, stupid! (''no response'') Joy!"

--> '''Joy''': "I love you too, stupid."

* In the pilot episode Earl tries to make amends with Kenny, a former classmate he used to bully, by helping get his confidence back. After finding out that Kenny is gay, he faces up to his own prejudices, buys Kenny a new shirt and goes to a gay bar with him as his wing-man. At the end of the episode Kenny tells Earl that the fact he accepted him for who he was and even helped overcome his shyness about going to gay bars means so much to him that Earl can cross him off the list. They become firm friends and Kenny even helps Earl make amends for his other misdeeds as the series goes on.

* "Orphan Earl", Earl finds out that Joy and the other mothers in the trailer park has been scamming a kind old man over the years by pretending to be an impoverished country and having him send money. The heartwarming part comes in when after helping the old man get his money back by scamming Joy and the others, Earl takes him to the trailer park to gloat but finds that [[UpToEleven the trailer parks are even worse then before]]. The old man then decides to give them money anyway even though they scammed him. Seeing one of the mothers hug him out of joy and seeing some others being charitable to a street Santa secure the heartwarming factor.

* WordOfGod revealed how the show would have ended, had it not been CutShort - Earl would never have finished the list, eventually he would have gotten stuck on an entry that was impossible to make up for for one reason or another. However, after much struggling with what to do from there, Earl is one day approached by a man who has his OWN List, and Earl is on it. The man explains that he had been on someone elses list and had been inspired to write his own. Its also implied that the third man had been inspired by someone else and so on, stretching all the way back to Earls original list. Realizing that he had finally put more good into the world than he had taken out of it, Earl would have torn up his list with a clear conscience and walked away into the sunset with a clean slate.

A vast majority of the episodes have these for when it shows the aftermath of how Earl succeeded in his goal of the episode.

* When Earl's father sees him in the hospital during the coma episodes and he says he never thought of him as a failure of a son and he loved him after the episode's main plot showed Earl stealing some pot and his Dad and Randy had to go get replacement pot for the guy Earl stole it from. Also awesome moment for Earl's Dad.

* Then there's the "Burn Victim" episode, where Earl writing "freedom" [[ItMakesSenseInContext (for actually good reason)]] will almost come off as [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]]. ButWaitTheresMore - if you consider the prom night, and how the inmate (after forcing Earl to be [[BerserkButton more direct]]) ''finally'' manages to stop being a JerkAss, and ''especially'' if you '''don't''' count [[ShootTheShaggyDog the ending.]]