History Characters / MyNameIsEarl

-> Played by: Creator/JasonLee, Noah Crawford (as a child)

--> Played By: Creator/JaimePressly

--> Played By: Creator/EthanSuplee, Ryan Armstrong (as a child)

-> Played by: Creator/JasonLee

--> Played By: Creator/EthanSuplee

* HartmanHips: One of the many rare live-action versions in the episode "Sweet Johnny". Because of this, she has a hard time moving between two cars.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Joy is overtly racist to non-white Americans, going as far as to teach Kim Lee improper English so it would put Kim out of business. She also references racial stereotypes with Darnell and other black people and utters the occasional homophobic remarks, especially to Kenny.

* GoodIsNotNice: Earl may be doing good things, but he's still short-tempered, selfish and insensitive.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Retroactively; in "Stole P's HD Cart", he meets a CorruptCoorporateExecutive and says that he's even ''worse'' than he was as a crook, because he at least never pretended not to be one.

-->'''Earl:''' [[PhraseCatcher "Hey, Crabman!"]]

* WeddingEnhancedFertility: Conceived Earl on her honeymoon with Carl. They never went on vacation again until after she reached menopause.

* FreudianExcuse: Subverted. Earl intentionally feels responsible for Ralph becoming a crook, because he's the one who introduced him to stealing. But all things considered, this doesn't really explain his borderline sociopath tendencies.

[[folder:Donny Jones]]
-> Played By: Creator/SilasWeirMitchell

A man who went to prison for a crime Earl committed, but found Jesus there and no longer lives a life of crime.

* KidsAreCruel: In his younger days, he was already a {{Jerkass}}.

%%* NotGoodWithPeople

-->Played by: Eddie Steeples

-->Played by: Nadine Velazquez

-> Played by: Gregg Binkley

-> Played by: Tracy Ashton

-> Played by: Beth Riesgraf

-> Played by: Abdoulaye N'Gom

-> Played by: Bill Suplee

-> Played by: Christian Slater

-> Played by: Nancy Lenehan

-> Played by: Abdul Goznobi

-> Played by: Josh Wolf

* AmbiguousDisorder: Didi is implied to have a couple of screws loose in her head. She is one of the single most violent and angry people on Earl's list.

* TheChick: The most moral of the group, to the point of occasionally acting as Earl's conscience.

%%* TheChick: Initially

* {{Face}}: She plays "Lady Liberty," a character who seeks racial justice (although is often held back by her manager, Da Man). She pays her next-door neighbor to play [[{{Heel}} "The Klanimal."]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Resents Earl for all the crap he's done over the years, but also cares about him.

* AxCrazy: Probably the most dangerous character on the show.
* BeingGoodSucks: The reason for his final FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Being a nice guy meant he was too soft to run the family strip club.]]

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: He threatens to cut Joy's pig tails off if she doesn't drink Randy's rat tail.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Is not too happy when Earl accidentally [[spoiler:burns his father's grave.]]

* GoodFeelsGood: Finds happiness while helping a group of African natives.
* GroinAttack: What triggers his HeelRealization.

One of Earl's old friends. Gung-ho and stark-raving mad, Ralph loved the days when he and Earl would go looting stuff. Unlucky for him, Earl changed, and he wanted nothing to do with karma. So, where Earl does good things, Ralph does bad things- and almost always finds himself in jail following a crime spree, but Ralph's also a whiz at blowing through the holes of the criminal justice system and always seems to be back out on the streets in no time flat. The one thing he loves more than crime is his beloved mama, but when he learned Earl slept with her, he really, ''really'' blew a fuse- as in refused to let Earl do anything short of marrying her to make it up to him, and would make his buddy [[Film/HomeAlone spit gum out his forehead]] if he tried to cut and run. Luckily, they worked things out.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Although the show never gives an answer to this question or even raise this topic at all, it is fairly obvious that Randy has mental problems, perhaps developmental delays or autism, judging by his oblivious, childish behavior and strange thinking.
** Ultimately subverted however, as a throw-away line from Earl in one episode mentions that a doctor once called Randy [[MondegreenGag "borderline artistic"]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Joy is overtly racist to non-white Americans, going as far as to teach Kim Lee improper English so it would put Kim out of business. She also references racial stereotypes with Darnell and other black people.

* LazyHusband: Was this when he was married to Joy.