Reba

Reba is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated American sitcom starring Reba McEntire. It premiered on The WB Television Network (The WB) network in 2001, where it ran for five seasons before The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network (The CW), and it ran on The CW for its final season. When it premiered on The CW, the show became the top rated sitcom on the network, as it was on The WB.

Despite being one of The CW Network's leading shows, the long-running series ended rather abruptly, with its finale airing on Sunday, February 18, 2007.


Synopsis
The show is set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and stars Reba McEntire as a wisecracking single mother Reba (Nell) Hart, whose dentist ex-husband Brock (Christopher Rich) has left her to marry young, ditzy Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman) after an affair with her. Ironically, though Reba sees "B.J." as her nemesis, Barbra Jean considers Reba her best (and perhaps only) friend. As the show progresses Reba slowly and painfully comes to the conclusion that despite all her efforts to hate her, she likes Barbra Jean and considers her a friend. During the show's first season, Reba's oldest daughter, then high school senior Cheyenne (Joanna García) became pregnant. In the pilot episode, Cheyenne married her baby's father, fellow high-schooler Van Montgomery (Steve Howey), a dim-witted but well-meaning football player. Van moves in with them, as his own parents kicked him out for standing by Cheyenne, and comes to view Reba as a surrogate parent (something Reba is very comfortable with). Reba's other two children are Kyra (Scarlett Pomers), an intelligent and rebellious teenager who shares Reba's sarcastic streak, and Jake (Mitch Holleman), a young boy just trying to sort through the mess of his family. Since the fifth season, Van and Reba have been real estate partners. The show strives to comically but realistically portray the trials and tribulations of family life in modern society.

The show was canceled when The WB Television Network and UPN merged into The CW Television Network. However, in an 11th hour move on May 17, 2006, The CW renewed Reba with a 13-episode order, reportedly to fulfill a syndication contract worth $20 million. In November 2006, The CW announced that the show would be paired with 7th Heaven, Sundays at 7 p.m., beginning later that month. Reba encores are scheduled for Sundays at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT, with a new episode at 7:30 p.m. Reba became the top-rated sitcom on the CW, also surpassing the dramas Supernatural, One Tree Hill, and Veronica Mars. The final episode aired on February 18, 2007.


Characters
Character Actor Description
Reba Nell Hart Reba McEntire Reba is a single mother who struggles with taking care of everyone in her house, after her husband divorces her for his dental hygienist. She is temperamental, and prone to sarcastic remarks. But Reba can also be kind and caring, and is usually the sensible one. She worked as a secretary for her ex-husband's dental rival, Eugene. She becomes a real estate agent after she got fired for calling her boss a monkey's butt. Relatives: Father- J.V. (Barry Corbin), Mother- Helen (Dorothy Lyman)

Brock Enroll Hart Christopher Rich Reba's ex-husband, a dentist and golfer, who leaves her for his much younger (and pregnant by their affair) dental hygenist, Barbra Jean. He is vain, and tries to convince everyone (including himself) that he is still young. Brock is also (in season 3) diagnosed with depression. His name is a play on "Rock & Roll". Relatives: Father- John D (died in season 1), Mother- Liz (Jenny O'Hara)

Cheyenne Hart-Montgomery Joanna García Brock and Reba's 17-year-old daughter, who initially is looking forward to her senior year of high school before learning that she is pregnant. She marries her boyfriend, Van Montgomery, and they move in with Cheyenne's mom, Reba. Cheyenne gives birth to their daughter, Elizabeth, after going into labor on graduation day. She can be somewhat air-headed and self-centered, but she can also be kind-hearted. She is very sensitive, especially when she is insulted (mainly by Kyra, her younger sister). She goes to college to study to be a dentist. Cheyenne later helps out at a homeless shelter, improving her shallowness greatly. She also finds out she is an alcoholic, which makes her change her mind about becoming a dentist and so she changed her major and decided to study to be a drug and alcohol counselor.

Van Montgomery Steve Howey The star quarterback of his high school's football team, Van is kicked out of the house when his parents find out that he plans to marry his pregnant girlfriend. He moves in with Reba, and his future in professional sports looks bright until an injury from an accident eventually reveals that he has narrowing of the spine. Later in the series he works as a realtor with Reba. Van is portrayed as a big goof and is not good with words, especially when it comes to Cheyenne. Relatives: Father- Dan, Mother- Sue

Kyra Eleanor Hart Scarlett Pomers The middle child, Kyra is often mean because she has the fewest emotional issues of the family. Many of her traits and looks come from Reba, although she's known to be more manipulative and difficult. In the final season, she decided not to go to college and focus on her music.
Jake Mitchell Hart Mitch Holleman The youngest of the Hart children, Jake is often teased by his sister Kyra. Jake is pretty oblivious of what goes on around him. He acts like normal boy for his age, although in earlier seasons he displays feminine characteristics that worry his father, Brock.

Barbra Jean Booker-Hart Melissa Peterman "BJ" was Brock's dental hygienist and had an affair with him as his marriage to Reba was deteriorating. The result was her getting pregnant, and marrying him after he divorced Reba. Barbra Jean is even more of a goofball than Van, and is often an easy target for Reba's sarcasm. While noisy and annoying, Barbra Jean is a kind-hearted person with good intentions. Her tendency to tell "over-the-top" results in her sharing many random and often bizarre facts about her childhood and past. The most that can be understood is that she was born in Friendly, Texas and at one point during her infancy was "the biggest baby in Juno County." She had a sister, currently married, a brother named "Buzzard" (played by Bryan Callen of MADtv fame) and a father ("Big Daddy") who enjoys drinking and hunting. Brock is afraid of both "Buzzard" and "Big Daddy" because he knows they don't like him. She also claims to have an aunt who spits professionally. In the last season, she lost a large amount of weight and became a weather girl (she told people she was Stormy Clearweather) . In the last episode, she got a job at the weather station as a news girl( she called her segment "Babs Janson:Street Walker). In one episode she falls in love with Hal, her car's navigation narrator(Aside from Crissy.)

Elizabeth Montgomery Alena & Gabrielle Leberger Van and Cheyenne's daughter

Henry Charles Jesus Hart Alexander & Jackson McClellan Brock and Barbra Jean's son

Lori Ann Garner Park Overall Reba's best friend.
Introduced in season one in the episode "Every Picture Tells A Story". Lori Ann was married and divorced three times, presumably because all three husbands cheated on her. Lori Ann was Reba's confidant on her problems with Brock and Barbra Jean and even Cheyenne. During Lori Ann's guest appearances on the series, she is always cruel and evil to Brock, (who is just as cruel and evil back to her), as well as Barbra Jean (who seems to like Lori Ann). One can assume this is because of what Brock and Barbra Jean did to Reba, along with her own personal feelings for Brock. In one of the earlier season plotlines, it's revealed that Lori Ann and Brock once dated before his marriage to Reba. Perhaps the reason Brock's animosity towards Lori Ann are due to his own repressed attraction for her.) Lori Ann's voracious sexual appetite is seen in her continual quest to find a lover. In the episode "Every Picture Tells A Story", when Lori Ann says "men are pigs", Brock retorts with: "Well you must love bacon cause you keep marrying us." Even Reba herself describes Lori Ann as "a desperate, desperate woman" upon hearing that Lori Ann told a priest during confession that "he had nice eyes". In total, Lori Ann only made six appearances in the first season, and one in the second season. Her last episode was "Switch", after that she was never seen again, but was referred to in fourth season episode "Van's Agent", where it was mentioned Lori Ann was going to Jamaica with a man who left the priesthood for her. However, she was never seen or mentioned again after that episode, or in any of the final two seasons of the show.





The Honeymoon's Over or Now What? (Season 1, Episode 2)

Reba clashes with a high school principal who wants to expel Reba?s pregnant teenage daughter. 22:02 minutes

My Name is Earl

My Name Is Earl is an American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. It is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. In the United States it is broadcast on the NBC television network Thursdays at 8:00 PM Eastern time.

Overview
The series is set in somewhat fictional Camden County (believed to be in Texas or California, as California license plates are seen, though neither of the two states possess such a county) and stars Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Eddie Steeples and Nadine Velazquez. Lee stars in the title role as "Earl J. Hickey", a petty crook with occasional run-ins with the law, whose newly won $100,000 lottery ticket is lost when he is hit by a car. Lying in a hospital bed, under the influence of morphine, he develops a belief in the concept of karma when he hears about it during an episode of Last Call with Carson Daly. He decides he wants to turn his life around and makes a list of all the bad things he's ever done. After doing his first good deed, he finds his $100,000 lottery ticket. He sees this as a sign and, with his new lucky money, he proceeds to cross items off the list, one-by-one, by doing good deeds to atone for them.


Conception
Creator and head writer Greg Garcia wrote the pilot while working on another sitcom, Yes, Dear. He initially pitched the series to Fox, which passed on the series. He then approached NBC, which optioned the pilot on a cast-contingent basis, meaning they would order the pilot provided a suitable cast could be assembled.

Jason Lee was approached for the lead role, but was uninterested in working in television and passed on the series twice before finally agreeing to read the pilot script. Though he liked the pilot, he was hesitant to commit to his first TV starring role until after meeting with Garcia, after which he signed on to play Earl Hickey.


Ratings
The series premiered on September 20, 2005, drew in 14.9 million viewers in the United States, earning a 6.6 rating. By the airing of the third episode it was apparent that My Name Is Earl was the highest rated of NBC's new fall offerings, and a full season (22 episodes) was ordered. In its first month, it was also the highest rated new sitcom of the season to air on any network and was the highest rated sitcom on any network in the 18–49-year-old demographic. The show was renewed for a second season (2006-07), a third (2007-08) and then for fourth (2008-09). It will most likely be renewed for a fifth season due to popularity.


Main characters

Earl J. Hickey (Jason Lee) - The protagonist and narrator of the show. He has a long history of petty crime (mostly theft), for which he is trying to atone. Although he lacks a good education, and frequently demonstrates poor judgment, he has a clouded grasp of right and wrong which he tries to impart to his friends. His conversion to a understanding of Karma now drives his life, as he seeks to make up for his past wrongdoing. He is afraid of flying and needles and drives a 1971 or 1972 red El Camino.


Randall "Randy" Hickey (Ethan Suplee) - Earl's younger brother. He is very dimwitted, with a childlike naivete that manifests as both sweetness toward other people, and unawareness of the potentially harmful consequences of his actions. He doesn't fully understand Earl's List, and sometimes resents the importance it now plays in Earl's life, but he supports his campaign out of brotherly love for him. He is afraid of birds, and drives a green 1970 or 1971 Ford Ranchero with wood grain side panels.


Joy Farrah Turner (Jaime Pressly) - Earl's ex-wife, now married to Darnell. She is unsophisticated "trailer trash", self-centered and manipulative, having tricked Earl into marrying her when she became pregnant with another man's child, later having an affair - and child - with Darnell while she and Earl were still married. However she is very protective of her family. She is openly scornful of Earl's List. She has a strong dislike for Catalina ever since she called Catalina a whore. She drives a Subaru BRAT painted with the American flag.


Darnell "Crabman" Turner (Eddie Steeples) - Joy's current husband, and still one of Earl's best friends despite impregnating his then-wife Joy. He now acts as father to Joy's two sons. He works in the local dive "The Crab Shack" where he acts the part of a good-natured fool, but he has a secret past which he hides from everyone as a participant in a witness protection program and quietly demonstrates greater intelligence than those around him (e.g. speaking several languages). A running gag with in the show is that Darnell smokes/consumes marijuana as seen in several episodes the latest were Randy says his hair taste like marijuana a common side effect of heavy doses of THC.


Catalina Aruca (Nadine Velazquez) - The beautiful Latin American who works as a housekeeper at Earl and Randy's motel and as the number one stripper at Club Chubby. She shares a green-card marriage with Randy who had a huge crush on her but this ended when they slept together and he appreciated her as a friend more. She has a strong dislike for Joy since Joy called her a whore when she first saw her. She occasionally breaks the fourth wall when supposedly shouting insults to Joy in Spanish which are actually notes for the fans.


Recurring characters
Carl Hickey (Beau Bridges) — Earl and Randy's father. Earl was supposed to be named after him but due to Carl's cursive writing the word "Carl" looked like "Earl". At the start of the series he refused to have anything to do with Earl, but gradually realizes his son's efforts to improve his life were sincere and they have since become close again.

Kay Hickey (Nancy Lenehan) — Earl and Randy's mother, a friendly woman who gently chides Earl to be nicer to his father. In Season 4, it was revealed she once slept with a neighbor, causing Carl to leave home for a while before he returned and they reconciled.

Dodge Hickey (Louis T. Moyle) — Joy's oldest son by another man. Named Dodge because all she could remember about the father was he drove a Ford pickup truck.

Earl Hickey Jr. (Trey Carlisle) — Joy and Darnell's son due to an affair; legally, Earl's first child.

Kenny James (Adult - Gregg Binkley, child - Andy Pessoa) — Kenny is a childhood victim of Earl's bullying and a formerly suppressed homosexual, who became the first person Earl helped with the List. He is now dating a male police officer.

Patty the Daytime Hooker (Dale Dickey) - A friendly Camden prostitute who also works as a night-time waitress. She got 1500 on her SATs, holds a Masters degree and speaks Bengali.

Ralph Mariano (Giovanni Ribisi) — Earl's childhood friend. He is constantly in trouble with the Law and has betrayed Earl and Randy for as little as $175, but they always forgive him. In season two Earl married Ralph's mom but later had the marriage annulled. He was in jail with Earl but quickly escaped.

Willie the One-Eyed Mailman (Bill Suplee, Ethan Suplee's father). He lost an eye when Joy broke Earl's Def Leppard mirror with a bowling ball and the glass shot into his eye.

Billie Cunningham (Alyssa Milano) — Earl's most recent wife. She is a little crazy and gets very jealous of Earl spending so much time with his List instead of her. After finding inner peace on an Amish-type location near Camden, she not only divorced Earl but gave him $72,000 she'd gotten after being hit by a car.

Liberty Washington (Tamala Jones) — Joy's biracial half-sister. They hated each other for years but eventually bonded to the point where Joy became a surrogate mother for Liberty and her husband Ray-Ray's baby. She tends to treat Ray-Ray exactly the way Joy treats Darnell: with full measures of both hostility and love.

Jerry Hazelwood (Craig T. Nelson) - The prison warden. He is an immature, whiny man who has his job because his wife is the Governor of the unnamed state Camden County is located in. He gave Earl numerous "time off" certificates when Earl helped him out with prison problems, but later broke Earl's spirit by reneging on the agreement, which led Earl to escape from prison.

Mr. Sydney Turtle- He is the beloved pet turtle of Darnell's. He is apparently Jewish and was born in 1913. In "Made A Lady Think I was God", Darnell mentions that
Mr. Turtle had no first name. However on the grave made for Mr. Turtle in "Got the Babysitter Pregnant", it states 'Mr. Sydney Turtle'.

Donny Jones- An intimidating reformed thug who went to jail for a crime that Earl committed. He forgave Earl for committing the crime that he was accused for doing because while Donny was in prison, he read the Bible and started believing in Jesus.

Didi- She is a one-legged girl whom Earl told he loved her. But Earl stole her car and she hated him since. She was #86 on Earl's List, and he completed it when she made him walk all day on one leg.

Other recurring characters include Electrolarynx Guy, Nescobar Aloplop, Doug, Jasper, Bob Smiley, and TV's Tim Stack. Stack usually appears in his Son of the Beach wardrobe, completely intoxicated, or both; he is also a writer for the show.

Several of the show's characters appeared on the July 8, 2008 episode of Celebrity Family Feud. One team, the Hickey family, consisted of Earl, Joy, Randy, Crabman, and Catalina. The other team, dubbed "Camden County," consisted of Tim Stack, Patty, Wilford (Tim's agent), Kenny James, and Nescobar Aloplop. The Camden County team defeated the Hickey family, but lost to the cast of The Office in the finals


Got the Babysitter Pregnant (Season 4, Episode 16)

Earl learns that tough love isn't always so tough when he tries to make amends for impregnating his babysitter. 21:42 minutes