Ethan Suplee

Ethan Suplee plays Randy Hickey on My Name Is Earl, the 2000s NBC comedy in which Jason Lee wins the lottery and tries to cross every sin off a handwritten karma list. Trailer-park moral philosophy, warm and weird. Suplee's Randy is brother as appetite — a man who photographs as comic bulk and plays as loyalty with no filter. Then the network canceled mid-redemption, leaving a cult that still argues the unfinished ledger.

Ethan Suplee makes the NBC years matter because they are how long Randy Hickey had to keep My Name Is Earl honest (2005–2009). After winning the lottery, small-time crook Earl Hickey tries to correct every wrong on a handwritten list — blue-collar magical realism as network comedy. Randy Hickey is the weekly temperature, not a souvenir.

Ethan Suplee does not hide in the extras list of s01e01. Pilot wins the lottery and starts the handwritten list: Jason Lee's karma comedy, trailer-park moral philosophy as warm, weird network TV. Move to s04e27 for the habit (Dodge's Dad is the last filed hour after NBC canceled mid-redemption — a cult still arguing about a list that never got to the final line) and s02e01 for the bite (Very Bad Things reopens year two like a list heading: the redemption engine still warm, the comedy still weirder than its time slot implied). Randy Hickey is architecture in all three.

On TV Flash he is catalog sitcom steel. Watch the list for the gimmick; stay for Randy as the reason the gimmick had a household. We file Suplee as 2000s craft: the sibling who made karma look like a couch, not a parable. Later arguments, reboots, and clip shows are weather around that assignment.