EPISODE

5. Creative Writing

While Earl struggles to write a paper for his prison creative writing class, Randy, Joy, Darnell, and Catalina have no trouble coming up with creative story ideas of their own.

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The prison holds a class for creative writing. Earl can't think of anything to write, when he looks into his imagination, he only sees the gymnast that Sonny had beaten up. The episode follows the stories that were written by the other main cast members. Randy writes about being a superhero working with a driving chimpanzee and H.R. Pufnstuf. Joy writes a story about where she is a supermom and what happens to kids who don't do their homework. Darnell writes up lyrics for an R&B music video at the Crab Shack. Catalina writes a script for a telenovela called Catalina, Woman of 1000 Tears. Earl eventually writes about the good times hanging out with his friends at the Crab Shack.

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