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"My Name Is Earl" (7 p.m., KOB-Channel 4) took an interesting turn by putting our karma-righting hero in the pokey.

Prison is a new, exciting setting for Earl (Jason Lee) where he has so many more chances to mess things up than one would imagine is even possible.

His challenge in the big house comes from the warden (Craig T. Nelson, "Coach"). He "asks" Earl to make a video aimed at scaring the kiddies away from a life of crime.

Did I mention that the video needs to have a very special environmental component too?

Darn you, Al Gore, and your meddling ways! I know you're behind this insidious green message on TV thing. Next you'll be expecting me to recycle and not waste water.

When Earl isn't busy with saving the planet and scaring the children of Camden straight, he's handling Randy's (Ethan Suplee) new bossy attitude.

It's kind of understandable that Randy would get all managerial now that he's a guard and Earl is merely a lowly prisoner, but Earl doesn't see it that way.

A scuffle over who's the boss of whom ensues and so does much hilarity.

Viva la Earl in prison!

I like 99.9 percent of the characters on "Smallville" (7 p.m., CW).

The 0.1 percent dislike comes from Lana the Lame (Kristin Kreuk). The doe eyes and constant getting herself into situations that she can't get out of on her own rub me the wrong way. I keep hoping that just once she'll permanently go away, or at least Clark (Tom Welling) will finally see her for the annoying twit she is.

No such luck in this episode, as Lana survives a mixture of Kryptonite and high-voltage electricity coursing through her teeny frame.

Curses.

Instead of getting hurt, she absorbs Clark's super powers and then breaks into Lex's (Michael Rosenbaum) safe.

Unsurprisingly, she picks up some incriminating information and takes it to newspaper reporters Lois (Erica Durance) and Grant (Michael Cassidy), hoping that they'll expose Lex for being a bad dude.

Grant has a little thing called ethics, and he refuses to use the info, so Lana takes on Lex herself.

Go, Lex, go.