My Name Is Earl Girls", "The Mentalist", and "Heroes". Exterior shots of the Crab Shack and Club Chubby were also taken from locations in Van Nuys and North Hills. Houses and shops for the various characters come from locations in Van Nuys, Santa Clarita, Northridge, Moorpark, Los Angeles, and other Southern California cities. In the episode "Didn't Pay Taxes", Earl and Randy climb the landmark Artesia water tower, although they do not refer to it by name. Other episodes have listed states that were unlikely to have Camden County. In the episode "Our Other Cops is On", officer Stuart Daniels states that his surveillance
Pilot (My Name Is Earl) the most, he thanks Earl and says he can cross him off his list. Marc Buckland won an Emmy for directing "Pilot". Greg Garcia also won an Emmy in the writing category. The episode additionally won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Individual Episode. "Pilot" introduced the premise and main characters of the series. Also, both Kenny and Patty the Daytime Hooker became recurring characters in the series, Kenny re-appearing as early as the third episode. A season 4 episode, "Earl and Joy's Anniversary" would reveal that Kenny and Patty previously participated in a foursome, making their interactions in this