As the holiday season comes under way a few secrets are exposed when Earl attempts to cross number seventy-four off of his list: always ruined Joys Christmas. Earl, Randy, and Catalina enter a radio contest to win a brand new car for Joy to make up for all of the thoughtless Christmas presents Earl gave her while they were married. While Randy and Catalina vie over the car, Earl finds out that Joys parents believe that hes still their son-in-law and that hes just returned from the war in Iraq. Joy is afraid to tell her father, an alleged racist, that she is now married to Darnell, so Earl plays the part, afraid of ruining another one of her Christmases.