Inside Joke for Spanish Speakers on 'My Name is Earl'

On a recent episode of My Name is Earl, Spanish speakers got an unexpected tip when Latin character Catalina suddenly broke out of a flashback scene to explain in un-subtitled Spanish why she was hanging with a character she wouldn't yet have met at the time the scene depicted: "Look, I know that this doesn't make any sense on this show because, as we can see, I came after Y2K, but in reality, who pays attention to those kinds of things?" said actress Nadine Velasquez, according to the LA Times.

Ahh...kind of takes us back to the old days in the lunchroom when we'd gossip about battle-ax Mrs. Johnson en espanish without her having a clue...