For the one-in-ten Americans who are unemployed, summer has already begun, but for the rest of the population, season finales help to signal that it's time to use that extra daylight to lose the spare tire acquired while catching up on your stories.
My Name is Earl [8 PM, NBC]
All of the NBC Comedy Night shows close up shop until fall, but a Norm Macdonald sighting on My Name is Earl is too rare to pass up (especially because he appears to be channeling his SNL Burt Reynolds character). Macdonald guest-stars as deadbeat dad Little Chubby as Earl (Jason Lee), Randy (Ethan Suplee) and Catalina (Nadine Velazquez) search for Dodge's (Louis T. Moyle) biological father.
Hell's Kitchen [9 PM, Fox]
Idol's final two learn their fate next week, but the remaining duo on HK get Chopped, er, land on The Chopping Block, er, find out who is going to hell tonight. The final two contestants, Paula (28 year-old Executive Sous Chef) and Danny (23 year-old Executive Chef) compete for a position as head-chef at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. Allegedly, that is the one nice hotel in AC, so we can only assume that the winning chef will be considered New Jersey's, er, Top Chef.
Celebrity Medical Nightmares: In Their Own Words [10 PM, E!]
Usually when a show has "Celebrity" in the title, that ensures there are no actual celebrities included in the program (e.g. I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Fit Club), but the Q-rating here isn't bad. Among the celebrity afflictees interviewed are Christina Applegate, Paula Abdul, Nick Jonas, Bret Michaels, Montel Williams, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Isaac Hanson. Jeremy Piven was a late scratch, apparently.
It Could Happen to You [9 PM, We]
As fantasy actualization goes, this film is the ideal for beautiful-waitress-at-a-greasy-spoon types (Also-rans: Frankie and Johnny, Waitress). Instead of stiffing his server (Bridget Fonda), NYC cop Charlie Lang (Nicolas Cage) offers her a piece of his lottery ticket. Charlie's wife Muriel (Rosie Perez) is not into the whole promise keeping thing and so begins the litigation. From 5 PM-Midnight, We is showing nothing but this film and Golden Girls, which seems like so much comfort programming that you can skip the trip to the frozen treats aisle.