Beth Grant played Dwight's occasional carnal partner on The Office. She's funny.
She appeared on
My Name is Earl as the mother of a friend of Earl's with whom Earl, for reasons I can't remember, was forced to have an affair. Again, the joke was that it was horrifying for Earl to have to sleep with such an old woman, and he kept trying everything he could to get out of it. At least in that case, though, she actually was older than Earl (Jason Lee will be 40 this year; Beth Grant 61), and she was the mom of his friend (Giovanni Ribisi).
I liked MNiE, but I hated that particular episode.
Who knew that out of all of these men, the one with the most acceptable attitude would be ... Dwight? But then, the very fact that Dwight finds her attractive is a backhanded compliment -- yet another slam at poor Beth Grant.
K, do his friends actually call him, "Bad?" Does the name come across as dumb in the movie as it does to me?
Yes, and sort of, but you get used to it. It's an issue in the movie -- someone asks his real name, and he won't give it, but then at the end of the movie he does.
Not like it's some big spoiler, but I won't tell you what his real name is. However, I will tell you that it was the name of my great uncle, and also a name that my then-husband and I actually bandied about as a possible name for one of our sons. When we mentioned to some relatives -- people related to my great uncle -- that we were thinking of naming him (X), they all in unison said, "DON'T NAME HIM (X)."
Also, a former neighbor had a bull dog named (X).