Golden Girls fans loved seeing her back on TV. Though Lois usually spends her time trying to discipline her sons, in season seven, a surprising turn of events had her on the side of at least one of them. When Reese becomes depressed, Lois decides to get revenge for him. The series finale keeps all of the tropes of Malcolm In The Middle in place. Both Reese and Francis find new paths in life, but they keep them from Lois so they can pursue their happiness without interference.
Also, as usual, Malcolm finds a way to keep going in spite of her. The top episode of Malcolm in the Middle comes from early in the run. Near the end of the second season, the writers took a creative risk with an episode fans clearly loved. The audience gets to see what would happen if Lois took them, but also what would happen if Hal took them. The episode highlights their different parenting styles incredibly well and demonstrates that no matter what, Malcolm and Reese never get exactly what they want.
Amanda is a freelance writer in Florida. She holds a Psychology degree and loves superheroes and serial storytelling. By Amanda Bruce Updated Dec 23, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists malcolm in the middle. He drives himself crazy adding more and more layers to the painting until it peels off and falls on him. Francis reluctantly works at the Lucky Aide over spring break when they need extra people to take inventory.
Malcolm questions his future profession after an aptitude test reveals that he could do any job on the planet. Lois' parents Victor Robert Loggia and Ida Cloris Leachman come for a visit and don't seem to approve of anyone in the family except Reese. Hal buys a new refrigerator thinking Victor is going to reimburse him for it, but Victor changes his mind.
The new fridge is blown up when Malcolm throws a grenade in it to keep it from damaging anything else in the house. Meanwhile, Francis is sick from a bad sushi while he and the cadets are in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Lois is cited for reckless driving, and is taken to jail due to several outstanding parking tickets earned by Francis.
She orders Francis to pay off the fines he has accumulated in her name, which leads Francis to try a dangerous stunt for money. Lois disputes the reckless driving citation, believing the cop has a personal vendetta against her, but when security camera footage shows evidence to the contrary, Lois has an emotional meltdown over being wrong for the first time in her life.
Craig finds a security camera from a different angle showing that Lois wasn't at fault after all. However, Hal destroys the tape so she will continue to believe she was wrong and forces Craig to remain silent or else. Malcolm is taken to the hospital with side pains and is diagnosed with appendicitis.
He is scheduled for surgery until he manages to prove the diagnosis wrong. The rest of the family obsesses over a board game called March and Conquer a fictional version of Risk. Francis and the cadets go on a hunger strike after Commandant Spangler takes away their television. Reese discovers his talent for cooking when he is forced to take a culinary class as punishment for a prank.
In the class' cooking contest, Reese is found to have cheated even though he was the favorite to win. Hal punishes him by forbidding him to cook for a month, which makes Reese cry. At Marlin academy, Francis keeps blowing off his share of a major school project that his friend Eric is also half-responsible for.
Malcolm tutors Reese to improve his lousy grades, but soon discovers that Reese's teacher is out to get him, which Reese has been claiming all along. Malcolm busts the teacher, but is caught helping Reese cheat in the process.
Francis leaves the family and lives in the basement of his friend Richie's house. In this Sliding Doors -style story, the viewer simultaneously sees what happens when the boys go bowling with Hal and what happens when they go bowling with Lois.
Two subplots are also used: one where Dewey stays home with Lois and one where he stays home with Hal. In both scenarios, he is being punished for killing the neighbor's parakeet. This episode won two Emmy Awards. Francis bribes Malcolm and Reese with just one extra ticket to a wrestling match, forcing them to humiliate themselves and do all his chores, trying to outdo each other for the one ticket.
The boys turn on each other when they realize that the other one can't go to the wrestling match if they are grounded. Dewey is hired to watch Craig's cat for the weekend, but he loses the cat and his parents make things worse. Craig moves in with the family after they burn his house down. Craig drives the family insane while living with them. The boys buy a used mini-bike and fix it up, only to have Lois confiscate it.
Reese takes the bike out anyway and crashes it, breaking his leg. Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey tell their parents they will be spending the night at Stevie's house, while Stevie tells his parents he will be staying at their house. They all sneak off to the county fair together, but they arrive as the fair is closing and end up being locked in and chased by a security guard.
Hal and Lois were going to spend the entire evening having sex until Stevie's parents showed up and they all discovered that their sons had lied. Hal and Dewey accidentally drop a couch on the railroad tracks while driving it to the dump, and the town ends up being evacuated after a train containing toxic waste derails. Malcolm is grounded even while they are staying overnight in the school gym.
Reese starts running a black market when he realizes that everyone there is in need of basic supplies. Francis and Eric go on double dates, but Francis' date turns out to be twelve. While Hal worries over the possibility of Lois being pregnant again, the two look back at the memories of their children's births, from Francis being born while Hal and Lois get married to Dewey's birth after Hal gets a new job.
Malcolm's family and the Kenarbans vacation together on a houseboat , while Reese and Stevie hang out with girls who like to take off their bras. Malcolm soon becomes annoyed with spending time with Hal and leaves him on a buoy. Meanwhile, Francis' friend, Eric drops out of the military academy to take on a logging job in Alaska and Francis gets himself emancipated so he can join him, incurring Lois' wrath. Francis comes home a final time before heading out to join Eric in Alaska, but Lois wants nothing to do with him since he quit school.
Meanwhile, Malcolm's new teacher Chris Eigeman , a former Krelboyne, sets the students against each other with a new ranking system. Lois attempts to escape the boys' nightly misbehavior by joining a women's book club, but she soon realizes that it's merely an excuse for the women to socialize—and to plot against a PTA mom who seems to handle her children and all other motherly duties with ease.
Meanwhile, Hal struggles to keep the boys in order, and Francis hitches a ride with a trucker who makes him humiliate himself in order to keep from being kicked out. After getting a girlfriend whose face is never shown on camera , Malcolm neglects his family and friends; the family react when they find about about her.
Meanwhile, Dewey uses his new friend's wealth to get the birthday party he's always wanted. Still en-route to Alaska, Francis is jailed but quickly starts to enjoy his time as he watches the guards' complicated lived unfold.
When Lois forces the boys into community service to build character, they choose to help out at a church, where they quickly go from trading their own stuff to stealing merchandise and creating a black market. Meanwhile, Francis finally reaches his destination in Alaska only to learn that his new job isn't the easy money-making opportunity he thought.
When news hits that Hal may have a serious illness, Lois becomes meaner than usual. Meanwhile, Francis has a showdown with combative Lavernia in Alaska, and Dewey becomes overzealous in taking care of his class's pet hamster.
After the boys accidentally destroy the Christmas-tree ornaments, Lois issues an ultimatum: either the boys behave or Christmas is cancelled! It works and Lois is proud that they rose to the challenge, but the boys realize that she could keep using this threat for every major event--how can they stop her?
Meanwhile, Francis spends a torturous Christmas with Grandma Ida in Whitehorse and eventually finds a closetful of gifts she bought for, then withheld from, the family over the years. Hal gets competitive with Abe in poker; Lois gets carried away with her dance lessons; Francis is trapped in an Alaskan blizzard. Reese works at a fast-food place but gets intro trouble for stealing from the cash register. Dewey tries to prove himself trustworthy with pets and his parents try to sabotage his efforts.
Malcolm finds himself eclipsed by the newest, youngest Krelboyne--Herkabe's latest attempt to get rid of Malcolm--until the boy helps Malcolm clear Reese's name by revealing the real culprit. Francis helps throw a bachelor party for one of his lodge friends, who will be marrying a Russian mail-order bride. Mortified when she learns that she performs poorly in Lucky Aide secret-shoppers' performance reviews, Lois tries to dress up her appearance.
Hal is re-energized after beating the boys at basketball, until they discover his plans. A rat infestation gives Francis a new job. Teleplay by: Alan J. Higgins Story by: Janae Bakken. The family attends Hal's company picnic,where Hal tries to avoid his new boss because of his bleak history of first impressions and Malcolm sees an old crush.
Francis finds himself caught up in an ice hockey match between the loggers and a female oil-rig crew and bets against the loggers, knowing that if he wins the money he can pay off his debts to Lavernia and leave his Alaskan hellhole. Reese gets a learner's permit and promptly commandeers a driving-school vehicle. A moody Cynthia returns from Europe with a more developed figure.
When Reese finds out, he tries to date her but Malcolm outsmarts him; later, Cynthia beats up Reese for touching her. Dewey teaches Hal how to fly a kite.
In Alaska, after his drunken roommates stole a totem pole, Francis looks towards it for answers in his life. Lois arranges for Francis to come home on Hal's birthday as a surprise, but the real surprise is on everyone else when Francis arrives--with a bride, Piama Emy Coligado.
Malcolm, Dewey, and Reese are immediately sent to bed while the arguments rage on; upset that their parents don't care about their opinions, they sneak off to a hotel with Hal and Lois' credit card. Hal decides to coach Dewey's soccer team and turns them into monsters. Meanwhile, when Malcolm and Reese get a computer from their neighbor Ed, they discover his big secret and Reese blackmails him into doing things for him.
Malcolm gets addicted to The Virts. In Alaska, Piama kidnaps Lavernia's precious parakeet and demands better treatment for Francis or else. Dewey finds a dog and uses him to gain the upper hand over Malcolm and Reese, such as making them wear dresses and makeup.
On their anniversary, Hal and Lois both are sick with stressing out and sleepwalking, but neither will admit it. In Alaska, Francis comes face-to-face with his former, albeit drunk commandant, Edwin Spangler, who blames him for not only losing his job at Marlin Academy, but also his desertion. Hal,Abe, and their friends play extremely well in poker but start to compete over minor issues. Meanwhile, Reese sets Malcolm and Stevie up with 2 popular girls Dana Davis and Lindsey Haun , telling them that Stevie is terminally ill; Malcolm discovers that one of the girls has an automatic handgun and tries to hide it from her, with unintentional results.
Meanwhile, Eric suspects that Piama is having an affair and it prompts Francis to return home, where Piama's estranged father has returned. Believing the boys ruined the car, Hal forces them to see a psychiatrist Andy Richter to cure their bad behavior. Soon the three open up and tell him all about their family. While Malcolm and Reese spend a day exploring a sewer with Dewey and Stevie, they can't stop bragging that they saw Kitty naked over the weekend.
Lois serves jury duty, and as she's not allowed to discuss it, Hal and Abe think her case is a high-profile murder case and spend the day proving their own theories about it. But Lois finds that her fellow jury members just want to declare the defendant guilty and go home. She forces them to properly analyze the case by not only changing her verdict, but also using Francis as an example.
Meanwhile, Francis himself is trapped with the other guys in an ice-fishing shed with a bear outside. Forced to join the general school populations, the Krelboynes all find new groups. Meanwhile, Piama is using the money she and Francis have been making from the casino business to go shopping instead of saving it up to pay off Lavernia.
When Dewey is stricken with chickenpox , Lois tries to keep him busy with dominoes--but then she has to try to keep Hal and Reese from knocking them down. After knocking out a burglar, Reese turns to law enforcement. Elsewhere, Craig is laid up by injuries, thanks to being chased into traffic by Dewey's dog.
He spends his insurance money on Oliver, a capuchin monkey "butler"--who is actually deranged and gives Craig a hard time. Francis is fired when there are no more trees to cut down, forcing him and Piama to leave Alaska.
Note: this is the final appearance of Eric Nenninger as Eric, skunked when he tries to hitchhike with Francis and abandoned to find his own way back home. It is also the last appearance of Bernard, the class hamster Dewey liberated, as he ironically reaches Alaska. Malcolm is depressed, and the family goes to the zoo. Reese battles a goat , while Malcolm and Dewey end up in a tiger pit. Francis meets Otto and Gretchen and takes a job at their dude ranch. Lois' ex-boyfriend Tim DeKay puts a tarantula on Hal and reveals to him how many boyfriends Lois actually had.
Malcolm's first day of high school gets off to a bad start when Lois embarrasses him in front of the entire school; Hal clashes with Mr. The family goes to Hal's family reunion, where his family makes Lois miserable until Malcolm and his brothers join forces to teach their relatives a lesson.
Christopher Lloyd guest-stars as Hal's father. Malcolm pretends to be stupid so he can win over a cute girl Brittany Finamore who really is stupid. Stevie wins Lois' approval and she takes him to the school dance. Meanwhile, Hal rents a steamroller and becomes addicted to running over various objects. Days before Malcolm's birthday, he and Reese pull increasingly severe pranks against each other.
Flashbacks throughout the episode gradually reveal how their feud began and reached this point Malcolm ate a blueberry Reese was saving. Meanwhile, Francis encounters a "devil cow" at the ranch and discovers it's just an ordinary cow long overdue for milking.
Dewey worries about his role as Abraham Lincoln in the school play. Hal enlists Craig to help him find Malcolm a birthday present. Dewey discovers he's an 'evil twin' and Francis mediates a dispute between Otto and his cowboy neighbors.
Malcolm decides to keep his opinions to himself; at first it goes well but gradually he develops a stomach ulcer.
Meanwhile, Reese must enlist Craig to drive him and his girlfriend to a concert. Hal tries race-walking, but ends up with a rival. Sign In. Malcolm in the Middle — Year: S1, Ep1. Error: please try again. Malcolm has been labeled a boy genius and is moved, much to his chagrin, into the Krelboyne class, which is a class full of nerds and geniuses like himself.
S1, Ep2. When Lois finds her red anniversary dress burnt and in the toilet, she immediately suspects Reese, Dewey and Malcolm of foul play, and chases them all over the house to try and make them fess up, while Hal waits all night at the restaurant alone.
S1, Ep3. While Hal and Lois are away for the weekend, Francis, visiting home from military school, is in charge of the house. Right away his friends come over and mess it up, so Francis and the boys clean it up to show Francis is responsible and might be allowed to leave military school and come home. All goes well S1, Ep4. Malcolm finds himself being antagonized by a new bully, Kevin.
This kid was always mocking him, teasing him, at lunch he cut right in front of him. On pizza day! But after Kevin taunted him about it one time too many, Malcolm loses it and attacks the kid, but deeply regrets it after learning his bully was 7-years-old; Hal cuts down the huge tree in the front yard, and he and the boys have just a little too much fun with the wood chipper.
S1, Ep5. Because of Dewey always leaving food in the crawlspace under the house, the whole family is forced to live in a trailer owned by Lois' coworker, Craig, while their house is being fumigated. However, Malcolm ends up spending more time at the home of an upper-middle-class family who has hired him as their babysitter, but he learns that they were secretly videotaping him.
Craig is a co-worker of Lois's at the Lucky Aide megastore. He considers himself a close friend of the Wilkersons, and the show constantly hints that he is in love with Lois. None of these feelings are reciprocated. Higgins is a very prolific actor. Piama first met Francis when she was 19, soon after he moved to Alaska.
The two got married after dating for just one month. Williams has a very extensive resume, and has done many voice acting jobs for animated TV shows and video game franchises ranging from Doc McStuffins to Mass Effect.
A fellow Krelboyne student, Cynthia develops an unrequited crush on Malcolm. The two, however, soon become friends. After Miss Miller leaves the school, Mr. He has also worked as a director on the drama Turn the River and on the teen horror Seven in Heaven.
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