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Malcolm in the Middle
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
- Created by:
- Linwood Boomer
- Cast:
- Frankie Muniz, Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- FOX
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 2
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 8.0Traffic Jam (2)
2000-11-05 · 22mHal, Lois, Malcolm, and Reese are trapped in a horrendous traffic jam. Francis enters himself in a bet that recalls the egg-eating wager in "Cool Hand Luke." Malcolm becomes smitten over a girl he meets. Dewey has his own little adventure--all over the world--before his family returns home.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.5Halloween Approximately
2000-11-08 · 22mFrancis visits the week after Halloween and helps his brothers in a trick that involves a giant slingshot with icky ammo. Hal tries to catch a mysterious hot-rodder.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 8.0Lois's Birthday
2000-11-12 · 22mCrummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 7.4Dinner Out
2000-11-15 · 22mShenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 7.2Casino
2000-11-19 · 22mA family weekend vacation to a casino turns into an ordeal in the desert for Hal, Reese and Malcolm, who wander onto an artillery range. Francis sneaks home, but has no one to play with.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.8Convention
2000-11-22 · 22mHal and Lois heads off to a convention while the boys stays home for the babysitter. Malcolm, Reese and Dewey assumed it's just another old woman, their parents hired to watch them. They decide to do a series of pranks on their babysitter, which includes the covered up sewer tank with a blanket and a book for the old woman sit on. To their surprise, their babysitter is a hot, teen-aged girl named Patty. She is sweet to them, but also bitter because she was rejected by Francis, a long time ago, because she was obese. Now the boys compete against each other to see who will prove their eldest brother wrong in his rejection and sleep with her without sex. Meanwhile at the convention, Lois tries in vain to stop the fight between Hal and Jack, who stole his idea.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.2Robbery
2000-11-26 · 22mThe night shift at Lucky Aide is held hostage by two robbers, since Craig does not want to give up the combination for the store's safe. Francis tries to help a heartbroken friend at the academy, while Hal and the boys fight nature at home.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.4Therapy
2000-11-29 · 22mMalcolm's humiliation as a Krelboyne drives him crazy, so he fakes his way into seeing the school's shrink, with whom the con continues.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.4High School Play
2000-12-10 · 22mMalcolm gets a role in the high school play and is so captivated by high school gossip that he forgets his lines. Lois discovers the joys of massage. Hal and Dewey build a society of model buildings in the living room. Francis tries to show his individualism at school when the commandant cracks down on personal belongings.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.4The Bully
2000-12-17 · 22mReese, promising champion of his school's wrestling team, gets beaten by a girl, completely demoralizing him. So he gives up his school-bully carrier, which destabilizes the natural order of things at school. Francis tries to get out of academy at his birthday in an attempt to avoid academy-birthday-traditions.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.2Old Mrs. Old
2001-01-07 · 22mDewey starts carrying a purse to school. Francis's friend Richie joins him at military school. Malcolm becomes a slave to an old woman in the neighborhood.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 7.7Krelboyne Girl
2001-01-14 · 22mLois and Hal try to end Dewey's dependence on his stuffed animal Domingo by convincing him that it is too dirty. Strangely attracted, Malcolm finds himself in emotional confusion about the new weird Krelboyne girl Cynthia. At the academy Commandant Spangler re-institutes old Hickory into the school's disciplinary system and Francis tries to convince his father Hal to lie for him to avoid punishment.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.7New Neighbors
2001-01-21 · 22mNew neighbors, who turn out to be even more awful than Malcolm's family, move in next door; the Marlin Academy cadets prepare for a visit from Oliver North.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.5Hal Quits
2001-02-04 · 22mHal feels like his job is a piece of c* after going to Dewey's class for parent job day. So he decides to take a "kidney failure" weeks off. While Francis is forced to work at the lucky aid over spring break.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.5The Grandparents
2001-02-11 · 22mLois' estranged parents, Ida and Victor, pay the family a visit. Right away, trouble starts brewing. Victor bonds with Reese, Ida gets Malcolm into a fight, and Dewey is haunted by childhood memories of his inattentive grandparents.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.8Traffic Ticket
2001-02-18 · 22mLois gets a traffic ticket and immediately blames Francis and makes him get the money to her. To do this, Francis stages a stunt for the other cadets' amusement. Malcolm finds evidence that Lois was wrong about the traffic ticket.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 7.3Surgery
2001-02-25 · 22mA hospital stay unsettles Malcolm, who's stuck in a kids ward with what may be appendicitis. Meanwhile, at military school, Francis leads a hunger strike.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 7.9Reese Cooks
2001-03-04 · 22mA cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 7.7Tutoring Reese
2001-03-11 · 22mMalcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 8.7Bowling
2001-04-01 · 22mMalcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 7.6Malcolm vs. Reese
2001-04-22 · 22mFrancis has an extra ticket for a wrestling event and it is the prize pitting Malcolm vs. Reese in a one-upmanship war; caring for Craig's cat is troublesome for Dewey.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 7.5Mini-Bike
2001-04-29 · 22mLois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 7.4Carnival
2001-05-06 · 22mMalcolm, Dewey, Stevie, and Reese hide out at a traveling carnival after hours and run afoul of a determined security guard and several members of the freak show.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 8.3Evacuation
2001-05-13 · 22mHal is inadvertently responsible for a toxic chemical spill that forces a neighborhood evacuation; Malcolm deals with being grounded even in the emergency shelter; Francis suffers through a date with a geeky 12-year-old.
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E25
Episode 25
★ 8.3Flashback
2001-05-20 · 22mLois is two weeks late with her period, causing her and Hal to panic and start a big fight, while trying to keep it from the boys. And while Dewey is scared that his parents may split up, Hal and Lois remember the troubles of getting their previous four sons.
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Frankie Muniz
Malcolm
Jane Kaczmarek
Lois
Bryan Cranston
Hal
Justin Berfield
Reese
Erik Per Sullivan
Dewey
Christopher Masterson
Francis