Awesome Talent Creates Hysterical Sitcom
I'm almost always behind on watching TV shows. When Breaking Bad exploded I developed an interest in Bryan Cranston (YES!). This led to much hysterical laughter in viewing Malcolm in the Middle. Listed here are fave episodes.
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- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonMalcolm 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.
- DirectorArlene SanfordStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonWhen 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.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonWhile 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...until a shelf falls on Malcolm, injuring him.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonBecause 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. He later blackmails the family to leave him alone and quits the job, also revealing a horrible secret about the family's wife. Meanwhile at the academy, Francis finds the corpse of a former janitor in the basement of the military school, who was missing for 16 years, and teams up with his friends to give the forgotten custodian a proper burial by sending him down the lake in a burned boat and performing a burial at sea, which turns into a disaster.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonMalcolm stays overnight at Stevie's house. He convinces Stevie to sneak out of the house with him and they go to an arcade downtown, but Stevie's wheelchair is stolen, and they have to team up to find his wheelchair while dragging Stevie in a cart. Meanwhile, to prove that he is mature, Lois challenges Reese to give Dewey a bath and put him to sleep in exchange for being allowed to stay up late to watch a scary movie, but the task proves more difficult than he expected, just as Lois thought it would. At the academy, Francis is hazed by a group of students, but tells them their tricks are amateurish to what Lois did to him, and the students decide to worship Lois.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe family have to go to the Krelboyne class picnic. Malcolm doesn't want to go because he has to do an act and doesn't want to look bad in front of his family especially Francis who is home for the weekend. Francis promises to get Malcolm out of doing his act but meets a girl at the picnic and no longer wants to leave. Lois tries to fit in with the other parents unsuccessfully and Hal serves meat from the BBQ even though the Krelboynes all voted that there would be no meat. Reese ends up on the run from eraserheads brother who catches him in the end giving him a wedgie. When Stevie leaves his chemicals with Malcolm, Malcolm desperate to do anything to get out of his act tries to make a stink bomb but ends up making a level 3 toxic bomb. The picnic seems to be ruined until Malcolm guiltily goes up on stage to preform his act. Everyone is amazed by it especially his family. Malcolm fears they will all treat him differently but to his relief nothing has changed.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonHal takes the day off and the boys to the stock car races, while Francis gets into trouble with Commandant Spangler which leads to troubles with his fellow cadets, but that can not stop Francis from aiming for the next big possibility to screw up - this time it involves a Dog and a Snake. As Lois is searching for a check, she discovers more and more dirt on each family-member, hidden in the dustiest corners of the house, which she piles up for later use. Meanwhile the boys get bored at the tracks fast and get into problems on their own.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonMalcolm sucks at street-hockey, frankly because he has no skates. So he turns to his father, who trains all his sons in the secrets of skating before he allows them to have their own pair. Neither of his bigger brother tell him about his fathers training and Malcolm gets even more anxious as Hal gets very mysterious about it all, but nothing can prepare either one of them for what is to come. Lois hurt her back terribly and has to stay in bed, which does not keep her from tyrannizing Reese and constantly trying to avoid being drugged with pain medication by her loving husband Hal. At the military academy everybody is preparing for a weekend of survival training without any comfort, except for Francis who tries to ditch his comrades.
- DirectorChris KochStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonLois takes off to visit Francis at the academy, which might make his recent appendectomy just a little more painful. Without Lois, Hal devolves to his former bad boy personality, which turns the robot Malcolm builds with his Krelboyne colleagues into a much more destructive power than expected.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe boys were grounded for a while for losing Dewey's bike and can't wait for their release, but Lois is sick in bed and mistakes Monday for Sunday. But the boys appreciate the opportunity to ditch school. A letter from the academy arrives, which would cause some trouble for Francis and the boys decide to hide it, until they find out that it was Francis that sold them out about the bike. While the boys turn against Francis, Hal is at a Porsche shop and gets tempted to buy a car he can not possibly afford.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe family takes a day vacation at the water-park. All except Dewey, who has to stay home with an overage babysitter, which turns out to be more fun than expected. While Malcolm and Reese get into a loop of revenge-pranks, Hal and Lois try to enjoy the day off. As Dewey's babysitter hits the dance-floor, in more than one way, the youngest member of the family sets off on his own.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonAs the family drives home from the water-park, they get stuck in a traffic jam. While each family members tries to deal with heat, stress and boredom in their own way, Dewey is roaming the country on his own.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe family is on a weekend-vacation in an native American casino. Francis uses this opportunity to go on vacation himself, by sneaking into his former home, but he is not the only one with that idea. While Hal, Reese and Malcolm get lost in the desert, Lois and Dewey enjoy a day of relaxation.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonHal feels like his job is a piece of crap 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.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonIn this special episode, we see what would happen if Lois took the kids bowling and what would happen if Hal took them bowling. Lois keeps the kids under tight watch, making Malcolm's night miserable, since he's the worst bowler in the group; Hal is on the verge of a perfect game, Reese ticks off the wrong guy and runs for his life, and Malcolm finds a girl who is attracted to him.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe boys and Stevie take off in the evening to visit the carnival but get into trouble, while the parents go searching for them.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonWhen the family gets a new couch, Hal loses the old one on the way to the dump, causing a train accident with dire consequences for the whole neighborhood. While Hal tries to make it up to society, Dewey makes people believe he is an orphan. Reese starts a black market, while Malcolm is grounded and confined to the bunk in the emergency camp. Meanwhile Eric takes Francis on a somewhat different double-date.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonLois 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.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonIn a desperate bid to get to Alaska, Francis unintentionally ends up blowing things way out of proportion by landing himself in a sticky situation.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonDewey tries to prove he can take responsibility by taking care of the class hamster for the weekend, his efforts being ignored by his parents who secretly try to wait out possible bad news from Hal's doctor. Meanwhile Reese and Malcolm try to ditch home for a party and Francis has to fight Lavernia, his boss.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonAfter being invited to a game of poker by Abe, Hal is disappointed as the game turns out to be completely different from his expectations.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonLois is completely mortified when she is called slovenly at work and is asked to dress up her appearance.
- DirectorJeff MelmanStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonHal has his friends over to his house for their poker game, and tries to impress them in the process. Reese convinces two girls that Stevie has a fatal illness. Malcolm discover something dangerous in the house. Dewey has no place to go.
- DirectorTodd HollandStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonThe family goes to the zoo. Malcolm is going through a crisis, and he and Dewey find themselves in a unfortunate situation. Reese angers an animal at the zoo. Hal is jealous of a former flame of Lois's who works at the zoo.
- DirectorJamie BabbitStarsJane KaczmarekBryan CranstonChristopher MastersonMalcolm sneaks around to date a girl whose father hates him; Hal and Lois become more productive when they can't have sex for a week; Dewey discovers he's an "evil twin"; Francis mediates a dispute between Otto and his cowboy neighbors.