List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom that ran on the Fox Network from January 9, 2000 to May 14, 2006, after 7 seasons and 151 episodes.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 16 | January 9, 2000 | May 21, 2000 | ||
| 2 | 25 | November 5, 2000 | May 20, 2001 | ||
| 3 | 22 | November 11, 2001 | May 12, 2002 | ||
| 4 | 22 | November 3, 2002 | May 18, 2003 | ||
| 5 | 22 | November 2, 2003 | May 23, 2004 | ||
| 6 | 22 | November 7, 2004 | May 15, 2005 | ||
| 7 | 22 | September 30, 2005 | May 14, 2006 | ||
Episodes
Season 1 (2000)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Todd Holland | Linwood Boomer | January 9, 2000 | 10012-99-179 | 22.4 |
| 2 | 2 | "Red Dress" | Arlene Sanford | Alan J. Higgins | January 16, 2000 | 06-99-103 | 23.3 |
| 3 | 3 | "Home Alone 4" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | January 23, 2000 | 06-99-106 | 19.3 |
| 4 | 4 | "Shame" | Nick Marck | David Richardson | February 6, 2000 | 06-99-107 | 16.8 |
| 5 | 5 | "Malcolm Babysits" | Jeff Melman | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | February 13, 2000 | 06-99-105 | 17.9 |
| 6 | 6 | "Sleepover" | Ken Kwapis | Dan Kopelman | February 20, 2000 | 06-99-110 | N/A |
| 7 | 7 | "Francis Escapes" | Todd Holland | Linwood Boomer | February 27, 2000 | 06-99-101 | 16.6 |
| 8 | 8 | "Krelboyne Picnic" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | March 12, 2000 | 06-99-109 | 15.5 |
| 9 | 9 | "Lois vs. Evil" | Todd Holland | Jack Amiel & Michael Begler | March 19, 2000 | 06-99-104 | 16.3 |
| 10 | 10 | "Stock Car Races" | Todd Holland | David Richardson | April 2, 2000 | 06-99-102 | 14.4 |
| 11 | 11 | "Funeral" | Arlene Sanford | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | April 9, 2000 | 06-99-111 | 15.3 |
| 12 | 12 | "Cheerleader" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | April 16, 2000 | 06-99-112 | 13.0 |
| 13 | 13 | "Rollerskates" | Ken Kwapis | Alan J. Higgins | April 30, 2000 | 06-99-108 | 14.5 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Bots and the Bees" | Chris Koch | Alan J. Higgins & David Richardson | May 7, 2000 | 06-00-202 | 12.3 |
| 15 | 15 | "Smunday" | Jeff Melman | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | May 14, 2000 | 06-00-201 | 12.6 |
| 16 | 16 | "Water Park (Part 1)" | Ken Kwapis | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | May 21, 2000 | 06-00-203 | 13.9 |
Season 2 (2000–01)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | "Traffic Jam (Part 2)" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | November 5, 2000 | 06-00-204 | 15.5 |
| 18 | 2 | "Halloween Approximately" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | November 8, 2000 | 06-00-207 | 9.2 |
| 19 | 3 | "Lois's Birthday" | Ken Kwapis | Alex Reid | November 12, 2000 | 06-00-205 | 16.4 |
| 20 | 4 | "Dinner Out" | Jeff Melman | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | November 15, 2000 | 06-00-206 | 9.7 |
| 21 | 5 | "Casino" | Todd Holland | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | November 19, 2000 | 06-00-209 | 14.2 |
| 22 | 6 | "Convention" | Jeff Melman | Bob Stevens | November 22, 2000 | 06-00-208 | 9.9 |
| 23 | 7 | "Robbery" | Todd Holland | Alan J. Higgins | November 26, 2000 | 06-00-215 | 15.5 |
| 24 | 8 | "Therapy" | Ken Kwapis | Ian Busch | November 29, 2000 | 06-00-210 | 9.5 |
| 25 | 9 | "High School Play" | Jeff Melman | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | December 10, 2000 | 06-00-211 | 16.9 |
| 26 | 10 | "The Bully" | Jeff Melman | Alex Reid | December 17, 2000 | 06-00-214 | 15.9 |
| 27 | 11 | "Old Mrs. Old" | Todd Holland | Alan J. Higgins | January 7, 2001 | 06-00-213 | 17.1 |
| 28 | 12 | "Krelboyne Girl" | Arlene Sanford | Bob Stevens | January 14, 2001 | 06-00-212 | 14.9 |
| 29 | 13 | "New Neighbors" | Ken Kwapis | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | January 21, 2001 | 06-00-219 | 14.9 |
| 30 | 14 | "Hal Quits" | Ken Kwapis | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | February 4, 2001 | 06-00-216 | 18.6 |
| 31 | 15 | "The Grandparents" | Todd Holland | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | February 11, 2001 | 06-00-217 | 14.3 |
| 32 | 16 | "Traffic Ticket" | Jeff Melman | Larry Strawther | February 18, 2001 | 06-00-218 | 15.8 |
| 33 | 17 | "Surgery" | Jeff Melman | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | February 25, 2001 | 06-00-222 | 17.6 |
| 34 | 18 | "Reese Cooks" | Jeff Melman | Dan Kopelman | March 4, 2001 | 06-00-220 | 17.0 |
| 35 | 19 | "Tutoring Reese" | Ken Kwapis | Ian Busch | March 11, 2001 | 06-00-221 | 14.9 |
| 36 | 20 | "Bowling" | Todd Holland | Alex Reid | April 1, 2001 | 06-00-223 | 13.7 |
| 37 | 21 | "Malcolm vs. Reese" | Todd Holland | Story by : Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by : Dan Kopelman | April 22, 2001 | 06-00-226 | 14.5 |
| 38 | 22 | "Mini-Bike" | Ken Kwapis | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | April 29, 2001 | 06-00-227 | 14.6 |
| 39 | 23 | "Carnival" | Ken Kwapis | Alex Reid | May 6, 2001 | 06-00-225 | 13.6 |
| 40 | 24 | "Evacuation" | Todd Holland | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | May 13, 2001 | 06-00-228 | 14.0 |
| 41 | 25 | "Flashback" | Jeff Melman | Ian Busch | May 20, 2001 | 06-00-224 | 13.8 |
Season 3 (2001–02)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 1 | "Houseboat" | Todd Holland | Bob Stevens | November 11, 2001 | 06-01-301 | 15.5 |
| 43 | 2 | "Emancipation" | Jimmy Simons | Alan J. Higgins | November 14, 2001 | 06-01-302 | 8.9 |
| 44 | 3 | "Book Club" | Todd Holland | Alex Reid | November 18, 2001 | 06-01-304 | 13.6 |
| 45 | 4 | "Malcolm's Girlfriend" | Ken Kwapis | Ian Busch | November 28, 2001 | 06-01-305 | 8.9 |
| 46 | 5 | "Charity" | Jeff Melman | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | December 2, 2001 | 06-01-303 | 12.0 |
| 47 | 6 | "Health Scare" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | December 9, 2001 | 06-01-307 | 12.9 |
| 48 | 7 | "Christmas" | Jeff Melman | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | December 16, 2001 | 06-01-306 | 13.1 |
| 49 | 8 | "Poker" | Ken Kwapis | Michael Borkow | January 6, 2002 | 06-01-308 | 11.8 |
| 50 | 9 | "Reese's Job" | Todd Holland | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | January 20, 2002 | 06-01-310 | 11.1 |
| 51 | 10 | "Lois' Makeover" | Jeff Melman | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | January 27, 2002 | 06-01-311 | 13.5 |
| 52 53 | 11 12 | "Company Picnic" | Todd Holland | Story by : Janae Bakken Teleplay by : Alan J. Higgins | February 3, 2002 | 06-01-313 06-01-314 | 21.4 |
| 54 | 13 | "Reese Drives" | Jeff Melman | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | February 10, 2002 | 06-01-309 | 13.3 |
| 55 | 14 | "Cynthia's Back" | Ken Kwapis | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | February 17, 2002 | 06-01-312 | 11.9 |
| 56 | 15 | "Hal's Birthday" | Levie Isaacks | Alex Reid | March 3, 2002 | 06-01-316 | 13.6 |
| 57 | 16 | "Hal Coaches" | Jeff Melman | Ian Busch | March 10, 2002 | 06-01-319 | 14.3 |
| 58 | 17 | "Dewey's Dog" | Bob Stevens | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | April 7, 2002 | 06-01-318 | 12.4 |
| 59 | 18 | "Poker #2" | Jeff Melman | Story by : John Bradford Goodman Teleplay by : Bill Hooper | April 21, 2002 | 06-01-322 | 11.9 |
| 60 | 19 | "Clip Show" | Jamie Babbit | Michael Borkow & Alex Reid | April 28, 2002 | 06-01-321 | 13.1 |
| 61 | 20 | "Jury Duty" | Ken Kwapis | Story by : Pang-Ni Landrum & Tom Mason & Dan Danko Teleplay by : Pang-Ni Landrum | May 1, 2002 | 06-01-320 | 5.9 |
| 62 | 21 | "Cliques" | Jeff Melman | Michael Borkow | May 5, 2002 | 06-01-317 | 10.9 |
| 63 | 22 | "Monkey" | Ken Kwapis | Dan Kopelman | May 12, 2002 | 06-01-315 | 11.9 |
Season 4 (2002–03)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 1 | "Zoo" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | November 3, 2002 | 06-02-401 | 12.2 |
| 65 | 2 | "Humilithon" | Jeff Melman | Michael Borkow | November 10, 2002 | 06-02-402 | 9.6 |
| 66 | 3 | "Family Reunion" | Ken Kwapis | Alex Reid | November 17, 2002 | 06-02-403 | 10.9 |
| 67 | 4 | "Stupid Girl" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | November 24, 2002 | 06-02-404 | 9.8 |
| 68 | 5 | "Forwards Backwards" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur | December 1, 2002 | 06-02-406 | 10.7 |
| 69 | 6 | "Forbidden Girlfriend" | Jamie Babbit | Matthew Carlson | December 15, 2002 | 06-02-405 | 11.2 |
| 70 | 7 | "Malcolm Holds His Tongue" | Jeff Melman | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | January 5, 2003 | 06-02-410 | 10.5 |
| 71 | 8 | "Boys at Ranch" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | January 12, 2003 | 06-02-412 | 10.4 |
| 72 | 9 | "Grandma Sues" | Jimmy Simons | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | February 2, 2003 | 06-02-407 | 13.7 |
| 73 | 10 | "If Boys Were Girls" | Ken Kwapis | Story by : Alexandra Kaczenski Teleplay by : Nahnatchka Khan | February 9, 2003 | 06-02-408 | 11.7 |
| 74 | 11 | "Long Drive" | Levie Isaacks | Michael Borkow | March 2, 2003 | 06-02-409 | 11.0 |
| 75 | 12 | "Kicked Out" | Jeff Melman | Alex Reid | March 9, 2003 | 06-02-413 | 11.5 |
| 76 | 13 | "Stereo Store" | Bryan Cranston | Matthew Carlson | March 16, 2003 | 06-02-414 | 11.0 |
| 77 | 14 | "Hal's Friend" | Jeff Melman | Dan Kopelman | March 30, 2003 | 06-02-415 | 11.1 |
| 78 | 15 | "Garage Sale" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur | April 6, 2003 | 06-02-416 | 10.2 |
| 79 | 16 | "Academic Octathalon" | Todd Holland | Rob Hanning | April 13, 2003 | 06-02-411 | 9.3 |
| 80 | 17 | "Clip Show 2" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur & Dan Kopelman | April 20, 2003 | 06-02-422 | 8.7 |
| 81 | 18 | "Reese's Party" | Levie Isaacks | Andy Bobrow | April 27, 2003 | 06-02-418 | 11.1 |
| 82 | 19 | "Future Malcolm" | Ken Kwapis | Story by : Ron Corcillo & A.J. Poulin Teleplay by : Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | May 4, 2003 | 06-02-417 | 12.1 |
| 83 | 20 | "Baby: Part 1" | Jimmy Simons | Rob Hanning | May 11, 2003 | 06-02-419 | 9.8 |
| 84 | 21 | "Baby: Part 2" | Jamie Babbit | Michael Borkow | May 18, 2003 | 06-02-420 | 10.8 |
| 85 | 22 | "Day Care" | Steve Love | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | May 18, 2003 | 06-02-421 | 10.5 |
Season 5 (2003–04)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | 1 | "Vegas" | Bryan Cranston | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | November 2, 2003 | 06-03-501 | 10.3 |
| The family travels to Las Vegas, where Reese and Dewey show an obese rabbit at a competition, Hal is convinced he has had a prophetic dream about winning at a slot machine, and Lois goes backstage with her favorite singer Boone Vincent (David Cassidy). Meanwhile, Francis begins getting overwhelmed with the workload at the ranch, capping off by falling into and being trapped with Otto in a well he was supposed to have fixed. | |||||||
| 87 | 2 | "Watching the Baby" | Levie Isaacks | Alex Reid | November 9, 2003 | 06-03-502 | 9.6 |
| Attractive, popular girls want to be seen with Reese, Malcolm, and Stevie as revenge on their boyfriends, so the boys stick Dewey with babysitting Jamie. Dewey tells Jamie an elaborate story in which their parents are secretly wealthy and have a hidden "secret good house" in their closet, where they also own a robotic version of Francis as a slave. Working at the Lucky Aide when he can't pay for Jamie's diapers, Hal discovers that Craig tortures the graveyard-shift employers while he does nothing, so Hal helps them rebel. | |||||||
| 88 | 3 | "Goodbye Kitty" | Jimmy Simons | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | November 16, 2003 | 06-03-503 | 9.2 |
| When Stevie finds out his mother has divorced his father, he falls into a depression and Malcolm tries to cheer him up. Lois' high-school diary falls into Reese's backpack and he reads it and becomes infatuated with the diarist — and is horrified to find out her identity. Dewey regresses into babyhood, appalling Lois. Meanwhile, neither Francis nor Otto can bear to put a horse with a deadly infection to sleep. | |||||||
| 89 | 4 | "Thanksgiving" | David D'Ovidio | Matthew Carlson | November 23, 2003 | 06-03-504 | 10.2 |
| Reese aspires to prepare the perfect Thanksgiving dinner with Hal and Dewey's help. Lois intervenes when Francis and Piama seem headed for divorce. Malcolm goes to a party instead of staying with the family; he spends half the time wondering if Kirstin (Alessandra Torresani) is flirting with him, then he gets completely drunk. He arrives home and vomits into the turkey. | |||||||
| 90 | 5 | "Malcolm Films Reese" | Levie Isaacks | Dan Kopelman | November 30, 2003 | 06-03-505 | 9.2 |
| Malcolm films Reese for a school psychology assignment. He then discovers that he is an unwitting participant in one of Mr. Herkabe's experiments, which portrays him as a sadistic maniac, and he loses Reese's trust. In revenge, he breaks into Herkabe's office to reveal the other students' dirty secrets, including his own. Hal fears he will lose his job when top officials at his company are arrested for embezzlement. Lois' washer and dryer keep breaking down. When Dewey skips school, he starts earning big money working as a street magician. Soon, Hal and Lois find his stash of money, but they assume it is theirs and end up using it to buy a new washer and dryer. Otto is excited that the local newspaper will contain a review of the Grotto, but it turns out to be a scathing one. Francis persuades Charles Cutter, the critic who reviewed the ranch, to return and re-evaluate it. Cutler's criticism turns out to be nothing but verbal abuse as he insults every aspect of the compound, resulting in Francis and Otto beating him up. The newspapers trumpet the story, and the Grotto's business begins to boom again, because many businesses despised Cutler and are happy to see that he got what he deserved. | |||||||
| 91 | 6 | "Malcolm's Job" | Steve Welch | Maggie Bandur | December 7, 2003 | 06-03-506 | 8.4 |
| Lois makes Malcolm and Reese get jobs. Reese finds a job at the local slaughterhouse, but Malcolm is forced to work with Lois at the Lucky Aide. Malcolm catches Lois smoking on her break and thinks she is a hypocrite. Hal takes a nursing class run by Polly to spend more time with Jamie, but he and the other dads soon start betting on their babies. Sick of Reese and Malcolm's bullying, Dewey runs away to the ranch to visit his "good brother", Francis. | |||||||
| 92 | 7 | "Christmas Trees" | Steve Love | Alex Reid | December 14, 2003 | 06-03-507 | 8.7 |
| Hal, Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey go into business selling Christmas trees, but two priests send homeless people to frighten away their customers, since Hal is selling the trees cheaper than the church. Craig is bitten by a squirrel, and Lois orders her co-workers and some homeless people to catch the squirrel to prove that Craig won't need the painful shots. When Otto's family visits the ranch, they seem so much like Francis' family that he gets homesick. | |||||||
| 93 | 8 | "Block Party" | Levie Isaacks | Rob Ulin | January 4, 2004 | 06-03-508 | 7.5 |
| Returning early from vacation, the family discovers that their neighbors have been celebrating their yearly absence with a block party. Reese and Dewey scheme to make quick cash by letting kids beat up Reese, Hal and Lois join the kielbasa-eating contest, and Malcolm inadvertently aids a burglar. Meanwhile, Francis finds himself assigned to breeding cows, the most disgusting job at the ranch. | |||||||
| 94 | 9 | "Dirty Magazine" | Bryan Cranston | Eric Kaplan | January 11, 2004 | 06-03-509 | 9.1 |
| Malcolm decides to publish a student's brilliant story in the school newsletter despite its vulgar language. Principal Block (Kurtwood Smith) censors him, but Malcolm contacts the ACLU, who forces him not to censor the story. Block cancels all extracurricular activities and only reinstates them when Malcolm calls off the ACLU, but Malcolm gets revenge on Block by publishing his own magazine just outside the school grounds, also containing the story. During work, Hal has a close counter with his new female supervisor, of whom Lois encourages him to continue to flirt with to avoid him getting fired. Reese attempts to manipulate Dewey to prove he is smarter then he is. Meanwhile, Francis tries to teach Otto how to dance for Otto and Gretchen's 25th anniversary, only to realize Otto is a terrible dancer. | |||||||
| 95 | 10 | "Hot Tub" | Jimmy Simons | Andy Bobrow | January 25, 2004 | 06-03-510 | 8.7 |
| Hal buys a hot tub without telling Lois, but it turns into a swamp when he neglects to clean it. Malcolm finally gets his learner's permit, and gets mixed up in a fight between Polly and her ex-boyfriend. Reese steals Dewey's new friend Noah, who had actually befriended Dewey to get to Reese to ask him to beat up Noah's bullies. Meanwhile, Manfred Schmidt — former fiancé to Gretchen, former best friend to Otto — visits the ranch. Otto reveals to Francis he actually stole Gretchen away from Manfred. | |||||||
| 96 | 11 | "Ida's Boyfriend" | Peter Lauer | Neil Thompson | February 8, 2004 | 06-03-512 | 6.4 |
| Ida brings a wealthy Chinese man, Mr. Li (James Hong) to whom she is engaged to the family's house for a dinner, informing them of her plans to fly to Hong Kong to live with him. Malcolm gets his tongue pierced, but it swells up, and he must hide it and the resulting lisp from Lois until the wedding ends. Reese smashes Dewey's new toy in front of him, so Dewey pretends Reese does not exist. Malcolm discovers that Ida is drugging the man by making him drink opiate-laced tea to change his mood, allowing her to take advantage of him and get his money. When she attempts her drug laced tea again, it goes awry as the whole family is drugged. Li comes out of the effects of the drugs and breaks up with Ida. Lois punishes everyone for their behavior and decrees that no one will encourage drug use again. Meanwhile at the ranch, Otto hires an acting troop to stage a murder mystery, but the actor's over-dramatic performances are causing more chaos then expected. | |||||||
| 97 | 12 | "Softball" | Ken Kwapis | Michael Glouberman | February 15, 2004 | 06-03-511 | 7.6 |
| Malcolm joins the Lucky Aide softball team to get away from Lois' wrath on the job — but she has recently become the coach. Francis drives home to prove to Lois that he is not lazy, but Lois refuses to admit that she is wrong until Hal intervenes. Dewey dares Reese to outdo one of Francis' old stunts. | |||||||
| 98 | 13 | "Lois' Sister" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy | February 22, 2004 | 06-03-513 | 10.3 |
| Lois' sister Susan (Laurie Metcalf) visits, bringing generous gifts for the whole family. Suspicious, Lois eventually learns that Susan needs a new kidney and tries to donate one to her, and Susan begrudgingly accepts. Dewey breaks into the garage to use his new cotton candy machine, and Reese and Malcolm joyride in their new Mustang until they are arrested. Meanwhile, Francis "leads" a group of Girl Scouts on a wilderness campout journey through the desert. | |||||||
| 99 | 14 | "Malcolm Dates a Family" | Steve Welch | Rob Ulin | March 14, 2004 | 06-03-514 | 7.6 |
| Lois boycotts Luigi's Pizza, the family's favorite restaurant, after discovering they were forcing them to tip without notice, rendering the boys and Hal unable to eat the pizza without being grounded by Lois. Hal and the boys sneak Luigi's pizzas in the garage. Malcolm gets more involved with his new girlfriend's (Sara Paxton) intellectual family than with her, and she eventually ditches him for ignoring her, forcing the family to kick him out and replace him with Stevie. Meanwhile, the family is watching a TV report about Lois' scheme to close Luigi's when they catch Malcolm there with his friends, which prompts Reese to accidentally confesses that they have been sneaking pizza too. Meanwhile, Otto hires a personal assistant for Francis, only for Francis to end up relying on him for everything, which even includes moving his arms. | |||||||
| 100 | 15 | "Reese's Apartment" | David Grossman | Dan Kopelman | March 21, 2004 | 06-03-515 | 9.3 |
| When Lois and Hal find out about the most disgusting and terrible thing Reese has done yet, they kick him out of the house. Francis tries to defend Reese and bring him home (without knowing what he did). Dewey enjoys trashing Reese's things and sleeping on his bed. Lois finds that Reese's grades are improving and he takes care of himself, he is also $20,000 in credit card debt. They drag him home and Malcolm narrates that she has spent over a month finding a suitable punishment for him. | |||||||
| 101 | 16 | "Malcolm Visits College" | Peter Lauer | David Wright | March 28, 2004 | 06-03-517 | 9.1 |
| Malcolm looks forward to visiting college — until Lois comes along and they meet the power-hungry dorm head, Leland. When Hal refuses to buy Dewey a piano, Dewey steals items from around the house to build one. Reese pretends to be a drug dealer to befriend a student who turns out to be an undercover cop. Francis and Otto try to help out at a daycare, but Otto gets the kids drunk. | |||||||
| 102 | 17 | "Polly in the Middle" | Steve Love | Matthew Carlson | April 25, 2004 | 06-03-516 | 7.2 |
| Polly the babysitter (Julie Hagerty) is caught in a love triangle between Abe and Craig after Lois sets her up with Craig and Hal sets her up with Abe — unbeknownst to each other — and she enjoys spending time with both of them. Malcolm becomes fed up with Dewey's belief in a lucky shirt, believing he is just being superstitious. Meanwhile, Francis finds himself more and more dominated by Piama's fiery personality, feeling embarrassed in front of his co-ranchers. | |||||||
| 103 | 18 | "Dewey's Special Class" | David D'Ovidio | Maggie Bandur | May 2, 2004 | 06-03-519 | 7.5 |
| Malcolm coaches Dewey on how to "throw" an IQ test so he will not end up in the Krelboyne class. When he refuses and announces his intent to join the Krelboynes, Malcolm enlists Reese to take the test for Dewey. However, his poor test-taking skills lands Dewey in the emotionally disturbed "Busey" class instead of keeping him in the regular class. Reese tries to figure out what type of genius he is. Hal and Craig enter a Dance Dance Revolution-style contest. In the cold opening, during a public ceremony of blowing up a dam, Otto and Francis realized they swapped the dynamites meant for the dam for the picnic cooler meant for the audience, resulting in the destruction of Francis's truck. | |||||||
| 104 | 19 | "Experiment" | Bryan Cranston | Alex Reid | May 2, 2004 | 06-03-518 | 6.9 |
| Stevie and Malcolm try to figure out how Reese managed to separate two bases for an enzyme for a medical experiment when he refuses to tell them. Dewey sells chocolate bars by fibbing (with Francis' help). Meanwhile, Francis teaches assertiveness to a runt pig. | |||||||
| 105 | 20 | "Victor's Other Family" | David Grossman | Eric Kaplan | May 9, 2004 | 06-03-520 | 5.6 |
| Lois, Reese, Jamie, and Malcolm go to Manitoba to meet Victor's secret family. The boys get along and even have fun with their newfound cousins, and everything is fine until Ida arrives, demanding Victor's pension. Lois reluctantly helps her get it, until she discovers that Ida lied to her and Victor is not her biological father. Dewey dreads Hal running with him since bad things always happen before such events between them. During the cold opening, Francis must deal with an amorous horse and cow sharing a stall. Betty White guest stars as Victor's other wife, Sylvia. | |||||||
| 106 | 21 | "Reese Joins the Army: Part 1" | Steve Love | Andy Bobrow | May 16, 2004 | 06-03-521 | 7.5 |
| Reese's new girlfriend Beth is about as dumb as he is. Malcolm initially dislikes her but they soon grow to like each other too much and Beth breaks up with Reese. Devastated, Reese runs away and joins the army under the false surname "Jetson." Hal's company goes under, and two corrupted FBI officers want him to falsely testify against his employer. He refuses, but they have him arrested when the employer provides false testimony against Hal. Lois stresses out when she must work overtime at Lucky Aide to make ends meet; eventually her snappy demeanor and mounting mental instability get her fired. Dewey enters a piano contest and is angry when no one notices. | |||||||
| 107 | 22 | "Reese Joins the Army: Part 2" | Peter Lauer | Andrew Orenstein | May 23, 2004 | 06-03-522 | 8.0 |
| The company uses Hal as a scapegoat and Lois has become more mentally unstable. When Francis learns that she may no longer be able to care for his siblings, he enlists Malcolm to help forge their father's signature in a legal document that would declare Lois mentally incompetent, emancipate Malcolm, and give Francis and Piama custody of Dewey and Jamie. Malcolm admits he can forge only Lois' signature, while the missing Reese knows Hal's signature. Meanwhile, Reese becomes a top-class soldier in training and makes his way with his squad into a Ranger mission in Afghanistan. Malcolm finds evidence that destroys the prosecution's case against Hal, but also infuriates Lois and snaps her out of it. | |||||||
Season 6 (2004–05)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 | 1 | "Reese Comes Home: Part 3" | Todd Holland | Matthew Carlson | November 7, 2004 | 06-04-602 | 7.1 |
| Reese, as soon as he lands in Afghanistan, panics and deserts the army. He dresses as a local woman to help him get away, accidentally getting married in the process. Lois, having recovered from her mental breakdown and on a mission to find him, travels to Kabul, selling the family car to afford the trip and hiring locals for the help. Malcolm volunteers at a veterans' hospital to alleviate his guilt of making Reese leave. | |||||||
| 109 | 2 | "Buseys Run Away" | Bryan Cranston | Michael Glouberman | November 14, 2004 | 06-04-601 | 9.1 |
| After learning that Dewey will be leaving their class, the Buseys run away and hide in the trees near his house, forcing Dewey to look after their needs. Unemployed Hal becomes the leader of a group of dimwitted body builders, eventually teaching them basic things, they do favors for him in return. Lois punishes Reese and Malcolm for their firework fiasco in the movie theatre. This causes both of them to believe Dewey told on them, so they try to entrap him, but they are punished even more when Lois overhears their plans. | |||||||
| 110 | 3 | "Standee" | David D'Ovidio | Rob Ulin | November 21, 2004 | 06-04-603 | 7.1 |
| When Hal and the garbageman get into a trash-dumping war, he enlists Reese's help to steal his garbage truck. Lois gets her job back at Lucky Aide, and fights against Malcolm in order to take down an offensive store display. | |||||||
| 111 | 4 | "Pearl Harbor" | Peter Lauer | Neil Thompson | December 5, 2004 | 06-04-606 | 7.8 |
| Jessica (Hayden Panettiere), Malcolm and Reese's teenaged neighbor, tricks each of them into believing the other is gay. Reese and Malcolm get back at Jessica by giving Malcolm a hickey, which leads Lois to blame Jessica for it and punish her. Hal, tired of competing with a neighbor who always outdoes his Christmas decorations, decorates his house for Pearl Harbor Day. Dewey is writing a report on Hal being his hero, but when Hal rips his report because Dewey lied about him, Dewey does his report on Lois instead. After the neighbor outdoes Hal again for Pearl Harbor Day, Dewey reconciles with Hal and together they dump worms on the neighbor's decorations, attracting birds that knock all of the decorations down and defecate all over them. | |||||||
| 112 | 5 | "Kitty's Back" | Peter Lauer | Matthew Carlson | December 12, 2004 | 06-04-604 | 9.5 |
| Kitty (Merrin Dungey) returns after having done everything imaginable and wants to return to her family, to Lois' dismay. Though Hal wants to forgive her, Lois refuses and orders Kitty to stay away from Abe and Stevie. Francis comes home and puts Dewey through the torturous "Brotherhood Initiation", then teaches Dewey about a fool-proof way to get out of trouble from his parents. Malcolm helps Stevie write an acceptance speech for his etiquette award, but then gets into a feud over their mothers. Meanwhile, Reese gets a full-body sunburn so he can peel his entire body at once like a snake. | |||||||
| 113 | 6 | "Hal's Christmas Gift" | David Grossman | Alex Reid | December 19, 2004 | 06-04-605 | 4.7 |
| Hal and Lois are strapped for cash as Christmas approaches. Things get even worse when the now unemployed and broke Francis and Piama decide to come home for the holiday, and Lois gets into a car-crashing war with a woman. As a result, they decide that the Christmas gifts will have to be homemade this year. When the family makes much better gifts than Hal, he promises them that he's going to take them somewhere wonderful and drives around aimlessly looking for somewhere that's as amazing as he claims. Malcolm feels excluded when Reese and Dewey have fun together. | |||||||
| 114 | 7 | "Hal Sleepwalks" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy | January 16, 2005 | 06-04-607 | 5.4 |
| Hal gets so stressed out over finding a 20th anniversary present for Lois that he starts losing sleep, which prompts Reese to try to brainwash his semiconscious father. A school bully nominates two of Dewey's classmates for student body president, and Dewey nominates the bully, sparking a bizarre three-way election battle. Malcolm takes up the electric guitar despite Lois' warnings that he will fail at it. | |||||||
| 115 | 8 | "Lois Battles Jamie" | Steve Welch | Michael Glouberman | January 23, 2005 | 06-04-608 | 5.2 |
| Lois begins to think she is losing her touch when Jamie seems too much for her to handle. When Hal realizes that Lois is losing her confidence, he brings Francis home in order for him to explain to Lois how was she able to have confidence as a mother. Lois finds out that Reese has feeding Jamie "super energy soda". The other boys bring home a diving board and Reese tries to think up the craziest possible stunt to pull with it. | |||||||
| 116 | 9 | "Malcolm's Car" | Peter Lauer | Alex Reid | January 30, 2005 | 06-04-610 | 5.2 |
| When Malcolm spots a decrepit 1968 Plymouth Barracuda V8 in his neighborhood on sale, he instantly falls in love with it and purchases the car. He becomes so obsessed with restoring it that he ignores his friends, then becomes trapped within the car and nearly succumbs to carbon monoxide poisoning. Hal stumbles upon his hidden talent for hairstyling. Craig says he is taking time off to tutor his boss Fred's wife in golf, but Lois finds out he is actually having an affair with her. | |||||||
| 117 | 10 | "Billboard" | Bryan Cranston | Rob Ulin | February 13, 2005 | 06-04-609 | 5.4 |
| When Lois catches the boys vandalizing a billboard for a strip club, Malcolm alters the vandalism into a women's rights protest to avoid punishment, which sparks a colossal media circus. After Hal grants a TV interview, a woman from his past turns up at the faux protest. Reese, inspired by the giant billboard stripper who comes to life in his dreams, gives an impassioned speech about the objectification of women, while Lois tries to find a way to get the boys down without creating a wrath in front of the media. Eventually, Lois lies to the press that Dewey has a serious medical condition, and the police make them come down. | |||||||
| 118 | 11 | "Dewey's Opera" | Linwood Boomer | Eric Kaplan | February 20, 2005 | 06-04-611 | 5.4 |
| When Lois buys a brand-new king-sized bed, Hal thinks that her motive is to put more distance between them and refuses to sleep in it. Moved to tears by an opera he sees on television, Dewey is inspired to write his own operatic masterpiece based on his parents' quarrels, "The Marriage Bed", which is turned into a school production. Malcolm and Reese build their own street luge board and Malcolm gets into a feud with a mystery rider who keeps forcing him off the road. When he makes a bet against the mysterious street luger, he is horrified to learn that it is Stevie and loses his bet. However, Stevie breaks both his arms in an accident. Jamie has his first crush, on a girl in a house across from the family's, but the girl becomes attracted to another boy. | |||||||
| 119 | 12 | "Living Will" | Steve Love | Jennifer Celotta | March 6, 2005 | 06-04-612 | 5.3 |
| Hal is named executor of his neighbor's living will and must decide whether to keep him on life support or pull the plug. The stress of making this life-or-death decision induces a psychosomatic paralysis of his upper body. However, Lois snaps Hal out of it when she reminds him that he made a good decision once by marrying her instead of Susan, leading Hal to uncover a third option. Craig asks the boys to teach him how to fight dirty since a bully from his childhood is coming back to town, which is revealed to be his own father, Mr. Feldspar. | |||||||
| 120 | 13 | "Tiki Lounge" | Peter Lauer | Jay Kogen | March 13, 2005 | 06-04-613 | 5.6 |
| When Hal and Lois realize how little time they spend together, Hal turns the garage into a private tiki lounge where he and Lois can retreat. Things go smoothly until they feud over philosophical beliefs, eventually stressing out in the lounge. Herkabe cons Malcolm into joining the Booster Club, where he learns a lesson about taking one for the team, which helps him to reconcile Lois and Hal. Worried over having two geniuses in the family teaming up against him and believing that Jamie has the same intelligence as him, Reese suggests they team up. | |||||||
| 121 | 14 | "Ida Loses a Leg" | Steve Welch | Andy Bobrow | March 20, 2005 | 06-04-614 | 5.2 |
| During Grandma Ida's unwelcome visit with the family, she loses her leg while saving Dewey from a moving truck. Consumed with guilt, Dewey is determined to find Ida's leg and give it the proper burial. Francis begrudgingly becomes Ida's caretaker at Lois' admonition. He soon learns that not only do they both despise Lois, but she was responsible for leaving him at his grandmother's house. Malcolm and Reese get a new idea for a prank that forces them to stay awake for days on end to avoid the embarrassment of having their faces glued to the floor. | |||||||
| 122 | 15 | "Chad's Sleepover" | David D'Ovidio | Rob Ulin | March 27, 2005 | 06-04-615 | 4.1 |
| After Hal forbids Dewey from inviting his peculiar classmate Chad over for a sleepover, Dewey asks Lois instead. Malcolm and Reese find out that they are not as popular as they once thought, and plot "revenge" on their classmates. Lois searches for the warranty papers on her 10-year-old blender that she wishes to return for minor infractions. | |||||||
| 123 | 16 | "No Motorcycles" | Jimmy Simons | Andy Bobrow | April 3, 2005 | 06-04-618 | 4.2 |
| When Francis and Piama choose to celebrate Francis' 21st birthday at the house, Hal is reminded of a promise he made to a young Francis after missing his son's play, involving a motorcycle trip. Hal and Francis sneak off and have a great time until it emerges that Francis has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, upsetting Hal, who is reminded of just how much he's missed out on. Lois and Piama finally start to bond over their anger towards their husbands. Malcolm, Dewey, and Reese are held captive in their own home by a bully who wants to beat one of them up. | |||||||
| 124 | 17 | "Butterflies" | David Grossman | Michael Glouberman | April 10, 2005 | 06-04-616 | 4.9 |
| Malcolm discovers a man, Norm, living in the Lucky Aide. He agrees to keep Norm's secret as long as he provides Malcolm with tidbits on his new crush (Mandy Musgrave), a fellow Lucky Aide employee, until Lois finds out. Malcolm reveals too much information to the girl, making her think that he is stalking her. When Reese takes a job as an exterminator, he quickly learns that to drum up business he must infest the neighbors' lawns with caterpillars. He has a change of heart and begins to nurture them, only to be overwhelmed when they turn into butterflies and swarm on him. | |||||||
| 125 | 18 | "Ida's Dance" | Steve Welch | Eric Kaplan | April 17, 2005 | 06-04-619 | 4.4 |
| Lois goes over to visit Ida, but gets unpleasantly surprised by the "St. Grotus Day festival", where Ida and her elderly friends make Lois miserable. Malcolm fails a music appreciation course, and reluctantly goes to Dewey for some tutoring. Reese and Hal secretly watch scary movies while Lois is not around, but it ends up revealing some unexpected secrets about both Reese and Hal. | |||||||
| 126 | 19 | "Motivational Speaker" | Steve Love | Rob Ulin | April 24, 2005 | 06-04-620 | 5.8 |
| Reese begins hanging out with a pack of dogs who think of him as their new alpha leader. Dewey gets in trouble with Lois after she finds out that he is seeing another mom, and attempts to get her back with a huge tattoo on his chest. Hal accidentally becomes a motivational speaker for his co-workers, but drops it when he motivates a man into taking over his job. | |||||||
| 127 | 20 | "Stilts" | Linwood Boomer | Michael Glouberman | May 1, 2005 | 06-04-622 | 6.8 |
| After Lois and Hal are reminded of the tight budget they must uphold, Hal discovers one of the boys has been dialing a 900 number. His attempt to explain the error to the hotline's billing department turns awry when he forgets to hang up the phone one evening and finds out about it in the morning, incurring a whopping $800 charge. Reese takes a job at a research clinic that pays him to take experimental pills. Malcolm takes on a humiliating job at the Lucky Aide as a costumed Uncle Sam on stilts. Dewey discovers that Jamie is finding old jewelry Francis hid from Lois. | |||||||
| 128 | 21 | "Buseys Take a Hostage" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy | May 8, 2005 | 06-04-621 | 4.9 |
| When Hal decides to attend his first annual Neighborhood Association meeting with Malcolm, he is strongly encouraged to take on the role of President. Malcolm sees a perfect opportunity to add some excitement to the community, but is soon appalled when he learns of Hal's authoritarian agenda. Francis takes on a new job as a camp activities coordinator and turns to Dewey for his input on some creative new games, only for Dewey to discover the games are actually for kids with intellectual disability. Reese has to study hard for his finals. He fails all of them on purpose and is forced to repeat his Senior year. | |||||||
| 129 | 22 | "Mrs. Tri-County" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy | May 15, 2005 | 06-04-617 | 5.2 |
| The boys enter Lois in the Mrs. Tri-County Pageant as a joke. When they overhear the other contestants remarking that Lois doesn't have a chance of winning, they plot to help their mother take the crown. Malcolm is blackmailed into delivering love notes to a contestant for Herkabe, and Reese discovers that, according to the pageant manual's specifications, he is beautiful. | |||||||
Season 7 (2005–06)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 1 | "Burning Man" | Peter Lauer | Michael Glouberman | September 30, 2005 | 06-05-701 | 3.5 |
| Malcolm and Reese attempt to hitch their way to the annual Burning Man festival, but are caught. When Hal and Lois demand an explanation, Malcolm makes the event sound so interesting that they decide to make the trip as well and turn it into a family vacation. At the festival, everyone heads out to partake in the activities except Hal and Dewey; Hal is scared of the Burning Man attendants who mistake his bourgeois lifestyle as an ironical persiflage of society, while Dewey has to do all the chores around the RV. Reese and Lois fit right in at the festival, while Malcolm has sex with a healer (Rosanna Arquette). Reese is nominated to "burn the man down" which will bring the event to an end, but cannot accept that it has ended, and in his attempts to keep the weekend going he accidentally torches the RV. Hal and Dewey are forced to work "dirty jobs" to repay the RV, Malcolm ends up depressed, and Lois and Reese agree in secret to return the following year. | |||||||
| 131 | 2 | "Health Insurance" | Steve Welch | Rob Ulin | October 7, 2005 | 06-05-702 | 3.4 |
| Hal finds out that the family has been without health insurance for six months and tries to safeguard the house until Monday, when the insurance is put back into effect. His over-protection of the house and the boys ends when he accidentally breaks his leg. He then goes to great lengths to keep Lois from finding out. Lois tries to fish out a snitch at the Lucky Aide store. | |||||||
| 132 | 3 | "Reese vs. Stevie" | Linwood Boomer | Alex Reid | October 21, 2005 | 06-05-703 | 3.6 |
| An angry Reese threatens Stevie, who dreads a retaliation. Dewey becomes addicted to cigarettes, thanks to ex-smoker Hal's many stashes around the house, so he tries to help Dewey quit. Lois tries to make Jamie talk by telling him about her high school years, but goes on so long that his first words are "Shut up". | |||||||
| 133 | 4 | "Halloween" | David D'Ovidio | Andy Bobrow | October 28, 2005 | 06-05-704 | 3.5 |
| Hal freaks out when Malcolm gives him the details of a grisly mass murder that occurred in the house years ago. Lois is working on Halloween and catches a shoplifter as everyone else at Lucky Aide throws a wild party. Reese and Dewey lose track of Jamie as they flee from an angry elderly neighbor named Mr. Sheldon after egging his house, while Lois gets arrested for kidnapping when she picks up the wrong child. | |||||||
| 134 | 5 | "Jessica Stays Over" | Alex Reid | Matthew Carlson | November 4, 2005 | 06-05-705 | 3.5 |
| Jessica (Hayden Panettiere) moves in on a temporary basis and teaches Malcolm how to manipulate others, but when he uses her tricks on Lois he feels something he has never felt before, empathy. Hal fights back against a bee who is out for revenge for killing the rest of his hive. Reese attempts to mail himself to China in a crate to beat up his pen pal, but what he thinks is a transatlantic journey is just Dewey torturing him. | |||||||
| 135 | 6 | "Secret Boyfriend" | Peter Lauer | Gary Murphy | November 11, 2005 | 06-05-706 | 3.7 |
| Malcolm is in love with a hot and secretly brainy girl named Vicki (Sarah Wright) who fears ruining her image by seeing him publicly. Reese is kicked out of the house for refusing to get a job. Hal is in a heated conflict with the owner of a miniature golf course because he will not give Dewey a free game. | |||||||
| 136 | 7 | "Blackout" | Steve Welch | Eric Kaplan | November 18, 2005 | 06-05-707 | 3.2 |
| A power outage caused by Jamie's balloon disrupts Lois and Hal's anniversary and reveals Malcolm's trysts with young European women. Reese tries to cook Kobe beef for Hal, Francis tries to steal a fish he and Hal caught years ago, and Dewey is upset that he cannot pick dinner. The entire sequence of events is revealed through several replays from different points of view, which all start from the outage. | |||||||
| 137 | 8 | "Army Buddy" | Peter Lauer | Neil Thompson | December 2, 2005 | 06-05-708 | 3.1 |
| Reese's old army buddy Abby (Larisa Oleynik) visits, and she has feelings for Lois. When Lois finds renewed energy with orthotic inserts for her shoes, Hal fears she will not look to him for support anymore and plots to destroy the inserts. Malcolm gives Dewey a box of junk in order to pay off a $10 debt. When one of the comics inside turns out to be rare and valuable, Dewey forces Malcolm to do embarrassing things in order to get the money back. | |||||||
| 138 | 9 | "Malcolm Defends Reese" | Bryan Cranston | Matthew Carlson | December 16, 2005 | 06-05-709 | 3.2 |
| Malcolm and Reese end up in the same class since Reese failed the previous year. Mr. Herkabe, who may lose his award for the school's highest GPA to Malcolm, gleefully humiliates Reese every day until he agrees to start failing his classes. However when Malcolm learns Herkabe's embarrassing secret in flunking Gym and lying about not taking the course for years, he turns the tide against him by telling the school's principal, Mr. Hodges (Steve Vinovich), about it. End Result: Herkabe loses his GPA award and has to retake Gym with Reese whom is having the time of his life embarrassing the former as payback for the torments he went through. Jamie's new babysitter (Kathryn Joosten) drives Lois crazy with her nonstop talking. | |||||||
| 139 | 10 | "Malcolm's Money" | Steve Love | Michael Glouberman | January 6, 2006 | 06-05-710 | 3.6 |
| Malcolm begins to fuss about his high school yearbook photo. He also receives a $10,000 education reward unknown for him, and when Hal and Lois find out, they want to spend it on themselves. | |||||||
| 140 | 11 | "Bride of Ida" | Linwood Boomer | Rob Ulin | January 13, 2006 | 06-05-711 | 3.8 |
| Dewey, Lois and Hal go out of town to St. Louis for a piano competition and, as punishment for an earlier prank, Lois has Grandma Ida watch Malcolm and Reese. They end up missing their plane, and while waiting, Hal finds a man's membership card to a prestigious airport club. Hal is horrified to find that the man was a wealthy diplomat deciding whether to sever foreign relations with eastern Asian countries. Grandma Ida makes Reese marry Ida's helper, Raduca (Rheagan Wallace), but only if he defeats Malcolm in three challenges. When Lois, Dewey and Hal return, they find out that Ida has gone while Reese has run away with Raduca to Las Vegas to get married. | |||||||
| 141 | 12 | "College Recruiters" | Peter Lauer | Jay Kogen | January 29, 2006 | 06-05-712 | 4.4 |
| A broke Francis gets talked into getting a real job by Dewey. Back home, Hal takes over the college recruiters, which Malcolm refuses to meet with, and treats each one as a suitor. However, Hal's plans are ruined when Malcolm chooses to go to Harvard. Reese and Raduca's marriage ends when Lois and Reese catch Raduca cheating. | |||||||
| 142 | 13 | "Mono" | David D'Ovidio | Andy Bobrow | February 12, 2006 | 06-05-713 | 3.9 |
| Lois discovers she has mono after a visit to the doctor. She then ends up giving it to Malcolm. As a result, both Lois and Malcolm are forced to spend two weeks together in the same room. Hal is invited to all of his neighbors' parties. Although happy at first, Hal is horrified when he learns just how much they hate Lois and celebrate the days she won't be attending any of them. Dewey makes Jamie his slave, and he teaches Reese to be nice to Jamie. | |||||||
| 143 | 14 | "Hal Grieves" | Christopher Kennedy Masterson | Eric Kaplan | February 19, 2006 | 06-05-714 | 3.9 |
| Hal gets a devastating phone call that his father has died, but because he never knew his father well, he does not shed a tear. In an attempt to overcompensate with his sons, Hal takes the boys shopping and lets them miss school. Hal's buddy Abe thinks that a phone call from Leonard Nimoy, a cast member of Star Trek: The Original Series, will cheer him up. Instead, George Takei shows up at the door. | |||||||
| 144 | 15 | "A.A." | Steve Welch | Al Higgins | March 5, 2006 | 06-05-715 | 4.1 |
| Lois and Hal visit Francis to help him celebrate one year of sobriety, but when they attend his A.A. meeting, they find out that he never really was an alcoholic. Dewey finds the spare key to Hal's car, but when Malcolm and Reese refuse to drive him to the arcade, he swallows it. | |||||||
| 145 | 16 | "Lois Strikes Back" | Alex Reid | Gary Murphy | March 19, 2006 | 06-05-716 | 4.9 |
| When four popular high school girls play an evil prank on Reese by pretending he has a secret admirer and then dropping a pig off at his front door, he falls into depression. Lois fails to negotiate with the principal, then forces Reese to tell her who the girls are so she can get revenge for him. Hal builds a pitching machine. | |||||||
| 146 | 17 | "Hal's Dentist" | Steve Love | Jay Kogen | March 26, 2006 | 06-05-717 | 3.6 |
| Hal's friend Trey tells him to come to his dental office when he cracks a tooth during a poker game, but their friendship is in jeopardy when Hal is faced with a $2,000 bill. Reese teaches Lois how to ride a bike. Malcolm and Dewey's favorite pastime becomes sleeping after they find a new mattress in the street. | |||||||
| 147 | 18 | "Bomb Shelter" | Matthew Carlson | Rob Ulin | April 2, 2006 | 06-05-719 | 3.7 |
| Malcolm joins a local dance class to meet a cute girl, but after discovering she is a poor dancer, he realizes that he must accept Danielle (Lynsey Bartilson), the unattractive but more talented partner, in order to win the competition. While trying to bury their father's broken trophy, Reese and Dewey discover an underground bomb shelter in the backyard and lock Hal in it. Lois tries to win a new truck at the shopping mall by keeping her hand on it. | |||||||
| 148 | 19 | "Stevie in the Hospital" | Steve Welch | Dave Ihlenfeld & David Wright | April 9, 2006 | 06-05-720 | 3.6 |
| When Stevie goes to the hospital, Malcolm tries making up every excuse he can think of not to go because he can't face the truth about his illness. Hal gets highly competitive about his new remote control boat when a ten-year-old keeps knocking it over. Lois thinks Dewey is trying to drive her insane, and Reese's new job as a telemarketer takes a bizarre turn. | |||||||
| 149 | 20 | "Cattle Court" | Peter Lauer | Michael Glouberman | April 16, 2006 | 06-05-718 | 2.9 |
| Reese meets a cute vegetarian named Carrie (Tara Lipinski) when he goes back to work at the meat plant. Malcolm tries to fool Craig in order to attend a rock concert. Hal makes his own version of The Game of Life in hopes of beating Dewey, under the guise of teaching his son a lesson about real life. | |||||||
| 150 | 21 | "Morp" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy | April 23, 2006 | 06-05-721 | 3.0 |
| For the senior prom, Reese gets paid to take Janine, a studious girl in class, but only after she gives him a makeover and sends him to finishing school. Malcolm aligns himself with the unpopular kids to form an anti-prom they call "Morp". Dewey discovers there are no childhood pictures of him, so he concocts an elaborate scavenger hunt to punish Hal and Lois and throw a party for Jamie. | |||||||
| 151 | 22 | "Graduation" | Linwood Boomer | Michael Glouberman | May 14, 2006 | 06-05-722 | 7.4 |
| In the series finale, as Malcolm struggles with his valedictorian speech, Hal finds out that the family may not have enough money to send Malcolm to college. Reese is moving in with Craig, and since they are both leaving, they decide that Jamie should have the childhood they never got—one free of threats. As such, they destroy the evidence of the worst thing they ever did: fake an X-ray of Lois having cancer to get away with bad report cards, a way to destroy each other if someone had nothing to lose. Francis finds the 9-to-5 job of his dreams but will not tell Lois, Reese becomes a janitor, Malcolm works his way through college, Dewey feels closer than ever to Jamie, and Lois discovers she's pregnant again. | |||||||
References
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