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First Aired: January 9th, 2000
Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Family
Network: FOX
Summary: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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# of Episodes: 151
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# of Episodes I haven't watched: 151
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Season 2
Episode 1: Traffic Jam (2)
Air Date: November 5th, 2000
Summary: Hal, Loi, 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.
Episode 2: Halloween Approximately
Air Date: November 8th, 2000
Summary: Francis 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.
Episode 3: Lois's Birthday
Air Date: November 12nd, 2000
Summary: Crummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
Episode 4: Dinner Out
Air Date: November 15th, 2000
Summary: Shenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
Episode 5: Casino
Air Date: November 19th, 2000
Summary: A 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.
Episode 6: Convention
Air Date: November 22nd, 2000
Summary: Hal 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.
Episode 7: Robbery
Air Date: November 26th, 2000
Summary: The 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.
Episode 8: Therapy
Air Date: November 29th, 2000
Summary: Malcolm's humiliation as a Krelboyne drives him crazy, so he fakes his way into seeing the school's shrink, with whom the con continues.
Episode 9: High School Play
Air Date: December 10th, 2000
Summary: Malcolm 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.
Episode 10: The Bully
Air Date: December 17th, 2000
Summary: Reese, 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.
Episode 11: Old Mrs. Old
Air Date: January 7th, 2001
Summary: Dewey 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.
Episode 12: Krelboyne Girl
Air Date: January 14th, 2001
Summary: Lois 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.
Episode 13: New Neighbors
Air Date: January 21st, 2001
Summary: New 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.
Episode 14: Hal Quits
Air Date: February 4th, 2001
Summary: Hal 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.
Episode 15: The Grandparents
Air Date: February 11st, 2001
Summary: Lois' 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.
Episode 16: Traffic Ticket
Air Date: February 18th, 2001
Summary: Lois 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.
Episode 17: Surgery
Air Date: February 25th, 2001
Summary: A 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.
Episode 18: Reese Cooks
Air Date: March 4th, 2001
Summary: A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
Episode 19: Tutoring Reese
Air Date: March 11st, 2001
Summary: Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
Episode 20: Bowling
Air Date: April 1st, 2001
Summary: Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
Episode 21: Malcolm vs. Reese
Air Date: April 22nd, 2001
Summary: Francis 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.
Episode 22: Mini-Bike
Air Date: April 29th, 2001
Summary: Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
Episode 23: Carnival
Air Date: May 6th, 2001
Summary: Malcolm, 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.
Episode 24: Evacuation
Air Date: May 13rd, 2001
Summary: Hal 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.
Episode 25: Flashback
Air Date: May 20th, 2001
Summary: Lois 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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