This is my favorite show ever. I don’t skip any episodes when I rewatch. But this one is probably one of my least favorites: S7E11 “Bride of Ida”

Lois at the airport literally drives me insane. She is just awful and obnoxious in this episode. And I love Lois 😔 but this is her at her worst.

I don’t care for the plot line with Ida making Malcolm and Reese compete to marry Raduca. I don’t like seeing them pitted against each other by Ida of all people. It isn’t really funny to me, just kind of miserable.

On a more positive note, I do love Hal’s little side plot at the airport lol. It is all that is holding this episode together for me.

I’m curious to know your thoughts on this episode and whether or not you agree that it’s one of the worst in what is such a great show.

Just curious. The show jokes about hand-me-downs a fair bit, but can it actually be seen on the screen?

Its insane how much effort they would put into shots that lasted a few seconds or a minute. Insane camouflage job for barely any airtime, a whole bee suit just to make one joke work

All four of them start fighting and as Hal and Lois turn and watch from the outside and Lois immediately says “you know, I wouldn’t give up a single one of them” just hits me like a brick every time. And then they see the pregnancy test come back negative and they go inside and Lois immediately starts yelling at them and chewing them out with a smile on her face 😊

Frankie Muniz & Hillary had so much chemistry together in the early 2000s.

I decided to make the main family into Lego minifigures. I didn't have a decent choice of hair for Dewey so that's why he's bald for now. Handcuffs for Lois, hacksaw and board for Hal, slingshot for Francis, dynamite for Reese, homework for Malcolm, and sheet music for Dewey.

I know it’s been out for months but I just finished it and the scene with Malcolm and Tristian continues to confuse me so much. In what world is it normal to propose to your girlfriend after your mom just did the sweetest thing for your dad. I know Malcolm is usually selfish but I don’t know I feel like it’s never this bad.

So the first episode of season five, "Vegas" has a cold open where Hal and Lois receive a onesie for Jamie, saying how they can't believe someone mis-gendered them. They keep almost saying that he's a boy but get interrupted. The bit ends when Hal says "nice try mister." Confirming that Jamie is male.

Am I missing something? We already knew Jamie was a boy...right? I don't understand the joke.

It might seem far-fetched, considering Dewey is just a little kid, but the Season 1 finale shows him traveling; it doesn't make sense when you consider he was only about seven years old—how could a child that age go so far without being afraid? Dewey can see the future; in the episode where he and Malcolm find a new mattress, it was actually Dewey who manipulated matter to create it, and in the end, he got rid of it, erasing the mattress from everyone's memories and from reality itself.

Didn’t anyone find it weird,they had a whole episode about Cynthia having boobs who was a minor at the time and had Reese grab them?

Just why? Wasn’t he saying that she’s dumb and whatnot and why would he do that to Reese? Why would she agree to cheat on Reese with Malcolm his own brother?

What are you guys opinions, character analysis of Reese? Personally I find him the most confusing/complex character on the show

No matter how many times I watch the show (and I have watched the entire thing several times) the final few scenes after Malcolm’s graduation always make me emotional. I think somewhere, they are reminiscent of the final few weeks of my own school life, right before everything changed.

But I have not enjoyed my life anywhere near as much as I did when I was at school; the future was still ahead of me, then, and life was good with school, friends, family, cousins, grandparents, and just being a teenage kid. In the majesty of the universe, mine was just a tiny world, but to me, it was everything. All of that has changed, now. Life didn’t really work out like I thought it would and that’s one of the reasons MiTM is my comfort show…going back to it makes me so nostalgic for those years of my life. I am the same age as Frankie and Justin, and although I first watched the show much later in life, in my 20’s, it immediately felt familiar and comforting.

Every time I watch those final few scenes, I find myself subconsciously wishing things could remain as they were.

Does anyone want to play 6 Degrees of Malcom in the Middle?

For example, someone names an actor. And the next person has to find a way to connect them to MitM through less than 6 Degrees of separation.

For example, Demi Moore. Demi Moore was in Now and Then with Cloris Leachman who played the grandmother Ida in Malcolm in the Middle.

Charlize Theron

His lack of empathy for any human beings in that episode where he was cooking for the first time.

also the implication that he was abusing animals for fun. In the episode where he was kicked out and they asked “what were the cats for“ or something like that.

i think his idiocy and so much energy being spent butting heads with his mom and dad are the only things that stopped him.

its probably good that he never really moved out of his parents house.