#Malcom in the middle series#

He convinces Stevie to sneak out to an arcade downtown, but Stevie's wheelchair is stolen, and they have to find his wheelchair while dragging Stevie in a cart. Malcolm stays overnight at Stevie's house. Francis finds the corpse of a missing janitor in the basement of the military school, and teams up with his friends to give the forgotten custodian a Norse funeral, which turns into a disaster. He later blackmails the family to leave him alone and quits the job. 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. The whole family is forced to live in a trailer owned by Lois' coworker, Craig, while their house is being fumigated. However, Spangler shows a cunning and trickier side by showing the cadets embarrassing slides of Francis. Francis decides to steal the slides for the military academy's disgusting sex education slideshow, but he finds some embarrassing slides of Commandant Spangler ( Daniel Von Bargen) in his office, which he replaces with the original slides. Hal grows to miss the tree, so he plants another one. Dewey is injured climbing a tree, so Hal cuts it down, angering the neighbors because they can see the family's house. Hal is confronted by a man who appears to be Kevin's father and beats him up, but it turns out that it was Kevin's 15-year old brother. Malcolm feels guilty and tries to clear his conscience by signing up for a charity run, but fails when he trips on his untied shoe at the beginning of the run. Seeing the good work Francis has done, Hal and Lois send him back for military school because they realize how much he is 'improving' there.įed up with his constant abuse, Malcolm beats up a huge bully named Kevin who won't leave him alone, but it turns out that Kevin is only a 7-year-old.

#Malcom in the middle series#

A series of mishaps nevertheless occur, but the boys manage to fix or hide them.

Malcolm overhears Lois and Hal's discussion about Francis and believes he will be allowed to return home permanently if he does a good job, so he convinces the other boys to be on their best behavior. While Hal and Lois are away for the weekend, Francis comes home from military school to babysit. It is later revealed that Hal burned the dress by accident.

Malcolm, seeing that he and his brothers cannot fight Lois alone, calls Francis for help against Lois. Meanwhile, Hal makes friends with a member of the restaurant staff while waiting for Lois. She spends the night punishing Reese, Dewey, and Malcolm, trying to figure out which of them burned her dress. Lois is supposed to meet Hal at an expensive restaurant for their anniversary date, but Lois forgets to go after she finds her red dress burned and flushed down the toilet, sending her into a violent rage. Frustrated at being ostracized by the regular kids, Malcolm lashes out at Spath, and with some help from his new friend Stevie ( Craig Lamar Traylor), fortuitously humiliates Spath and becomes the nerds' hero. When Lois forces him to join the school's gifted class, Malcolm objects because he doesn't want to be bullied for being a 'Krelboyne'. At school, Malcolm tries to keep his head down and avoid the school bully Spath, but his teachers spot his intelligence and testing reveals his I.Q. His eldest brother, Francis, has been packed off to military school for chronic misbehavior. Malcolm lives with his dysfunctional family: neurotic father Hal, control freak mother Lois, dim-witted bully elder brother Reese, and odd younger brother Dewey. See also: List of Malcolm in the Middle episodes No.