A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
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- Seasons
- 7
- Episodes aired
- 151
- Latest aired
- S07E22
- Total runtime
- 2d 7h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 January 2000 – May 2000 16 episodes
- Season 2 November 2000 – May 2001 25 episodes
- Season 3 November 2001 – May 2002 22 episodes
- Season 4 November 2002 – May 2003 22 episodes
- Season 5 November 2003 – May 2004 22 episodes
- Season 6 November 2004 – May 2005 22 episodes
- Season 7 September 2005 – May 2006 22 episodes
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S02E01 Traffic Jam (2)
November 5 · 22min find the promo
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Hal, Lois, 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.
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S02E02 Halloween Approximately
November 8 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Lois's Birthday
November 12 · 22min find the promo
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Crummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
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S02E04 Dinner Out
November 15 · 22min find the promo
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Shenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
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S02E05 Casino
November 19 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E06 Convention
November 22 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E07 Robbery
November 26 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E08 Therapy
November 29 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E09 High School Play
December 10 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E10 The Bully
December 17 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E11 Old Mrs. Old
January 7 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E12 Krelboyne Girl
January 14 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E13 New Neighbors
January 21 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E14 Hal Quits
February 4 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E15 The Grandparents
February 11 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E16 Traffic Ticket
February 18 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E17 Surgery
February 25 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E18 Reese Cooks
March 4 · 22min find the promo
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A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
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S02E19 Tutoring Reese
March 11 · 22min find the promo
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Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
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S02E20 Bowling
April 1 · 22min find the promo
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Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
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S02E21 Malcolm vs. Reese
April 22 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E22 Mini-Bike
April 29 · 22min find the promo
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Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
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S02E23 Carnival
May 6 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E24 Evacuation
May 13 · 22min find the promo
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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.
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S02E25 Flashback
May 20 · 22min find the promo
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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.