Seasons & episodes
S1 · E15Smunday 2000-05-14 · 22 min
The boys stay home from school when their mother thinks it's Sunday instead of Monday. Malcolm thinks of a plan to get Francis out of trouble once again. Hal gets sucked in by a Porsche dealership.
S1 · E16Water Park (1) 2000-05-21 · 22 min
When the family goes to a water park for a day, Dewey is left home with an elderly, stern babysitter. Francis is hustled at pocket billiards by his military-school commandant.
S2 · E1Traffic Jam (2) 2000-11-05 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E2Halloween Approximately 2000-11-08 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E3Lois's Birthday 2000-11-12 · 22 min
Crummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
S2 · E4Dinner Out 2000-11-15 · 22 min
Shenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
S2 · E5Casino 0.1 / 10 · 1 published rating 2000-11-19 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E6Convention 9.8 / 10 · 1 published rating 2000-11-22 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E7Robbery 2000-11-26 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E8Therapy 2000-11-29 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E9High School Play 9.6 / 10 · 1 published rating 2000-12-10 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E10The Bully 2000-12-17 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E11Old Mrs. Old 2001-01-07 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E12Krelboyne Girl 2001-01-14 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E13New Neighbors 10.0 / 10 · 1 published rating 2001-01-21 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E14Hal Quits 8.3 / 10 · 1 published rating 2001-02-04 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E15The Grandparents 6.7 / 10 · 1 published rating 2001-02-11 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E16Traffic Ticket 5.7 / 10 · 1 published rating 2001-02-18 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E17Surgery 7.7 / 10 · 2 published ratings 2001-02-25 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E18Reese Cooks 9.4 / 10 · 2 published ratings 2001-03-04 · 22 min
A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
S2 · E19Tutoring Reese 10.0 / 10 · 1 published rating 2001-03-11 · 22 min
Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
S2 · E20Bowling 10.0 / 10 · 2 published ratings 2001-04-01 · 22 min
Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
S2 · E21Malcolm vs. Reese 2001-04-22 · 22 min
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.
S2 · E22Mini-Bike 2001-04-29 · 22 min
Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.