Malcolm In The Middle
About the show
Show Time : Sundays, 7:00 PM
The fifth colourful season of this hilarious, yet truthful, account of family life continues to follow the adventures and misadventures of this slightly dim-witted family through the eyes of its gifted protagonist, Malcolm. This time, high school, girlfriends and new jobs take on a whole new dimension as Malcolm and his brothers grow up and find themselves in a whole different category of trouble altogether.
To add to the mess, Lois and Hal find themselves becoming parents…again. The show celebrates its 100th milestone episode this season, and with one more addition to the chaotic family, there can only be more laughs…and a lot more pain - at least for the battered, but still spunky mother Lois.
Hal (Bryan Cranston)
Hal is Malcolm’s dad. He’s a total fanatic about skating. He doesn’t even call it skating, he calls it “The Brotherhood of the Wheel”. He taught Francis and Reese to skate, and it scarred them for life. He’s going to teach Malcolm soon, too. Hal is really hairy and Lois has to shave his back sometimes, because it itches under his shirt. She does it at the dining table.
The kids respect him because he knows a lot about sports, sleeps on the couch and gets to watch more TV than them. It always seems like Hal is thinking about something though no one has any clue what it may be.
Lois (Jane Kaczmarek)
Lois is Malcolm’s mom. She is also lord-high magistrate and executioner, ultimate arbiter and dispenser of justice, inflicter of guilt and most supreme master of the remote. She walks around the house naked. Her boss fancies her (gross!). She always knows best. Malcolm wonders why she can’t just settle for knowing too much?
She’s also very good at embarrassing the kids and is actually the boss of the house, even though Hal thinks otherwise.
Francis (Christopher Kennedy Masterson)
Francis is Malcolm’s eldest brother. He is also the only cool one in the family, according to Malcolm. So, of course he got kicked out and sent to Military Academy. The real reason was that he blew up a car, which did not belong to the family.
He seems to be having fun even at the academy. He’s got a real eye for the ladies. He ran away from school just so he could see this girl Beebee. He hid at the bottom of the garden, and Malcolm had to tell Dewey he was a sasquatch. And then he fell in love with Jody on Malcolm’s school picnic. It didn’t last.
Reese (Justin Berfield)
Reese is the second oldest brother and his fists work faster than his brain. He’s not as dumb as he looks. He’s dumber. Reese is taller than Malcolm and is good at hitting. He can’t help being mean to the world - it’s his way of communicating. He’s got a soft side though. He totally fell in love with this cheerleader, Wendy. And he thinks it’s a good way to win her heart if he becomes a cheerleader too.
Malcolm (Frankie Muniz)
Malcolm is a normal kid who is perfectly content skateboarding, rough-housing with his brothers and avoiding the school bully. He has even managed to accept — okay ignore — his parents’ penchant for running around the house in the nude.
Malcolm’s world is suddenly turned upside down when it’s discovered he has a genius IQ. He is forced into the “gifted” Krelboyne class where he finds himself surrounded by a group of exceptionally bright social misfits.
Malcolm’s family doesn’t quite understand what being a genius means. His mother thinks it’s cute and Reese thinks it’s an excuse to hit him. They never bother to remember phone numbers now, because they know Malcolm can do it for them.
Malcolm was very close to Francis and he really misses him at times. His best friend is Stevie Kenarban. He is also a Krelboyne .
Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan)
Dewey is Malcolm’s youngest brother. Dewey thinks he can talk to dogs. And he smells, slightly. He’ll eat whatever he can find lying around. And he’s best friends with the monster under his bed. The boys thought he was fun to play with till he started talking and could tell on them. He’s really good at breaking things. No matter how much you tell him, there’s got to be some kind of voice in his head telling him “Destroy!”.
Malcolm feels that Dewey’s trapped somewhere between toddler and hamster.