
When Malcolm spots a roughed up 1967 Cuda in his neighborhood, he instantly falls in love with it and purchases the car. But he gets so caught up in the difficult task of restoring it that he blows off Stevie as well as Reese ...
Lois thinks Jamie is out to get her when Jamie knocks over a shelf and nearly crushes her.
Hal is sleepless because of their upcoming 20th wedding anniversary. So he ask Reese for some ideas for presents. Then Reese gets the idea to brainwash his dad while he’s nervous. Dewey’s friends are set up in an ...
Hal and Lois, strapped for cash, decide that Christmas gifts will have to be homemade this year. When everyone makes much better gifts than Hal, he spins a bigger and bigger lie about the present he has in store for them. In ...
Kitty returns and asks Lois for help getting Kitty’s estranged husband back; Francis comes home and puts Dewey through the torturous « Brotherhood Initiation. »
Malcolm and Reese plot revenge after they realize their teenage neighbor has tricked each of them into believing the other is gay. Meanwhile, Hal, tired of competing with a neighbor who always outdoes his Christmas ...
When Hal and the garbageman get into a trash-dumping war (which benefits Dewey more than anyone else), Hal enlists Reese’s help. Meanwhile, Lois gets her job back at Lucky Aide (off probation), and fights against ...
The Buseys disappear after Dewey leaves the special-needs class; Hal becomes the leader of a group of brainless bodybuilders.
When Reese realizes the Army is too much for him to handle, he deserts and dresses as an Afghani woman. But Lois is on a march to find him, and travels to Kabul to hunt him down. Meanwhile, Malcolm volunteers at a veterans ...
Reese continues to be a great soldier in the Army until he finds himself in a situation where his Sergeant cannot help. But after comparing being captured to being grounded, he takes action and leads his team to victory. But ...
Reese’s new girlfriend Beth is about as dumb as he is. Malcolm initially dislikes her but they soon get to like each other too much and Beth breaks up with Reese. Devastated, Reese runs away and joins the army under the ...
When Lois tracks down her father’s « other family, » she meets Victor’s « other wife » Sylvia, and learns something shocking about her dad.
When Dewey’s annual candy selling event for school comes up, he uses the excuse of « these bars help support america » to sell them. Malcolm and Stevie attempt a science experiment, and are shocked when Reese begs to help.
Malcolm convinces Dewey to do poorly on an I.Q. test, so that he won’t become a ridiculed Krelboyne student. But Dewey does so badly that he is placed in a class for the emotionally disturbed. Hal and Craig compete in a ...
Hal sets up Abe Kenarben on a blind date with Jaime’s babysitter Polly but then realizes Lois has also set her up on a blind date – with Craig. Malcolm, Dewey (with his « lucky » shirt) and Reese also meet Reggie ...
Lois tags along with Malcolm as he visits a college, but she’s determined to room in the dorm Malcolm is staying in when she learns the room is co-ed. Meanwhile, after his father denies him a piano, Dewey begins ...
Francis is determined to show his parents why they should not have kicked Reese out. Meanwhile, Malcolm helps a football player write a college essay.
Lois blows her top over a hidden 15 percent surcharge on the bill at her family’s favorite pizza place and stages a boycott…but Hal and the boys are sneaking slices on the side. Malcolm meets Angela and becomes ...
Lois’ younger sister, Susan, pays the family a visit and brings with her expensive gifts for the boys, biting remarks for Lois and a cold shoulder for Hal – whom she has never forgiven for dumping her for Lois. Lois and ...
Malcolm is convinced to play Softball by Lois and ends up doing very badly at it due to Lois’s hold on him. Meanwhile, Francis tries to pick fights with Lois, Reese tries to break Francis’s record of collecting ...
Malcolm gets his tongue pierced and needs to hide it for a month. While Lois’ mother, Ida, comes and annouces that she will marry a rich Chinese Man that she met on a cruise. Malcolm gets complications when his tongue ...
Jamie’s babysitter coerces Malcolm into doing a « small » task for her; Dewey finds a friend, only to lose him to Reese; Francis persuades Otto to confront an old adversary that once courted Gretchen.
Malcolm alerts the A.C.L.U. when he encounters censorship working on the high-school literary magazine; Hal tries to flirt with the woman in his office responsible for cutbacks.
Neighbors have the annual « The Wilkersons are gone » block party until they come home early. Reese and Dewey set up a plan to get money by letting Reese-tortured kids get revenge. Hal and Lois enter a kielbasa-eating contest ...