
Lois, in an attempt to get a break from the family, joins a book club that turns out to be a night off for frustrated housewives, but it all goes a little bit haywire. Meanwhile Francis tries to get to Alaska, learning ...
Being fed up with military school, Francis gets himself legally emancipated so he can go north to Alaska with his friend Eric and become a logger. This does not sit well at all with the family.
The family takes a vacation with the Kenarbans, sharing a houseboat. And while Steve’s parents are caught in a fight, Reese and Steve socialize with some cheerleader from a nearby spirit camp, Malcolm is stuck with Hal ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
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.
Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.