An offbeat, laugh track-lacking sitcom about a bizarrely dysfunctional family, the center of which is Malcolm, the middle of the two brothers who still live at home. His eldest (and favorite) sibling, Francis, boards at military school because his parents believe it will reform him and keep him out of trouble. Malcolm often has a hard time coping with his family life, but he has more troubles to contend with when he starts receiving special treatment at school after being diagnosed as an intellectually advanced genius.
SERIES INFO Genre: Comedy Stars: Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan, Frankie Muniz, Jane Kaczmarek Series Plot: In the words of They Might Be Giants' rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, "life is unfair." The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual "yes, me worry" expression, Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm, whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ, but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois, his obsessive, control-freak mother Hal, his loving but ineffectual father Francis, his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school middle brother Reese, a delinquent savant and Dewey, the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point, "This family may be rude, loud and gross, and have no shame whatsoever, but with them you know where you stand."
EPISODE INFO Title: Lois vs. Evil Airdate: 2000-03-19 Episode plot: The family suffers in poverty after Lois gets fired from the grocery store Francis loves his new assignment as part of an honor guard at a beauty pageant.
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