they were supposed to be poor, though, right?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
there were three boys in one room...
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
And I didn't think the house was really that big. Two bathrooms, two bedrooms, kitchen...basically a 70s-80s single story tract home.
The thing about them being poor came from having so many kids. They did a flashback ep where they showed the family devolving from serious yuppies to white trash as each son was born.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
*The Middle* is so Malcom In The Middle they should have called it *Malcom In*. but i like the middle. and malcom in the middle. but i might like married with children best of all. and i like the cast of malcolm in the middle. unlike some shows i think they were actually trying to appeal to kids as well as all you arrested development slacker-types. which is why it was cartoony. i think.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i keep spelling malcolm wrong. im typing too fast.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that was kinda the joke
well yeah I get that, I just thought he was some kind of teen celebrity for a while, last I heard he is now going bald and bought a bunch of racecars, damn that makes me feel old (approx. Frankie's age)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, what?
It is also revealed that Dewey, Reese and Malcolm, no matter what, had to look out for each other due to them all sharing a secret - knowing they tricked their mother into thinking she had cancer in order to have her sign bad report cards without properly looking them over. They all referred to it as a "nuclear option," since any of them could have used the evidence to bring down all three if pushed too far. Knowing they will never need this bond since everyone is going their separate ways, they opt to burn the X-Ray which contained the true results of Lois' exam, and bestow the honor upon Dewey, knowing he'll soon be the oldest of the children at the house. Dewey doesn't actually destroy it (just the cardboard cylinder that contained it), due to the sentimental value it holds, and Francis has to narrowly save it from reaching Lois, and tries to blackmail him, but Dewey counters the blackmail and promptly gets the X-ray back.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite episode of Malcolm In The Middle is the one where the dad flips out and starts painting this giant Jackson Pollock-esque mural in the garage, and eventually it's some kind of astonishing masterpiece (which of course the audience never gets to see), but he's layered so much paint on that it's like six inches thick and peels away in a massive slab and collapses on top of him. Also, the more you watch the show, the more you can see that it's not that big a stretch for Bryan Cranston moving from the dad to Walter White on Breaking Bad. The flashes of psychotic rage are very much the same.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://image.xyface.com/image/e/artist-erik-per-sullivan/erik-per-sullivan-347906.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
awwww...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
they all look nice!
http://www.officialjustinberfield.com/images/home_04.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/images/erik16.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah most of my favorite plotlines involved the Dad. The one where he gets into speed-walking was hilarious. Such a weird and obscure sub-culture to make fun of but I'm glad they did. The episode where he gets framed in an Enron-type scandal was great. I loved that seemingly his only source of joy came from playing hooky with the kids.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
they should have a show where lois and hal are dead and all the kids live together in one house. as adults. i would watch that. and they are all on drugs.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2409/2145384584_757f7a3c69.jpg
i just saw cider house rules thinking it was a recent release and thought dewey had the emmanuelle lewis perpetual toddler disease
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I never could watch this show because they were all so hard to look at. Has there ever been an uglier cast?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Seinfeld (minus Elaine of course)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this post:
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just made me make this face:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2409/2145384584_757f7a3c69.jpg
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
also this
unlike some shows i think they were actually trying to appeal to kids as well as all you arrested development slacker-types. which is why it was cartoony. i think.
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
never imagined Dewey would grow up to be Danny Bonaduce w/ a fauxhawk
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it definitely started as a more kid-oriented show. as the kids grew up (probably around season 3) they shifted their focus
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
...to german nudity subplots?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I really think this show is very funny. I laugh like a goon every time I see an episode.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
love the episode where they are stuck in the huge traffic jam and they all have their dreams crushed in various ways (Malcolm with dream girl, Dewey with ice cream, etc).
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
some of these plot descriptions are pretty lol.
loved Hal.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tXcPc1uZXY
<3 Hal roller boogie
― badg, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it was a good-natured show and i think the people on it were really talented. they did it well. the thing that sometimes pulled it down for me was the focus on malcolm's geekiness and inner life and school stuff when all i really wanted was the anarchy of hal and reese or even lois and chaotic family stuff in general. the francis military school/alaska/wife thing did this too sometimes. didn't even really need it. though sometimes it could be funny.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I have enjoyed this show both when it first aired and rewatching it here and there on syndication as of, like, 2 years ago. Generally good stuff, though, especially in later seasons, they're not afraid to recycle tropes.
― EDB, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz really malcolm least funny thing on show. though very realistic. as far as kids go.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lois's friend, the guy who was on ellen's sitcom, he had one of my favorite episodes with the helper monkey. love that one.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the cartoonish sets and overacting are both necessary
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the helper monkey
Yes! This episode is golden.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
always thought Cranston was a beast on this show, totally unsurprised but delighted at his career since then
― men are from mars, bruno has no penis (some dude), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The episodes with Cloris Leachman as the grandmother are all pretty funny, especially the one where she is doping the family and her husband to be.
― earlnash, Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
reese: you show me a man with pride and I'll show you a man with limited options
― sonderborg, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked this show pretty well. didnt really grate too much for me & i thought the family dynamic was realistic
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, the mood it capture was realistic -- obvi it was rather cartoonish in other ways
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
might have been a decent show without frankie muniz and his charaacter
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly more annoying to me were the simultaneous stories about the older brother & his new wife in alaska & their entirely unrelated plot adventures
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
oh right I forgot about him yeah get rid of him too
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
but the other two brothers, cranston and kaczmarek were pretty good! they deserved better
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kaczmarek felt like the most authentic mom in tv history
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this show was really not v good
― Lamp, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf wikipedia says muniz now attempting a career as a racecar driver?
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently he was also in a 2007 movie with harvey keitel and haylie duff called 'my sexiest year'
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
my friend & i were the only two ppl in the theatre for our midafternoon showing of 'agent cody banks' back in two thousand w/e. got super drunk on peach schnapps and made fun of hil duffy's acting iirc
― Lamp, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2272/frankiemunizkd5.jpghttp://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Celebrity+Locker+Room+Presents+Star+Night+6caPPnbdFMGl.jpg
I feel like this guy might have a charlie sheen-like life ahead of him
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
memento in the middle
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
(srsly tho wtf take care big man)
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
welp
https://i.redditmedia.com/ROY3wv_B9JbzkEXEmTheGrAH_dJ-PsfUMFftaJsAJjc.jpg?w=600&s=08d2d630fc67faf67ffb04bacd0c0518
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Who's the lump on the right? Arpiao?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
yeah
just noticed this is from 2014 tho
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
I'll go out on a limb and assume that the enthusiasm behind that handshake still stands three years later. Assuming he even remembers having met Arpaio.
― I'm not meltdown. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
well yeah, that's a big if
― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 March 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
Life is unfair
I arrived home from my uncle's funeral to find 4 of my 5 story brownstone home under 3 feet of water. Everything I own, destroyed. Every wall, piece of artwork, personal photos, furniture... All because my cat accidentally turned on a sink a few days ago while we were gone.— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) November 15, 2018
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 November 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
^ livin' la vida sitcom
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 18 November 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
Damn...
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 November 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
leaving a cat alone for several days is cruel so lol
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
The guy is obscenely rich. He couldn't hire a catsitter or get the poor kitty into boarding for a few days?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
maybe he forgot he had a cat
― 🎶 in a world of pure exsanguination 🎶 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
doesn't he have severe brain damage? CTE?
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 November 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Regardless, he has a five story brownstone.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Can't believe it: my carpet is completely ruined, and all because my stupid dog had to go and die at some point in the month and a half since I was last home.
― My mother set great store by that microwave oven! (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
New profile pic of @lizzo and me. Credit to Strawberry_cherub on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/LAsa6U4Vzl— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) September 27, 2019
― j., Friday, 27 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
were you wondering what to do tonight ?
did you want to watch a full hour of craig clips ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr3ohfYPjTg
― budo jeru, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADN9mhG9Xtw
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
The episode where Craig is all beat up and his helper monkey is trying to kill him is pretty darn funny.
― earlnash, Sunday, 24 May 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
No mention of Christopher Lloyd having the best guest star appearance in a tv show.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
Been thinking about Cloris Leachman on this as Lois' mother, and one of the most savage putdowns in network TV history when she described Lois as "the one with the imbecile factory between her legs".
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
Oh WHOA!!! Yes. Incredible line
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
this line still pops into my head all the time
https://i.imgur.com/Ze5OwDH.png
― frogbs, Friday, 8 July 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link