Season 1 (2000)
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Todd Holland | Linwood Boomer | January 9, 2000 | 10012-99-179 |
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A 12-year old boy named Malcolm (Frankie Muniz), a boy with a dysfunctional family, is given an I.Q. test by his teacher and is revealed to have an I.Q. of 165. He is transferred to the school's gifted class against his wishes, and must cope with his desire to be normal despite having been recognized as a genius, trying to accept to be now a "Krelboyne", the school nerds who are rejected by other kids. The episode won multiple awards, including two Emmys for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Comedy Series to Holland and Boomer respectively, in 2000. Leading on from this, Holland won a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series for this episode in 2001 and the episode also won an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television in 2000. |
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| 2 | 2 | "Red Dress" | Arlene Sanford | Alan J. Higgins | January 16, 2000 | 06-99-103 |
| Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), Malcolm's mom is supposed to meet Hal (Bryan Cranston), her husband, at an expensive restaurant for their anniversary date, but Lois forgets to go after she finds her red dress burned and flushed down the toilet. She spends the night punishing 13-year old Reese (Justin Berfield), 8-year old Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan), and Malcolm, trying to figure out which of them burned her red dress. Meanwhile, Hal makes friends with a member of the restaurant staff while waiting for Lois. Malcolm, seeing that he cannot fight Lois alone, calls his oldest brother, 16-year old Francis (Christopher Kennedy Masterson), his brother from military school who is the most powerful against Lois. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Home Alone 4" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | January 23, 2000 | 06-99-106 |
| While Hal and Lois are away for the weekend, Francis comes home from military school to babysit Malcolm, Reese, and Dewey. Malcolm overhears Lois and Hal's discussion about Francis and believes he will be allowed to return home permanently if he does a good job, so he convinces the other boys to be on their best behavior. This all turns out to be for naught when Francis' friends come over and trash the house down. Although they manage to fix it, Malcolm gets a head injury from broken shelves and they try to find a way to pay the medical bill of $450 for him so Hal and Lois can't find out. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Shame" | Nick Marck | David Richardson | February 6, 2000 | 06-99-107 |
| Malcolm beats up a huge bully who won't leave him alone, only to learn that the bully is just a 7-year old brat. Malcolm feels guilty and tries to clear his conscience by signing up for a charity run, but fails when he trips on his untied shoe right in beginning of the run. Dewey is injured climbing a tree, so Hal decides to cuts it down, angering the neighbors, but then, Hal misses the tree. Francis decides to steal the slides for the military academy's disgusting sex education slideshow, but he finds some immature slides of Spangler in his office, which he replaces with the original slides. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Malcolm Babysits" | Jeff Melman | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | February 13, 2000 | 06-99-105 |
| Dewey left food for bugs in the crawlspace, and while their house is being fumigated, Malcolm's family moves into a trailer rented by one of Lois's coworkers named Craig. However, Malcolm ends up spending more time at the home of an upper-middle class family who has hired him as their babysitter, but then he learns that they were videotaping him, which he uses in his advantage. Meanwhile at the academy, Francis finds the corpse of a former janitor in the basement of the military school and teams up with his friends to give the forgotten custodian a proper burial. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Sleepover" | Ken Kwapis | Dan Kopelman | February 20, 2000 | 06-99-110 |
| Malcolm stays overnight at Stevie's house and learns that Stevie's parents are strict and too much overprotective over him. He convinces Stevie to sneak out of the house with him and they go to an arcade downtown, but Stevie's wheelchair is stolen. Lois challenges Reese to give Dewey a bath and put him to sleep in exchange for being allowed to stay up late to watch a scary movie, but the task proves more difficult than he expected. At the academy, Francis is hazed by a group of students at military school, but tells them their tricks are amateurish to what Lois did to him. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Francis Escapes" | Todd Holland | Linwood Boomer | February 27, 2000 | 06-99-101 |
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Francis deserts from military school to spend more time with his girlfriend, who breaks up with him as soon as he gets home (finding him boring). Lois finds out Francis has left school, but does not know where he went. Malcolm discovers Francis hiding in the woods near their house and brings him food, though keeping the secret from his brothers and parents gets more and more complicated by the time. Note: This is the only episode other than the pilot to be credited to series creator Linwood Boomer. |
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| 8 | 8 | "Krelboyne Picnic" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | March 12, 2000 | 06-99-109 |
| Malcolm's classmates demonstrate their abilities at a picnic. Malcolm, not wanting people to see him as a freak, tries to get out of performing by ditching the picnic with Francis, but the plan falls apart when Francis meets a girl at the picnic. Hal violates the picnic's vegetarian policy by bringing a meat-filled cooler on the picnic, and Lois takes care of a PTA control freak. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Lois vs. Evil" | Todd Holland | Jack Amiel & Michael Begler | March 19, 2000 | 06-99-104 |
| After a mishap of a steam cleaner, Lois finds out that Dewey stole a $150 bottle of cognac from the store where she works. She makes him return it, but she's fired by a tyrannic assistant manager, which leaves the family struggling. Francis, chosen to be part of the color guard at a beauty pageant, gains special backstage access when some of the contestants think he's gay. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Stock Car Races" | Todd Holland | David Richardson | April 2, 2000 | 06-99-102 |
| Instead of letting the boys to go to school, Hal sneaks them out of the class and takes them on a stock car race, and the boys try to sneak on the pit lanes, causing mayhem with the security guards. Lois' hunt for her paycheck unearths incriminating items that Hal and the boys stashed around the house, and with the Malcolm's teacher, who arrived because of his absence, she starts to collect all the items they have stashed. Francis sneaks a snake into the academy, but forgets to lock it up in the drawer, and it eats Spangler's dog. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Funeral" | Arlene Sanford | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | April 9, 2000 | 06-99-111 |
| The family reluctantly prepares for Aunt Helen's funeral, but Lois finally gets fed-up by the collective attitude and announces she's going to take a bubble bath and everyone else can do their own things. Francis is upset that Aunt Helen's death was not reported to him. This frees Malcolm to attend a concert with Julie, but she catches him in his underwear and runs away. Malcolm tells his parents that Reese broke Dewey's birthday present and the reason he seemed so enthusiastic to go to the funeral was that he had planned to stash the remains in the coffin. Lois promptly decides that they will attend the funeral after all so Reese can apologize to Aunt Helen (by making him stand in the corner in the funeral). | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Cheerleader" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | April 16, 2000 | 06-99-112 |
| Reese joins the cheerleading squad because he has a crush on one of the cheerleaders. Malcolm is embarrassed to have a brother who is a cheerleader, and even the Krelboynes are making fun of him, but he ends up helping Reese learn his routines anyway, and he becomes really talented. Meanwhile, Dewey wants a new toy, desperately trying to talk Lois into buying it, and Hal, hearing Reese crying because of the girl and seeing him practicing cheerleading routines with Malcolm, tries to give all the boys "The Talk". | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Rollerskates" | Ken Kwapis | Alan J. Higgins | April 30, 2000 | 06-99-108 |
| Hal gives Malcolm rollerskating lessons, but Malcolm becomes frustrated and says "the F word" at his dad. Lois punishes him, but Hal responds by typing up several pages of obscene names and forcing Malcolm to look him in the eye and say them to him. Malcolm relents, but manages to do it, realizing the means of swearing words. Meanwhile, Lois throws out her back by screaming too loud at Reese for tracking mud in the house and refuses to take painkillers, and Francis fakes the same back injury to get out of a wilderness survival exercise at the academy. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "The Bots and the Bees" | Chris Koch | Alan J. Higgins & David Richardson | May 7, 2000 | 06-00-202 |
| Lois visits Francis at military school after he has a medical emergency. Hal, no longer under Lois' supervision, takes up smoking and stops going to work. Malcolm and the Krelboynes enter a killer robot competition, but Hal takes over their robot-building project and builds a dangerous robot complete with a bee cannon. He gets crazy over the whole project, and the boys end up launching the bees on him to stop him. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Smunday" | Jeff Melman | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | May 14, 2000 | 06-00-201 |
| Lois, down with a severe case of the flu, doesn't realize she has spent two days in bed; thinking Monday is Sunday, she doesn't make the boys go to school--or lift their latest grounding, so the boys are unable to do anything exciting. Francis calls home and recruits his brothers to keep Lois from finding an incriminating letter, but when they discover that they were grounded because Francis told on them, he sends his lowlife pals over to guard them. Meanwhile, Hal visits a Porsche dealership and ends up ruining a car because he caught Lois' flu. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Water Park" | Ken Kwapis | Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum | May 21, 2000 | 06-00-203 |
| The family goes to a water park where Malcolm and Reese get into an escalating prank war until Lois loses her temper and yells at them at the top of a waterslide and they launch themselves through the slide. Meanwhile, Dewey is stuck at home with an ear infection and an elderly babysitter (Bea Arthur), and realizes that they both have a lot in common and have fun--until she's carted away in an ambulance (whether she died or not is unknown) and he becomes so entranced with a balloon being blown around in the wind (later a paper bag) that he gets lost. |
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