Season 4 (2002/03)
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No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 64 | 1 | "Zoo" | Todd Holland | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | November 3, 2002 | 06-02-401 |
| Malcolm is depressed, and the family goes to the zoo. Reese battles a goat, while Malcolm and Dewey end up in a tiger pit. Francis and Piama's road trip across America results in them meeting a German couple named Otto and Gretchen who offer Francis a job at their dude ranch. Lois' ex-boyfriend (Tim DeKay) puts a tarantula on Hal and reveals to him how many boyfriends Lois actually had. | ||||||
| 65 | 2 | "Humilithon" | Jeff Melman | Michael Borkow | November 10, 2002 | 06-02-402 |
| Malcolm's first day of high school gets off to a bad start when Lois embarrasses him in front of the entire school, causing him to have no actual friends except the Krelboynes. He becomes depressed about this. Lois and Hal volunteer in the school, where Hal clashes with Mr. Herkabe, who doesn't like him. Meanwhile, with Malcolm and Reese away, Dewey stays home alone for the first time in his life (but only for 15 minutes), and has a wonderful time. On the ranch, Francis takes some side-jobs on to earn more money, such as teaching aerobics and being a masseur. | ||||||
| 66 | 3 | "Family Reunion" | Ken Kwapis | Alex Reid | November 17, 2002 | 06-02-403 |
| The family goes to Hal's family reunion for his father's birthday, and Hal's family makes Lois miserable because she is from a lower-class family. They pick on her because of her clothes and her parents, dislike her topics and subjects, and finally forget about her during the family photo. They find her crying in the closet, where they insult her for her hot temper. The boys and Hal are mad because of this, and they teach them a lesson. Hal clashes with his father in the end (Christopher Lloyd), and the boys ruin the ceremony by driving a golf cart over the celebration, destroying the party, and finally landing in the pool. | ||||||
| 67 | 4 | "Stupid Girl" | Todd Holland | Dan Kopelman | November 24, 2002 | 06-02-404 |
| Malcolm pretends to be stupid so he can win over a cute girl (Brittany Finamore) who really is stupid and soon finds that he is actually becoming dumber. Stevie wins Lois' approval and she takes him to the school dance. Meanwhile, Hal rents a steamroller and becomes addicted to running over various objects until Dewey snaps him out of it. | ||||||
| 68 | 5 | "Forwards Backwards" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur | December 1, 2002 | 06-02-406 |
| Days before Malcolm's birthday, he and Reese pull increasingly severe pranks against each other. Flashbacks throughout the episode gradually reveal how their feud began and reached the breaking point when Malcolm ate a blueberry Reese was saving. Meanwhile, Francis encounters a "devil cow" at the ranch and discovers it's just an ordinary cow long overdue for milking. Dewey worries about his role as Abraham Lincoln in the school play. Hal enlists Craig to help him find Malcolm a birthday present, but is driven nuts by his constant demands. | ||||||
| 69 | 6 | "Forbidden Girlfriend" | Jamie Babbit | Matthew Carlson | December 15, 2002 | 06-02-405 |
| Malcolm starts to date Nikki (Reagan Dale Neis), a girl from his school that he tutors in his free time. The only problem is her dad, a Vietnam veteran, who dislikes him. Dewey discovers he's an 'evil twin' and Reese uses this advantage to blame 'Dewey's twin' to turn on his enemies, and at the ranch, Otto is furious with the other ranchers who keep destroying the fence that Francis is building to keep the cattle inside. In the end, Francis settles them down with an idea. | ||||||
| 70 | 7 | "Malcolm Holds His Tongue" | Jeff Melman | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | January 5, 2003 | 06-02-410 |
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Malcolm decides to keep his opinions to himself; at first it goes well, but he becomes so over repressed with his opinions, that he becomes overstressed, causing him to grow a stomach ulcer. Meanwhile, Reese must enlist Craig to drive him and his girlfriend to a concert, but is in over his head when he learns that Craig wants to go on a hay ride. Hal starts practicing race-walking, and ends up having talents for it, until he ends up with a fierce rival. Note: Alisa Reyes makes a cameo on a date in the same restaurant as Reese and his girlfriend. |
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| 71 | 8 | "Boys at Ranch" | David D'Ovidio | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | January 12, 2003 | 06-02-412 |
| Hal and the boys visit Francis at the ranch. The boys are suddenly shocked when they find out that it isn't the same old Francis, who has become mature, and try to get him to be crazy and wicked like he used to be, but he reveals them a secret stash full of rockets and fireworks. Meanwhile, Hal and Otto get drunk, which causes them to be stranded in the desert during the night. | ||||||
| 72 | 9 | "Grandma Sues" | Jimmy Simons | Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein | February 2, 2003 | 06-02-407 |
| Grandma Ida is injured by slipping on leaves Reese neglected to rake up, and she sues Lois and Hal--just when Lois discovers that she is pregnant, and Malcolm feels left out of the family. | ||||||
| 73 | 10 | "If Boys Were Girls" | Ken Kwapis | Teleplay by: Nahnatchka Khan Story by: Alexandra Kaczenski |
February 9, 2003 | 06-02-408 |
| During a hellish trip to the mall with Hal and the boys, Lois imagines life with daughters instead of sons. Though starting off nice and pleasant, she soon discover that it would have been just as difficult, only in different ways. Meanwhile, Hal desperately searches for the perfect Valentine's Day present for Lois. | ||||||
| 74 | 11 | "Long Drive" | Levie Isaacks | Michael Borkow | March 2, 2003 | 06-02-409 |
| Reese ends up in prison for a day, where he clashes with a huge wrestler, who ended up in prison for beating a man to death. Lois drives Malcolm with her to move furniture to her sister's house, and during the trip, she tells him everything about sex. Dewey is bored and causes a feud in Hal's six-man band. At the ranch, Francis accidentally blows up Otto's favorite cow, and tries to hide it from him. | ||||||
| 75 | 12 | "Kicked Out" | Jeff Melman | Alex Reid | March 9, 2003 | 06-02-413 |
| A combination of Malcolm's disgust at the house falling apart around them, and Hal's fear-induced "zero tolerance" attempts at maintaining peace and order in the family, results in Malcolm being kicked out of the house; the longer he has no home, the more his sanity begins to slip away. At the ranch, Otto's family arrives and Francis has deal with Otto's piano-playing nephew. Meanwhile, Reese comes up with an idiotic idea by attaching a fire hose to his back for more speed on his bike. | ||||||
| 76 | 13 | "Stereo Store" | Bryan Cranston | Matthew Carlson | March 16, 2003 | 06-02-414 |
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Hal gets a second job at "U-Buy It." Meanwhile Jessica (Hayden Panettiere), a freaky girl from Malcolm's school, babysits Malcolm, Reese, and Dewey while Lois works the night shift, and she ends up embarrassing them in front of her friends, and in the end, they teach her a lesson for being cruel, with Dewey as the perfect bait. |
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| 77 | 14 | "Hal's Friend" | Jeff Melman | Dan Kopelman | March 30, 2003 | 06-02-415 |
| Hal meets with a old high-school friend, Lenny (Joel Murray), who hasn't changed in all the time since they've seen each other. Malcolm tries to make Dabney stand up for himself when his overprotective and control-freak mom won't let him use his new paintball gun because it's "violent", as they celebrate Dabney's birthday with the rest of the crowd. | ||||||
| 78 | 15 | "Garage Sale" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur | April 6, 2003 | 06-02-416 |
| Home from a visit with her sister Susan who had called her "hopeless," Lois puts Reese in charge of the family garage sale. Meanwhile, Hal finds his old pirate radio transmitter and restarts the station he ran in college under the pseudonym Kid Charlemagne. Malcolm finds an old computer worth over thousands of dollars and tells Lois about it. After Reese intentionally destroys it, she reprimands him and reminds him that they desperately need the money. At the ranch, Francis uses a sock puppet to help Otto deal with his estrangement from his son Rutger, an experience that helps him say just what Lois needs to hear when he calls home. | ||||||
| 79 | 16 | "Academic Octathalon" | Todd Holland | Rob Hanning | April 13, 2003 | 06-02-411 |
| Mr. Herkabe forces Malcolm to join the academic octathlon team in an expensive hotel, where he encourages them to cheat, so Malcolm chooses to make everyone pay by giving all of the teams the results of the contest which he stole, and as he expected, ends up in a disaster. Dewey alienates Hal after telling him he's too big for their bedtime ritual. Reese tries to avoid going to a dance. | ||||||
| 80 | 17 | "Clip Show 2" | Levie Isaacks | Maggie Bandur & Dan Kopelman | April 20, 2003 | 06-02-422 |
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In this second clip show, Hal and Lois are penning their will, and think back to all the trouble their sons put them through. Note: Frankie Muniz and Christopher Masterson only appear in the flashback scenes. |
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| 81 | 18 | "Reese's Party" | Levie Isaacks | Andy Bobrow | April 27, 2003 | 06-02-418 |
| Reese decides to throw a party while Lois and Hal take a weekend break for their anniversary. All is fine until Donnie's (Francis's friend) gang of hoodlums turns the party into a crystal meth operation that even Francis can't handle, and Dewey ends up solving the situation. Meanwhile, Hal and Lois are having a miserable time at their honeymoon. | ||||||
| 82 | 19 | "Future Malcolm" | Ken Kwapis | Teleplay by: Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein Story by: Ron Corcillo & A.J. Poulin |
May 4, 2003 | 06-02-417 |
| At the park, Malcolm meets a depressed middle-aged man (Jason Alexander) who may be his future self, as they have so much in common. Fearing that this might be him, Malcolm tries to help him to improve his way of life and broaden his horizons in more than playing chess in the park. Meanwhile, Francis and Piama find employment as nude models, in which Francis starts to enjoy. | ||||||
| 83 | 20 | "Baby (Part 1)" | Jimmy Simons | Rob Hanning | May 11, 2003 | 06-02-419 |
| Lois goes into labor while Hal and the boys are at a bridal exposition (which Hal mistaken for car exposition). Ida moves in when her apartment burns down mysteriously and Susan refuses to take her in. After learning that Ida is a bigot, Francis and Piama enlist Abe and his poker buddies to scare her off. Meanwhile, Malcolm has been accepted to a boarding school in England, but he decides not to go when Hal makes him realize how much his family needs him. Stunned at the date his parents chose for the baby's planned delivery, Dewey reveals the date is his birthday in an announcement at the exposition to humiliate Hal at the exposition. | ||||||
| 84 | 21 | "Baby (Part 2)" | Jamie Babbit | Michael Borkow | May 18, 2003 | 06-02-420 |
| Frantic Hal crashes the car while trying to get home to Lois, who has gone into labor. Meanwhile Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey take a parenting class to be better brothers to their new sibling, but realize everything they were taught in the class is the opposite of what their parents did for them (or didn't do). Ida moves out when Susan calls to clear up the misunderstanding between them. Francis is forced to help Lois give birth as the paramedics won't arrive in time. They manage to deliver the baby. The newborn's name is Jamie, a new boy. | ||||||
| 85 | 22 | "Day Care" | Steve Love | Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson | May 18, 2003 | 06-02-421 |
| A church-run daycare center accepts Lois' wailing newborn...but Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey must attend Bible-study classes and Hal and Lois are expected to take part in the church community, or no day care for the baby. Meanwhile, a rival ranch reports an alien sighting, so Francis organizes a sighting on Otto's ranch...which gets him arrested by the government. |
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