Stevie Kenarban: You keep your money in a book?
Malcolm: Yeah, it’s the one place no one in my family will ever look.
Craig Lamar Traylor and Frankie Muniz in Malcolm in the Middle (2000 – 2006), which told of a boy genius’ hilarious struggles to interact with his classmates and madcap family. You can find another of the show’s humour here.
Alex Raphael 
Did Malcolm ever figure out his dad wanted to be a drug kingpin? 😉
great!
I grew up surrounded by books so this really makes me laugh more than most people.
I loved this show. Lois was my favourite.
I’m not quite sure how she held together all the madness. Especially as her husband Hal was essentially just a big kid himself.
Loved this show!!!
So many fond memories as a kid. Funny watching it again as an adult.
Loved this show!
I’m guessing you sympathise a lot more with Lois these days haha.
good one 🙂
As soon s I heard it, I knew it was going up on the blog 🙂
I used to love this show.
It’s only really the guy who Hal who’s gone onto even bigger things really. I remember thinking Frankie Muniz was like a young Michael J Fox and would totally be making loads of films.
I suppose sometimes it can be hard to go on to other things after being in something so successful. I think people have that idea of you as that character and nothing else.
True. I wonder if people who ran into the actor who played Malcolm’s mum quoted the ‘Lois Common Denominator’ line at her haha.
That’s an interesting thought.
Cool line 🙂 His family will never find his money. Hahaha!
In my family it would be the worst place to hide it haha.
I LOVE this show!!! And even the great Walter White will always (secretly) be Hal to me, he was sooooo funny and a fantastic actor even back then. I love all of them though, the family and the friends, the secondary characters, every series too. It’s a one-off a bit like The Simpsons, nothing will ever be like it again 🙂
I know. He does have great range 🙂 Any scenes or episodes stand out in particular?
The roller skating scene. And even the conversation beforehand “you spent 900 dollars on sequins?”
“they were for the car!” – what!
I know. I couldn’t get the song out of my head for ages ha. Do you remember the scene when Dewey gets power crazy when getting hold of a guard dog? Malcolm, Reese and Craig are held captive before the brothers trick Craig into escaping? Or when the three brothers forward Hal’s alarm clock so he has to shower, shave and drink coffee at the same time haha? Or when Malcolm shocks everyone by memorising a whole set of numbers and Dewey asks if he is a robot!
I never saw all the episodes of this show, but I watched it whenever I could! I loved it 🙂
Such a brilliant and funny show. I’ve picked out a few special moments above, but really it was just so consistent. Hal and Lois were two very different types of parents haha.
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