I love how most shows at the time (even shows today) would have made a joke about the dad being worried the son may be gay...but Hal processes it and accepts it lmao and asks his own (theoretically) gay son how hot is this guy
The fact that Hal, instead of being weirded out by Reese's weird question, asked, "Burt Reynolds hot or Sting hot?" is why he is the best dad in tv history.
Fox shows had the best TV dads - Hal, Sandy Cohen (The OC), Homer Simpson, Al Bundy, Red Forman, and Bernie Mac (he was an uncle, but served as a father figure to his nieces and nephew). Kevin Finnerty (from Grounded for Life) started on Fox too
That’s probably more realistic for lower/upper lower middle class families tbh. Only wealthier folks can afford to be carefree enough about the electric bill to leave a bunch of bright lights on everywhere in the house on all the time.
@J H yeah but I was just saying that the word ‘actress’ isn’t necessarily needed since actor has become kind of a gender neutral term, but either way is fine
That's... Absolutely idiotic, it's acting, it requires you to play a character depending on the script, do you think actors get to act how they want to? No, they don't, they act based on the character and thus the script. There's no holding back, you're just holding onto the past based on non existent comparisons.
I'd argue Francis is. Wait .. I don't know now. Francis seems to have Lois' strong sense of justice and urge to be right mixed with Hal's reckless idiocy and over sensitivity. Shoot maybe you are right.
@@xcaluhbration my favourite Hal is the severe mood swings reminds me of a funny moment in the SIMPSONS too where Homer alludes to something he and Bart have in common - Bart: 'you mean the mood swings?' hahahahahahahaha
He got her personality but got his father brain which is why he isn’t that smart but Malcolm got his mother brain and Dewey his father talent of creativity. Then there’s Francis who has his father reckless behavior and has issues with his mom just like Lois did and Hal with his father.
Or he's just an immature jerk that never grew up. Because I went to a high school where all of the adults acted like teenagers. Like anybody that kiss up to them and basically became their best friend they would give them special treatment. Or if anybody was friends with their kids than they would give them special treatment. They would gossip with the other kids and that caddy like teenagers. It was honestly so disturbing. like it's pretty bad when I was like 14 and I acted more of an adult than they were. And that's why I never really spoke to any of my teachers or anything or principal or superintendent because you couldn't trust them at all because they would go and run tell all the other kids in school. They never believed that bullying was a thing because they were friends with the kid that was bullying you so. But honestly that's cool just reminds me of my own.
-Got married to “that idiot Hal” -Had kids (all unplanned) -All of them boys -Became a suburban mom working at a dead end job with no future prospects except those her kids might achieve Imagine if teenage Lois could actually see into her future. She’d probably get super depressed.
Reese loving his mom for throwing something at the boy and then being utterly annoyed when his mom throws something in his face for the very same reason.
Yeah I'm pretty sure the only thing that he's ever really read we're comic books. And like the TV Guide or something. But other than that I don't think I've ever seen him read anything.
Bloombaby99 That’s 100% true. In fact Malcom mentions in a different episode her rage is the source of her power. When she’s angry she can’t focus on anything else.
I love Reese, when he gets going he’s actually very motivated, artistic, and emotionally sensitive- he’s just as dysfunctional as the rest of his family is 😂.
"Do you think it's right to totally change who you are, and turn your back on everything you believe in just to impress a hot guy?" I love how Reese really got emotionally invested in the diary 😆😆😆
@ThePark 627 In this scene, Reese unwittingly hinted he was gay without realizing it. Reese is asking about a male love interest on behalf of the girl who owns the diary, and Hal thinks he is asking for himself.
Gerald Preston Yes, I totally agree. The early 00's were awesome. Sadly I was just a little kid in the early 00's; so I was never able to experience the early 00's to the fullest. However, what I did experience from the early 00's was awesome. I'd love to go back to the years of 2004 - 2006. I was between the ages of 3 - 6 years old back in the years of 2004 - 2006.
Really, the 00's? With the endless boybands? With Nickelback and pop-punk bands at the crest of their popularity? And the massive reality TV shows coming out? Hell no. I'm not going back to the 00's.
Hal really just accepted his son as talking about hot guys like it’s ducking nothing, Malcom and the middle was super progressive “Burt Reynolds hot or Sting hot”
True..early 2000's fashion was a lot like the 70's fashion. My mum was really shocked to see how simillar things my sister was buying as a teenager in 2000's..hoops, bell bottom type jeans, lip gloss and said she used to buy the same things in the 70's as a teenage or early 20's girl.
+Tacodog 76 Where's the contrast to the rest of the display of his character then? That's not funny to have an angry Reese be angry again. We also know who the diary belongs to already so it's pointless unless you would change the plot so that we don't know who the diary belongs to.
Pelcogo As much as I don't wanna be that "I knew about him before" u guy, I feel the same way. I didn't have cable growing up so Malcolm In the Middle would play most nights and would watch it thinking it's hilarious, while other kids would watch Nickelodeon and whatever other channels and shows came with cable. It shocked me years later finding out that people knew who he was only because of Breaking Bad and never knew about Hal in Malcolm In the Middle. Anyways he's a super talented actor, glad he got the fame he deserved. (Random useless story over)
It amazes me that some people only know him as Walter White. The time span from Malcolm ending to BB was only 2 years. He didn't drop off the radar that fast did he?
Ned Rostram i see Malcolm's desire to leave for better life to escape his family and nitwits around him and totally Reese's agressiveness but also the ability to do things their not supposed to they get that from Hal
Lois is actually the female version of Malcolm. Hal is more like Reese, except he’s smarter. In the show, Malcolm even stated that he when he gets married and starts having a family, he’d treat them just like Lois does. Like Mother, like Son.
LaBoo T2609 Eh I don't think Malcolm's agressive enough to be Lois .Resse has Totally got that Hal's irresponsibility and risk taker and he's got Lois agression . And Dewey the sweet one with all the talent and potential Im pretty sure Dewey gets his creativeness from Hal
Hear me out; a prequel series about Young Lois, but there is a premise of Lois is the narrator doing an autobiography called “Living the American Dream”. A future where Malcolm actually did manage to become president, Dewey becomes a composer who writes music scores for Hollywood, and Reese becomes a brilliant chef with his own restaurant. Lois and Hal have retired and Lois is writing her stories and also telling them to their grandchildren. I think it’d be fun…just sayin
I just want to point out how an amazing actress Jane Kaczmarek is. I saw an episode of Law & Order SVU where she played a lawyer and she KILLED it. It's impressive how somehow I quickly forget she was Lois. I wish she could get a recurrent role in a serie or movie. She deserves to be recognized just as much as Bryan Cranston.
Lois is the mean, hateful character so she's not going to garner as much respect. She was just as good as Bryan Cranston, but didnt get to display fun like Hal and his goofy hijinks
@@Joe_Parmesan nah, she just didn’t have the chance to portray an iconic character like Walter White. That was the character that put Cranston on the map
What’s really interesting to me is how into it Reese was. I mean it’s pretty rare to see him show empathy much less cry over someone else’s feelings being hurt.
Yep I loved her too. But the boys they were afraid of her because they like girls that they could walk all over. And I didn't like Lois because they knew that she would kick their ass.
@DJHart true but as an adult now i can just tell she was always too mature for her age. most of the stuff she bitched about i bitch about now. Dirty Socks on the eating table? oh that's a paddling LOL.
She should just work on how she doesn't take it sometimes. Like when she did handle the gum on the locker vs the milk as a teenager. She gets good at how she handles the kids, but plenty of times it's questionable.
Malcolm in the Middle was one of the best t.v. shows of all time, and easily the best sitcom. It was not just amazing writing and comedic gold, but it was something the whole family could watch together. You can't find too many shows like that anymore.
You know it's the man who determines the gender of the baby? Plus, it's a coin tossing. One or the other, and gender disappointment is true, but as long as it's only a momentary thing, let it be. Not everything goes according to plan.
"Do you think it's right to totally change who you are and turn your back on everything you believe in, just to impress a hot guy?" "Burt Reynolds or Sting hot?" 😂😂😂
I think although this is meant for comedy, it really has a deeper meaning. We only ever see our parents as how they are after becoming parents for some time. Chances are if we could meet out parents when they were our age, or even just know them as an older friend, we'd find them to be really cool people and totally get along! It just sucks that they have to grow us up, which takes most of the fun out of it.
This was a great move in dramatic irony. The audience is fully aware of what is happening but Reese is oblivious. Even when the parallels are right in front of him, he fails to notice. For anyone else it should have been an opportunity to empathize with who his mom is upon realizing the identity of the writer. However with Reese it's all about his horror at being attracted to the personality of his mom. And this was the B or C plot of the episode too.
Just realized there's an episode where Malcom does the same thing and keeps his mouth shut and everything goes well for him until he suffers from a stroke from it or something.
Reese thinks that this diary belongs to someone in his school, but did it ever occur to him that he doesn't recall any of these bigger events happening? Like surely he would have heard if some kid named Hal got carried off in a stretcher or if this girl got really mad at a guy for littering
Eliana K Reese isn't the brightest. Then again, he may have thought that it was a new girl from a different school, or that all of this happened when he might have been absent/skipped school.
Yep. Imagine his shock when he realized in horror that the diary belonged to his mom, Lois. I bet Reese was traumatized after that and was put off girls.
@@serlokbrixe425 Not only that, but Reese (and Malcolm to a greater extent) is one of the least popular students in school, so he probably gets thrown out of the loop a lot in terms of drama and gossip.
Cool bit of continuity with this as Malcolm also has the need to criticize the wrongs of the world and refrained from doing so to fit in as well. Of course his silence resulted in a peptic ulcer.
Fun fact: Normally, you are attracted to people who look the most similar to you. However, there is a type of imprinting called the Westermarck Effect that kicks in when you've grown up around someone. It prevents you from lusting after your siblings. This is why you hear real life horror stories about long lost siblings separated at birth reuniting as adults and having to deal with the sexual tension between each other.
