Bowling (Malcolm in the middle)

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Episode of the series Malcolm in the middle
title bowling
Original title bowling
Country of production United States
original language English
length approx. 22 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
classification Season 2, episode 20
36th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast April 1, 2001 on Fox
German-language
first broadcast		 June 8, 2002 on ProSieben
Rod
Director Todd Holland
script Alex Reid
production Alex Reid,
James Simons (as Jimmy Simons )
music John Flansburgh ,
John Linnell ,
Charles Sydnor
cut Barry L. Gold
occupation
synchronization

Bowling (Original title: Bowling ) is the 20th episode of the second season of the American comedy series Malcolm in the middle . It was first broadcast on April 1, 2001 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German-language first broadcast on the ProSieben station followed on June 8, 2002 .

action

Reese and Malcolm want to meet up with friends at the bowling center, but Dewey is not allowed to go because he has done something bad and has to stay at home. Reese and Malcolm ask their parents which of the two is driving them to the bowling center.
Then two parallel stories begin in which the boys are driven by their father or mother.

Lois goes to the bowling alley with the boys

When Lois and the boys arrive at the bowling center, instead of two pairs of bowling shoes, she only buys one for them to share. But when she sees that the children are there without parental supervision, she volunteers and now takes care of them. While Malcolm suffers from his mother, who embarrasses him in front of all his friends, Reese flirts with Beth, his and Malcolm's crush. Meanwhile, Malcolm doesn't hit a pin in the bowling alley. All his mother's attempts to teach him fail miserably. When Malcolm gets too embarrassed with his mother, he walks the bowling alley all the way to the pins while berating his mother and attracts the attention of the entire center. He then throws his ball at the pins, but does not hit it from a few meters and is laughed at. Since Reese also laughs, Beth finds him unscrupulous and from now on doesn't want anything to do with him. Just before Reese and Malcolm leave, Beth talks to the dejected Malcolm and says that she found it brave how he defied his mother. She offers to kiss him, which they do, until a few seconds later they are caught by Malcolm's mother.

At the same time, Hal is lovingly laying Dewey to bed. But he doesn't want to come to terms with it and stay up late, which is why he gives his father sleeping pills. This allows Dewey to do whatever he wants from now on.

Hal goes to the bowling alley with the boys

After Hal lost his way briefly, he and the boys finally reached the bowling center, where he bought them a pair of bowling shoes at the beginning. He dumps the boys off at their friends' house in their bowling alley and also rents a lane, but in order not to disturb his children, at the end of the center. Right at the beginning, they want to flirt with Beth, their crush, and Reese Malcolm comes first. However, he messed it up and sprinkled her with a stupid prank with water, which is why she no longer wants to talk to him. Malcolm then starts flirting with her, doing better than his brother. To prevent this, however, Reese lets a bowling ball roll in Malcolm's direction, but it does not arrive at his place, but another visitor to the center who begins to follow Reese.
Meanwhile, Hal has a lucky streak on his bowling center lane, hitting all the pins a few times in a row, repeating some rituals before each throw.
Malcolm and Beth get to know each other in the meantime and eventually want to be alone. Therefore they go to a technical room behind the bowling alleys. As Hal throws his last ball to break a record, Malcolm gets caught in a device and slams the pins of Hal's track. His viewers are angry and turn their backs on him.
Finally, Reese is beaten up by the man he hit with the bowling ball hours earlier.

Meanwhile, Lois puts Dewey to bed. Any attempts by Dewey to deceive her into trying to stay up fail. Finally Lois gives in and lets Dewey watch TV after all.

Back home

The following scene is shown on a split screen at the end of the episode :
When both parents arrive at home and are asked by their partners how the day was, they answer: "Next time you will drive them there."

Cast and dubbing

family members
Frankie Muniz (voice: Wilhelm-Rafael Garth ) as Malcolm , protagonist
Jane Kaczmarek (voice: Martina Treger ) as Lois , Malcolm's mother
Bryan Cranston (voice: Bodo Wolf ) as Hal , Malcolm's father
Justin Berfield (voice: Nick Forsberg ) as Reese , Malcolm's older brother
Erik Per Sullivan (voice: Kevin Winkel ) as Dewey , Malcolm's younger brother
Christopher Kennedy Masterson (voice: Sebastian Schulz ) as Francis , Malcolm's oldest brother
Others
Alex McKenna (voice: Sonja Spuhl ) as Beth , a crush of Malcolm and Reese at the bowling alley

reception

This episode was mainly positively received by the viewers. A few days after it first aired, USA Today critic Robert Bianco rated her as "very strong and very clever". To this day, it is considered by many fans and critics as one or the best episode of Malcolm right in the middle . She was featured in the cover story of a 2001 issue of the New York Times with the example of family man Hal getting so involved in bowling that he didn't notice the problems his children were having. Eventually, the episode won an Emmy Award in 2001 for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for directed by Todd Holland and one for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for screenplay by Alex Reid . In addition, she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the category Best Episodic Comedy that same year . In 2002 director Holland received a Directors Guild of America Award in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series category .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Approval for Bowling . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c d Malcolm in the middle. In: TV series information. Michaela Götte, archived from the original on February 2, 2012 ; Retrieved February 24, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b German synchronous card index . In: synchronkartei.de. Retrieved February 5, 2012 .
  4. ^ Critic's Corner: Robert Bianco. In: USATODAY.com. Retrieved February 24, 2012 .
  5. ↑ COVER STORY - COVER STORY - Exploring the Darker Side of Dr. Spock - NYTimes.com. In: NYTimes.com. Retrieved February 24, 2012 .
  6. ^ "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000) - Awards. In: IMDb.com. Retrieved February 24, 2012 .