Malcolm in the Middle / Season 2

Season 2 of Malcolm in the thick of it
Original title	Malcolm in the Middle
Episodes	25th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	Nov 5, 2000 - May 20, 2001 on Fox
German-language first broadcast	January 26, 2002 - July 13, 2002 on ProSieben
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This list contains all episodes of the second season of the US comedy series Malcolm in the Middle , sorted by the US American premiere . They were broadcast from November 5, 2000 to May 20, 2001 on the US broadcaster Fox and were seen by an average of about 14.5 million viewers. ProSieben broadcast the German-language first broadcasts from January 26, 2002 to July 13, 2002.

Episodes

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Prod. Code
17th	1	Traffic jam	Traffic Jam (2)	0Nov 5, 2000	Jan. 26, 2002	Todd Holland	Dan Kopelman	06-00-204
The plot of the episode The traffic jam follows on from the last episode of the first season. On their return from their trip to the water park, Malcolm, Reese, Lois, and Hal get stuck in the scorching heat in a traffic jam caused by an accident. While Lois tries to clear the traffic jam and comes into conflict with the clearance workers and the security forces, Reese takes on an ice cream seller who does not want to sell anyone ice cream. Hal comes to the conclusion that he only escaped the accident by a happy coincidence, and as a result he gets into a life crisis. Malcolm gets to know the girl of his dreams only to realize she lives in Canada and he will likely never see her again. Meanwhile, Dewey, who ran away from home after the death of his babysitter in the previous episode, is on a vehicle-to-vehicle odyssey until he gets home. And Francis is trying to set a record for eating candy at the military academy.
18th	2	Halloween with a difference	Halloween Approximately	0Nov 8, 2000	0Feb. 2, 2002	Todd Holland	Dan Kopelman	06-00-207
Intro Malcolm and Reese always outdo each other at the refrigerator when they eat or drink expired food. In the end, Malcolm says this is one of their games that no one can win. Main plot Since Francis until a week after Halloween can come home because he had to stay in the military academy, he will duly nachfeiern with his brothers, as they celebrated not a very good hard and barely took pranks. Together, the brothers build a giant slingshot with which they want to bully the residents of the neighborhood with self-made stink bombs. After dropping the bombs on their neighbors for a whole evening, some of Malcolm's classmates who are meeting become aware of them and also drop them with bombs. Because their slingshot is stronger than theirs, Malcolm and his brothers are defeated by a huge margin. Meanwhile, Hal feels completely bothered by a traffic hooligan as he drives through the family street at unusually high speeds. Therefore Hal now wants to confront him and convene his neighborhood, which is not a success, because they see Hal and his family as a much bigger problem. After staying up all night to catch the traffic hooligan, he builds a speed bump out of cement, but it doesn't stop him either. When Lois catches the offender throwing garbage on the street, she gets mad at him too. Together, the two of them follow him to his home and steal his car, which they drive far out of town. During the trip, they let their love rekindle, although at first they even think about emigrating to Mexico alone; But when they think about their car theft again, they forget about it and push the car into a lake.
19th	3	Lois' birthday	Lois's Birthday	Nov 12, 2000	0Feb 9, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Alex Reid	06-00-205
Intro While the three brothers are on their way to a house together, Malcolm tells the audience some of the reasons why weekends are great; the best, however, is his neighbor. Shortly in front of the house they put on Halloween disguises and ring the doorbell, whereupon their neighbor gives them sweets. When the door closes again, they change their clothes again and after ringing the doorbell they claim that they have shoveled their way, whereupon she wants to get her wallet. Main story In order to get a good birthday present from her sons, she gives them 10 dollars each and goes with them to their place of work, the Lucky Aide supermarket , where they are asked to choose a suitable present. However, this process ends with the fact that they buy completely unusable items for Lois, which together cost eight dollars, and get themselves candy for 20 dollars. After this incident, Lois is depressed by the bad morals of her children and tells her husband Hal about it. He wants to sniff at his sons at first, but reveals himself that he has forgotten Lois' birthday. When Craig rings the doorbell and Lois wants to hand over his present for her, Lois is all too much, which is why she angrily leaves the house and drives away in the family car. Shortly afterwards, Francis comes home with his new African friend Amaani and grumbles at his brothers for what they did. After Francis and his girlfriend drive on again shortly afterwards to visit Francis' friend Richie, they discover Lois by chance at baseball games in a training cage and notify the rest of the family. Together they want to surprise Lois, but Lois sets conditions before they can go home. However, Hal empathetically explains that the only thing they can offer her is merciless submission. When a local clown insults Lois seconds later, everything degenerates into a fight between the family and other clowns. Lois stands right by and watches how her boys and her husband stand up for her.
20th	4th	A meal among friends	Dinner out	Nov 15, 2000	Feb 16, 2002	Jeff Melman	Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein	06-00-206
Intro Malcolm and Reese are playing baseball in the living room of the house and want to end the game after something breaks with their ball. Malcolm then says he has won the game, but Reese does not want to be satisfied with that, which is why the two are repeating the game. After something breaks again, you want to quit the game one more time, but then repeat it again. Main plot Together with the Kenarbans the family wants to eat in a civilized restaurant to them closer to meeting you. Malcolm and Reese have been playing a game where they hit each other for several days. While the adults sit together alone, at some point Hal and Abe get up from the table and move away from their wives to the bar of the restaurant, where they get drunk and have fun during the evening. Meanwhile, Kitty and Lois get to know each other better. Lois realizes that she prefers to avoid any confrontations instead of facing them. Lois explains to her in the following years that she has to change. Meanwhile, Stevie also wants to play Malcolm and Reese's game, but finds that Reese is very good at it. After he leaves the table completely dejected and ends the game, Reese tries to apologize to him, but is beaten up by Stevie. When his mother Kitty notices this, she first grumbles at her son and then at her husband and gives them her opinion. At the same time, Commander Spangler is allegedly being visited by his mother at the military academy (which is not shown, however) and does not want to have any stress with his cadets for a weekend. Francis, meanwhile, wants to throw a party at the academy. So he and his friends invite neighboring girls and organize the party with them. But this degenerates into a chaos that neither Francis nor his comrades can end. To end the hustle and bustle, the cadets finally turn to their commanding officer, Spangler. When he enters the academy room where the girls were celebrating, they are long gone, but the room is devastated.
21st	5	A totally screwed up weekend	Casino	Nov 19, 2000	Feb 23, 2002	Todd Holland	Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson	06-00-209
Intro Hal wakes up in bed at night and tells Lois that he has forgotten something, but doesn't know what, and falls asleep again. When they get up the next morning, Dewey is asleep against the wall. Hal wakes him up and tells him he has learned his lesson. Main story Hal and Lois spend the weekend with their children in the hotel on an Indian reservation. Hal immediately tries his luck in the casino at the hotel, but cannot win anything at first. But in order to win a profit, he uses his son Malcolm, who tells him the right moves behind his back. Nevertheless, they are caught by the management and are banned from the casino. When Lois later learns that Hal has done something, he offers her to look after the children all day, which Lois cannot refuse. Later in the casino, Lois redeems a coupon for the wheel of fortune and wins a wellness offer for two people. But since her husband is not there and she accidentally discovers Dewey, who has stayed there, the two now take advantage of the offer and have a lot of fun. At the same time, Hal, Reese and Malcolm get lost in a military compound where bombs are detonated for test purposes. One after the other, they must escape multiple ignitions on the site and get to safety. In the end, however, they are caught and interrogated by a member of the military, but in the end they are released. Although the family thinks Francis is in the military academy, Francis skips school and spends his weekend at his parents' house. While there, Craig enters the house with his key. After they meet in shock, they mutually agree not to tell anyone about it and spend the rest of the weekend together in the house.
22nd	6th	The archenemy	Convention	Nov 22, 2000	02nd Mar 2002	Jeff Melman	Bob Stevens	06-00-208
Intro The three boys sit in the garden without saying a word until Reese complains that Dewey is said to be holding a bigger stick than he is. He says he never has anything nice and that he has a bad life. Malcolm then goes to Dewey, breaks his stick in half and throws them both away. Main story Hal and Lois are going to a convention for two days and hire babysitter Patty for their absence. After the boys' parents drive away, these prepare pranks for their babysitter. But when he comes, the boys fall in love with her and let go of the planned pranks. Shortly thereafter, Malcolm and Francis talk on the phone, but Patty intervenes and wants to talk to her former classmate. Francis, however, remembers her as an overweight and pushy girl and hangs up. In order to impress their babysitter, Malcolm and Reese dress, as they rarely do. When they try to impress her at dinner, their plan doesn't work out because Dewey impresses her by dancing in front of her. Since Dewey is having fun all night with her, his brothers are jealous. Even a plan of this to make Dewey less popular with her fails. Later that evening, Patty and Francis talk on the phone together. She suggests they could meet, but he refuses because he still thinks she is overweight. When Patty is dejected afterwards, she cheers Dewey up again. When everyone is lying in bed shortly afterwards, Dewey simulates stomach ache and is now allowed to lie in bed with Patty. To deceive Dewey, his brothers appear outside the window that night and threaten to burn his teddy bear. But Dewey locks the door so that the two of them can no longer enter the house. Meanwhile, Hal meets his archenemy Keneally, who stole his idea years ago and is now making money with it. Together they fight several times at the event. But when Lois gets too embarrassed, she offers her husband that he can have sex with her if he no longer fights. Hal accepts this and leaves Congress with her.
23	7th	Flying rats with radar	Robbery	Nov 26, 2000	09 Mar 2002	Todd Holland	Alan J. Higgins	06-00-215
Intro Hal and Lois want to end their TV evening and go to bed, but Hal sits there for a while and zaps on a channel that is playing Mexican soap operas. After all, he looks through the whole night and in the morning pretends to have just got up. Main story In the Lucky Aide supermarket , the deputy managing director Craig and Lois get caught in a robbery and hostage situation. Lois urges Craig to give the robbers the combination for the vault so that the robbery will pass without bloodshed, but Craig refuses until he finally confesses that he was never trusted with the code. He confesses his love for Lois, and when it destroys all hopes, he throws the safe at the robbers. This opens and the robbers flee with the money. Meanwhile, Hal brings home an old cupboard that he wants to give to Lois. But it is full of bats that are now colonizing the house. Together with Malcolm, Reese and Dewey he tries to fight the bats, but they destroy the entire facility. At the military academy, Francis tries to cheer up a friend who is lovesick.
24	8th	therapy	Therapy	Nov 29, 2000	16. Mar. 2002	Ken Kwapis	Ian Busch	06-00-210
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25th	9	The midsummer night's dream	High school play	Dec 13, 2000	0Apr 6, 2002	Jeff Melman	Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum	06-00-211
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26th	10	The alpha idiot	The Bully	Dec 20, 2000	30th Mar 2002	Jeff Melman	Alex Reid	06-00-214
Because Reese loses in a wrestling match against a girl, he questions his role as a schoolyard bully and decides to become peaceful. While the gifted are initially happy that they are no longer pestered by Reese, it turns out that without him as the top school thug they become the target of loads of bullys who are moving up. Malcolm also learns that many students were offended by his sarcastic comments, and since Reese no longer protects him, they are now taking revenge on him. General chaos breaks out at the school, and the gifted beg Reese to resume his role as a bully and keep the students under control. Francis' birthday is imminent at the military academy. Because he is afraid of the humiliating birthday rites of the cadets, he calls Lois to ask for money for the trip home that day. Instead, they send him biscuits and a congratulatory balloon, thus making his comrades aware of his birthday.
27	11	The witch	Old Mrs. Old	0Jan. 7, 2001	23 Mar 2002	Todd Holland	Alan J. Higgins	06-00-213
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28	12	spring feelings	Krelboyne Girl	Jan. 14, 2001	Apr 13, 2002	Arlene Sanford	Bob Stevens	06-00-212
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29	13	New neighbors	New neighbors	Jan. 21, 2001	Apr 20, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum	06-00-219
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30th	14th	Midlife crisis	Hal quits	0Feb. 4, 2001	Apr. 27, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein	06-00-216
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31	15th	Help, grandma and grandpa are there	The grandparents	Feb 11, 2001	0May 4, 2002	Todd Holland	Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson	06-00-217
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32	16	The parking ticket	Traffic ticket	Feb. 18, 2001	Aug 11, 2002	Jeff Melman	Larry Strawther	06-00-218
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33	17th	The family duel	Surgery	Feb 25, 2001	May 18, 2002	Jeff Melman	Maggie Bandur & Pang-Ni Landrum	06-00-222
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34	18th	The master chef	Reese Cooks	04th Mar 2001	May 25, 2002	Jeff Melman	Dan Kopelman	06-00-220
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35	19th	Schoolstress	Tutoring Reese	11th Mar 2001	0June 1, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Ian Busch	06-00-221
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36	20th	bowling	bowling	0Apr 1, 2001	0June 8, 2002	Todd Holland	Alex Reid	06-00-223
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37	21st	Malcolm versus Reese	Malcolm vs. Reese	Apr 22, 2001	June 15, 2002	Todd Holland	Dan Danko & Tom Mason	06-00-226
Francis visits from the military academy. He buys two wrestling tickets and determines that he will attend the event with whoever loves him most. In order to determine this, he lets Malcolm and Reese perform all sorts of tasks for him, and at the same time the two try to obtain house arrest for their opponent. When Francis goes to wrestling with a girl anyway, his brothers take revenge on him. Dewey has currently been assigned the task of feeding Craig's cat while he is away. When she runs away, he calls his father Hal to help. However, Hal's plans favor a break-in that clears Craig's apartment. When Lois comes to help, the search for the cat culminates in the whole apartment burning out.
38	22nd	Mini bike	Mini bike	Apr 29, 2001	June 22, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein	06-00-227
Malcolm's family took Craig in after Hal, Lois, and Dewey caused the fire in his apartment. He proves to be an extremely troublesome roommate who strains the nerves of all family members. Malcolm, Reese and Dewey find a minibike and restore it, but Lois forbids them to ride it. When Reese secretly does it, he breaks his leg. In order to hide his crime, he lies behind Craig's car as it drives off the front of the house, and pretends that Craig has run over his leg. Craig moves out, contrite about his supposed lapse. Hal visits Francis at the military academy for a father-son weekend. At first he is very disappointed that Francis is the only cadet who has no awards and is only causing trouble. However, when he learns that Francis only rebels against the academy management when he wants to take action against injustices, he is still proud of his son.
39	23	Lies have short legs	Carnival	0May 6, 2001	June 29, 2002	Ken Kwapis	Alex Reid	06-00-225
Malcolm, Reese, Dewey and Malcolm's boyfriend Stevie claim to their parents that they sleep in the other parents' house, but in fact they go to the fair at night with the bus. Shortly after they get there, the fair ends and they are locked in the grounds. A drunk security guard chases the four and takes Stevie prisoner. He is released again through the intervention of the sideshow actors. Meanwhile, Hal and Lois try to spend an intimate evening at home, but when Stevie's worried parents appear, they go looking for the children together. They let Francis from the military academy steer them over the phone to all the places where the four boys could be stuck until they meet them at the fair. As a punishment, the boys have to go home on foot.
40	24	Major alarm	Evacuation	May 13, 2001	0July 6, 2002	Todd Holland	Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson	06-00-228
Because Malcolm is home late, Lois puts him under house arrest. Meanwhile, Hal and Dewey drive to the garbage dump to dispose of a couch, but on the way it falls from the roof unnoticed and remains on the rails. This derails a freight train carrying chemicals, whereupon the neighborhood is evacuated and all residents are housed in a gym. Hal says he was responsible for the accident and feels guilty. In the emergency shelter, Lois maintains house arrest and does not let Malcolm leave his bunk. While Reese runs a black market trade in urgently needed goods, Dewey tells people that his parents were killed in a chemical accident in order to swindle gifts and gifts. Hal hears of this, and without realizing that the alleged orphan is his son Dewey, he begins to collect money for him among the evacuees. Malcolm finally tries to rebel against the arrest, but then Lois demonstrates that she could spank his ass at any time if she wanted. As a result, Dewey is the son of Hal. Hal is accused of fraud, and Reese's usury is also exposed. When Dewey then frankly tells the crowd that the train derailed because of their couch, they are banished to a tiny area outside the gym. Lois is also being taken there for allegedly beating Malcolm. While the four of them have to spend the night there, Malcolm remains undisturbed in the gym, much to his satisfaction. Francis meanwhile has to deal with his comrade's rendezvous with the little sister of his date partner. While he initially feels this as a burden, he gradually develops a friendly familiarity with the girl.
41	25th	Pregnancy alarm	Flashback	May 20, 2001	July 13, 2002	Jeff Melman	Ian Busch	06-00-224
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DVD release

The second season of Malcolm in the Middle is expected to be released in the UK in mid-2012 . A release in the USA had already been announced for autumn 2003 , but failed due to the high costs for the music rights.

Web links

• Season 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Season 2 of Malcolm in the middle on Fernsehserien.de

annotation

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} see Malcolm in the middle # sequence of a sequence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Bitter End. In: EW.com. Retrieved March 1, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Malcolm in the Middle (a Titles & Air Dates Guide). In: epguides.com. Retrieved February 8, 2012 . 
3. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm in the Middle Seasons 1-7 Coming to DVD Starting April 2012! In: www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk. Retrieved March 5, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Malcolm in the Middle - Season 2 (plus Other Shows) Hamstrung by Music Clearances. In: www.tvshowsondvd.com. Retrieved March 5, 2012 .