Malcolm In The Middle

Weekdays starting at 12 p.m.

• Source: 20th Century Fox Television

SUMMARY: Malcolm in the Middle follows the life of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of a regular high school kid in a not-so regular life. Malcolm faces the daily challenges of coping with girls, school, and his overly embarrassing family.

His mother Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) is outspoken, opinionated and rules the roost despite her boys growing wise to her crafty ways. Hal (Bryan Cranston), a bumbling father and a big kid at heart, finds himself creating more chaos than his five boys combined, including Malcolm's nemesis Reese (Justin Berfield) who makes up for his lack of intelligence with deviance and mischief.

STARS: Frankie Muniz (Malcolm), Jane Kaczmarek (Lois), Bryan Cranston (Hal), Christopher Masterson (Francis), Justin Berfield (Reese), Erik Per Sullivan (Dewey)

QUOTES:
Hal: If you try anything, anything, at all, I will be on you like a rainbow on an oil slick.

Malcolm: I never even knew we had fancy silverware. When was the last time you used this?
Lois: The night you were conceived. You want more details?

Dewey: That's my piggy bank. That was in my room.
Reese: Relax, dipwad. I got two bucks for it.
Dewey: It had sixteen dollars in it!
Reese: Waa-waa. Spilt milk.

TRIVIA:
-The two wrestlers briefly featured in the opening credits are Bret Hart and Chris Benoit.

-The last name of the family has been revealed only once in the show, in the pilot episode, when Francis wears the name tag "Wilkerson" on his school uniform.

-In the episode where Hal takes the boys to the racetrack, it is revealed that Malcolm was named after Hal's favorite NASCAR driver Rusty Malcolm.

-Frankie Muniz won a Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Television Actor two years in a row (2003 & 2004).