I have enjoyed this show both when it first aired and rewatching it here and there on syndication as of, like, 2 years ago. Generally good stuff, though, especially in later seasons, they're not afraid to recycle tropes.
― EDB, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz really malcolm least funny thing on show. though very realistic. as far as kids go.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lois's friend, the guy who was on ellen's sitcom, he had one of my favorite episodes with the helper monkey. love that one.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the cartoonish sets and overacting are both necessary
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
the helper monkey
Yes! This episode is golden.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
always thought Cranston was a beast on this show, totally unsurprised but delighted at his career since then
― men are from mars, bruno has no penis (some dude), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The episodes with Cloris Leachman as the grandmother are all pretty funny, especially the one where she is doping the family and her husband to be.
― earlnash, Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
reese: you show me a man with pride and I'll show you a man with limited options
― sonderborg, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked this show pretty well. didnt really grate too much for me & i thought the family dynamic was realistic
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, the mood it capture was realistic -- obvi it was rather cartoonish in other ways
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
might have been a decent show without frankie muniz and his charaacter
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly more annoying to me were the simultaneous stories about the older brother & his new wife in alaska & their entirely unrelated plot adventures
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
oh right I forgot about him yeah get rid of him too
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
but the other two brothers, cranston and kaczmarek were pretty good! they deserved better
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
kaczmarek felt like the most authentic mom in tv history
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
this show was really not v good
― Lamp, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf wikipedia says muniz now attempting a career as a racecar driver?
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently he was also in a 2007 movie with harvey keitel and haylie duff called 'my sexiest year'
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
my friend & i were the only two ppl in the theatre for our midafternoon showing of 'agent cody banks' back in two thousand w/e. got super drunk on peach schnapps and made fun of hil duffy's acting iirc
― Lamp, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2272/frankiemunizkd5.jpghttp://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Celebrity+Locker+Room+Presents+Star+Night+6caPPnbdFMGl.jpg
I feel like this guy might have a charlie sheen-like life ahead of him
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
unlike some shows i think they were actually trying to appeal to kids as well as all you arrested development slacker-types. which is why it was cartoony. i think.seems otm to me — it's hard to trust my judgment tho cuz I was still basically a kid (tween? when did this show start?). but maybe that's what felt slightly 'off' about it? that it was still in some measure just as much a "kids' show" as an "adults' show"
this is OTM. i loved this show as a young teenager, not only because my best friend had an older brother and a younger brother who got into all sorts of mischief, but because it had these moments of adult humor that were truly refreshing for a bookish nerdy faggot adolescent like myself.
also, totally used to imagine Reese naked all the time when the show first came out. then i stopped watching television and started having sex. ok.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This show was brilliant. Always <3'd Hal. Also, the episode where Reese does this huge plan - involving making a proper mix tape, etc - with the sole purpose of touching this prematurely-developed teen girl's boobs - genius.
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"Cats are nocturnal creatures. They prefer the night. Then again, so do coyotes. And feral dogs. And devil worshipers."- Hal
This show was rad. fuck the haters.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Thursday, 13 January 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked those parts if only because I found the wife super gorgeous, but that might be due to my own weird taste in woman more than anything. I did find it entertaining that he married a woman who had a lot in common with the mother who he claims terrorized him his entire life.
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:34 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this
― men are from mars, bruno has no penis (some dude), Thursday, 13 January 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I never could watch this show because they were all so hard to look at. Has there ever been an uglier cast?
― Moodles, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 20:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
considering a 'non-joking suggest ban' here
― cup of tea & an orange.xls (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
can't be bothered to see if it's on Youtube but I think the scene where a dude in the carpark approaches a heavily made-up Lois because he thinks she's a hooker is my favourite
― cup of tea & an orange.xls (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Remember when Kaczmarek held out for more money and there were a few episodes where she was absent? Has there been any other recent tv stars who have pulled this? I remember it being a common thing in the 70s, but I can't recall any in the past 20 years.
― http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I do like it but it may just be the relief that it isnt the 30th two and a half men of the day on comedy central. Theme tune makes me want to kill myself though.
― straightola, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
one of They Might Be Giants' best later songs!
― Magill: a gorilla (some dude), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved this show but fell out of the habit of watching it. I didn't know about the end-of-series reveal but wow did it make me lol.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I basically agree with that, I mean all the cartoony stuff aside she really kind of nailed the subtleties of it. I grew up with two brothers so yeah a lot of that stuff was kind of familiar to me. Especially since she's from Wisconsin like me and definitely has the same Midwestern accent.
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
theme song was totally otm for this show. this show was funny though all i can remember right now is the episode where hal for some reason became addicted to running things over with a bulldozer (?)
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 13 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I have fond memories of this show and wouldn't mind watchnig it again - is it out on DVD?
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Only the first series, apparently the music was too expensive for latter.
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this show made me irrationally angry.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder who the best sitcom or movie mom of all time is?
like I think lois in this is pretty awesome, but so was the mom from home alone, and jill from home improvement.
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"Has there ever been an uglier cast?"
night court cast
home improvement cast
dear john cast
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
markie post ~alone~ yanks night court from that list
― omar little, Thursday, 13 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so even though I think she was the most authentic mom of all time, there def was an aspect of watching her do her mom thing that was more uncomfortable-uncomfortable than uncomfortable-funny
― iatee, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
The episode in which Lois gets fined for a driving offense is like the platonic ideal sitcom episode.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that one was amazing. I especially liked the terrified look in Hal's face when he finds out that she actually committed the offense, and how the kids finally found out that their mother is not infallible. Great episode
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I totally second this by the way.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Thursday, 13 January 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Uh-oh
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Frankie Muniz lives in Phoenix? weird.
― no pop, no style -- all simply (Viceroy), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2007/09/03/va1237265002675/Brian-Bonsall-5637814.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude was also in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109287/
12-year-old Preston Waters is tired of his pain-in-the-butt brothers and stingy parents. One day, a rich but convicted money launderer by the name of Quigley nearly kills him in a parking lot and gives him (by mistake) a blank check. So Preston boots up his computer, makes out the check for one million dollars cash money, comes up with the pseudonym of "Macintosh" and starts to spendin'. But Quigley wants his money back -- it was supposed to be cashed by another man with a blank check and handed back to Quigley. Can Preston keep up the facade? Will Quigley and his goons get their money back? And will Preston learn how valuable money really is?
Part of the 1990s Post-"Home Alone" Kids' Movie Wish Fulfillmentcore genre.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
fun fact: 60% of all kids movies between 1992-1995 were about precocious middle-class kids coming into a ton of money. It was proto-Social Network.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep yep looks like it's already starting
The difference is that I can't see him scoring another sitcom now. In fact most of the later seasons of Malcolm kind of emphasized how generally unlikeable he was. I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up broke in a couple of years (in the most awesome way, of course)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I can imagine him getting another show at some point. He wouldn't have to play a likeable character.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link