Was Malcolm in the Middle one of the best sitcoms of the decade?

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.

I feel like this guy might have a charlie sheen-like life ahead of him

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)

I can imagine him getting another show at some point. He wouldn't have to play a likeable character.

Yeah but the question is can he really act? I doubt that Dewey would get another role and Reese already moved on to production work.

What's Francis up to these days?

I think Muniz got into some twitter beef with people a while back and eventually retorted that he made bank and doesn't have to do anything? I was kind of amused but don't remember who he was arguing with.

xp no idea but I'm surprised he didn't get more work. He's easily the most photogenic of the bunch. I was floored to find out his older brother is Hyde from That 70's Show...but now I definitely see it

Not only is Hyde his brother, Francis & Donna (Laura Prepon) were an item.

Aren't the Masterson brothers scientologists? (ugh trivia)

Yeah they are. I remember reading an interview w/Danny where he talked about how tight he was when he was a teen with the Giovanni & Marissa (Mrs. Beck) Ribisi. Shades of 70s Show, he said he fell out with his family and crashed with them for awhile when he was starting his acting career.

The plot thickens

"I don't want to make a big deal because I am a celebrity," Muniz tells the operator. "I don't want there to be a big deal. I don't want any charges -- I just want her to stop throwing stuff!"

^^Such a Malcolm response.

haha, can totally imagine those lines said in increasingly exasperated/tearful 14-year-old-malcolm voice

More Malcolm-esque comedic bad luck

someone needs to start a frankie muniz commits suicide thread if this keeps up

Who the hell goes by "Frankie" anyways.

he should just change his name to Malcolm.

i knew a frankie in high school
cholo, cool as fuck. went by frank later, didnt fit imo

I feel like frankie is a name that only works for people under 15 and frank is a name that only works for dudes over 35, and so he's stuck in 'in the middle'

Oh let's hear it for Frankie
Oh Frankie Frankie
Oh Frankie Frankie

http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/muniz.jpg

that's our Frankie

Ah, hes just a little bitter and confused cos his dad has started cooking meth.

he's kinda rockin a jesse pinkman look if you look real closely

how much do you think the kid from Two and a Half Men made???

muniz is an idiot but that's a pretty good zing

nice work if you can get it

Two and a Half Men kid makes 250,000 an episode. Yikes

#occupytwoandahalfmen

if 2.5 men was cancelled after 3-4 seasons there's no way that kid finds more work, but man good for him, sick life

tempted by 'who is a more dispiriting pos frankie muniz or half man' poll

that would be a half man landslide

true, taking iHeartMtnDEW as yr twitter handle is p gross

what's wrong with the half man ?

Muniz had 'mini-stroke' the other day

he really seems like a dude who should not have access to money

http://i.imgur.com/c4N5c.png

http://i.imgur.com/9uHeSUP.png

:/

http://people.com/tv/frankie-muniz-memory-loss-malcolm-in-middle/

I guess it's cool that he gets to essentially watch all of Malcolm in the Middle for the first time again, it's a good show

he's such a weird guy. like how he shrugs it off as just some weird thing but it's clearly a major brain injury related thing

well goddamn that is fucking sad

it is very sad. he doesn't remember being on malcolm in the middle, which was 7 years of his childhood?!

life is unfair

i mean obviously the concussions and car crashes and 9 strokes (??) probably caused it but still, wtf. what happened to him playing drums. i remember watching a clip of him playing drums, he was really good

forget drums, whatever happened to him trying to buy the Clippers?

He has forgotten the drums. That's the whole point.

memento in the middle

(srsly tho wtf take care big man)

welp

https://i.redditmedia.com/ROY3wv_B9JbzkEXEmTheGrAH_dJ-PsfUMFftaJsAJjc.jpg?w=600&s=08d2d630fc67faf67ffb04bacd0c0518

Who's the lump on the right? Arpiao?

yeah

just noticed this is from 2014 tho

I'll go out on a limb and assume that the enthusiasm behind that handshake still stands three years later. Assuming he even remembers having met Arpaio.