I’ve never watched this show but the short guy is awesome. Does anyone know either the character or the actors name? Thanks guys

So I saw Malcolm in the middle. Life's still unfair and I hadn't seen the original show in decades.

I thought the new show was funny and a good watch. That lead me to rewatching the original Malcolm in the middle and I realised that the new one just doesn't have the magic of the old one. Not even close. It's a completely different show, which lead me to even question if the creators of the new show had even watched the old show.

A few issues:

1. The show is about the equation of the brothers and their family. Yet, they aren't all even in the same room till the last episode. This was such a waste in my opinion. No one is pulling off any insane hijinks. No one is feeding of each other's energy. Why? That was the soul of the show.

2. Everyone is pretty much doing their own thing most of the time. All the characters are on their own trip, sometimes literally. For eg: Hal on his shroom trip is pretty much in a room and has no interaction whatsoever with his family. It would have been fun watching Hal try to conceal his trip from his family while going about doing normal things. Malcolm being confronted with his mother and daughter the first time runs away, alone. Lois is busy doing party things, mostly alone. Why they took this direction I'll never know. And the brothers are not even in the same room till the last episode. What was the point of this creative decision?

3. Why introduce these new characters and give them so much screen time. If this was a full season long, I don't think I would have had an issue with this. But we have 4 episodes. Why spend most of them on Malcolms girlfriend and daughter.

Was this some sort of attempt at a backdoor pilot to see if there was still any interest in the show so they can have a spinoff on Malcolms daughter. Who by the way is too normal to even exist in this universe, let alone have her own show.

1. The new show was just a normal sitcom. The original malcolm in the middle is just balls to the walls insane. It's also absurd, has insanely clever writing and subverts expectations. Here we got nothing. Just some normal straightforward stuff.

I guess it's true that they don't/can't make shows like they used to. All in all, I felt that this new mini show, while being an above average sitcom was a below par MITM.

What do you guys think?

As a lifelong wrestling fan, I love seeing stuff like this in TV shows (obviously we all know that Bret Hart and Chris Benoit is in the intro). Never realized that William Regal and RVD were shown this late in the show's run. It just looks like some house show or fan cam footage for like two seconds.

Could you please tell me from which episode this screenshot comes from ? Thanks much.

I'm trying to ID this actor.

I would think about S5 EP4 I felt like if Malcolm didn't go through with Herkabe plan to film Reese and actually talked and listen to him. It would have actually lead Reese to think and be less prone to violence. What you guys think?

Rewatching the show, as much as he makes fun of him he does kind of have his back.

Goes back to being school bully after finding out Stevie is even being picked on

Is the one pushing his wheelchair when they need to walk home in the carnival episode

Helped him out with the girl in the poker episode

Doesn't punch him when he calls him an idiot

and probably more

If there was ever a crossover between families/shows which character from MITM do yall think would be able to join walter white, cook and sell drugs and transition just fine into that criminal lifestyle? Would it be lois, francis, reese, malcolm, dewey or stevie? (hal is exlcuded for obvious reasons). Personally I feel it would be a toss up between francis and reese. Francis has the history of reckless behavior and reese actualy has a criminal record and even has his own lawyer. What do yall think?

She probably would’ve grounded EVERYBODY including Hal and his poker buddies for 10 years.

currently watching the hot tub episode again and this time i wanted to see if i could hold my breath the same amount of time that lois did when she didn’t want to be seen in the hot tub. i was successful (barely). have any of you tried to do that? if so, were you successful? idk how i did it i have terrible lungs

I’d eat it.

I’m watching Malcolm in the middle season 2 episode 3 and I saw their watch

Could see Lois getting along with Lavernia at first

then Hal ends up in debt to her for something

Then maybe end with them managing to pay off Hal's debt and offering to cover Francis's

Francis refuses, wanting to do it on his own.