Season 2
🎬 25 Episodes 📅 2000 ⏱ 22 min
A brilliant teenager's meticulously planned day crumbles when his chaotic family decides to take a spontaneous road trip. Malcolm in the Middle captures the raw, unfiltered chaos of adolescence when intelligence meets dysfunction at every turn. As the gifted young man tries desperately to maintain control amid the madness surrounding him, he discovers that sometimes survival itself is the greatest achievement. The heartfelt comedy reveals that even in a world of complete disorder, family bonds remain the one thing worth fighting for.
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📊 Season Stats
25
Episodes
2000
Year
22
min / ep
9.2
Watch Hours
2/7
Season No.
⭐ 8.7
Best Episode
Ep. 20 · Bowling
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🎬 Episodes 25 episodes
1
⭐ 8.0
Traffic Jam (2)
Hal, Loi, Malcolm and Reese are trapped in a horrendous traffic jam. Francis enters himself in a bet that recalls the egg-eating wager in "Cool Hand Luke." Malcolm becomes smitten over a girl he meets. Dewey has his own little adventure--all over the world--before his family returns home.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Dan Kopelman
2
⭐ 7.4
Halloween Approximately
Francis visits the week after Halloween and helps his brothers in a trick that involves a giant slingshot with icky ammo. Hal tries to catch a mysterious hot-rodder.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Dan Kopelman
3
⭐ 7.9
Lois's Birthday
Crummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Alex Reid
4
⭐ 7.3
Dinner Out
Shenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Michael Glouberman
5
⭐ 7.2
Casino
A family weekend vacation to a casino turns into an ordeal in the desert for Hal, Reese and Malcolm, who wander onto an artillery range. Francis sneaks home, but has no one to play with.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Neil Thompson
6
⭐ 7.8
Convention
Hal and Lois heads off to a convention while the boys stays home for the babysitter. Malcolm, Reese and Dewey assumed it's just another old woman, their parents hired to watch them. They decide to do a series of pranks on their babysitter, which includes the covered up sewer tank with a blanket and …
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Bob Stevens
7
⭐ 7.3
Robbery
The night shift at Lucky Aide is held hostage by two robbers, since Craig does not want to give up the combination for the store's safe. Francis tries to help a heartbroken friend at the academy, while Hal and the boys fight nature at home.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Alan J. Higgins
8
⭐ 7.4
Therapy
Malcolm's humiliation as a Krelboyne drives him crazy, so he fakes his way into seeing the school's shrink, with whom the con continues.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Ian Busch
9
⭐ 7.4
High School Play
Malcolm gets a role in the high school play and is so captivated by high school gossip that he forgets his lines. Lois discovers the joys of massage. Hal and Dewey build a society of model buildings in the living room. Francis tries to show his individualism at school when the commandant cracks down…
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Maggie Bandur
10
⭐ 7.4
The Bully
Reese, promising champion of his school's wrestling team, gets beaten by a girl, completely demoralizing him. So he gives up his school-bully carrier, which destabilizes the natural order of things at school. Francis tries to get out of academy at his birthday in an attempt to avoid academy-birthday…
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Alex Reid
11
⭐ 7.2
Old Mrs. Old
Dewey starts carrying a purse to school. Francis's friend Richie joins him at military school. Malcolm becomes a slave to an old woman in the neighborhood.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Alan J. Higgins
12
⭐ 7.6
Krelboyne Girl
Lois and Hal try to end Dewey's dependence on his stuffed animal Domingo by convincing him that it is too dirty. Strangely attracted, Malcolm finds himself in emotional confusion about the new weird Krelboyne girl Cynthia. At the academy Commandant Spangler re-institutes old Hickory into the school'…
🎬 Arlene Sanford ✍️ Bob Stevens
13
⭐ 7.6
New Neighbors
New neighbors, who turn out to be even more awful than Malcolm's family, move in next door; the Marlin Academy cadets prepare for a visit from Oliver North.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Maggie Bandur
14
⭐ 7.5
Hal Quits
Hal feels like his job is a piece of c* after going to Dewey's class for parent job day. So he decides to take a "kidney failure" weeks off. While Francis is forced to work at the lucky aid over spring break.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Michael Glouberman
15
⭐ 7.4
The Grandparents
Lois' estranged parents, Ida and Victor, pay the family a visit. Right away, trouble starts brewing. Victor bonds with Reese, Ida gets Malcolm into a fight, and Dewey is haunted by childhood memories of his inattentive grandparents.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Neil Thompson
16
⭐ 7.6
Traffic Ticket
Lois gets a traffic ticket and immediately blames Francis and makes him get the money to her. To do this, Francis stages a stunt for the other cadets' amusement. Malcolm finds evidence that Lois was wrong about the traffic ticket.
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Larry Strawther
17
⭐ 7.2
Surgery
A hospital stay unsettles Malcolm, who's stuck in a kids ward with what may be appendicitis. Meanwhile, at military school, Francis leads a hunger strike.
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Maggie Bandur
18
⭐ 7.9
Reese Cooks
A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Dan Kopelman
19
⭐ 7.7
Tutoring Reese
Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Ian Busch
20
⭐ 8.7
Bowling
Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Alex Reid
21
⭐ 7.6
Malcolm vs. Reese
Francis has an extra ticket for a wrestling event and it is the prize pitting Malcolm vs. Reese in a one-upmanship war; caring for Craig's cat is troublesome for Dewey.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Tom Mason
22
⭐ 7.4
Mini-Bike
Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Michael Glouberman
23
⭐ 7.3
Carnival
Malcolm, Dewey, Stevie, and Reese hide out at a traveling carnival after hours and run afoul of a determined security guard and several members of the freak show.
🎬 Ken Kwapis ✍️ Alex Reid
24
⭐ 8.3
Evacuation
Hal is inadvertently responsible for a toxic chemical spill that forces a neighborhood evacuation; Malcolm deals with being grounded even in the emergency shelter; Francis suffers through a date with a geeky 12-year-old.
🎬 Todd Holland ✍️ Neil Thompson
25
⭐ 8.3
Flashback
Lois is two weeks late with her period, causing her and Hal to panic and start a big fight, while trying to keep it from the boys. And while Dewey is scared that his parents may split up, Hal and Lois remember the troubles of getting their previous four sons.
🎬 Jeff Melman ✍️ Ian Busch