"Santa Claws" <santa.claws@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 3.17... Best Dewey episode ever.
>
> A real turning point in the character I thought. After all the years
> beaten on by Reese and Malcolm, he finally snaps. The 'I want
> EVERYTHING' speech is, well, everything I wanted to hear him say since
> the first time they beat up on him.
I always root for Dewey getting back somehow. I hate these shows where
the
youngest in the family are meant to play the role of the stereotypical
little brother that takes everything. Erik puts a mystical sort of touch
on
Dewey when he plays the bad, devious, or exploratory side of him.
> Dewey plays the whole show as the perfect sociopath, he has so much
> fun with the humiliation he pours on Reese and Malcolm.
My favorite is a tossup between the above mentioned and the Humilithon in
Season 4 where he learns to manage his time when home alone.
> Poker #2...
>
> All that talk of Malcolm's birthday being at the start of the season
> for season 4, I guess this is just another continuity error. This one
> puts his birthday about at the end of the season; it was 'recently'
> Malcolm's birthday and they imply he didn't get a birthday present
> because Hal spent the money on this poker party instead.
Well, though that episode did air on April 21, it still may not
necessarily
exclude a November/December birthday for Malcolm. Granted the Wilkersons
may not buy a lot of nice things, so when Malcolm sees the extravagant
poker
setup, his mind may naturally turn to months past (or better yet may still
be there) where he did not get a present Of course, if/when you have
seen
Forwards Backwards, the real reason why may become more clear.
Surely, parents wouldn't just squander money for their children's
birthdays
on themselves...noooooooo...
> I didn't think this was the greatest of episodes, except for the whole
> Reese pimping for Stevie set up. And Reese forcing Dewey out into the
> back yard with a toilet roll so that he could use the bathroom to spy
> on Stevie making out, another of those 'perfect in their cruelty'
> moments.
In a way those were the things that didn't make it so hot for me. I don't
know...in some of those episodes where they just being out the worst in
anyone without those comedic leaps and bounds or playing jovially off each
other that rub me the wrong way.
For me, the _worst_ MITM episode to date was "Health Scare", season 3.
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