Over the hills and far away in alt.tv.malcolm-in-themiddle, Mediajock came
to play...
> 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.
Agreed 100%. I really enjoyed this episode. While it's strange to see him
go aggressive all of a sudden given his normal passive tendencies, you can
see that it's still exactly in character, almost as if he's just biding
his time and waiting for the op****tunity.
>> 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.
Given that Poker #2 was before Forwards Backwards, it's entirely possible
that it's the the latter episode that's in the wrong.
>> 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.
Yes, I can't say I was so keen on the Reese sideline in this story. Not
only was the continual meanness to Dewey often unwarranted, I couldn't see
a particular reason why Reese was acting so out of character. Maybe I
missed something ? Did it have anything to do with him allegedly being in
the bath at the end of the episode ?
The way he was acting I was constantly expecting him to suddenly change
what he was doing and return back to the Reese that we know. Funny at
first, but then it was quite uncomfortable.
> For me, the _worst_ MITM episode to date was "Health Scare", season 3.
Yeah, I can't say I liked that episode. But the thing about Malcolm is
that you can have a "worst" episode that you still enjoyed. I've never
seen an episode where I've hated it all the way through... there's always
been something to laugh at and enjoy.
http://tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/DetailsServlet/showid-248/epid-3855/moduleid-21
I like to watch the ratings of the episodes on this page. I do have some
disagreements with them (I don't think Houseboat should be classed as the
2nd worst episode, personally) ... but I think it speaks volumes about the
show's consistent quality that out of 86 episodes the lowest rating is
6.7,
and new episodes continuously feature high, signifying that the show
is as good as it's ever been.
Eddie
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