"Santa Claws" <santa.claws@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Here's another possibility. I noticed that Poker #1 aired on the first
week
> >of January 2002, which would be a month after the supposed birthday, it
may
> >be that the visual of the poker equipment may have stuck in Malcolm's
mind
> >thru Poker #2, and he may have thought back to a month after his
birthday
> >when Hal first got it and wondered if that was in place of his birthday
> >present.
>
> Except then at best the poker set had to have been bought at least a
> month after his birthday. At the time of the birthday, Hal wouldn't
> have even known Abe was going to invite him to the first poker game.
He might have if he was wanting to do that. And consider that it may have
taken him forever to scheme on how to get Lois out of the house so he
could.
> >Well, that and the Clip Shows - to me those are major letdowns because
> >you're expecting something new when Sunday night rolls around, and
seeing
> >parts of what you have already seen kills the anticipation for me.
>
> I hate clip shows. But, I did like the framing stories they did. For
> the few lines they added, the kids describing themselves to the
> therapist was a lot of fun. And Reese's description of Malcolm as the
> one who sorts out their problems and fixes everything 'kind of like
> the gay kid on Scooby Doo' was a great line. And touching how Reese
> and Dewey moments after an all out fist fight are jumping up to defend
> Malcolm when the therapist suggests sending him away to a special
> school.
That did add some welcome change to the persona of Reese for me, and it
did
also underscore the fact that Malcolm is really the glue holding the
family
together, unappreciated as he is.
> And the second clip show, where Hal finally shouts Lois down over the
> way she treats Francis. Finally saying to her face that maybe she is
> partly to blame for Francis's behavior. Forget the clips, that was a
> great moment of revelation for the characters.
Liked that one too - it was about time Hal stood up to her. And, it did
solve the Francis mystery - that she is probably the cause for a LOT of
the
strife in the family. Since she tortured Francis like she did, that
obviously had to polarize the other kids as well. If they play it right,
this could be a door opener to a lot of other episodes where walls get
torn
down, mysteries solved, and hatchets buried.
I still hate clip shows. ;)
> With two clip shows over the last two seasons, I kind of hope they are
> done on their quota for that now.
As long as Jane or Bradley Whitford get sterilized...
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