"Santa Claws" <santa.claws@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >How do you think the episode should, could, or will play - or might
play
> >better? The obvious answer is to have H&L catch him, go off, lecture,
and
> >grounds him forever (again). Yet that may not happen, as noted before
that
> >is the obvious answer - MITM usually goes a step beyond that. What
> >imaginative, unique way can this be played to make all the sides even
out?
> >
> >Thoughts welcome.
> >
>
> I agree, getting grounded again is boring and I see them coming up
> with something way better than that...
>
> Gets drunk, is totally unable to perform with Kirsten, swears off
> drinking for life.
>
> or...
>
> Gets drunk, performs with Kirsten, is totally unable to remember the
> experience, swears off drinking for life.
>
> (Sorry, I'm in cynical mode!)
>
> Malcolm did get caught by Lois with a six pack on his way to go
> underage drinking back in season 4. He never as much as opened a can,
> but the show didn't exactly ****tray it as a negative: "I can't believe
> I'm about to do this; underage drinking, making out with a girl where
> we're almost certain to get caught... High school RULES!!" The only
> hint of punishment there is the next day he admits he doesn't know how
> upset Lois really is because she hasn't stop screaming at him yet.
That's what I didn't like. Underage drinking is enough of a problem as it
is.
But I think that sort of goes to parodize the way that many parents view
true discipline and respect in today's society - they see everything as a
matter of "yelling and grounding will fix all", and as they carry that
philosophy in to their late teens, they actually act surprised it has less
and less effect as they get older. For as stifling as Lois is, we're
supposed to assume that the screaming is largely the extent of it.
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