"Santa Claws" <santa.claws@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I wonder how much pressure there is on the ratings this season. I
> understood they had been falling, but if they expect this to be the
> final season would try to go out on a quality high rather than a
> rating chasing high?
They probably don't feel a whole lot if they didn't out it back on at 8:30
like they should have. I guess in a way they feel some freedom to do more
(ahem) "adult" things in the show with the later time, and they will - no
matter how many more viewers it costs them.
> I also wonder what influence Fox 'standards and practises' people, or
> whatever they were called on the DVD, have - the ones that make them
> wear safety belts in the car they just jacked. Would drinking be
> covered by them?
Maybe as long as Malcolm got a designated driver or recycled the cans he
drank out of, probably. Seriously though I do see what you mean about
some
of the S&P mandates and how hypocritical or duplicit they can seem. A lot
of that stuff depends on the social (and often times political) forte du
jour.
> On the whole though, Fox never struck me as a network worried about
> offending people... if it makes money.
I'd say that is the case. But it does boggle the mind what those in the
television business find abhorrent or harmful and what they don't.
> >That's because the kids have actually been raised to be self centered.
They
> >haven't been raised to think of others or the consequences of their
actions
> >because no one thinks of theirs or actually takes the time to teach
them,
so
> >all they have with them is the need to outdo the system.
>
> Totally. Malcolm, with his genius IQ, just about borders on almost
> working this out at times. Said to camera, and admittedly with irony,
> about their problems hiring baby sitters - 'I'm starting to think it
> might be us.'
And later the Christmas episode "What is it about this time if year that
gets Mom so upset?".
> >Come to think of it, the "Flashback" episode sort of gave a few clues
to
> >this - remember when they had the microwave right up against Lois's
stomach
> >when she was pregnant with Dewey?
>
> I had forgotten that joke ... Of course by season 4 they are starting
> to make Dewey out to be as clever as Malcolm, even if he is mildly
> sociopath.
Maybe slightly sociopathic with regard to his family, yet still the
softest
of the bunch and quite amicable toward everyone else. He managed to being
out the (perhaps not so) inner child in Craig and managed to get all those
people to help him sock it to Hal in the "Baby" episode for giving the
baby
his birthday. Dewey is intriguing like that - mystical to where you don't
know if he is conniving or genuine (though if your last name isn't
Wilkerson, odds are good it's the latter).
> >> The kid is
> >> traumatized and will think of mom every time he thinks of ***... at
> >> least I think that was her plan.
> >
> >I believe it was, and it is a quote that parents of adult
> >development-arrested children have lived and died by.
>
> Hmmm. Dabney??? There are mothers worse than Lois...
In that sense, certainly. And it's scary to think about if you consider
that so many parents parent like this that the show thinks it can viably
do
a social parody on the topic. We won't have to worry about the human race
being destroyed - because in 2-3 generations nobody will reproduce; 75% of
the kids that got the Lois/Dabney's mom treatment will be in their 40's
living at home playing video games all day.
> >Malcolm: But Mom, Cynthia and I are supposed to be married in 6
months!"
> Kind of off the subject, but with her other show being cancelled, I am
> kind of hoping Cynthia returns this season. I figure if Malcolm is
> ever to stand a chance, it has to be with someone like Cynthia. I
> never get why exactly Lois seems to approve of Cynthia, But in a
> frightening way I could see Malcolm and Cynthia turning into Hal and
> Lois...
Of course. Cynthia is everything Lois would want for her sons -
controlling, bullying, and can use her looks or "other assets" to
perpetuate
it. You see the way she brought Reese to his knees and the way she has to
have everything her way - she's the Lois of Generation Y.
And chronologically speaking, there could be a chance for Cynthia to
return.
WB only ordered about 6 episodes of The O'Keefes (that other show), and it
was originally sold as a Fall 2002 pilot meaning it was shot in late
2001/early 2002 (about the time her MITM episodes aired), so the deal
there
has long since been done.
> >Dewey would probably want to the most, being the good guy that he is -
And
> >the most resourceful at scaring it up too.
> >> Oddly enough that kind of happened to my best bud. Cured him of
>
> >He had a misfit and socially needy neighbor show his hidden dark side?
;)
> >
>
> Actually a Reese-like friend who tied him to a flag pole by the school
> parking lot in his underwear after he got drunk... I figure something
> along those lines might work in the context of the show.
Whew...thank goodness. :)
> And Reese didn't drink... The one party he went to he knew he wasn't
> likely to be caught with Lois at her sisters, and with alcohol
> everywhere to tempt him, they got Hal drunk and kept Reese sober.
That's why I keep thinking that there is a hidden side of Reese that truly
knows right from wrong and will shy away form the really major things
(like
he backed away from stealing the money from the fast food joint). Maybe
he
likes to spend his energies being more creative or original with his
antics,
or maybe there is a side of him that truly is scared of doing something
too
major.
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