"Eddie Bernard" <spambox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Over the hills and far away in alt.tv.malcolm-in-themiddle, Mediajock
came
> to play...
>
> > I think he is meant more to be in the 11-12 range. In the above
> > referenced episode, you will note that Lois is telling him he will be
> > home at 3:00 for the first time this year, indicated he is starting
> > middle school when (here) the school day is an hour longer. In the
US,
> > that starts with 6th grade, which most kids enter when they are 11.
>
> Hmm, this could well be a continuity error in the programme here. If I
> remember rightly, in the episode "Flashback" at the end of season two,
> they make a reference to Dewey being between four and five years younger
> than Malcolm. Given that Malcolm is about 12-13 in the 2nd season, that
> would make Dewey between 7 and 8.
>
> By that counting, he'd be between 9 and 10 for season four, which is a
> fair way away from the 11-12 range they claim !
I assume you are taking this information from the "Dewey" segment of
"Flashback" where (IIRC) they said Malcolm was 4 when Dewey was
born...correct?
Be that the case, I think this may be explained by highlighting some
season
4 occurrences you may not have seen yet.
At the beginning of Season 4, Malcolm was finally given an age - it was
14,
as he was entering his freshman (first) year of high school. (Actually
nowhere in script dialogue did anyone come out and say he was 14 - it was
merely implied, plus other show press did say it.)
Since then, an episode called "Forwards Backwards" aired here on Dec. 1,
2002 that focused on Malcolm getting grounded for his birthday after
suc***bing to Reese's constant pestering. Since the birthday came after
he
was of freshman age, we can assume that he turned 15 and thus the 4+ year
interval between him and Dewey can still hold.
Remember also that you can't totally rely on given ages - especially from
the first few seasons. I don't know how much pre-show press you all got
over there before MITM debuted, but early promotionals here had Malcolm
being billed as a 9 year old. That would have rendered Dewey all of 5,
which we know has to be wrong.
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