Malcolm in the Middle/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* When Lois' car starts to stall while she's tracking down Francis for ditching military school, she gets it running again just by bellowing the word '''"MOOOOOVE!!"''' That's right, even nonsentient objects know better than to screw with Lois.

* 'Lois's Makeover' - Lois spends an episode being called 'slovenly' by her bosses and pressured to wear more makeup at work, leaving her looking increasingly ridiculous. As she leaves for home near the end of the episode, a man comes up to her and asks, hesitantly, if he can "help" her. He then asks what it will cost him, and if using his car would be cheaper.

** Oh, and there's one final touch after she leaves:

* Stevie got his in the episode Dinner Out. He, Malcolm and Reese play the circle game, and Reese constantly tricks Stevie in a number of clever ways, resulting in Stevie being punched repeatedly. After a while, Stevie appears to concede defeat, and goes off crying. Reese, feeling guilty, follows him... only to look through the watercooler and see Stevie on the other side, making the sign. He then punches Reese so hard he knocks him FLYING, and when he pretends to offer to help him up, he shows Reese the sign AGAIN. Then, with a cry of "Reap... the whirlwind!" he grabs Reese by the shirt and punches him repeatedly. Game set.

* Come to think of it, Malcolm got another one at the Talent Fair. For those who haven't seen it, his talent was to answer any math problem the audience could throw at him, no matter how complicated, on the spot, instantly, without a moment's hesitation. Even the trick question "What's the capital of Iceland?" didn't make him hesitate.

* [[Evil Matriarch|Grandma Ida's]] crowning moment also happens to double as the only decent thing she has ever done in her entire life. When she realizes that Dewey is about to be hit by a truck, without even stopping to think about it, she clamps her cigarette in her teeth and runs to push him out of the way, losing a leg in the process. [[Crowning Music of Awesome|While some truly awesome reggae plays]].

** Francis also has the first episode where he joins the German-run dude ranch. The ranch's other employee tells him the owners are idiots and they can both slack off if they watch each others' backs, "what do you say?" At the beginning of the series Francis definitely would have taken him up on it, but after going through a lot of [[Character Development]] in the previous year his response is "I say you're fired."

* Hal gets one, dealing with the in-laws that brought a live grenade into the house and ruined a new fridge (the final straw in the grief they brought to the family):

Hal: Please. I know you're uncomfortable loaning to family, so let me be clear. With one phone call, I could have your asses thrown in jail for child endangerment. So, this money I'm asking for is not a loan. [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|It's blackmail.]] }}

* When Malcolm's mother confronts a [[Jerkass]] RA after she insisted on sleeping over at Malcolm's university interview, the RA [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] her by pointing out Lois' control freak nature, and that she is obviously and pathetically trying to live vicariously through Malcolm.

** What follows is a transcript of said moment of awesomeness:

'''Leland:''' Simple truth is, you're just too afraid to let go of the one thing in your life that may be a success. But hey, you don't have to take my word for it. Why don't we just ask the other mothers here and see what they think? ''(Looks around the hallway)'' Oh, that's right, there are no other mothers here! ''(Backs into his room)'' You just cost this floor their electricity privileges. ''(He shuts the door, and all other lights go out)'' }}

*** Also out of slight guilt, Malcolm decides to retaliate by kicking Leland's door stating "I want some candy!" at the cost of ever going to that school. That's a huge sacrifice.

** To elaborate: The boys were drawing graffiti on a billboard of a half-naked woman however at that moment, Lois caught them in the act and demanded that they come down immediately. Malcolm quickly reacts by claiming that it's a protest about sexism. This grew popular with the women who were nearby even though Lois knows that they're trying to escape trouble. The awesome begins when Malcolm and Dewey become disgusted by Reese's blatant misogyny so they shun him. Reese gets an epiphany that he was in the wrong for having a skewed view of women. As he says this, the boys decide to surrender to Lois but she let's them go unpunished because of the whole incident. I'd say that's rather awesome.

*** Uh... they ''didn't'' surrender. Lois decides as a last ditch effort to get the mayor to have the boys taken town by telling a news crew how proud she is of her boys, especially Dewy who is apparently ''[[Blatant Lies|very ill]]''. As for the punishment part, in regards to Malcolm and Reese, her words exactly:

*** Lois does looked at least touched that the boys learned something about it after all.

* The episode "Lois Strikes Back". Four girls play a cruel trick on Reese (sending him letters from a secret admirer but ending up leaving a pig on the doorstep instead, then hanging up a picture of them both with the caption "Prom King and Queen") that leaves him catatonic; the school principal does nothing to punish the girls, so Lois takes matters into her own hands. The first girl prizes her long hair, so she gets a load of glue inside her bike helmet, which results in a haircut from a hedge trimmer. The second girl has a pretty big collection of dolls, so Lois cuts the heads off of all of them and stashes them in the girl's locker, where they fall out after the locker's opened. The third girl's parents receive a call from Lois pretending to be a hotel receptionist; she says that the girl had made a reservation there with a boyfriend, then planted a bag full of condoms and sex toys near a window in the girl's house to further frame her.

* Francis's [[Calling the Old Man Out|final words]] to Lois before he moves to Alaska. Not quoting him, but to sum up what he said, "The future is mine, and you're not my mother anymore!"

* How do the boys beat a cheating Hal at basketball? By standing on each other's shoulders to make a tower, then punching him in the groin when he tries a jump shot.

 

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