In 2012, he suffered the first of many minor strokes that impacted his memory, leaving him unable to remember most of his time on Malcolm. He was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2017, and the host of Dancing with the Stars: Junior in 2018.
Since then, he has made brief appearances in TV shows like Don’t Trust the B- in Apartment 23 and Preacher, frequently as himself. In 2008, two years after the show ended, Muniz decided to take a break from acting to focus on his career as an open-wheel racer. Despite deeply resenting his academic fate, Malcolm is aware of his intelligence to a fault, often treating others with condescension and getting in trouble for not being able to hold his tongue.
After scoring 165 on an IQ test, Malcolm is enrolled in a special class for gifted children, becoming a member of the clique of young geniuses pejoratively known by the other kids in school as “Krelboynes”. To be performed in front of the parents at his school.The star of the show, Malcolm also doubles as narrator, breaking the fourth wall to offer insight on the plot’s goings on. Unfortunately Malcolm let's the secret out to Reese-who decides to exploit the situation to his advantage.Īnother excellent episode: Dewey writes an opera about the intimate goings on in Hal and Lois's bedroom. The female Krelboyne returns (she's Alex from Lost, BTW-one of two Losties who appear on this show) with a secret: she's hiding huge breasts underneath her baggie clothes. Naturally, the helper monkey becomes psychotic. Of course, the reality of of four devious daughters comes crashing in towards the end.Ĭraig decides to exploit a minor disability and gets a helper monkey.
It's an Oprah wet dream, except for all, who's eating his way into an early grave. Lois imagines what it would be like if she'd had all girls instead of boys. When she fails she must dance the traditional feast day dance in Lithuanian garb alongside her mother, who does it one-legged. Meanwhile a guilt ridden Lois visists her mother and must cook the complicated feast day torte. The stray dog he finds cannibalizes the leg. Her leg is amputated and out of guilt Dewey decides he needs to give the amputated leg a decent burial. The grandmother saves Dewey from a truck but gets runover in the process. So many favorites: Reese accidentally kidnaps a girl during his driving lesson several police cars throuh a low speed chase through So Cal. Jane Kaczmarek was the star of the show as far as I'm concerned. (Though the war of wills between Lois and Francis' wife was very funny.) Oh, and I much preferred it when Francis was in military school over later when he was married. It was hilarious how they set it all up.Īnother fave is when Hal teaches Malcolm to rollerskate through boot-camp-like Roller Disco lessons.
With Malcolm she was reading all the time and watching PBS, with Reese she was mad all the time, and then with Dewey it showed her getting something from a high shelf with her pregnant belly pressed against the cracked glass door of a running microwave oven. One of the episodes showed Lois in a montage of all her pregnancies, sort of explaining why each child is the way they are. (Didn't he start taking ballet and he loved it in one episode?) There was his pride as "the dumb one" who finally finds his niche but then his free-floating malice would take over and he'd do something mean. I think some of my favorite episodes centered on Reese finding that he was good at something, like when he discovered that he liked cooking and was really blowing his classmates away in his cooking class.
By "even Dewey" I mean that it's not necessarily a given that a child-actor who starts a series very young will grow into a good performer as he/she gets older but that kid was very good later on. I didn't start watching it until it went into syndication but it really was funny and the entire cast was great, even the actor who played Dewey.