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[[WMG: Malcolm won't become President.]]
Dewey will, and he'll create programs that help kids of low-income families. Because Lois and Hal's youngest child will be out of the house by the time he becomes President, they'll never see a dime of it.


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** Considering how Francis turned out, with her becoming strict with Francis, it's kind of hard to blame her for being very strict.
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* Lois may be ''more'' civil than Ida to others, but she is not civil with others.
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* She's a horrible mother. All the screaming and ridiculous levels of punishment, sometimes for no reason, is meant to point out how bad she is as a mother. Notice also that she doesn't seem to get along with anyone else for very long, either.
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In his first appearance, Herkabe’s parents are named John and ‘’Ida’’.

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In his first appearance, Herkabe’s parents are named John and ‘’Ida’’.''Ida''.
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[[WMG: Herkabe and Lois are brother and sister]]
In his first appearance, Herkabe’s parents are named John and ‘’Ida’’.
It’s established that Viktor and Ida cheated on each other, to the point that Viktor was gone for long stretches at a time. Maybe while Viktor was shacking up with Betty White, Ida was with John. She got pregnant with child and popped out Lionel. Then Viktor called to say he’d be coming back home, so she kicked John out and sent Lionel with him, either because the timelines wouldn’t match up for Viktor to be his dad or because Viktor would expect a son to look more like him than he would a daughter. Lois and Susan were just too young to remember.

This explains why Malcolm and Herkabe have the same JerkAss-SmugSnake personality, explains their similar levels of intelligence and their similar goals (both going to Harvard, and both being interested in computers (though it didn’t work out for Herkabe)).

Malcolm and/or Herkabe may have even realized this at some point, which is why they get increasingly more combative with each other as the series goes on; they’re jealous of the other’s life. To Malcolm, Herkabe is someone who wasn’t screwed up by Ida and became successful in the way Malcolm measures success—being insanely rich, even if he lost it all-- as a result from not being damaged by this kind of upbringing. To Herkabe, Lois was raised in a way that let her have a happy and stable, if dysfunctional, marriage and family while his own marriage ended in a divorce he still seems bitter over, as well as a steady, if low-paying job, while he’s millions of dollars in debt. In the end, his and Malcolm’s fighting isn’t about being better than everyone or petty squabbles over GPA; it’s about being better than ‘’each other’’ to prove themselves and their families; they never let on because they don’t think the other knows, but they just can’t let go.

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* On the other hand, he did go after the girls in ''Houseboat'', and apparently kept one of their thongs, and in the episode ''Billboard'' he did seem to dream about a stripper lady, and also hinted that all women desired was to be strippers. The fact that he'd actually dream about a female stripper would indicate that he at least had heterosexual/straight tendencies.
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[[WMG: Malcolm is [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] and Rees is The Master]]
Think about Malcolm’s personality of trying to be morally right and superior to everyone else but still being morally ambiguous Rees’s sociopathic personality and how they easily get into fights. Which means that it all started between The Doctor and The Master when one of them took the last blueberry at dinner? This explains Malcolm’s super intelligence as even for someone with an IQ of 165 he still shouldn’t be able to do some of the things he is seen doing (The Master’s just pretending to fool him). This would also explain Lois’s hate as she’s actually The Rani. This would also explain why neither Malcolm’s family has no surname as time lords do not have them.
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[[WMG: Malcolm might decide later in life to betray his family, despite giving into their intentions at first.]]

Well, Francis already did, after leaving the nest and realizing what a mess his life is due to his horrible childhood. Someone did state that Malcolm has come the closest to Francis to realizing what a shit-ass job his family has done raising him, and is even worse off than him.
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* Lois is a great mother. Shes definitely a hard ass, but how much more screwed up would those boys be if they didn't have a mother willing to take them on like Lois does?
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[[WMG: The sewer entrance in their back yard is a karma embodiment.]]

Lets just say, both Lois and Hal's kids, and their respective neighbors are the aggravated energies which the whole family ends up feeding. In fact, we all should wonder how or why there hasn't been a pitchfork crowd chasing them down before the series went entirely gone. I like to think that the access to a cesspool behind their home is a cauldron of some sort. The episode with the baby sitter displays what kind of energies everyone feeds to it. Reese mentioned, in exclamation, "I do NOT remember eating this", which either implies that their neighbors excrement exists in this "sewer", or that the waste entered his mouth. The young characters feed to it's vile power in their own special way. Malcom is the pretentious genius with a greedy resolution and ineffective prudence, Reese is the disorganized anti-hero, Dewey is a child with trivial repressions and unhealthy self-esteem. Then there is Jamie, the small child which takes off of Francis (who cannot be included within this guess) mindset. Jamie does not want to cause as much trouble as Francis, but possesses something more dark than Reese. To cap this all off, the Babysitter is the deflection caused by Reese's attempt at fooling their Karma well.
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** There's no doubt that he really is that smart (he beat an entire classroom of geniuses working together to stop him). However, he also made himself incrediably handsome and perfect etc as well.
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Ida on the other hand is rude, selfish and cannot even [[EvilCannotComprehendGood understand how being nice to other people can make them treat her nicer.]] When Lois was a teenage Ida made sure Lois ''suffed her bra''. It is very damagaging to tell an ''alreadly'' insecure teenager that you chest is too flat and you will never be popular/ a cheerleading if you don't stuff it. Lois even has something of a breakdown when she remembers all the things Ida has said to her that lowered her self-esteem.

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Ida on the other hand is rude, selfish and cannot even [[EvilCannotComprehendGood understand how being nice to other people can make them treat her nicer.]] When Lois was a teenage teenager Ida made sure Lois ''suffed her bra''. It is very damagaging to tell an ''alreadly'' insecure teenager that you chest is too flat and you will never be popular/ a cheerleading cheerleader if you don't stuff it. Lois even has something of a breakdown when she remembers all the things Ida has said to her that lowered her self-esteem.
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[[WMG: Lois is a good mother compared to her own mother, Ida.]]
Lois at least is civil with other people and tries to be a good mother. She might get angry easily but who can really blame her, Reese and Francis have done criminal acts before.

Ida on the other hand is rude, selfish and cannot even [[EvilCannotComprehendGood understand how being nice to other people can make them treat her nicer.]] When Lois was a teenage Ida made sure Lois ''suffed her bra''. It is very damagaging to tell an ''alreadly'' insecure teenager that you chest is too flat and you will never be popular/ a cheerleading if you don't stuff it. Lois even has something of a breakdown when she remembers all the things Ida has said to her that lowered her self-esteem.

Lois has tried to do the exact opposite of what her mother did to her,so instead of ignoring her own children she tries to control them so much that she gets annoyed if anything is wrong.
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** [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like father]], [[WellDoneSonGuy like son]]...

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** [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like father]], father]](or in this case, mother), [[WellDoneSonGuy like son]]...
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*You do know that they're lower-middle class and their first son is a criminal, right? And also, that every time she turns her back, the kids are getting into some kind of trouble (including, but not limited to: stealing, sneaking out at night, beating each other up, grifting, skipping school, vandalism, repeated lying, traffic violations, etc.)? Are you watching a different show than the rest of us where the family is normal and not dysfunctional at all, but Lois screams all the time anyway?
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**Actually, Hal filled in all the holes in the letters of the encyclopedia (colouring in the one hole in the P's, the two holes in the B's, etc.) When Dewey asks him how crazy he really is, he tells him he's on his third set of encyclopedias. It kind of gives you some creepy insight into [[NightmareFuel what Hal's really like on the inside...]]
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* So Lois is an [[AynRand Objectivist]]?
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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari]]...

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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic and bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari]]...
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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one {{NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari}}...

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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one {{NeonGenesisEvangelion [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari}}...Ikari]]...
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[[WMG: Lois is really a poor Black Woman]]
Laugh if you must at this theories title but really think about it, nearly everything Lois says, acts, and thinks throughout the entire series is nearly similar to what nearly every African-American motherly character in the entirety of American television history (From Life With Beula an actual early 1950s SitCom starring Hattie McDaniel to EverybodyHatesChris). She does this so her sons will have a better life and not end up as criminals. However when you really start looking at Lois's behavior and thought process this get a little..wonky.

Lois nearly always complains to other authority figures that her sons are borderline criminals who if they dont act right WILL end up either dead or in prison and after telling the fellow authority figure of some truly bad behavior (that we the audience don't hear) the boys did the figure typically agrees with them (at times depending on the severity of what they did sometimes even her sons (Alternating between Malcolm & Dewey) also agree). However when you look at it the boys aren't really all that bad.

Malcolm is a surprisingly DownToEarth wunderkind that could get any job on earth he wanted, and as it says in other theories below Dewey is such a little charmer he practically bends reality to near his every whim (only doesn't realize it yet). And Reese while has the reputation of TheBadBoy in a seriously more grown up dangerous situation he would probably become useless and not really much of a threat at all. And even their own crazy grandmother believes that Reese by his own thugishness could really make something of himself in a more harsher/stricter society.

All in all in a more realistic sense Lois' constant "worry" is almost literally constant non-satisfaction with her sons and their life choices no matter what they are. Basically the entire DeConstruction of Lois' behavior can be summed up with one..single..point. Their not POOR, or Black or any other minority either for that matter yet Lois constantly acts as if she must save her sons from the [[CrapSackWorld Hellhole]] that is middle class suburbia. Her thought process can be seen as this, since '''Actual''' low income single mother/parents push their children as hard as they can in order to "lift" themselves out of their bleak existences and not live the parallel lives of their parents and Lois believes that she is duty bound as a parent to do the same.

So in her mind living in their picket fence quiet neighborhood is no different to her then living in an actual ghetto or slum and if any of her sons have a job that either doesn't (possibly literally) cure all major diseases or somehow dramatically change the world almost overnight they might as well be dropping f-bombs in every sentence and throwing up gang signs. For Lois since they already live a fairly affluent life just fairly successful and/or very rich isn't enough in her eyes her sons must become as close to new Gods/creators of a new golden age for humanity.

This pretty much explains everything from her harsh punishments to her even channeling ChrisRock's mother by figurative proxy ("if you dont do what I say I Gonna slap the (insert name here) out of you"). Oddly enough this also explains why the boys are always meeting SadisticTeachers and generally mean authority figures Lois probably intentionally places them with these JerkAsses based on the shows running AesoP of "adversity builds character" (although in Lois' case its probably its more like "Extreme adversity builds Superhuman character".).

Finally in a small bit of FridgeHorror if Lois' sons lived in a filthy stinkin' rich family and were even smarter then they already were maybe she would demand that her sons build something that would make them Literal reality warping gods similar to Dr. Manhattan (HeroeS anyone?).
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*Proved false as that would be too sad, he found a nice new owner who opened the ball and adopted him.
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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one {{Evangelion Yui Ikari}}...

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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one {{Evangelion {{NeonGenesisEvangelion Yui Ikari}}...
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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one [[Evangelion Yui Ikari]]...

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Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. To fit in as much as possible with the somewhat ethnocentric society, he'll change his name to Gendo, [[RuleOfCool mainly because he thinks it sounds cool]]. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one [[Evangelion {{Evangelion Yui Ikari]]...Ikari}}...
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[[WMG: "Sigh" Okay...]]
Malcolm will grow a goatee in college and major in robotics, with a side interest in cloning. Increasingly narcissistic bitter with his family and, eventually, much of humanity, he will eventually leave the United States for Japan. While studying for his doctorate, he'll meet one [[Evangelion Yui Ikari]]...
** [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like father]], [[WellDoneSonGuy like son]]...
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[[WMG: Francis is a [[HarryPotter Wizard]].]]
All of the crazy stuff he did to get in trouble as a kid? That was his magic manifesting. But that statute of secrecy is even stronger in the United States, so Francis can't even tell his Muggle family about it. Instead he makes up these ridiculous stories about Military school, Alaska, and a Ranch, and modifies their memories any time they find out anything. Reese has had his memory modified more than the others - he used to be a genius too...
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[[WMG: The boys have most of their issues because of Francis, not Lois.]]
It's repeatedly shown that Reese, Malcolm and Dewey look up to their big brother, Malcolm calling him his favourite in the pilot. However, Francis has admitted to Dewey that before he left for military school, Francis was a terrible brother to Malcolm and Reese, while Dewey was only spared because of how young he was. Reese, as the second child, mimics Francis' negative qualities by being a bully and not doing well in school. Malcolm on the other hand sees Francis' feud with his parents and mimics the anti-social qualities that he saw at home. Both boys also abuse each other, but they're too close in age to really be able to bully one another so they decide to replicate Francis' mistreatment of them with Dewey. This causes Dewey to retreat into his imagination as a means of escape. Also, he's stifled because of his brothers treating him like a baby, shocked when he shows any sign of having matured.
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[[AmbiguouslyGay The argument presented in ''Pearl Harbor'' is pretty much spot on. Reese is obsessed with his hair, reads nothing but "men's health magazines", loves to cook, and gleefully watches gay porn when was able to do so under the pretense of "studying it for Malcolm".]] [[TheBeard He had a girlfriend proximately twice: the first time he ended up trying to ''nearly kill himself'' rather than take her to a public dance and the second time he seemed to only be interested in her because Malcolm was.]] [[CakeEater In ''Hal Coaches'', he blackmails a local older man into, among other things, giving him shirtless massages.]]

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[[AmbiguouslyGay The argument presented in ''Pearl Harbor'' is pretty much spot on. Reese is obsessed with his hair, reads nothing but "men's health magazines", loves to cook, and gleefully watches gay porn when he was able to do so under the pretense of "studying it for Malcolm".]] [[TheBeard He had a girlfriend proximately twice: the first time he ended up trying to ''nearly kill himself'' rather than take her to a public dance and the second time he seemed to only be interested in her because Malcolm was.]] [[CakeEater In ''Hal Coaches'', he blackmails a local older man into, among other things, giving him shirtless massages.]]
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[[WMG: The Malcolm in the middle and Scrubs worlds are the same one.]]
In "Home Alone 4" in season one, the go to a hospital and Laverne is at the front desk. Furthermore, both shows have a serious/funny atmosphere and the worlds seem interchangeable.

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[[WMG: The Malcolm in the middle Middle and Scrubs worlds are the same one.]]
In "Home Alone 4" in season one, the they go to a hospital and Laverne is at the front desk. Furthermore, both shows have a serious/funny atmosphere and the worlds seem interchangeable.



When he was seen at the end of his arc going up to Alaska, it was when Francis and Pyama were driving the other way, the entire area having been declared a Cyanide Containment Area (which makes no sense whatsoever anyway...) At least it's a better end than the starvation he would have ended by if he didn't get run over by a car before the food pellets Dewey left in the ball were all eaten (or suffocation by hamster feces).

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When he was seen at the end of his arc going up to Alaska, it was when Francis and Pyama Piama were driving the other way, the entire area having been declared a Cyanide Containment Area (which makes no sense whatsoever anyway...) At least it's a better end than the starvation he would have ended by if he didn't get run over by a car before the food pellets Dewey left in the ball were all eaten (or suffocation by hamster feces).



We've seen in other episodes (the one with the burnt dress springs to mind first, but many others exist) where she was completely wrong but refused to accept (in some episodes, even when confronted with proof otherwise, such as the one where the cop stops her for blocking another car) that her first assumption was correct. When she was a child, Ida almost definitely tormented her any time Lois spoke back or even contradicted what her mother said. Lois held it back, convinced that she was right, and never intentionally told a lie to keep from ever beign wrong. Eventually, this changed to a believe that she was incapable of being wrong, especially when she got married to a guy who always agreed with her and had four kids that she attempted to rule with absolute authority.

[[WMG: Malcom and possibly Dewey (but he has less problems communicating) have Asperger's syndrome and it comes from Lois' side of the family. Reese and Dewey and Jamie have some sort of hyperactivity.]]
May sound like something that just popped into a boring fan's mind, but, even though can't go into detail (it would be to personal...) I'm speaking from experience...
* Also in the episode where Dewey's friend from the emotionally disturbed class slept the night, Hal said he went and looked for any mistake at all in the dictionary so Reese, Dewey & Jamie might've gotten it from him.

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We've seen in other episodes (the one with the burnt dress springs to mind first, but many others exist) where she was completely wrong but refused to accept (in some episodes, even when confronted with proof otherwise, such as the one where the cop stops her for blocking another car) that her first assumption was correct. When she was a child, Ida almost definitely tormented her any time Lois spoke back or even contradicted what her mother said. Lois held it back, convinced that she was right, and never intentionally told a lie to keep from ever beign being wrong. Eventually, this changed to a believe that she was incapable of being wrong, especially when she got married to a guy who always agreed with her and had four kids that she attempted to rule with absolute authority.

[[WMG: Malcom Malcolm and possibly Dewey (but he has less fewer problems communicating) have Asperger's syndrome and it comes from Lois' side of the family. Reese and Dewey and Jamie have some sort of hyperactivity.]]
May sound like something that just popped into a boring fan's mind, but, even though I can't go into detail (it would be to personal...) I'm speaking from experience...
* Also in the episode where Dewey's friend from the emotionally disturbed class slept spent the night, Hal said he went and looked for any mistake at all in the dictionary so Reese, Dewey & Jamie might've might have gotten it from him.



** Actually, she freaked out, dumped Francis with Ida, and ''Ida'' abused him. Shouting, hitting, cutting, enforced crossdressing, I think maybe there was something about cigarette burns in one of the Christmas specials? At least none of that was PlayedForLaughs.

[[WMG: Malcolm is the alternate universe equivilent of [[CatcherInTheRye Holden Caulfield]]]]
An ''InsufferableGenius'' with a perception that everyone is a moron and he's the one person on earth with a horrid family and personal problems? Throw in that Francais could be D.B. for being away from home the longest and being a favorite sibling of his, his first person narration in every episode, his girlfriend (the one with the crazy millitant father) being alienated by his inability to be mature like Pheobe to Holden and being obsessed with the girl in "Company Picnic" like Holden was to the girl Standerly went out with at the beginning of the book.

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** Actually, she freaked out, dumped Francis with Ida, and ''Ida'' abused him. Shouting, hitting, cutting, enforced crossdressing, cross dressing, I think maybe there was something about cigarette burns in one of the Christmas specials? At least none of that was PlayedForLaughs.

[[WMG: Malcolm is the alternate universe equivilent equivalent of [[CatcherInTheRye Holden Caulfield]]]]
An ''InsufferableGenius'' with a perception that everyone is a moron and he's the one person on earth with a horrid family and personal problems? Throw in that Francais Francis could be D.B. for being away from home the longest and being a favorite sibling of his, his first person narration in every episode, his girlfriend (the one with the crazy millitant militant father) being alienated by his inability to be mature like Pheobe Phoebe to Holden and being obsessed with the girl in "Company Picnic" like Holden was to the girl Standerly Stradlater went out with at the beginning of the book.
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[[WMG: Jane Kaczmarek is a VERY bad judge of character.]]
I mean, for God's sake, she's said in interviews that Lois is a "great mother."

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