Discussion DethroningMoment / MalcolmInTheMiddle

• The Unknown Uploader: Baby: Part 1, where Hal and the boys are at a wedding fair, and all episode long Dewey is going around talking to random people for some reason. At the end of the episode, you find he's commandeered pretty much everyone working there into helping his massive guilt-trip to Hal that he and Lois are going to induce labor on Jamie on Dewey's birthday, which Hal completely forgot about. This would be a Crowning Moment of Awesome in my book, except the crowd chasing after them results in Hal crashing the car into a column at the parking lot, getting him injured, which keeps them all away from Lois who was in labor. So basically Dewey could've gotten what he wanted and not almost gotten his father killed by just talking to Hal about it, like normal human beings do.

None of that happened. Dewey's speech got them glares and one guy who purposefully ran into Hal while walking. They were running to the car because Reese got stuck in a bass or cello case, they grabbed the case because they were in a hurry because Lois was in labor, and a small number of people ran after them because they were taking the case (and Reese was still wearing a tuxedo a guy paid him to wear while he gave out business cards). Slamming into something comes later, after they're caught because Reese had the keys to the car with him in the case. Hal put the car in drive instead of reverse, it had nothing to do with Dewey at all.

One moment per troper.

• Yuma: And if I could point out another one, "Army Buddy". Getting right to the sucky point, Reese's army buddy reveals to Lois that she has a crush on her, and her response is, not an exact quote but, "It's not that I'm not flattered but I have a family, five kids..." She says that pretty casually and makes no mention of the statutory rape that would be involved. Out of all the times she exploded, I am surprised this wasn't one of them.

You can't have another one. The DMOS rules specifically state you can have only one.

Personally I disagree with this assessment. Lois letting someone down easy instead of going on some emotionally traumatizing rant is relatively nice for her. She should do stuff like that more often. Still, if you disagree, you're free to swap it out for the other one, I am purely removing it for the One Moment Per Troper clause, not because I disagree and am vandalizing your post.