When Malcolm hears his mom say that and his family echoes it as if it’s a fact, he’s taken aback. He’s destined for something more, but up until then, he didn’t know it.įinally, the exact reason for Lois rejecting that cushy position for Malcolm is revealed: she couldn’t let him take that job because it would interfere with what it is that he’s meant to do: become the president and one of the best that the country has ever had. Lois retorts that Malcolm taking that job would be throwing his life away. How could you screw me over like that?” he yells. It’s then that Malcolm can’t take it anymore, coated in the sludge along with everyone else, he rants about how he hates his life and airs his resentment at his mother for turning down his high-paying job offer, “This is appropriate. The family is coated in the gunk and has to wash it off in the yard. The family piles into the van–one of those blue ones with the wood paneling, which seemed everywhere in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s–all the while, Malcolm is infuriated with his mom, just as he is about to explode with anger, the steel drum which contains Reese’s foul sludge explodes, the final shenanigan in a series jammed with shenanigans. Before Malcolm can accept, Lois declines the position for Malcolm insisting that he will go to college. ![]() During lunch, Abe’s friend offerers Malcolm and Stevie high-paying positions at his company in lieu of attending college. ![]() Malcolm’s best friend Stevie ( Craig Lamar Traylor) and his father Abe ( Gary Anthony Williams) have invited Abe’s successful tech CEO friend over to the Wilkerson house. Meanwhile, Malcolm is writing his valedictorian speech, trying to figure out what it is that he really wants to say. They hide the steel drum in the back of the van to take with them to the graduation. Guided by his conniving grandmother Ida ( Cloris Leachman), they devise a plan to release the sludge during graduation. He gathers every disgusting thing he can find–sewage, roadkill, used oil – to create the worst-smelling sludge that he’ll unleash on the school, collecting it all into a steel drum. But Reese concocts a plan to create the biggest mess the school has ever seen, so colossal that the school would have to let him stay past the 30 days just to address it. He’s loving his new job but is dispirited when he learns that he’ll be let go at the end of his first 30 days in order for him to avoid union membership. Reese, a boy who throughout the series was the creator or co-creator of legendary messes, is working as a janitor, cleaning up messes for once. And in further irony, Hal's dealing with criminals was prescient for Cranston’s next big role it had something to do with chemistry and took place in New Mexico, maybe you’ve heard of it. Ironically, the loan shark is played by none other than Linwood Boomer. Hal even goes to a loan shark as a shady means of trying to procure enough to make up for the shortfall of Malcolm’s tuition. Hal ( Bryan Cranston) is scrambling to get together enough money to pay for Malcolm’s Harvard tuition as he did not receive enough scholarships to get a full ride. ![]() The Wilkerson house is preparing itself for what’s next Malcolm has been accepted into Harvard Reese will be moving in with Craig ( Anthony David Higgins) and Dewey looks forward to being the oldest boy in the house for once. With the mounting pressure of ending a show, Malcolm in the Middle chose to make its last episode one of life’s great passages: high school graduation. After so many episodes inundating Malcolm and his brothers with the harsh reality that life is, indeed, unfair, its final episode aired on May 14, 2006.
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