# Malcolm in the Middle series finale 5/14 (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758 "2006-05-14T21:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/1 "2006-05-14T21:45:31Z")
I haven’t been watching MitM alot this season, but I’ll watch the finale. It’s long overdue. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/2 "2006-05-15T01:03:34Z")
Okay I’m a sap. I haven’t watched this show in at least a year and I was surprised at how much the boys had grown. I had tears in my eyes by the time Malcolm’s mom made her little speech. It was a sweet end. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/3 "2006-05-15T01:59:17Z")
I missed it. WHAT HAPPENED!?!??!!? ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/4 "2006-05-15T02:15:24Z")
I’ve only been watching sporadically the last year or two–but I watched this. That was one of the better series finales I’ve seen. Just the right mix of sentimentality and belly laughs (Hal at the loan shark, Francis’s fate, etc.). **Surbey** : Malcolm goes to Harvard, but working several jobs just to scrape by. According to Lois, he’s to become POTUS. Dewey, according to Hal, is to breeze through life rich and happy. Reese becomes the janitor at his high school (after a bit of scheming to get the job). Francis gets a 9-5 doing data entry in a cubicle and loves it. But he won’t tell Lois, preferring to let her think he’s jobless so he can milk the drama and enmity. Lois is pregnant again. That’s what happened to 'em all in a nutshell. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/5 "2006-05-15T03:02:49Z")
They kept up the gag about their surname I actually though it’d be revealed in the finale. I was also afraid they’d pull a Galactica and morph Malcolm’s gradutation speech into his inaugural speech. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/6 "2006-05-15T14:12:49Z")
Although I didn’t even watch this show anymore, and I know it was time for it to go. I still feel a little sad that it’s gone. I mean, I remember when the pilot episode aired. {Emotear} ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/7 "2006-05-15T14:20:05Z")
Malcom and Steve were also offered a six figure computer program writing job, which Lois immediately turned down, though they didn’t have the money to send him to Harvard. Why? Because she wanted him to suffer like a common person before becoming POTUS. If Lois had been my mother and had done such a thing, I would have strangled her with my bare hands. There was also a hilarious story involving Reese and his grandmother making an enormous stink bomb, which exploded in the family car with the whole family in it. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/8 "2006-05-15T16:44:58Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > They kept up the gag about their surname I actually though it’d be revealed in the finale. I was also afraid they’d pull a Galactica and morph Malcolm’s gradutation speech into his inaugural speech. The family’s surname is revealed on Francis’ military school name tag in the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/9 "2006-05-15T17:12:37Z")
> [@Fionn](#): > > The family’s surname is revealed on Francis’ military school name tag in the first episode. Wilkerson was supposed to be their surname, but the creators decided not the reveal the family’s name to avoid revealing their ethnic background. The nametag was a goof. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/10 "2006-05-15T17:18:07Z")
Was it just me or did Piama(sp?) look exceptionally hot?! ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/11 "2006-05-15T17:23:36Z")
Piama is always exceptionally hot. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/12 "2006-05-15T17:28:14Z")
What was up with the X-rays? I missed the first ten minutes. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/13 "2006-05-15T18:03:47Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > What was up with the X-rays? I missed the first ten minutes. It was proof of the boys tricking their mother into believing she had cancer. Also known as, “The Nuclear Option.” ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/14 "2006-05-15T20:41:49Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > It was proof of the boys tricking their mother into believing she had cancer. Also known as, “The Nuclear Option.” …Malcolm, Reese & Dewey agreed to destroy the evidence since Malcolm & Reese were moving out. Dewey arranged a ceremonial burning in the birdbash in the backyard, but when the X-Ray fell out of the closet it was revealed that Dewey didn’t really burn it. At the very end, we saw Dewey setting up his own “Nuclear Option” with Jaime. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/15 "2006-05-15T21:12:54Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > That was one of the better series finales I’ve seen. Just the right mix of sentimentality and belly laughs (Hal at the loan shark, Francis’s fate, etc.). That’s pretty much how I felt about it as well. I also think that they chose a good time to pull the plug on MitM. While I’ve always been a big fan and have seen every episode, I felt that the quality of the show has been slowly declining over last two or three seasons. I’m always sad when a show I like ends, but at least this one had a good, long run. The finale was the show’s 151st episode. Bye Malcolm. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/16 "2006-05-15T21:56:52Z")
Any chance of a spin off? I could see a Malcolm at Harvard show doing ok. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/17 "2006-05-15T22:50:42Z")
I’d rather see the reunion movie 10 years from now. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/18 "2006-05-16T02:33:05Z")
I’d rather Fox hadn’t schemed to hide every other episode this season. But that’s just me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/19 "2006-05-16T16:40:53Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Any chance of a spin off? I could see a Malcolm at Harvard show doing ok. Probably not. Muniz seems to be trying to make the leap to the big screen in [what will probably be an atrociously bad teen sex comedy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=322864): > [@](#): > > Muniz stars as a teen who loses his virginity with his girlfriend (Ashley Schneider), only to find she wants to take things much further, including farm animals and midgets. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758/20 "2006-05-16T16:50:38Z")
IMHO, the best part of this episode was the revelation of the ‘plan’ that Lois and Hal had for the boys… and all this time we thought they were clueless… I would look forward to the “Commander and Chief” episode where Malcom takes the Oath of Office. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malcolm-in-the-middle-series-finale-5-14-spoilers/356758.md?page=2)