Malcolm in the Middle: Season 2

2000 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.7

What Season 2 of Malcolm in the Middle

The family’s misadventures continue as Malcolm faces new challenges at school and home. Reese explores his culinary talents, Dewey’s imagination runs wild, and Francis’s escapades at military school add to the family’s chaos.

25episodes

Nov 5, 2000Aired

May 20, 2001latest episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Traffic Jam (2)
Nov 5, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 8.0
Hal, Lois, Malcolm, and Reese are trapped in a horrendous traffic jam. Francis enters himself in a bet that recalls the egg-eating wager in "Cool Hand Luke." Malcolm becomes smitten over a girl he meets. Dewey has his own little adventure--all over the world--before his family returns home.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Dan Kopelman · Starring: Mark Christopher Lawrence, John Harrington Bland, Hallee Hirsh, Clyde Kusatsu
2x02 Halloween Approximately
Nov 8, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.5
Francis visits the week after Halloween and helps his brothers in a trick that involves a giant slingshot with icky ammo. Hal tries to catch a mysterious hot-rodder.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Dan Kopelman · Starring: Mary Gillis, Danny Cistone, Leslie David Baker, Jack Shearer
2x03 Lois's Birthday
Nov 12, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 8.0
Crummy gifts rile birthday gal Lois, who suddenly splits from home, leaving confusion, anxiety and desperation in her wake.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writer: Alex Reid · Starring: Blair Wingo, Sean Marquette, Patricia Place, Robert Briscoe Evans
2x04 Dinner Out
Nov 15, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Shenanigans abound at the fancy spot where the family's dining with the Kenarbans, and at Francis' school, where rowdy teenage girls are partying.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Michael Glouberman, Andrew Orenstein · Starring: James Henriksen, Tinsley Grimes, Melissa Marsala, Frankie Ingrassia
2x05 Casino
Nov 19, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
A family weekend vacation to a casino turns into an ordeal in the desert for Hal, Reese and Malcolm, who wander onto an artillery range. Francis sneaks home, but has no one to play with.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Neil Thompson, Gary Murphy · Starring: Michael Horse, Ajgie Kirkland, Sara Van Horn, Larry Weissman
2x06 Convention
Nov 22, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.8
Hal and Lois heads off to a convention while the boys stays home for the babysitter. Malcolm, Reese and Dewey assumed it's just another old woman, their parents hired to watch them. They decide to do a series of pranks on their babysitter, which includes the covered up sewer tank with a blanket and a book for the old woman sit on. To their surprise, their babysitter is a hot, teen-aged girl named Patty. She is sweet to them, but also bitter because she was rejected by Francis, a long time ago, because she was obese. Now the boys compete against each other to see who will prove their eldest brother wrong in his rejection and sleep with her without sex. Meanwhile at the convention, Lois tries in vain to stop the fight between Hal and Jack, who stole his idea.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Bob Stevens · Starring: Melody Perkins, Robert Curtis Brown, Alison La Placa, Kasan Butcher
2x07 Robbery
Nov 26, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
The night shift at Lucky Aide is held hostage by two robbers, since Craig does not want to give up the combination for the store's safe. Francis tries to help a heartbroken friend at the academy, while Hal and the boys fight nature at home.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Alan J. Higgins · Starring: Teresa Velarde, Frank Clem, Dewey Weber, Maz Jobrani
2x08 Therapy
Nov 29, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Malcolm's humiliation as a Krelboyne drives him crazy, so he fakes his way into seeing the school's shrink, with whom the con continues.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writing: Ian Busch · Starring: Johnny Lewis, Nancy Lenehan, Kasan Butcher, Kyle Sullivan
2x09 High School Play
Dec 10, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Malcolm gets a role in the high school play and is so captivated by high school gossip that he forgets his lines. Lois discovers the joys of massage. Hal and Dewey build a society of model buildings in the living room. Francis tries to show his individualism at school when the commandant cracks down on personal belongings.
Dirección: Jeff Melman · Guion: Pang-Ni Landrum, Maggie Bandur · Con: Octavia Spencer, Natasha Melnick, Busy Philipps, Arsenio Trinidad
2x10 The Bully Mid-Season Finale
Dec 17, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Reese, promising champion of his school's wrestling team, gets beaten by a girl, completely demoralizing him. So he gives up his school-bully carrier, which destabilizes the natural order of things at school. Francis tries to get out of academy at his birthday in an attempt to avoid academy-birthday-traditions.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Alex Reid · Starring: Susan Yeagley, Mike White, John Lacy, Eric Fleeks
2x11 Old Mrs. Old
Jan 7, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Dewey starts carrying a purse to school. Francis's friend Richie joins him at military school. Malcolm becomes a slave to an old woman in the neighborhood.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Alan J. Higgins · Starring: Florence Stanley, Brandon de Paul, Ricky Stark, Kasan Butcher
2x12 Krelboyne Girl
Jan 14, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
Lois and Hal try to end Dewey's dependence on his stuffed animal Domingo by convincing him that it is too dirty. Strangely attracted, Malcolm finds himself in emotional confusion about the new weird Krelboyne girl Cynthia. At the academy Commandant Spangler re-institutes old Hickory into the school's disciplinary system and Francis tries to convince his father Hal to lie for him to avoid punishment.
Directing: Arlene Sanford · Writing: Bob Stevens · Starring: Tania Raymonde, Fred Sanders, Daniel von Bargen, Kyle Sullivan
2x13 New Neighbors
Jan 21, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
New neighbors, who turn out to be even more awful than Malcolm's family, move in next door; the Marlin Academy cadets prepare for a visit from Oliver North.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writing: Pang-Ni Landrum, Maggie Bandur · Starring: Michael Welch, Gregory Jbara, Robin Riker, Christopher DerGregorian
2x14 Hal Quits
Feb 4, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.5
Hal feels like his job is a piece of c* after going to Dewey's class for parent job day. So he decides to take a "kidney failure" weeks off. While Francis is forced to work at the lucky aid over spring break.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writer: Michael Glouberman, Andrew Orenstein · Starring: Kurt Fuller, Bob Clendenin, Shaun Toub, Thomas Crawford
2x15 The Grandparents
Feb 11, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Lois' estranged parents, Ida and Victor, pay the family a visit. Right away, trouble starts brewing. Victor bonds with Reese, Ida gets Malcolm into a fight, and Dewey is haunted by childhood memories of his inattentive grandparents.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Neil Thompson, Gary Murphy · Starring: Cloris Leachman, Robert Loggia, Joyce Fessides, Bobby Brewer
2x16 Traffic Ticket
Feb 18, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.8
Lois gets a traffic ticket and immediately blames Francis and makes him get the money to her. To do this, Francis stages a stunt for the other cadets' amusement. Malcolm finds evidence that Lois was wrong about the traffic ticket.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Larry Strawther · Starring: Sam McMurray, Kasan Butcher, Arjay Smith, Eric Nenninger
2x17 Surgery
Feb 25, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
A hospital stay unsettles Malcolm, who's stuck in a kids ward with what may be appendicitis. Meanwhile, at military school, Francis leads a hunger strike.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Maggie Bandur, Pang-Ni Landrum · Starring: Chase Ellison, Steven Gilborn, Torsten Voges, Javier Grajeda
2x18 Reese Cooks
Mar 4, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.9
A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writing: Dan Kopelman · Starring: Miriam Flynn, Tania Raymonde, Fred Sanders, Michael Emanuel
2x19 Tutoring Reese
Mar 11, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
Malcolm and the Krelboynes tutor Reese, and uncover the real reason behind his failing grades.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writing: Ian Busch · Starring: Dave Allen, E.J. Callahan, Kyle Sullivan, Todd Giebenhain
2x20 Bowling
Apr 1, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.7
Malcolm and Reese go to a bowling party where they vie for the attention of a cute girl.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Alex Reid · Starring: Alex McKenna, Peter Breitmayer, Garret Davis, David Bonfadini
2x21 Malcolm vs. Reese
Apr 22, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Francis has an extra ticket for a wrestling event and it is the prize pitting Malcolm vs. Reese in a one-upmanship war; caring for Craig's cat is troublesome for Dewey.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Dan Kopelman · Starring: Cerina Vincent, Anthony Holiday, Randy McPherson, David Anthony Higgins
2x22 Mini-Bike
Apr 29, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Lois forbids the boys to ride a motorbike they found, but Reese disobeys and breaks a leg.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writing: Michael Glouberman, Andrew Orenstein · Starring: Kasan Butcher, Clement Blake, Brian Noonan, Chip Heller
2x23 Carnival
May 6, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 7.4
Malcolm, Dewey, Stevie, and Reese hide out at a traveling carnival after hours and run afoul of a determined security guard and several members of the freak show.
Directing: Ken Kwapis · Writing: Alex Reid · Starring: Matthew McGrory, Steven I. Schafer, Joe J. Garcia, April Tatro
2x24 Evacuation
May 13, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.3
Hal is inadvertently responsible for a toxic chemical spill that forces a neighborhood evacuation; Malcolm deals with being grounded even in the emergency shelter; Francis suffers through a date with a geeky 12-year-old.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Neil Thompson, Gary Murphy · Starring: Jerry Trainor, John Maynard, Casey Sander, Cristina Kernan
2x25 Flashback Season Finale
May 20, 2001 · 22 min · ★ 8.3
Lois is two weeks late with her period, causing her and Hal to panic and start a big fight, while trying to keep it from the boys. And while Dewey is scared that his parents may split up, Hal and Lois remember the troubles of getting their previous four sons.
Directing: Jeff Melman · Writer: Ian Busch · Starring: Stuart Pankin, Robert R. Shafer, Jerry Hauck, Weston Blakesley