Reese abuses experimental pharmaceutical drugs in the Season 6 episode "Stilts" in order to make money.
Many characters smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol throughout the series. There are references to drugs like marijuana, meth and LSD in a couple of episodes.
Hal has a lot of addiction tendancies that are mostly treated as jokes (in S4 EP4 he gets addicted to flattening things with a steamroller)
This includes gambling (S5 EP1, S5 EP6)
season 3 episode 17 commandant spangler is fired for being drunk at work and is shown to be too drunk to stand. he also binge drinks and blacks out in season 2 episode 13
There is also a real pigeon in series 2 ep 1, I think, that is stuck in a plastic beer ring thing. It's a real pigeon really stuck and is viewed rolling around which is kinda distressing but only for a few seconds. The father then frees it (now a fake bird prop) and the bird gets attack by a dog off screen.
There is an episode where a swam of bats get into the house and the whole episode is them killing and getting rid of the bats. There is a mixture of props and real bats filmed.
Episode 1 of season 4.
Painful to watch. I skipped the entire episode because it was zoomed on it on the previews picture.
Be careful with streaming.
Anywho.. If someone as the time stamp, please comment so people know when to skip. Thanks.
i cant remember which episode because its the beginning clip but its sometime in season 3 dewey hides under the sand in the sandbox to avoid the dentist but he is fine
in the montage of Hal's bad first impressions with previous bosses, the last one is him tripping when going to shake someone's hand and pulling her onto a table. She's screaming and her and onlookers are describing the injury, but it isn't shown.
the main plot of the episode is how Reese is trying to get Cynthia to take her top off, and the episode ends with him groping her. (this is all portrayed negatively, and ends with Cynthia beating Reese up)
someone isn't actually kidnapped, but at the end of the episode Malcolm and Reese frame Francis to make it look like he kidnapped them by tying themselves up and hiding in the trunk of his car and alerting the police that the car is stolen.
Can't remember any specific episodes but Lois will take away the boys toys, or Dewey's older siblings will take his. Only alluded to, but in the episode with the blond babysitter, when Dewey is sleeping in bed with her, Malcolm and Reese hold a lighter up to his stuffed bear.
* Editing as I go* S1E15 Hal and Lois are sick, no visuals. Lois throws up when she is reading the letter and Hal throws up when the car salesmen tells him to put his head in the car 1 last time. S2E1 Francis eats these bunny candies and at 15:20 he's lying on the floor spitting them up, visual, look away for the whole scene. S2E6 18:52 Lois's friend throws up, no visual. S2E15, audio no visual, Francis throws up when his friends are chanting his name at 11:20. S3E3 Hal forces the boys to do jumping jacks and then Dewey says he's full and his cheeks puff out. Then it cuts to Hal mopping the floor, nobody is actually seen or heard throwing up. S3E15 at 9:20 Dewey starts forcing himself to throw up, the scene cuts so you don't see are hear anything. S3E17 Craig throws up at 5:30 after saying "Well now I feel awful" no visual just audio. Then again in the same episode Hal throws up at 13:00, audio no visual, but also no warning. S4E11 Malcolm vomits at 16:50 audio no visual. S5E4 Malcolm gets drunk and throws up into the turkey at 18:56. Lots of audio no visual. S7E4 Craig throws up at 19:50 after saying: You got me. S7E7 at 11:50 Francis throws up into a bin, no visual just audio.
reece wants to fight a boy who is in a wheelchair so he puts his legs in ice so he has no control of them, making the fight even. he stabs his leg to prove he can't feel anything
season 3 episode 16 a virtual video game version of malcolm is claimed to have commited suicide by knife but nothing is shown except a very pixel-ly body and animated knife and blood
It's an early 2000 series so there is a lot of general homophobic type jokes. Like in the first series Malcolm was good at acting so Stevie calls him 'homoeo' (Romeo) the grandmother is quite bigoted and thinks malcolm is gay
hal is recurringly subtly transphobic as dewey pretended to be having a tea party withh his stuffed animals and hal offered to buy him the toy that he wanted. there are other subtle instances of hal being transphobic. also dewey makes malcolm, reese, and craig wear dresses and exaggerated makeup to humiliate them
There is ableist language, racist, fat-phobic, and transphobic language throughout the show.
Season 1 episode 1 use I slur for indigenous people.
Transphobia Season 2 episode 17Season 3 episode 21 opening is transphobic
dewey is wrongfully put into a special needs class, which is referred to as a class for the “emotionally disturbed”. his classmates are exaggerated depictions of neurodivergent children. he stays for about 2 seasons.
S06 EP14 : Ida (Lois' mom) jumps in front of a truck to save Dewey, and loses a leg. There's nothing graphic, except with the montage when the scene cuts to Hal serving a red mushy paste to the boys, suggesting what the accident might have looked like.
characters are seen spitting up blood from both external and internal injuries and several characters have bloody noses. also there are pretty poor makeup effects done to make malcolm have a swollen face (it startled me tbh despite how fake it looked) and hal has a comically large spider bite on one cheek
season 2 episode 7 lois and her coworkers are held at gunpoint during a robbery at the store she works out but the gun doesnt fire and nobody is hurt also im not sure if this is considered violence but just to be safe season 3 episode 18 a girl brings a gun into their home so malcolm hides it from her and in an attempt to destroy it he sets it off and it fires, almost hitting people but missing
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