Bad mother or bad kids?
>>217429980MILF
>>217429980Hal was the actual problem. His crazy genes and pussywhipped attitude messed the boys up and Lois had to beat them into submission.
They shouldn’t have had so many children
>>217430020This, as much as I liked Malcom in the Middle when I was growing up watching it now you realize it's just more bullshit feminist propaganda.>OMG LOIS WORKS SO HARD AT A GROCERY STORE>Meanwhile Hal brings home enough money to buy a house and feed 4 kids but he's still treated like a horny idiot
>>217429980Both, she was trying her best but she’s a fallible human.
>>217429980imagine having to have sex with her fourteen times a week
>>217430078Hal comes from a rich family yet he can't afford to give each kid their own room. He's a horny idiot
Her kids are all genious savants who at the very least, adapt and thrive in whatever situation they're in. She was a good mom.
>>217430112Oh no ha ha
>>217429980How about a real woman instead?
>>217430066What we are talking about , palestinians or sub saharan africans." Too many children is a black and brown problem. My sister has 8 kids and that's barely enough compared to my 3.
>>217429980Really, really would.
>>217429980The kids were monsters, Reese got pretty close to going to juvie.
anyone else develop a clown fetish after watching this episode?
>>217430160having +5 kids was common over 100 years agopeople don't realise how much shit has changedin 1899 people were having +5 kidsin 1899 adolescence didn't exist, you either were a kid or an adultin 1899 pet culture didn't exist, it was mostly just rural people that had like 1 or 2 dogs
>>217430363Shows like these programmed the Goyim into thinking kids = death.
>>217429980A little of both. She was sympathetic because of how awful her kids could be, but she still treated them all pretty terribly throughout the show.
>>217430112Right now? I was kind of doing something.
>>217430363it was acceptable to beat the shit out of kids back then too and use them as unpaid labor
>it was acceptable to beat the shit out of kids back then too and use them as unpaid labor
>>217430137Military academy in Alabama at that time cost something like $40k/year. Maybe that's what was draining the family money or maybe the producers didn't look up the cost. But perhaps Hal's parents covered the Francis bill, which is why the family finances didn't improve when he was no longer in military school. Or I'm overthinking things.
I should be acceptable to beat the crap out of zoomers.
>>217429980Terrible mother. Pretty much every serial killer had the weak father/domineering mother combination.
>>217430560Still can if you are a Witness
>>217430363Five kids still was somewhat common when I grew up in the 80s.
>>217430707>Or I'm overthinking things.Didn't even know you could think!
>>217430707I was being flippant, I think they actually showed Hal and Lois as yuppies when they first had Francis but all their money got whittled away
Lois is only a piece of shit in later seasons where she's actively sabotaging Dewey and telling him to deal with it.In the early seasons she's not "did nothing wrong" but on the balance she's believable.
>>217430785Rude
>>217430830Dude Spood Mood Tude
>>217429980>The episode where the cold open is that she comes home and catches Reese having sex with a random girl and after she's done yelling at her she then yells at him while scrubbing his dick with bleach wearing dish gloves and he's crying the whole time and then the opening music plays.
>>217430810Hal also took every Friday off.
>>217429980Great mom, terrible woman. My mother would constantly chime in when she'd join in watching MitM for bit, "If you ever did that, I'd put you through the fucking wall." My mother was all verbal terrorism until one day she made true on her threats and choked my sister because she robbed a K-mart.
>>217429980It's always the same trope:>Incompetent father>Overwhelmed otherCompare to 90s shows where the father had authority.
>>217430887>he doesn't take every Friday offHow do you function on 2 day weekends bro?
>>217430879The closeups of Reese's foreskin coming off were tough viewing
>>217430907Like Married with Children?
>>217430907everyone in MwC was shitty thats the point
>>217430907Hal is like one of the kids, and he really only does the parenting stuff because she forces him to. If she died that house would be absolute chaos.
>>217430946Peggy wasn't overwhelmed, she was a dumb bimbo. Al was the one slaving away in the woman's shoe store that only fat ugly women went to.
>>217430907>>217430987The show hints that Hal has ADHD. It's not his fault he's retarded
>>217430919Early 2000s Fox sitcoms were wild like that sometimes
>>217429980why they had so many children?like, put a condom or something
>>217429980Lois making me massage her feet while she berates me.
What kind of mother would do this?
>>217431688>(Reese orgasming)
>>217430707I also thought he was sentenced to military school and the state paid part of the cost.
>>217431026>ADHDNot real. He likely has OCD.
>>217429980Naughty slutty mother
>>217430707Ha, I went there, you can even see my room in the pic
>hal and lois did it 14 times a weekWhere do you find a sex crazed wife?
>>217430879What
>>217431688the one in a sitcom
>>217431760I always thought military school would be fun. Is it?
>Malcolm! Come help shave your naked retarded father!They don't make sitcoms like they used to anymore
>>217431805Fun if you like homoerotic bullying
>>217431805If you are gay military school is a cavilcade of dick if you want it, otherwise it's shit
>>217431723Maybe. I don't remember that but it's possible it was mentioned in an episode. >>217431760I knew someone in the administration there. Got the impression that things were far more relaxed than what was seen on the show. Doubt the writers had any first hand knowledge.
>>217429980Average mother, absentee father, largely terrible kids.
>>217431835A cavilcade is a stream of opportunities.
>>217429980Her own mother was still worse.
>>217431862That's the joke of the entire series though, you become your parents.
>>217430020Wasn't he an 80s power corporate type that was mostly defeated by life by the time the series started? Hal was long past giving a fuck about anything and mostly fucked around through life, which came out when everyone learned he goes to theme parks every Friday.
>>217430020Yeah, kinda... Hal just couldn't do anything by himself, unless he REALLY wanted to. Lois was understandably pissed and became shrewish as a result. Lois loved them boys, but she had to be boss of the family. As a consequence, she seems harsh. Ultimately, they are all horrible people, just like all of us.
>>217430363That's what happens without reliable birth control and when most kids die as babies, women basically had to pump out 10+ kids (assuming they didn't die of childbirth somewhere along the way) to have a chance of a few of them reaching adulthood.
>>217431849It was pretty rough, the commadant at the time was a real hard ass. A lot of it depended on who your company sgt was. The pic shows Bravo on the top floor which was run Sgt. Pieto for awhile. Fucker would have a bad day and make us all PT from the end of class to taps. Random inspections, no TV, it wasn't great.There was a kid they called Smiley who would shove a broomstick up his ass.
>>217431688>[reese screaming]Of how strong his ejaculation was.
>>217429980>Neurotic mom>Spastic children>Father that tries to keep the ship afloat.>Middle Child that has a middling grasp on how barely above water they are.The most Gen X representation of lower middle class america.fairly good show too.
>>217430820This. Redditors make it out like she was abusive because she yelled and grounded her kids.
