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22 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 30, 200522 mins
The family visits the Burning Man festival; At the festival, Malcolm falls in love with a spiritual healer, Reese has the time of his life when he realizes there's no rules, Lois joins a tribe, and Hal attracts an audience when he's mistakened to be a performance artist.

Episode 2
Fri, Oct 7, 200530 mins
Having forgotten to pay the bill for the family's health insurance, Hal tries to protect the boys from all accidents for the weekend; meanwhile, Lois accidentally gets Craig into trouble with their co-workers.

Episode 3
Fri, Oct 21, 200523 mins
Dewey and Hal attempt to quit their vices, Reese threatens Stevie, and Lois opens up to Jamie.

Episode 4
Fri, Oct 28, 200523 mins
Reese and Malcolm find out that there was a murder in the family's house before they moved in. Hal is highly agitated in fear of ghosts from the murder, and Malcolm tries to reason him out of it. Meanwhile, Reese and Dewey take Jamie trick-or-treating and make a persistent enemy, and Lois is stuck at work because of a shoplifter nobody wants to apprehend.

Episode 5
Fri, Nov 4, 200530 mins
Jessica teaches Malcolm how to manipulate Lois, Reese prepares to mail himself to China, and Hal is terrorized by a bee.

Episode 6
Fri, Nov 11, 200523 mins
Malcolm gets involved in complicated relationships with the hottest girl in school and Jessica. Lois worries about what Reese will be doing in the future.

Episode 7
Fri, Nov 18, 200523 mins
One fish, two kobe steaks, three girls, four sub-plots, and five brothers come together for an evening at home when the power goes out.

Episode 8
Fri, Dec 2, 200522 mins
Reese is visited by an Army buddy who develops a crush on Lois. Hal starts feeling useless when Lois buys orthotics and no longer needs his tender loving care.

Episode 9
Fri, Dec 16, 200523 mins
When Malcolm's arch nemesis and former teacher, Mr. Herkabe, crosses the line and hurts Reese's feelings too many times, he decides to pay him back for hurting his brother by revealing his former teacher's awful secret. He had flunked gym and lied about it. Because of that truth, the Principal decides to strip him of his trophy and hand it back to the one who passed gym, despite her blindness. Meanwhile, Hal gives Dewey a ton of wrong advices to a girl he likes.

Episode 10
Fri, Jan 6, 200622 mins
While Malcolm battles a yearbook photographer to get a good photo, Hal, Lois, and Dewey intercept a scholarship check addressed to Malcolm and try to rationalize spending the money; Reese goes back to work delivering meat.

Episode 11
Fri, Jan 13, 200623 mins
Grandma Ida brings her maid along when she comes to watch the house and the boys (Malcolm and Reese) during Hal and Lois and Dewey's short trip to St. Louis where Dewey will participate in a piano competition. Ida has decided that Reese is ready to become a man. Tradition, in Ida's home country, says that he must compete with all the boys of the village in a series of tests of strength and will. If he is successful, he gets the maid as his wife. In Reese's modern society, however, there is no village full of boys, so Malcolm is drawn into the competition.

Episode 12
Fri, Jan 20, 200623 mins
Raduca whips Reese into shape while pursuing her own interests; Dewey visits unemployed Francis; Hal discovers the benefits from taking on Malcolm's college interviewers.

Episode 13
Sun, Feb 12, 200623 mins
While Lois and Malcolm are laid up with mono, Hal discovers another side to the neighborhood; meanwhile, Dewey tries to introduce Reese to kinder, gentler ways of dealing with Jamie.

Episode 14
Sun, Feb 19, 200623 mins
Hal's father dies, but he fails to show emotion for his departed father, which leads him to wonder whether his children would miss him when he dies.

Episode 15
Sun, Mar 5, 200622 mins
Francis has made it through a year of sobriety and he invites the family to his AA meeting, until Lois discovers that he has invited her there to place his problems on her.

Episode 16
Sun, Mar 19, 200622 mins
After Reese is severely humiliated by four girls at school, Lois exacts revenge on them; and Hal builds a pitching machine while hiding out from Lois in the garage.

Episode 17
Sun, Mar 26, 200622 mins
Hal feels betrayed when his friend Trey charges $2,000 to fix Hal's tooth; Malcolm and Dewey find a new mattress; and Reese teaches Lois how to ride a bike.

Episode 18
Sun, Apr 2, 200623 mins
Trying to bury the fruits of their mischief--one of their father's trophies in the backyard--Reese and Dewey find an old bunker, in which they trap Hal to avoid punishment. Malcolm and Lois are in a competitive mood. Malcolm discovers his talent to dance, which he takes to a dance competition with Danielle (Lynsey Bartilson) and Lois keeps hold on a car until the bitter end.

Episode 19
Sun, Apr 9, 200623 mins
Malcolm's afraid to visit his best friend Stevie in the hospital; Reese becomes a master telemarketer; and someone secretly tries to drive Lois crazy.

Episode 20
Sun, Apr 16, 200622 mins
Reese pretends to be a vegetarian; Hal decides to teach Dewey a lesson about the game of "Life"; and Malcolm talks Craig into standing up to Lois and then regrets it.

Episode 21
Sun, Apr 23, 200623 mins
Malcolm decides to organise a "Morp", an alternative to the traditional Prom, for those pupils shunned by the "cool" kids. Meanwhile, Reese agrees to hire himself out as an escort for the evening.

Episode 22
Sun, May 14, 200623 mins
Malcolm has the chance of a highly lucrative career in computer software, but the offer is blocked by his parents, who have higher goals in mind for him - as the first US President to actually understand the plight of the underdog. Fate also has a big surprise turn in store for Lois and Hal.
