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Malcom in the middle, I will get on DVD . It is one of those shows that you can watch over and over. I would not miss an episode and when I did an overwhelming sadness would come over me. I would roll on th floor laughing out loud in almost every episode. I really loved Malcom's Dad he was hilarious. In my view it never jumped NEVA!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is puberty a bad thing its less annoying I also love this show

I used to like this show when I was younger but after a while it got so old and repetive, Malcolm is supposibly the smartest kid in school and yet he can't stay out of trouble, Reese never grew out of being a bully, Dewey never seemed to get much older and often screamed too much, Lois became way too much of a bitch, and that woosh sound every time it shifted from scene to scene really annoyed me.

Reece floats on chair attached to ballons.

This show started off being great and ended just okay. Not that it jumped the shark, just everyone got older. I don't blame this on the show of course, it's natural. But all in all, this is a very memorable show. It just ended up like all the other sitcoms where the end of the series is not as funny as the beginning and middle. And the birth of Jamie isn't jumping the shark because at least he was a little baby, not like an annoying Cousin Oliver type. Also, it just fits the plot. They already have a lot of kids, why not add another? It worked pretty good, but since it was near the end of the series, it seemed like a desperation move. And maybe they added Jamie because all the other kids were growing up and they needed a younger character.

I don't think it jumped. They show matured as the characters aged. The later seasons only got more hilarious. It's the only show I can watch from season 1 to season 7 and say every episode it worth it.

I agree with Guest that Otto's Dude Ranch was the beginning of the end, although unlike a lot of shows, there were still good scripts from time to time after that.

The fundamental genius of the show was to reassure us that everyone else is just as crazy as we are behind closed doors. Francis was the darkest and craziest character in the show, so when he started to get sane the whole thing felt as though it was sliding towards Brady Bunch tedium.

show was great, never jumped

I'm new to this, so I'll assume votes for "Day One" roughly translates to "I've never once seen an episode of the show, but in an effort to look cool and non-conformist, I'll say DAY ONE! Yay ME!"

Pretty much nail it?

I believe it jumped the shark with Jamie, but the worst part of the show was the kid in the wheelchair. I think his name was stevie, such an annoying character.

For me it jumped when Otto's ranch was given too much focus mid-series. The only exception was when the boys visited the ranch and bought the giant firework to try and turn Francis. Other than that it was thoroughly painful to watch those segments. After that ranch phase was past the show could have jumped back, but the series was heading into the episodes where Malcolm wasn't breaking the 4th wall very much anymore. I still enjoyed the rest of the seasons, but it wasn't nearly as good as the first few.

I loved the waterpark one with bea arthur.... i think she won an emmy or some kind of award for it.

It never jumped the shark, obviously. In fact it got better and better with each season. When Malcolm hit puberty,
the show became aprroximately 4 times as funny. So many classic laugh out loud moments...

And I love how Hal became stranger and stranger as the show progressed. He wasn't as interesting in the earlir seasons.

I have to disagree. I think that the show almost "reverse" jumped the shark. I really got into it during the later seasons (for example when Dewey wasn't like a 5-year old and was more like the other brothers). Then I see some of the old episodes and noticed that they really don't have much of the funny humor in the later ones. It does appear that Lois becomes more masculine and Hal more feminine as the series progresses, but these were changes that made the show more funny. Overall, the early episoded didn't have that "laugh out loud" moments that the later ones did.

Malcolm never really jumped the shark, but things changed a bit after Season 5. Francis became a guest role and Dewey got too much attention. Some Season 7 episodes were really unnecessary and just plain dumb like "Stevie In The Hospital", but on the other hand there were still episodes which had the flavour of blind and careless destruction of the early seasons in it.