Life is Still Unfair: The Malcolm in the Middle Revival Deep Dive

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It is Parallel Frequencies. I am Just Blane.

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This is Coco. You are the freqs. And what are

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we watching today, Coco? Today we are watching

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Malcolm in the Middle. Life is unfair. It sure

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is. That's a pretty good rendition, right? We

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heard it every Sunday night for 20 years or so,

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it feels like. I'm hearing it every day at my

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house right now. Yeah. Every day. And it's not

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so much as a joke anymore. It's the terms for

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existing in this new season. We will get to that.

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Yeah. What else are you watching? Oh, my gosh.

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I just started this show. People probably have

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already heard of it. I might be late to the game.

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But a friend of mine told me about it. He's like,

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oh, you've got to watch this. Because we talked

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about Company Retreat, jury duty. Oh, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. And he said, you've got to watch rehearsal

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or rehearsals on HBO Max. So I watched the first

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couple episodes, and I am. dying over this show.

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I cannot believe it. So it might have to be added

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to the list. What's it called? Rehearsal? Rehearsal.

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Basically, a guy who's clearly on the spectrum,

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really amazing autistic superpowers going on,

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and he is able to completely recreate situations

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like set, hire actors to rehearse a life event

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for one person so that they can play it out before

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they have to go do it for real. But he has like

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a stage. He hires actors to play the parts of

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all the people that they need to be involved

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in it. It's insane. The attention to detail this

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guy has. So he's doing like trauma type stuff?

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Kind of. Like car crashes? The very first episode

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is just a guy who lied to his friends for over

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a decade. They think he has a master's degree

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and he doesn't. And he is too afraid to tell

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them the truth. So he... has this guy, the host

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of the show, the creator of the show, he recreates

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the bar that they're going to be meeting in,

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doing trivia in. Oh, my God. Down to, like, the

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same napkins. I'm telling you, it's insane. It

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will blow your mind. Just watch it. We're going

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to talk about it. I like that. I might check

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it. Who's the guy that does it? It's not the

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same guy that has done those other pranks. No,

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no, no. Is his name Nate? Remember that guy?

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He flew an airplane. It is that guy. Is it the

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same guy? Okay. Wait a minute. Yeah. I'm like,

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wait, what is his name? Yeah, it's Nathan. Because

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I think he got an airline pilot's license to

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fly the plane. I believe, yeah. Is it the same

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guy? Same guy, yeah. Oh, my God. Totally. This

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guy's always been a genius. That genius level

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blows my mind. Yeah. I mean, and I've only seen

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the first couple episodes, so I wasn't. I don't

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know where it takes us. I know there's a plane

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involved and he flies a plane. Nathan Fielder.

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That's his name. Nathan Fielder. I remember him

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now. Shout out to that guy. You're amazing. He

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started out with little skits, I think, a long

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time ago. And then he's built his way up. What

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he creates. I mean, that's just... Well, I think

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I might have given you a spoiler then because

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he ends up flying that airplane. That's what

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I was told. I was told by the people who told

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me to watch this. They were like, you got to

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see it. He gets his pilot license just for this.

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And I was like, oh my gosh. To prove people wrong.

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And then he gets people that he paid to go on

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that plane with him. I haven't seen it. We will

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put that on the list. Because we should do a

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deeper dive into Nathan Fielder as well. I've

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been watching this one on Hulu. And I turned

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it on last night. The Testaments. Ooh, yes. I

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didn't watch Handmaid, but I know it's in the

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same ballpark as it, maybe the same creators,

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maybe the same universe. One of my top favorite

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shows, but in this climate, hard to watch. I'm

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going to tell you. Hard to watch. I'm going to

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tell you right now. And I'm a white male. We've

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established this before. That's what I identify

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as. Superior. No, no, no. In all ways. Living

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on the top tier. I, as a white male. Looking

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down on all of us. Was watching The Testament.

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I think it's called The Testament. The Testaments.

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Yeah. And I was having a hard time. I'm like,

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ooh. Ooh. It's so. If you don't, you don't have

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a soul. Yeah. It's, yeah. And my wife had told

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me about Handmaid's Tale. She'd always come out

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and she'd be pretty emotional. Oh, yeah. And

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I could see it now. Like, I started watching

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The Testament on Hulu. In a good way. Oh, yeah.

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I think it's absolutely necessary. Nothing that

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they wrote in The Handmaid's Tale didn't actually

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happen in history. That's what's really powerful

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about it. I don't know the story behind The Testament.

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I'm not sure if it's set before Handmaid or after.

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It's after. It's the main girl's daughter. I

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know it's a standalone. I know you don't have

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to necessarily see Handmaid to watch and know

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what's going on. They play it out pretty well,

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but I think we've got to put that on the list.

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lots of parallels to what you're seeing now in

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real life right now. And that's scary. Which

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makes it a little hard. I think it's not one

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of those things that you can escape reality to

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watch. You're going, oh, this is a warning, friends.

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We're watching a warning. Yeah, in real time.

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In real time. But let's get to... Wistful Wednesday.

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Are we still Wednesday? Is it still Wednesday?

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Wistful Wednesday. It's Wistful Wednesday, one

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of my favorite days of the week. Every day is

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our favorite, except for Tuesday, I think. Except

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for Tuesday. I don't know. You guys, yeah. Watch

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Tuesday's episode. You see me like lipstick is

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all smeared across my face. My eyes are all puffy,

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and I'm like, I'm just hanging in there, guys.

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It's just something about Tuesdays, huh? Something

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about Tuesdays. We like Wednesdays. We like Thursdays.

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I think it's closer to the weekend we get. We

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really start to enjoy ourselves. Yeah. We're

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like, it's all fun. Nothing serious. And Tuesday

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is like the furthest from the weekend. Yeah.

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That's how it feels to me. That's what it is.

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It's not the weekend that you're not refreshed

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from the weekend that just happened. You're so

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far from the weekend that's to come. That's to

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come. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's what it is for

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me. We have figured it out right here. Because

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Monday, I'm up and going. I'm refreshed. I'm

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ready. I'm excited for the week. I'm fine with

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Mondays. Let's do it, though. Garfield was wrong.

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Let's talk about Malcolm in the Middle and the

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new one that's on Hulu. Because this thing came

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out of nowhere to me. I mean, we've been hearing

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about it for a long time. I was so excited when

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I first heard about it. I had been, like, Googling

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every day. When is it coming out? What's the

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release date? What can we expect? When the trailer

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first dropped and all you saw was Hal's back

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getting shaved and that was all they gave you,

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I was like, come on! And we get to see... A lot

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of how this season, in the new season. As usual.

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Well, I mean, what is Bryan Cranston in that

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he does not show himself in tighty -whities at

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some point? Or butt stark naked because he was

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naked naked in this one. He's got no problem

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with that. No shame. I think Bryan Cranston had

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the most fun of anybody. This was really the

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Bryan Cranston show. It was. That's just me,

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30 ,000 -foot view looking at it because he started

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and shined. Not that anybody else did. Not that

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Frankie Munoz didn't. And everybody else didn't.

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Everybody was great. And you really see that

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because think about it. What has he been in that

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he was not good? Yeah. I mean, X -Files. He's

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in an episode of X -Files called Drive. Can't

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help but mention that. You see a lot of the dramatic

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stuff that he did. Of course. But, I mean, everyone

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knows him from Breaking Bad and all of that.

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But truthfully, his comedic roles, like Malcolm

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in the Middle, need to be talked about. Like,

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we need to talk about Bryan Cranston's comedic

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genius. I mean, Bryan Cranston was a star before

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he even left Malcolm in the Middle. He was. He

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was one of the big names, right? Yeah, and that

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was pre -Breaking Bad. And then we get to see

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that other side of him as Walter White. Yeah.

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I've always been a fan of his. There's something

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about him that attracts you to want to watch

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what he's doing. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's, I

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mean, his character Howl in Malcolm the Middle

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is... overly exaggerated goofy. It could be so

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simple. He could fall into the tropes of the

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other fathers in sitcoms and stuff like that

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and be one layer and then see it. But you're

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right. Go ahead on that. There's a lot of other

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layers to him. I mean, you don't just get this

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doofus. He's really doofus -y. I mean, he's really

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out there, outrageous. But I think Bryan Cranston

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is so talented in his ability to take it to another

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level where it's like, Yeah, there's this whole

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backstory and human aspect to him. And so it's

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not like you're making fun of Hal. Like, he respects

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Hal as a character enough to have more layers

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to him than to just be like, this is a doofy

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dad type. That's what I'm going to play. And

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that's what makes him different than most of

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the other actors out there. Because he did the

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same thing with Walter White. Can you picture?

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Here's a question for you. Can you picture anybody

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else in those roles? Yeah, right. There was a

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crazy conspiracy, you know, where people try

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to tie the worlds together, and they did say

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that. Yeah, they did a crossover. Did they air

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it? I don't remember if it came out just on,

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like, for fun. I can't remember where they put

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it out, but they did one of those Bob Newhart

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things where he wakes up. That's right. In Breaking

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Bad is Walter White, and he's like, I had this

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terrible dream that I was cooking meth, and I

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was doing this and this and this, and rolls over

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in bed, and it's Jane, I'm going to say her name

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wrong, Jane Kazmarek - Okay, yeah. Lois in -

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Malcolm in the Middle, and she's next to him

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in bed instead of his wife from the other show.

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Skylar, not Skylar, yeah. Not Skylar. And she's

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like, oh, it's okay, honey, I'm here for you.

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I don't remember if it was a joke or if they

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aired it, but they did a crossover. I think I

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remember seeing that now, too. If not, it's been

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Mandela affected. Just go back to bed. It's okay.

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I think I remember. Maybe it was like a Saturday

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Night Live or somebody that got in on it. Somewhere

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they did that, yeah. Somewhere they did. We'll

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have to look that up and see where Bryan Cranston

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did his crossover. But there was that conspiracy

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for a long time. Yeah. That Hal was Walter White.

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So what does that make the new season in the

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midlife crisis? Yeah. His coming back to himself.

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Episode three. That did kill the fire a little

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bit because he took 100 ,000. We don't know.

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They don't say what the medicine is. And he handled

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it like a boss. Dude. He didn't die. That was

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the part of this I was going to take a chunk

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out of and really deep dive into because, as

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freaks may know, I'm an energy emotional healer.

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And part of what happened in that room after

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Hal takes the medicine and goes into that room,

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all that kind of stuff, yeah, psychedelics were

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part of it, but that's what I do with clients.

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It was like, watch me jump up and down in my

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living room being like, this is it. Remember

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when he turns into a child? I do. And he's talking

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to himself as a child? Was... You mean... He

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births himself naked on the floor? Looking like

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Ace Ventura kind of right now? I have given clients

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the experience of rebirthing themselves from

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the womb. That is real work. So if we walk into

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your... That's real work. Your dojo, I don't

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know what we call it. My healing room. If we

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walk into your healing room, you're telling me

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that there's a chair and a bucket. You don't

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need it with me. Okay. I don't do the psychedelics.

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We do it all consciously, but bringing out subconscious

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things. And with Hal dressed all in his nice

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suit and looking really nice, talking to himself

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was exactly what I facilitate in healing sessions

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with clients. I was dying. I was like, at first,

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he's sort of representing Hal's higher self,

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right? He has all the answers. He's calm. He's

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telling him it's, you know... You've got to put

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your own oxygen mask on first before you can

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be helpful to other people. But then it starts

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to shift, and you're like, wait, this isn't Hal's

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higher self, because the higher self doesn't

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tell you to kill your family. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So we're like, no, that's actually fear, another

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aspect of the ego that he's talking to. And when

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he tries to fight him, what happens? Nothing.

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He can't do it. He can't do it. He can't hurt

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him, right? But what does he do instead? He turns

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around and he says, I love you. That's powerful.

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That's what I do. The moment my clients are able

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to look at their shadow parts and say, I understand

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why you're here. I know what you're doing and

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I love you for it. And the powerful work that

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that is in a person. So that scene was probably

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one of my favorites. That whole episode was my

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favorite out of the four. You don't need drugs

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to do it, guys. No. Just so you know. But I was

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going to say, there's only four episodes. And

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I say only. I mean, we get about two hours total.

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And it does have a nice tale on it. It closes.

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You know, they have their anniversary party.

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Yeah. Shit gets crazy just as it always would.

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I'll accept it, I guess. Yeah, but, like, I thought

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we were going to get more than four. I was hoping

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more than four. I would have liked seven. And

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it says all episodes now streaming. So I'm guessing

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that's it. Yeah, I did. I Googled it because

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I was like, wait, is that it? It's it. They really

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have no plans of ever doing it again. And Malcolm.

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Frankie. Yes. I thought he did an incredible

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job. And it felt like he never missed a beat

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on it, but was only better at what he was doing.

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Stepped right into it. I had a hard time seeing

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him as an adult, though. I did, too. Did you?

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I was like, he still kind of feels like a kid.

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But you think about it, and he was the boy genius

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that was supposed to make it out. Yes. I mean,

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his name's in the damn show. It wasn't always

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centered around here. I mean, how does that relate,

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though? Because he didn't end up all of these

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things that we thought. Not what they had planned,

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but I really like the scene where he talks to

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his mom about that. And actually, I had to go

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back and watch the series finale of the original

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series just so that I could be, before watching

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the new, Life is Still Unfair. In case you didn't

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know what we were talking about. We're talking

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about Life is Still Unfair. Is that what it's

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called? I thought it had so many different names.

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Yeah. But I had to go back and watch because

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there's a character, another sibling in the family.

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Oh, yeah. And I had to be like, wait a second.

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Who is that? Who is this? Kelly, non -binary

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sibling that's younger than Jamie. That's right.

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I went back and watched the series finale just

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so I could be like. Catch me up. What happened

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again? I can't remember. And I did. I watched

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the series finale, and it ends with Lois saying,

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pregnancy test, how? And he's like, no. That's

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how it ends. So she is, I mean, there is another

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baby coming before we end the series. But the

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conversation in the graduation episode of series

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finale was, they were like, Malcolm was offered

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a job to not go to college. He was not going

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to be able to afford Harvard. He was going to

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go and take a job. And they were paying him.

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They were like, we'll pay you six figures to

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join our company right now. You're going to join

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a software company or start, you know, whatever.

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And he almost took it. And his mom said, no,

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he's going to college. And he gets so mad at

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her. She's like, you have to struggle. You have

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to. You have to go get a job. You'll work nights

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and weekends. You will get through Harvard. And

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you'll be better for it. The struggle will make

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you stronger. And you will be the best president

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we've ever had. And I was like, this is so relevant

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right now. That he was going to be the president

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that looked out for people like them. I love

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that. And that was the finale of the original

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series. You've got to do it. You've got to go.

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You've got to go to Harvard. You've got to work

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jobs and do it. That's a lot of pressure. And

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then that's where you end up with the conversation

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with Lois and Malcolm in the bathroom at the

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anniversary party. And he's like, do you know

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how crazy insane that made me to have the pressure

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of you wanted me to be president? And I didn't

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do it. I didn't make it. I didn't become president.

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So I failed you. And she's like, oh, that old

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thing, that was just a plan. No, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. We just make plans. And they don't work

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out. And that's okay. And I love that we get

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to see Lois like that. Because she almost was

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looked at like a monster for so long. And maybe

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the villain. I have a lot to say about that.

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And I know where you're going to go with that.

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And you got to think about the show was written

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in different times, let's just say. Yeah. This

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one, she comes across as the fucking glue. The

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goddamn hero of the whole thing. And you get

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to see that she's a woman. fighting a 24 hour

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a day battle absolutely and i get that i can

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see that now and she you can think about it and

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she did it the entire series of malcolm in the

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movie and i noticed it you know it's she's wrangling

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in not just the kids yeah but she's got how she's

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got life i know she tells reese at one point

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he's the eighth priority and they're yeah newly

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Pregnant. Francis. Francis. Francis. And they're

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newly pregnant. And she says, you're eighth.

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You're eighth on my list. And then gives a validated

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list. Yeah. And he's even like. Here are my priorities.

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Yeah. And his wife was like, that's fair. I can't

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be mad at her. That's a fair assessment. She

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tells him the rules of what the priorities are.

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And it's like, which one's coming up first? Yep.

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And which one, you know. And I'm like, oh yeah,

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that makes sense. We should all live by that.

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How do you think a woman manages in a low income

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demographic where, you know, it's pretty clear

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from the original series, we're looking at a

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family that doesn't make a whole lot of money.

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They're just scraping by. Keep having kids they

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can't afford. And she's got not, I mean, in the

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beginning, four boys. turns into five boys turns

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into six kids uh late you know that we don't

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see how has this woman managed this all this

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time she could not get away with someone being

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someone who was like i want a career and uh you

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know these are the things that i want these are

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my dreams she had to be like everything is ranked

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by priority and importance at this moment and

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I have to sort that out, and I have to handle

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it this way. And I think she finally explained

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to Frances in this new series what she was doing

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all along to survive. She just finally put words

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to it, I think. She wasn't mean. No. When you

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look at it now and you think about it, like I'm

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saying, they made her be this mean mom, but really

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she's just holding this whole thing together

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from blowing up. She's consistent. Now, does

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she have a hard time letting things go? Yeah.

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Yes. That's all right, though. But I relate to

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that so much. You're allowed to hold grudges,

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right? I was raised with a mom, and I am a mom

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who is like, basically, we have a hard time understanding

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what is really important, what needs to kind

00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:02.359
of be like, that's not a hill I need to die on.

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I can let that go. But what I can say for us

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is we are extremely consistent. There is always

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going to be a consequence for an action. Nothing

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is ever going to be like, oh, just this once,

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I'll let you stay up late, eat ice cream for

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dinner, and not brush your teeth. No, it's like,

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these are the rules, this is what we're doing,

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and that's the kind of mom I am. That's how I

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manage my household with three boys. I see that.

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Which I absolutely understand Lois' perspective.

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Shout out to the mom freaks right now. And I

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know that sounds wild, the mom freaks. Mom freaks.

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Where my mom freaks at? Just shout out to the

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moms. that are feeling like lois you feel like

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you're the mean one and all that kind of stuff

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you feel like you're the crazy one but actually

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you're just the only one paying attention yeah

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that's all you are is the one paying attention

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when nobody else is you know one of the first

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episodes she has this beautiful red dress that

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she's going to wear to an anniversary dinner

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with hal and the entire episode is her trying

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to figure out which kid burned her dress and

00:21:08.170 --> 00:21:10.069
put it in the toilet. That's incredible. And

00:21:10.069 --> 00:21:13.970
she will not rest. That's hilarious. Until she

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finds out who it was. She misses her anniversary

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dinner. Turns out it was Hal the whole time.

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Spoiler alert. And what episode was that? It

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was one of the first episodes. I want to say

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like episode one or two. It was like the very

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beginning. But I remember that being like, this

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poor woman just wanted to wear her red dress

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and go to dinner and she couldn't even have one

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nice thing. Just give the woman her one moment.

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And I think that that's very relevant because

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the fact that you're saying, oh, I can relate

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to a lot of this is showing the chaos that the

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:55.680
show overall, Malcolm in the Middle, really was

00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.319
because it was ugly. If you think about the way

00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:01.579
they did it, it was real. There was no laugh

00:22:01.579 --> 00:22:05.140
track, none of the two camera. Yeah, sitcom style.

00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:07.900
No live audience. You know, it was just no full

00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:10.400
house. It didn't feel like full house. Yeah.

00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:12.240
You look at those two shows and you get the same

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.460
type of thing. Yeah, you're not getting all that.

00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:17.319
You don't have the full house life lessons where

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it pops up with a music track at the end. It's

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:23.480
just a messy house with stained T -shirts on

00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:25.559
kids who look like they haven't been bathed in

00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:29.079
a long time. And that's okay. Ugh. But it's real.

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And I think that's why Lois did get the bad rap

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for a while and be looked at as the mean mom.

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And then you got Bryan Cranston over here doing

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.259
his thing as Hal. Yes. I do. I could see it a

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lot. And at times, Hal was... It was kind of

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like the... Hal gets to play the good guy. She

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:51.980
always has to be the hammer that comes down.

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And that's frustrating for a lot of moms. I know

00:22:54.660 --> 00:22:56.539
I can feel that way sometimes where I'm like...

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I need someone else holding the strength borders

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up. We once talked about it in our house as the

00:23:03.130 --> 00:23:06.529
raptors in Jurassic Park. You know how they're

00:23:06.529 --> 00:23:08.750
always testing the fences in the beginning? That's

00:23:08.750 --> 00:23:10.509
right. And they're like, they never stop testing

00:23:10.509 --> 00:23:12.650
the fences. They're so smart, right? Because

00:23:12.650 --> 00:23:16.109
as soon as those fences went down, those raptors

00:23:16.109 --> 00:23:17.569
took advantage, right? They were ready, yeah.

00:23:17.670 --> 00:23:20.450
Well, moms can't always be the electric fences.

00:23:21.390 --> 00:23:24.769
Like, we need dads to also be the stable electric

00:23:24.769 --> 00:23:28.029
fence, too, so mom doesn't have to always, always

00:23:28.029 --> 00:23:32.329
hold up that boundary. It's like, if I say there's

00:23:32.329 --> 00:23:35.009
no television tonight, I need dad to also be

00:23:35.009 --> 00:23:36.250
on board with there's no television tonight.

00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:39.190
To lay the law down. Yeah. So it was frustrating

00:23:39.190 --> 00:23:41.869
sometimes to watch that Hal was a little bit

00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:45.450
more like, oh, I'll let you guys just do it this

00:23:45.450 --> 00:23:47.769
once, and don't tell your mother, and that kind

00:23:47.769 --> 00:23:52.099
of bullshit that I hate. But I will say of all

00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:56.859
the idiotic dad -mom sitcom roles we've seen,

00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:01.740
that dynamic, Hal was capable. And he was on

00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:08.259
her side and never was on the side of the boys

00:24:08.259 --> 00:24:10.299
being like, yeah, your mother's terrible. Isn't

00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:14.359
she awful? No. In his eyes, Louis was the angel.

00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.160
I mean. Think about the scene. I was laughing

00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.140
so hard at the scene where he turns down sex

00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:23.240
and they have that conversation. She's like,

00:24:23.299 --> 00:24:25.480
what? And she's not mad. Neither one of them

00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:27.880
are mad. They're almost crying. He's like, I

00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:31.240
never do that. And she's like, sex is our love.

00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:34.940
Their love and attraction to each other is the

00:24:34.940 --> 00:24:38.279
backbone of this family. And that means so much

00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:40.960
to me to watch as a kid when I watched this series,

00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:43.910
but also now looking back on it, I think. No

00:24:43.910 --> 00:24:45.970
matter how chaotic things can be with the kids,

00:24:46.150 --> 00:24:49.930
and it can be rough. I mean, raising kids is

00:24:49.930 --> 00:24:52.650
just hard. It's wonderful and lovely, and we

00:24:52.650 --> 00:24:54.849
all love it, but it's also really hard and messy.

00:24:55.509 --> 00:24:58.529
But if your strength, like, together... You're

00:24:58.529 --> 00:25:01.470
like, we're in this together. We have each other.

00:25:01.589 --> 00:25:04.089
We've got to have each other's back. You know,

00:25:04.170 --> 00:25:07.470
nothing's going to come between us. I think it's

00:25:07.470 --> 00:25:09.750
so important. I'm so glad that they show that

00:25:09.750 --> 00:25:11.549
and that they have that relationship. I mean,

00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:13.849
that's how me and Lindsay try to roll, too. But

00:25:13.849 --> 00:25:16.430
ours is a little bit different. We have to stay

00:25:16.430 --> 00:25:19.190
on the same team because we can't let ours get

00:25:19.190 --> 00:25:22.119
us down. I don't mean like... But they'll try

00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:23.960
to pick you against each other. I'm talking about

00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:25.380
physically. We can't let them get in. You got

00:25:25.380 --> 00:25:26.960
to wrestle those kids in their pajamas every

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.859
night. Yeah. You know? I did. I thought the four

00:25:30.859 --> 00:25:33.299
episodes was not enough. And we didn't even talk

00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:37.960
about Dewey being replaced. And that's a harsh

00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:42.000
word, but it did happen. Recast. Recast. And

00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.220
it was only his own decision, so let's not get

00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:46.039
it too twisted of why they added Dewey. He's

00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:48.400
out of Hollywood and out of the acting role,

00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.579
Eric, who played Dewey. He retired. And he was

00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:53.880
very much supportive of them doing the show without

00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.559
him. Even did Zoom calls. He still stays in touch

00:25:57.559 --> 00:25:59.039
with all of them, so there's no bad blood. We

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:00.440
want to make sure that's clear. Yeah. But it

00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:02.920
got recast. Yeah. And that was probably, to me,

00:26:03.059 --> 00:26:06.200
I thought the guy that did it did great. Yes,

00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.079
he did. Way believable. He almost looks just

00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:09.759
like Dewey. He looks like him. Filled the role.

00:26:09.940 --> 00:26:12.960
Yeah. Would have still loved to have seen something.

00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:16.660
I don't know. I would have liked to have seen

00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:19.299
more of all of the siblings back again. I think

00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:21.039
it's me being selfish. I think it's us being

00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.859
selfish. That we wanted original Dewey or something.

00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:29.440
He's living his own life. He's at some Ivy League

00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.019
college, I believe. He was doing music. He was

00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:35.460
playing all over the world. Which brings back

00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:37.910
to the original series. We've been talking a

00:26:37.910 --> 00:26:40.170
lot about the new show, but Wistful Wednesday

00:26:40.170 --> 00:26:42.089
being about the one that came out in the 90s.

00:26:42.089 --> 00:26:45.990
I want to say I love how they showed each sibling

00:26:45.990 --> 00:26:49.609
with their own genius. That's right. Like each

00:26:49.609 --> 00:26:53.309
one had at some point in the series showcasing

00:26:53.309 --> 00:26:56.309
something about them that maybe wasn't the intellect

00:26:56.309 --> 00:26:59.509
that Malcolm had. But Dewey learning to play

00:26:59.509 --> 00:27:03.150
the piano by himself, ordering a piano and playing

00:27:03.150 --> 00:27:06.519
these like. concertos and like he just like picked

00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.799
it up and taught himself there's obviously a

00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.339
musical genius to do it yeah then there was the

00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:14.599
cooking reese at one point got into cooking and

00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:19.240
he became this like master level chef had taste

00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:23.920
buds like a like a french culinary culinary expert

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:28.319
And then, I mean, Francis really rose to the

00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:30.839
occasion when he got into doing the ranch and

00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.680
working on the ranch and being a hard worker

00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.960
and, you know, surprised everybody that he wasn't

00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.519
a delinquent. So you've watched the original

00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:42.480
recently then. My kids and I, so we made it this

00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:45.299
new thing that my kids get ready for bed and

00:27:45.299 --> 00:27:47.019
they get to watch one episode of Malcolm in the

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:49.619
Middle before bed. One 23 -minute episode. Yep.

00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.519
It's perfect. And it's become like a family bonding

00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:55.250
thing. And I've honestly been able to sit my

00:27:55.250 --> 00:27:58.349
three boys down and say the episode where it's

00:27:58.349 --> 00:28:00.430
like tit for tat. I call it the tit for tat episode.

00:28:00.569 --> 00:28:02.589
I don't know what it's really called. But it's

00:28:02.589 --> 00:28:05.710
the one where Reese and Malcolm are in this battle

00:28:05.710 --> 00:28:07.710
of like I do something to you and you do something

00:28:07.710 --> 00:28:09.730
to me. But it plays the whole thing backwards

00:28:09.730 --> 00:28:12.650
until you find out the original thing was Malcolm

00:28:12.650 --> 00:28:15.589
eating Reese's blueberry off of his plate. That

00:28:15.589 --> 00:28:18.750
was it? All it was. And then they went to like

00:28:18.750 --> 00:28:23.180
the hospital by the end. You get to see it played

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:26.460
backwards, but I showed it to my kids and I said,

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.700
see, this is why it doesn't pay to get revenge

00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:34.859
on somebody. It just makes a war. Why? For what?

00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:39.019
At what point are you ever a winner? Yeah. It's

00:28:39.019 --> 00:28:42.440
Malcolm's birthday and Lois says, when have you

00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.619
ever had a birthday party? Either of you, Reese

00:28:45.619 --> 00:28:47.700
or Malcolm, have you ever had a birthday party?

00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:49.720
Isn't that sad that you've always been grounded

00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:53.299
on your birthdays? And they're like, huh, I guess

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:56.059
we, yeah. I'm like, it's not worth it, you guys.

00:28:56.180 --> 00:28:58.900
So it's just, it's nice to have that for my kids.

00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.680
So I can be like, here's what not to do. Here's

00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:04.299
the lesson, kids. Don't do this. It's great family

00:29:04.299 --> 00:29:07.720
stuff. So you being a recent viewer of Malcolm

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.720
in the Middle, what's your top three favorite

00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:13.119
episodes? You got those? I do. Don't ask me mine.

00:29:13.140 --> 00:29:15.440
I had to think about it. I had top three favorite

00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:17.039
episodes. Let's hear them. This goes back to

00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.859
Lois a little bit. Are these in order? No. Okay,

00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:23.130
no order. Order of my favorites. Okay. So my

00:29:23.130 --> 00:29:26.529
first favorite, my absolute favorite, is the

00:29:26.529 --> 00:29:31.089
family reunion, family picture at Howell's family,

00:29:31.289 --> 00:29:33.509
who's wealthy. They're, like, wealthier people.

00:29:33.750 --> 00:29:36.869
They look down on Lois. The one where they're

00:29:36.869 --> 00:29:39.849
mean to Lois and exclude her from the family

00:29:39.849 --> 00:29:44.049
picture, and the sons have to, like, defend her,

00:29:44.130 --> 00:29:47.730
have to rise up and do something for her. And

00:29:47.730 --> 00:29:50.519
they're marching down the hall and... Piyama

00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:52.339
says, what are you guys going to do? And they're

00:29:52.339 --> 00:29:55.799
like, we don't know. We never know. And they

00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:59.140
end up driving the golf cart across the table

00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:02.059
and then into the pool. I remember this one.

00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:04.799
And they slowly sink into the water, their faces

00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.440
just smiling as they go into water. I could watch

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.859
that scene 10 ,000 times. What episode is it?

00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.900
That is season four, episode three. So if you

00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:17.059
want to see that golf cart episode. All right.

00:30:18.509 --> 00:30:23.910
uh guest appearance by who's doc i'm totally

00:30:23.910 --> 00:30:26.349
blanking on his name um from back to the future

00:30:26.349 --> 00:30:29.190
oh uh lloyd christopher lloyd christopher lloyd

00:30:29.190 --> 00:30:32.289
is in that episode as house dad so gotta go watch

00:30:32.289 --> 00:30:34.990
that one second favorite is lois takes dancing

00:30:34.990 --> 00:30:39.269
lessons season three episode eight okay she takes

00:30:39.269 --> 00:30:43.710
dancing lessons and in her mind um and in hal's

00:30:43.710 --> 00:30:47.720
mind She's dancing beautifully. It shows her

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.720
dancing with the instructor and she's just like

00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:53.140
floating across the floor. And Hal is like, you're

00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:55.920
beautiful, honey. And they see it all as this

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:58.980
amazing thing. And then she plays the video back

00:30:58.980 --> 00:31:03.259
to the rest of her family. And she's awful. She

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:06.160
like steps all over his toes. She can't get a

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.920
step in. She has no rhythm. The family is seeing

00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.299
it all for the first time. And she's like so

00:31:12.299 --> 00:31:15.369
embarrassed. She's like, I'm horrible why didn't

00:31:15.369 --> 00:31:18.589
you tell me and hal is looking at her like look

00:31:18.589 --> 00:31:22.390
at you you're so beautiful i love it it shows

00:31:22.390 --> 00:31:24.950
you that love once again right just in his eyes

00:31:24.950 --> 00:31:28.190
she can do no wrong i want i want a hal in my

00:31:28.190 --> 00:31:31.029
life that's amazing and then third by the one

00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:34.430
season four episode 20 okay it's the kind of

00:31:34.430 --> 00:31:39.369
lois and francis origin story oh it's when francis

00:31:39.369 --> 00:31:44.359
is a baby it's a flashback and um And ironically,

00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:49.599
Lois and Hal, well, Lois especially, is really

00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:54.299
a doormat to Francis. Just giving him everything,

00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:56.599
giving in to everything. And, oh, I just want

00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:59.099
him to be happy. I just want him, I just want

00:31:59.099 --> 00:32:01.119
to give him whatever he wants. And Hal's like,

00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:04.180
Lois, you know, you got to put down the, you

00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:06.220
got to put down the fist sometimes. You got to

00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:09.140
be tough on him. And she's like, I just can't.

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:12.859
He's just so cute and wonderful. And then finally,

00:32:13.019 --> 00:32:16.700
Francis becomes so out of control, so awful as

00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:21.119
a toddler, that he almost lights himself on fire

00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.720
or something. I remember that. And she takes

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.140
his teddy bear, his precious teddy bear, and

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:30.539
holds it in the fireplace. And she's like, I

00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:34.140
will do anything to make sure you're safe. And

00:32:34.140 --> 00:32:36.220
that's when she flips the switch to the Lois

00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:38.460
we all know and love, which is, I don't care

00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:40.259
if you're mad at me. I don't care if you hate

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:42.140
me. I'm doing whatever it takes to be a good

00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:46.059
mom. And she burns his teddy bear in the fire.

00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:48.859
I don't know why I love that so much, but I feel

00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:51.440
like that's me as a mom. I'm like, I could be

00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.400
seen as mean. Lois is your spirit enemy. But

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:57.519
I'm kind of, she just loves her kids so much.

00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.480
We just love our kids. What's your final thoughts

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:03.500
on Malcolm in the Middle here? Have you already

00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:05.339
given them? I think you might have already. Guys,

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:10.339
can you tell I like this show? You aren't the

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:12.859
only one, though, because this new series that's

00:33:12.859 --> 00:33:16.519
just dropped is now the most watched whatever.

00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:18.700
Go look it up. Maybe they'll make more if you

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:20.420
guys keep watching it. Just keep watching it

00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:23.180
on repeat. It got like 8 .4 million streams on

00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:26.019
the first 24 hours. That's wild. We love it.

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:27.980
I love all the people that came back for it.

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.519
I love that they have the anniversary party.

00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.180
And that's an excuse to have a lot of characters

00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:35.859
come back, actors, that you're like, oh, there's

00:33:35.859 --> 00:33:38.859
the people from the military academy. And there's

00:33:38.859 --> 00:33:42.059
the Gretchen from the ranch. And, you know, everybody

00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:44.000
that we kind of knew and loved from the show.

00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.880
So I love that. And, I mean, Malcolm in the middle.

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:52.819
All right. So he exhibits the perfect, according

00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:57.039
to birth order studies, which are, you can argue

00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.759
are legitimate or not legitimate. According to

00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:03.619
birth order, middle children often do seek connection

00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:07.740
outward, not within the family. They end up having

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:10.940
more connection to friends and to, you know,

00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:13.280
someone outside of the family than they do in

00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.739
the family because they don't know where they

00:34:14.739 --> 00:34:17.539
fit. Yeah. Turns out Malcolm's not quite so middle.

00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:21.599
Once they've had Kelly, he's kind of in the top

00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:24.480
oldest group at that point. Yeah, we didn't even

00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.719
touch on the whole story arc that it goes through.

00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:30.599
It's wild. Go watch. And Kelly is great. I love

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:32.480
that they put a non -binary character in there

00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.980
and allowed that to be a representation of their

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:40.400
journey. Kind of naturally, too. It wasn't overly

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:45.139
done. Like, here's Kelly. And I think at one

00:34:45.139 --> 00:34:46.719
point they even say you've got three brothers

00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.320
and one non -binary. And it's just like that.

00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:54.869
Loved that. Stevie is in a... Same -sex marriage

00:34:54.869 --> 00:34:57.510
gets to showcase that a little bit too, some

00:34:57.510 --> 00:35:01.530
diversity in there. But Malcolm in the Middle,

00:35:01.610 --> 00:35:05.369
perfect, perfect scenario to put together this

00:35:05.369 --> 00:35:09.550
family dynamic sitcom that just absolutely became

00:35:09.550 --> 00:35:11.130
one of our favorites. It's going to be one of

00:35:11.130 --> 00:35:13.969
our rewatches over and over again in our family

00:35:13.969 --> 00:35:16.429
for sure. I mean, at some point we may do this

00:35:16.429 --> 00:35:19.269
again and go just break down a season by season.

00:35:19.309 --> 00:35:21.949
Oh, we could. Episode by episode? I don't think

00:35:21.949 --> 00:35:24.809
four episodes is going to do it. With the amount

00:35:24.809 --> 00:35:27.289
of people who have watched. Come on, Frankie.

00:35:27.809 --> 00:35:30.989
Come on, we want to see some more of this. Yeah,

00:35:31.010 --> 00:35:33.349
everybody was fantastic. Yeah, but that's going

00:35:33.349 --> 00:35:35.690
to do it for this episode of Parallel Frequencies.

00:35:35.690 --> 00:35:38.510
I am just playing. This is Coco, and you are

00:35:38.510 --> 00:35:40.090
the freaks. We will see you on the other side.