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Malcolm competes in an academic octathlon but hates the intensity of the other competitors; Hal fights to regain Dewey's love; Reese tries to get out of going to a formal dance; Francis and Piama's argument over chores proves highly contagious to other couples.

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.

Hal takes the boys to a bridal show; Lois' mother wants to move in with the family; Malcolm gets an offer to enroll in a prestigious private school.

Lois continues with her strenuous labor, as friends and family all panic around her.

When Lois comes out of the store and catches the boys vandalizing a suggestive billboard from a strip club, Malcolm decides to challenge her by changing the display to "I Want Respect", thus starting a protest against it. Everyone in the lot believes them and follows the ruse. However, Lois doesn't believe them and thinks they're just being hooligans as usual.

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.

In a desperate bid to get to Alaska, Francis unintentionally ends up blowing things way out of proportion by landing himself in a sticky situation.

In this special episode, we see what would happen if Lois took the kids bowling and what would happen if Hal took them bowling. Lois keeps the kids under tight watch, making Malcolm's night miserable, since he's the worst bowler in the group; Hal is on the verge of a perfect game, Reese ticks off the wrong guy and runs for his life, and Malcolm finds a girl who is attracted to him.

On a visit to Francis' dude ranch Hal can't help being disappointed in Francis' success, Reese and Malcolm fear Francis has turned into an overly responsible grownup, and Gretchen punishes Dewey for breaking a valuable doll.

In a bid to get to catch the flight to St. Louis for Dewey's piano competition, everything seems to be going wrong for him. Meanwhile, Reese and Malcolm compete with each other to see whether Reese is man enough for the likes of Ida.

The family joins the Burning Man Festival, where Reese and Lois find creative freedom, Malcolm finds love, Hal finds a big audience and Dewey find himself doing all the chores.

Lois finally gets Dewey out of the Buseys special needs class. In response to losing their new 'leader' they run away to be with him. Hal still has no job and picks up a bunch of dumb, but nice, body builders for his latest manic craze.

Unable to function without Dewey, Buseys special needs class panics and takes their teacher hostage when he threatens to call the police on one of the kids for a minor infraction. After other faculty members are taken, a return visit from Dewey accompanied by Francis leads to a new revelation about the "education" the kids are receiving.

It's Spring break, and Malcolm is stuck working the graveyard shift with his mom, and Reese inherits a box of caterpillars from a shady pest controller. Malcolm investigates something weird at work.

The boys and Stevie take off in the evening to visit the carnival but get into trouble, while the parents go searching for them.

The family is on a weekend-vacation in an native American casino. Francis uses this opportunity to go on vacation himself, by sneaking into his former home, but he is not the only one with that idea. While Hal, Reese and Malcolm get lost in the desert, Lois and Dewey enjoy a day of relaxation.

Dewey invites a destructive friend for an overnight visit; Lois is on the hunt for a decade old blender warranty.

Malcolm, Reese and Dewey "volunteer" to do charity work at the local church. They soon begin bartering the many items in the church basement in exchange for money, but when the boys start making more of a profit than the church, their consciences finally catch up to them. Meanwhile, arriving in Alaska to begin working with his former classmate, Eric, Francis learns quickly that his great expectations are more like a wilderness nightmare, and his new boss, Lavernia, may be the icing on the tundra.

While we have a chance to see the world from Dewey's very special point of view, Reese acts weird. As it turns out, he is interested in a girl and does not know how to show her how he feels. Following a misunderstood advice from Malcolm, Reese joins the cheerleader-squad. As a consequence Hal has to have "the talk" with his sons. Meanwhile in the military academy Francis gets to know Commandant Spangler on a very personal level.

It's another Wilkerson family Christmas- Reese, Dewey and Malcolm misbehave a time too many, so Lois moves the tree and all the presents to the garage, which she called, "holding Christmas hostage". While Francis, much to his chagrin, goes to Canada to visit Grandma Ida, whose Christmas spirit was running on empty. Much like her gin bottles.

Hal and the boys enter the season of goodwill in a competitive spirit when the local church starts to undercut them on Christmas tree prices.

As Lois and Hal write their wills in preparation for the baby's birth, they recall various colorful incidents with their four current children.

Hal thinks that Malcolm, Reese and Dewey took a joyride and wrecked the cars, so he takes them to see a therapist.

Malcolm and the rest of the Krelboynes are forced to re-join the rest of the school with disastrous results. Dewey is stuck at home with chicken pox and builds a dominoes masterpiece, which Hal wants to knock down.

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.