Trivia for
"Malcolm in the Middle" (2000) More at IMDb Pro »

• "Krelboyne", the name of the class of gifted students to which Malcolm belongs, is taken from the name of the nerdy hero of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
  
  
• The animation clips shown briefly during the opening credits are from the Japanese anime "Nazca" (1998).
  
  
• Scenes from One Million Years B.C. (1966) can be seen during the opening credits. In one of them Raquel Welch is shown in the claws of a monster bird. The other scene shows the fight against a giant turtle.
  
  

• On the show, Reese is the second oldest brother of Malcolm, but in real life Reese (Justin Berfield) is less than three months younger than Malcolm (Frankie Muniz).
  
  
• The two wrestlers briefly featured in the opening credits are Bret Hart and Chris Benoit.
  
  
• The hamster that Dewey releases in an earlier episode can be seen in various episodes after, rolling past the screen (in its exercise ball) on the ground in the background.
  
  
• In the episode where Hal and the boys go to the race track, they come home to discover that Lois had gone through all of their stuff, in that pile was a pack of Morley cigarettes, the same fake brand the Cigarette Smoking Man prefers to use on "The X Files" (1993).
  
  
• The last name of the family has only twice been revealed on the show. It is Wilkerson, as revealed in the pilot as the name tag Francis wears on his school uniform. There was also a joke that appeared in the original pilot script. In that script, Malcolm was walking to school when a neighborhood kid came running up shouting, "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm. I was talking to my parents last night - I was listening to them talk, and what's your last name?" "Wilkerson, why?" Malcolm replied. "Oh. Who are the Pariahs?" said the other kid. The joke was eventually cut, and the show's writers subsequently decided never to reveal the family's last name, but it would seem they forgot about Francis's name tag. In the company picnic episode, Hal also refers to them as 'the Wilkersons'.
  
  
• Merrin Dungey (who plays Stevie's Mom, Kitty Kenarben) appeared in the first episode as Malcolm's teacher.
  
  
• Jane Kaczmarek in real life has given birth by way of Caesarian section three times. When it came time to simulate giving birth without a C-section in the episode Baby Part Two, Jane just imitated every other birth she had seen on television.
  
  
• Two of the Krelboynes, Dabney and Lloyd, are named after student houses at Caltech.
  
  
• In the original version of the show Otto Mannkusser and his wife are Germans, in the German dubbed version they are Danes.
  
  
• The monster seen rising from the water in the opening credits is the monster from Clash of the Titans (1981)
  
  
• In the episode where Hal takes the boys to the race track, it's revealed that Malcolm was named after Hal's favorite NASCAR driver, Rusty Malcolm.
  
  
• The character of Reese was ranked #9 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 10 Biggest Brats" (27 March 2005 issue).
  
  
• The motto of Lucky Aide is: The "L" Stands for Value.
  
  
• In the opening credits, the boxer who inadvertently knocks out the referee is Pedro Cardenas, fighting Willie deWit. He accidentally KO'ed referee Bert Lowes during the 1982 North American Championships in Las Vegas.
  
  
• The signs in Dewey's Busey classroom read, "Put ups - not put downs," and "Words not hands."
  
  
• FOX announced that this program will air its final (151st) episode on 14 May 2006.
  
  
• Scenes from The Brain from Planet Arous (1957) can be seen during the opening credits.
  
  
• Actor Patrick Bristow first appears in the Episode "Ida's Boyfriend" as Phillip, the head of the Acting troupe hired to hold a Murder Mystery at the Grotto. Later, Patrick Bristow returns to the show as Lloyd, Chad's Father in the episode "Chad Sleep's Over".
  
  

Related Links