Bowling (Malcolm in the Middle)

Bowling ( Original title: bowling) is the 20th episode of the second season of the U.S. comedy series Malcolm in the Middle. Your Original Air Date was on 1 April 2001 on the U.S. television network Fox. On 8 June 2002, the German -speaking Original followed on the ProSieben.

Action

Reese and Malcolm want to catch up with friends in the bowling center hit, but Dewey can not, because he's done something bad and must therefore stay at home. Reese and Malcolm ask their parents, who she runs into bowling centers of the two. Then start two parallel stories in which the boys are driven each by their father or their mother.

As Lois and the boys in the bowling center arrive, they buy them instead of two pairs of bowling shoes only one that the two should share. But when she sees that the children are there without parental supervision, they declared voluntarily and now fits on them. While Malcolm suffers his mother, who disgraced him in front of all his friends, Reese flirts with Beth, his and Malcolm swarm. Meanwhile, Malcolm meets no pin at the bowling alley. All attempts by his mother teach him, fail miserably. When it Malcolm with his mother is too embarrassed to run on the bowling alley to the pins while he berates his mother, and attracts the attention of the entire center in coming. He throws his ball then to the pins, this is true from a few meters but not and is laughed at. Since Reese mitlacht, Beth finds it unconscionable and will henceforth have nothing to do with him. Just before Reese and Malcolm go, Beth talks to the downcast Malcolm and thinks they 've found it boldly, as he defies his mother. She offers him, to kiss him, whatever they do, until they get caught a few seconds later by Malcolm's mother.

At the same time Hal Dewey puts lovingly into bed. But this will not come to terms with it and staying up late, so he administered his father sleeping pills. As a result, Dewey make from now on what he wants.

After Hal has just moved, he reached and the guys still the bowling center where he buys them at the beginning of each a pair of bowling shoes. He invites the guys from on their bowling with her friends and rented a train, but so as not to disturb his children, at the end of the center. Right at the beginning they want namely with Beth, her flock, flirt, with Reese Malcolm anticipates. This, however, messed up and sprayed it with a stupid prank with water, which is why they do not want to talk to him. Then Malcolm begins to flirt with her and turns it to better than his brother. However, in order to prevent this, Reese leaves a bowling ball in Malcolm's rolling direction, but comes not with him, but another visitor to the center, which begins to pursue Reese. Meanwhile, Hal has a winning streak on his track in the bowling center and meets a few times in succession all the pins by repeating some rituals before each throw. Malcolm and Beth get to know in the meantime, and ultimately want to be alone. Therefore, they go to a technical room behind the bowling lanes. When Hal just throws his last ball to break a record, Malcolm caught in one device and pops up on the pins of the neck rail. His viewers are angry and turn their backs on him. Last Reese is still beaten by the man whom he has met with the bowling ball hours earlier.

Meanwhile, Lois brings Dewey into bed. Any attempts of Dewey, to deceive them, but in order to be able to stay up, fail. Eventually, however, Lois gives in and lets Dewey still watch TV.

The next scene is shown at the end of a row using the Split Screen: When both parents each arrive back home and asked by their partners, as was the day, they answer: "The next time you're going to drive them there."

Instrumentation and synchronization

Reception

This series came with viewers mainly positive. A few days after the first showing rated Robert Bianco, critics of the USA Today newspaper, as " very strong and very clever". So it is still regarded by many fans and critics as one or the best episode of Malcolm in the Middle. It was in the title story of a edition of the New York Times noted in 2001 with the example of how a father Hal into placed in the bowling games so that he is not unaware of this, what problems have his children. Finally, the episode won the 2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for the directed by Todd Holland and one in the category Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the screenplay by Alex Reid. In addition, she was nominated in the same year for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Comedy category. And in 2002 director Holland a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series in.