Malcolm in the Middle
It's from 2000, before you were born.
- Network
- FOX
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Premiered
- 2000
- Star
- Frankie Muniz
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About
As of 2026, it's 26 years old.
Malcolm in the Middle threw out the laugh track, broke the fourth wall, and dropped us into a loud, chaotic, lower-middle-class family held together by sheer force of a terrifyingly competent mother. A genius kid narrates the bedlam directly to camera while his brothers cause it.
Frantic and genuinely funny, it captured the specific anarchy of a house full of boys, and gave us a young Bryan Cranston as a gloriously goofy dad years before he cooked anything.
Manic, sharp, and refreshingly unsentimental, Malcolm in the Middle is the comedy that found real laughs in the beautiful disaster of a chaotic family.
Malcolm in the Middle season by season
Malcolm in the Middle ran for 7 seasons (2000–2005) across 151 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
