Lois calls Malcolm in for breakfast, but the zipper on his tent is jammed. Due to him being at the library when they needed a volunteer to sleep outside, he had no choice. He tells Reese to run at him and he promises to hold the football.Īt the beginning, Malcolm is outside sleeping in a tent explaining Ida came to visit at the same time Francis and Piama came to visit. Reese informs Malcolm he has never read the paper or even the comics, and after realizing he has never read "Peanuts", Malcolm goes outside and plans to trick Reese with the classic football gag. In the cold opening, Malcolm shows Reese something funny in the newspaper, but Reese states he doesn't read and will avoid it at any cost unless he has to for school or else he believes that the system has beaten him. Ida then decides to sue Hal and Lois for being indirectly responsible for that happening. This ends up breaking her back and needing constant care.
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As such, TV sitcom history is awash in very special Halloween episodes.Ida visits the Wilkersons and slips on a leaf, thanks to Reese's neglect in raking the leaves when he was told to by Lois. This means that the early episodes of any sitcom will line up with Halloween on October 31. While television is a 24/7 proposition now, traditionally the TV season began in the fall and concluded before the summer. While those Easter eggs is appreciated, the nature of this episode is another Easter egg entirely for fans of TV sitcoms. Halloween SpecialĪs episode 6’s name so helpfully suggests, this is WandaVision’s Halloween special, or “Spooktacular!” For the show this means getting to dress Wanda, Vision, and Quicksilver in the comic-appropriate versions of their costume. Still, in Wanda’s perfect sitcom world it’s helpful to put Pietro in a recognizable sitcom role like everyone else in town. He was also kind of grim, which is the sort of thing that’s bound to happen when you lose your parents and then spend your childhood being experimented on by HYDRA.
Granted, our time with the former Quicksilver was brief, but when we saw him last, he was a dutiful, responsible brother intent on keeping his sister safe at all costs. The Pietro of Westview does not appear to be anything like the actual Pietro Maximoff of the MCU. but still being the hero to one’s younger siblings or nephews is very much a Francis move. Though Malcolm is a genius, his brothers Francis, Reese, and Dewey are all different manners of dysfunctional. The aforementioned Malcolm in the Middle is positively filled with wacky brothers. Pietro has wacky hair, a strangely personable East Coast accent, and sets a terrible example for his nephews by sleeping in until 4 p.m. What Wanda and Pietro seem to be experiencing is a kind of Goofus and Gallant-style dynamic, where one sibling is foolish and the other is responsible. Truthfully, there are many kinds of sibling archetypes within the TV sitcom world.
Can you repeat the question?” That opening lyric from They Might Be Giants’ song “Boss of Me” was many early 2000s TV viewers heads up that they were about to be treated to an episode of one of the decades very best sitcoms: Malcolm in the Middle.Ī Tale of Two Pietros: Explaining the MCU X-Men Problem With a Mutant Speedster By Gavin Jasper Here are the many ways in which WandaVision episode 6 honors sitcom history. Fox’s superb Malcolm in the Middle is in the driver’s seat this time and both Tommy and Billy are our precocious protagonists.
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After honoring Family Ties, Full House, and other ‘80s and early ‘90s TV comedies in episode 5, this installment speeds ahead to the more experimental 2000s. The children are all allowed out of their homes for a Halloween celebration and the very boundaries of the town are expanded.įittingly for such an episode, the show’s sitcom homages experience quite a bump as well. WandaVision episode 6 “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!” finds Wanda Maximoff accelerating the situation in Westview quite a bit.
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