Garbage Kills Megan
parties with your mom
I loved that part where Hal says that Malcolms head is too big for his body. That cracks me up.
Best girlfriend episode
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Garbage Kills Megan
parties with your mom
Look how many people took this poll, too. That's way more than the number of people that post on a regular basis. I think we have a lot of young girls reading the forums.
Deweyrules!
Cynic
Did I miss something in cheerleader. I dont get its overwhelming popularity, I think it was a good eppisode but nowhere near as good as bowling- a true classic in my mind. Discuss 
Malcoholic
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More than anything, it probably has to do with who responded to the poll. Still, Cheerleader is a very likeable episode because there's a "feel-good" quality to it that's missing from most other girl friend episodes. The girl is pretty and nice, Reese at least tries to be nice, and, at the end, he more or less "gets" the girl. There are some very funny Malcolm/Reese moments ("does this look anything like a Q?"), a sex talk in which Hal is very funny without resorting to exaggerated histrionics, and a very funny Dewey story (Herbie the doll.) It's also the first episode that broke through the Malcolm-centered balance of boy characters prevalent in season one and established Reese and Dewey as focuses of interest, which is the direction the show has followed since.Deweyrules! said:Did I miss something in cheerleader. I dont get its overwhelming popularity, I think it was a good eppisode but nowhere near as good as bowling- a true classic in my mind. Discuss
Garbage Kills Megan
parties with your mom
I'm sure if we had people just pick which one they like more, bowling or cheerleader, most people would pick bowling. But if you think of them as a "girlfriend episode", like we are doing here, Cheerleader is much more endearing. Bowling is just the boys trying to make out with a hot girl. In Cheerleader, Reese really likes a girl and is trying really hard to get her to like him, but just can't figure out how because he's so hopeless. Plus, instead of Malcolm and Reese competing, Malcolm is helping Reese in Cheerleader. It's an episode that makes you go "awwwwww". That's probably why people liked it more, as a "girlfriend episode".
Deweyrules!
Cynic
ahhhhh, I see your point, I suppose if it is viewed like that, the whole 'girlfriend' concept is far more dominant in cheerleader than in bowling, and there is a greater level of sentimentality, whereas bowling is more about lois and hal.
MalcolmReeseDewey
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I don't think i did this poll before but i put Cheerleader, who likes that episode? I agree with Dewey, at my party i was thinking of the tijuana too!! Rock on Dewey!