Amigo22
Super Moderator
In Red Dress, the arrangement that he would meet Lois at the restaurant was so that he would not be home when she discovered the dress so Lois would think it was one of the boys, meaning they suffered an evening of torture when it wasn't even them. Then, in Water Park, he did something bad enough to make Lois scream "OH MY GOD!" but again, he couldn't accept that he did what he did and face the consequences, he had to bribe Malcolm into taking the fall for him instead. Thirdly, in Clip Show. He didn't set the brake on his car and the boys got punished. Yet whenever the boys misbehaved, he didn't have a problem with punishing them.