Lois, who claimed she “doesn’t care about bowling,” secretly harbors a ruthless streak. After an obnoxious league bowler mocks Hal’s first gutter ball, Lois challenges the man to a head-to-head match. She hasn’t bowled in 15 years. She takes off her earrings. She then rolls a perfect strike—without looking. “I just visualize the pins as my children’s faces,” she whispers to Malcolm. The episode informs us that Lois’s anger, when focused, is a force of nature more powerful than physics.

Milcolm in the Middle es una de las sitcoms más innovadoras y aclamadas por la crítica de la historia de la televisión. Emitida originalmente por Fox entre el año 2000 y 2006, la serie rompió con los esquemas tradicionales de comedia familiar al presentar una disfunción honesta, caótica y hilarante.

But this is Malcolm in the Middle . Nothing is simple.

In the end, Hal doesn’t get his perfect game recorded. But he gets something better: a story so ridiculous that he will tell it for years, while his sons roll their eyes and secretly smile. And that, more than any spare or strike, is a true family victory.

- A Thanksgiving episode filled with humor and the family's ridiculous obsession with a turkey.