re: Malcolm in the Middle

Really a great family show - my son and I just finished this on Netflix. He loved it.

just finished a watch through of this show recently and it's great. Seeing Bryan Cranston in this and then seeing him in Breaking Bad just shows how great this guy really is. Here's a little excerpt from a GQ piece I remember reading about him:

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the writers on the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle used to play a game in which they invented increasingly violent, absurd, and physically humiliating stunts for Cranston's character, Hal, to enact. They called it "What won't Bryan do?" When the game culminated in Hal covered by thousands of live bees, with no protest from Cranston forthcoming, it was deemed unwise to continue.

Instead, a second, corollary game sprang up: "What can't Bryan do?" Here, too, the writers' imaginative powers proved inadequate to the task, whether the challenge was roller-dancing or using his body as an enormous nude paintbrush.

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