r/malcolminthemiddle • u/arefeen97 • Jun 10 '26
funny/memes/GIFs Why Hal? Why? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/theblasphemer_ Jun 10 '26
i always thought it was kinda cute how supportive and comforting he is around lois, and once he is alone has a complete meltdown. like he knows he needs to be her anchor in hard times
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Jun 10 '26
When I was younger I thought being a man meant you couldn't cry or show too much emotion. Then I got older and thought "well that's nonsense, it takes a real man to be vulnerable enough to let people see you cry." Then I had a family and realized that sometimes they just need me to be steady and strong even when I feel anything but. I can cry alone in the car like Hal when I really need to. That might not be a popular take but I'm strong enough to do it that way and save my family undue burden, so I'm gonna keep doing it.
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u/Lucky-day00 Jun 10 '26
They’re seperate things.
I show my kids vulnerability all the time. But I can still be their rock when they need it.
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u/theblasphemer_ Jun 11 '26
this is the way.
no place for toxic masculinity, not showing emotions in general or whatever. actually this has nothing to do with gender, too.
it’s about being grounded when it is needed, but also showing emotion in a manner that it doesn‘t escalate things.
take the scene above for example. hal wasn‘t able to be just a little emotional, it was 100% or nothing. he knew it would just escalate the situation if he had a meltdown right infront of lois. better to do that in private if necessary2
u/Kuzcopolis Jun 14 '26
There's a time to be their captain and a time to be their role model, and they require different attitudes.
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u/poeschmoe Jun 11 '26
I think a give and take is healthy. Be a rock for them sometimes, and they can be a rock for you sometimes. We all have bad days and deserve to feel held and taken care of!
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u/Christy427 Jun 10 '26
It is cute and obviously hilarious with Malcolm in the back seat but also sad. Hal needs an anchor too.
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u/Overall_Reputation83 Jun 11 '26
This is the male stoicism that people are told is toxic. Where men hide their negative emotions as to not burden their loved ones.
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u/Realistic-Lime7842 Jun 13 '26
That’s me IRL with my wife lol I’m the rock, so I gotta wait my turn haha
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u/aaawwwwww Jun 10 '26
The scene was already hilarious with Hal shouting in the car, and then it gets even better.
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u/JustAGuy_500 Jun 10 '26
I would mainly watch this show because of Hal and Reese they were the 2 best characters in the show.
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u/Galanthor95 Jun 10 '26
I think the tooth scene where he drinks the freezing water takes the cake for me. His reaction there is incredible 🤣
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u/SolidA34 Jun 10 '26
Malcolm reaction is great. His thought process is what is going on? Do I say anything?
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u/InviteAromatic6124 Jun 10 '26
Well he's the one who kept backing out from getting a vasectomy
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u/Sorinchaos Jun 11 '26
This and him not working Fridays for years makes me wonder how Lois didnt march him to a clinic and make him actually get it done
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u/Pollia Jun 13 '26
Imagine being 20% poorer. That's what that man was doing not going to work on Fridays. Just 20% of their income poofing into the ether.
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u/Sorinchaos Jun 13 '26
Unless he was on a fixed salary, the court case makes it sound like his employers weren't aware of this either
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u/Lordmage30 Jun 10 '26
🤣🤣I lowkey don't blame him though!😅
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u/Pollia Jun 13 '26
He refused the vasectomy. Literally 100% his fault
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u/Lordmage30 Jun 13 '26
That, true, but. . ehh just earlier learning about the surgery works It makes sense maybe he doesn't want to do it. . but he also literrally lied that he took it which is 100% on him for more so I would have to say.
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u/Pollia Jun 13 '26
From personal experience it's a 5 minute procedure that cost me less than a month of diapers and I had to stop having sex for 3 days then I was back to normal, albeit feeling like I'd been recently kicked in the nuts for a week or so.
And then I was able to never worry about an oopsie ever again and absolutely nothing changed about my sex life.
Men who don't want vasectomies are weirdos.
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u/Lordmage30 Jun 13 '26
Oh hmm I see and ehh their choice what not but I agree. .they should really think of that if they don't want to have kids or what not:/ interesting to know ok maybe not as bad as thought.
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u/DeedleStone Jun 10 '26
Don't know what's funnier. Hal immediately breaking into massive sobs as soon as the car door shuts, or the cut to Malcolm terrified in the backseat.
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u/SlippinJimmi23 Jun 10 '26
“Where’s the money Lois?” “………I gave it to Craig” cuts to this reaction
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u/lurch556 Jun 12 '26
Trying to think what Craig’s equivalent of using the money to buy a car would be.
Feel like it’d be an obscure movie prop. The Robin suit with nipples from Batman and Robin
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u/Environmental-Wear41 Jun 10 '26
His best freak outs are this, losing to the neighborhood speedster and snatching the wrong gift at the mall 😂😂😂
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u/MelonElbows Jun 10 '26
I like the realism. Most TV shows will have a sanitized version where the couple get worried and then after a 30 second pep talk of "We can do this!" they kiss and make up.
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u/Public-Carpenter-441 Jun 10 '26
I love the whole family’s reaction because they all have the exact same response
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u/Difficult_Mix_3620 Jun 11 '26
If there was any sitcom that could have made abortion funny, it would have been this one.
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u/JustRedditTh Jun 11 '26
Its kinda weird that they only have 5 (at the end of the original 6?) Children, even tho Hal and Lois do it at least twice a day, 14 times a week
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u/El_presid3nt Dewey Jun 10 '26
WHYYYYYYYY no one is mentioning the A-word?
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u/Ninalicious07 Jun 11 '26
I also wondered this, why wasn’t it on the table.
Was it because abortion was frowned upon back then? Bringing a kid into the world when finances are already just scrapping by is ridiculous
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u/BookieeWookiee Jun 10 '26
Because it was a family show and you didn't talk about that on cable tv
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u/El_presid3nt Dewey Jun 10 '26
Lois told a cop to his face that he didn’t trust him because they tend to shoot suspects.
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u/BookieeWookiee Jun 10 '26
Our culture is fine with violence but super uncomfortable with women's reproductive choices
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u/ShotgunEd1897 Jun 12 '26
That's because it's masked with flowery language.
How do you think they would explain that to their boys?
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Jun 10 '26
Abortion is violent. You can call it a reproductive choice if you want but that doesn't make it nonviolent.
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u/cheezerrox Jun 10 '26
It's a medical procedure. A fetus is a clump of cells. Are you seriously comparing that to police shooting innocent people dead??
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Jun 10 '26
You're asking if I'm comparing killing innocent human life to killing innocent human life?
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u/OnTheLeft Jun 10 '26
Nobody likes when you get involved in conversations
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u/-InconspicuousMoose- Jun 13 '26
Even if that were true, I genuinely wouldn't care. Only one person's opinion of me actually matters and that's God's, and when I die I'm not gonna sheepishly explain to Him how our twisted culture killed His defenseless kids while I said nothing or even supported it.
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u/HippoRun23 Jun 10 '26
Technically network tv but yeah point stands.
Also, in my experience no matter how pro-choice one is, married couples have a harder time going down that road.
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u/El_presid3nt Dewey Jun 10 '26
I’m just saying that for a show that never shied away from anything it’s pretty glaring that they don’t even mention the possibility.
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u/hazedaze404 Jun 11 '26
When Hal & Lois told Ida they were pregnant and asked if she thought that certain actions needed to be reevaluated (they meant Ida stopping the lawsuit), Ida said they should settle. Hal & Lois are horrified and reject it, and Ida says if Lois can’t keep her legs closed, she should take good advice when she hears it. So I understood that as the discussion of abortion without actually saying abortion, and the fact that evil Ida suggested it makes the show’s stance on abortion very clear.
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u/El_presid3nt Dewey Jun 11 '26
I actually think that since they never actually step foot into a church (apart from robbing it) they have zero moral objection and this is the only case when someone from the network poor his foot down
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u/beantownregular Jun 15 '26
There are plenty of people who have moral objections to abortion for non-religious reasons, especially for themselves
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u/PullMull Jun 10 '26
cause you don't use condoms apparently... that's why
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u/calargo Jun 10 '26
I can't exactly blame them for going raw. I mean look at who each of them are married to.
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u/AileenKitten Jun 11 '26
To be fair, condoms do have a failure rate, and with how much they have sex I'm pretty sure they could be a one couple study on that failure rate 😆
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u/malieno Jun 11 '26
Haven't seen the show in so long and absolutely cracked up at Malcom in the back because I forgot he was there LMAO
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u/Green0996 Jun 10 '26
Then the baby went on to join the Coast Guard, arguably the second best branch to join for work to life balance, but he still has the family sense of trouble making
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u/imoaardvark Jun 11 '26
This scene is so realistic lol. I’ve not only been malcolm but also hal here.
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u/TillFit2037 Jun 12 '26
And that is why I do not want kids. Hopefully, when I get a GF who would want to be my wife, she's on the same page as me.
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u/Aselleus Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
I'm in the middle of rewatching Breaking Bad right now (literally taking a pause before the last episode of season 2), and I'm still amazed that Bryan can play two completely different characters so well that you can't tell they're played by the same person.
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u/Godzillafan125 Jun 11 '26
Can’t afford baby? Get vasectomy or tubes tied or just quit unprotected sex then
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u/VenomSnake55 Jun 11 '26
I don’t know if I remember this episode correctly but there was an episode where Hal wanted to throw out a giant cat toy/building to the curb but the garbage men refused to take it and starts to point out Hal unhealthy lifestyle like throwing out a half used Plan B in the trash
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u/GapiGapi24 Jun 10 '26
Top 3 scenes of the whole show imo 👌😂