1. Pilot

Complete story — includes the ending

Child prodigy Malcolm lives with his dysfunctional family: neurotic father Hal, controlling mother Lois, bully brother Reese, and odd younger brother Dewey. His eldest brother, Francis, resides at a military school in Alabama, Marlin Academy, for his misbehavior. At school, Malcolm tries to keep a low profile and avoid his bully, Spath, but his teachers spot his intelligence, and further testing reveals his I.Q. to be 165. Lois forces him to join the school's gifted class, but Malcolm objects because he doesn't want to be a "Krelboyne", a term for the gifted, socially awkward kids at his school. Frustrated due to being ostracized by the other kids, Malcolm lashes out at Spath, and, with help from his new handicapped friend Stevie ( Craig Lamar Traylor ), fortuitously humiliates Spath by making it seem like he pushed a wheelchair-bound Stevie to the floor.