1. Houseboat

Complete story — includes the ending

Hal gropes a woman in a store after mistaking her for Lois, and Malcolm, trying to impress a girl, refuses to help him and leaves him to get arrested. Malcolm's family and the Kenarbans vacation together on a houseboat. Hal surprises Malcolm with a brand-new fishing pole and they go out fishing. Unable to catch anything, Malcolm finds the experience incredibly boring, especially as Reese and Stevie hang out with sex-starved girls from a nearby cheerleader camp. Just as Malcolm catches a fish and makes amends with Hal, he sees some bikini tops and Reese's shirt float past the boat, causing him to throw Hal overboard and rush the boat to the girls' camp. Dewey has an increasingly bad time, ending with Reese and Stevie abandoning him on a buoy to become severely sunburnt. Meanwhile, Francis' friend, Eric, drops out of Marlin Academy to take a logging job in Alaska and Francis gets himself emancipated so he can join him, incurring Lois' wrath.