EPISODE

8. Poker

Hal accuses Abe of cheating him at poker; Francis weathers a storm at the logging camp; Reese and Lois attend a dance class.

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Hal finally gets an invitation to Abe's poker game, but loses miserably. Hal believes that Abe's friends targeted him because of his comparatively boring job. Malcolm clashes with Stevie for filming him in a homework assignment, leading to a poker match between Hal and Abe. With Hal unable to attend the dance class he signed up for with Lois, she takes Reese instead, and so many old women want to dance with him that he starts charging them. He uses the money to buy Dewey a toy and smashes it in front of him. For revenge, Dewey films Reese at the class and plans to show it at school. Lois feels she has a natural talent for dancing, but Dewey's video footage shows otherwise. Francis and his friends are trapped in an Alaskan blizzard fending off cabin fever.

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