EPISODE

22. Mrs. Tri-County

When the boys enter Lois in a beauty pageant as a joke, she takes it seriously and competes to win; Malcolm becomes a slave to Mr. Herkabe; and Reese discovers he's beautiful.

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The boys enter Lois in the Mrs. Tri-County Pageant as a joke. When they overhear the other contestants remarking that Lois doesn't have a chance of winning, they plot to help their mother take the crown. Meanwhile, Malcolm is blackmailed into delivering love notes to a contestant for Herkabe and Reese discovers that, according to the Mrs. Tri-County pageant handbook, he has the good looks of a middle-aged woman, only to be heartbroken that he can't enter the competition because he's a teenage boy.

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