'You want to know the best part about childhood? At some point, it stops.'

Malcolm uses the landline number (757) 398-1166 (Verizon Virginia, Inc). Various documents link the phone number (757) 398-1166 to different owners — Shannon L Wolkerson, Shannon L Wilkerson. The price to rent a two bedroom unit in the zip code 23704 is around $1,090.

―Malcolm, Pilot

Mouse'sspoof ofBarney and the Backyard GangandBarney and Friends. 1 Cast 1.1 The Dinosaurs 1.2 Backyard Gang and TV Series 2 Seasons 3 See Also: 4 Gallery: Barney- Malcolm Wilkerson (with Reese Wilkerson and Dewey Wilkersonas Extras) Baby Bop- Marcia Brady (with Jan Brady and Cindy Brady as Extras) BJ- Greg Brady (withPeter Brady and Bobby Brady as Extras) Riff- Mary-Kate. Malcolm Wilkerson is a hopelessly miserable and annoyed kid who lives a very crappy life. He's a social outcast and spends most of his spare time alone, growing very self-absorbed and egotistical. His lack of friends and popularity is mostly due to his parents and home situation, as well as his own ego and need for fairness and truth. Malcolm WILKERSON passed away in SPRINGFIELD, Tennessee. The obituary was featured in The Tennessean on April 7, 2010. View the profiles of people named Malcom Wilkerson. Join Facebook to connect with Malcom Wilkerson and others you may know. Facebook gives people the.

Bio

Malcolm Wilkerson is a hopelessly miserable and annoyed kid who lives a very crappy life. He's a social outcast and spends most of his spare time alone, growing very self-absorbed and egotistical. His lack of friends and popularity is mostly due to his parents and home situation, as well as his own ego and need for fairness and truth. A heavy example of this is in the episode 'Malcolm Holds His Tongue,' in which he gets kicked off his basketball team for stating the noticeable flaws in his coach's game plan, and thus attempts to keep his thoughts to himself, only to get a peptic ulcer by the end, after continually listening to what people had to say and not speaking his mind.

In the Pilot episode, Malcolm was shown to have an IQ of 165, placing him in the 'exceptionally gifted' section of the IQ chart, making him a genius. Malcolm's intelligence allows him to remember things such as a large series of numbers and is able to multiply, divide, and perform all other kinds of mathematical operations, all in his head and without even needing to write it down or use any kind of memory. However, Malcolm never gets any respect in society even though he is a genius because like he always calls things 'unfair', which is a recurring theme in the show. Malcolm's ingeniousness doesn't work his brain is being rushed. So, if Malcolm's in a bad situation where he's told to 'think fast', the outcome is always going to be a pretty bad idea. This was seen at it's worst in Poker #2, where Malcolm had the idea to steal a loaded gun from a girl who was illegaly carrying one, lock it in inside of a tire jack so that she wouldn't be able to get it back, which resulted in the gun being shot into the house and it wasn't until after that, that he decided to call the police. Upon telling a cop the story, the cop called Malcolm out on his alleged 'exceptionally gifted' intelligence level, believing it to be false. This could be one of the reasons why nobody respects Malcolm's ingeniousness.

Malcolm has an incredible memory, Though it usually revolves around things he resents as he states 'I remember anything that ruins my life.' He will also hold a grudge for things that have happened years ago, as seen in 'Morp.'

Malcolm is the only one who seems bothered that the whole neighborhood hates his family. In the Pilot episode, both of Malcolm's next door neighbors were seen selling their homes and regretfully, but willingly planning on moving out because of having to be near the Wilkerson family. It wasn't until the episode Block Party, that the rest of the family started caring that nobody else liked them, when they came home early from their yealry vacation, to see that the neighborhood throws a yearly block party every time they go on that vacation. Everyone in the family then tried to make themselves likable and succeeded at that. It was then revealed that the Wilkerson family served a purpose in the neighborhood, as the family to absorb all of the negative energy from the other families in the neighborhood, because once the neighborhood started liking them, they all started directing their hatred at each other and the whole neighborhood spiraled out of control into a vat of complete madness.

Malcolm's relationship with his brothers is one of seeming animosity at most times, though there have been several instances of much unity and friendship between them. He believes he is the most popular out of the brothers that are still at home, until it is implied by Francis that he is actually the least liked amongst his brothers. At one point he feels that he is being excluded by Reese and Dewey, and when he talks to them about it, he is told that the reason they exclude him is because he's a drag, due to always having to be the special one. It is also revealed that Francis took Reese and Dewey on a beach trip and chose not to invite Malcolm. Francis is his favorite brother and often looks up to him because he was rebellious and can tell Lois off. But, like Reese, he felt disappointment when they visited Francis on the ranch he worked at and saw that he was no longer their delinquent idol, and had become a responsible adult, even acting stunned when he said that sometimes Lois is right to punish them, but they made up with Francis at the end of the episode.

Though he had felt great guilt after having cheated with Reese's girlfriend (prompting Reese to join the army) the following season he compiled a list of things Reese did to him that he insisted were much worse. While he enjoys pulverizing Dewey and making him miserable, he occasionally attempts to help him, although it usually goes wrong (such as when it becomes apparent Dewey may also have a genius-level intellect, and Malcolm attempts to keep him from being transferred into the Krelboyne class, thus sparing Dewey the misery he endured, but instead manages to get him sent to a class for emotionally disturbed children after sabotaging his answers for his IQ test and attempted to fix the situation before Lois found out).

Though on another occasion, at the zoo when Dewey fell into the tiger cage, despite Malcolm being in a deep depression for most of the episode and apparently several weeks before hand, showed genuine worry and jump over several rails and then jumped into the cage himself to get to his brother, only to trap himself in the cage as well. While in the tiger cage, believing he was about to die, confessed that he actually did love his family.

Throughout the series, Malcolm's intellect has proven to be more of a burden then a blessing, as he is the person the family usually turns to when faced with a crisis. This was shown when Hal refused to let Malcolm go to an out of country school (Malcolm tried to use it to escape his family.) Hal said he was the family's last hope. His genius is also the reason Lois tries to completely control his life as she believes Malcolm is the only one of her children with a chance of amounting to anything. Many episodes show Malcolm struggling to get out Lois's control. But all his efforts prove to be in vain.

As expected from his ego and arrogance, Malcolm is often blind to his own moral failings and has a constant need to blame everything on the people in his life for him being the person he is. All in all for all of Malcolm's hardships he is at heart and arrogant, whining ingrate.

While Malcolm is, for most part, extremely unpopular with girls, he has had a number of girlfriends throughout the show. However, they all end in an extremely unhappy fashion. Either because of Lois, who plans to choose who he marries for him, or Malcolm's own actions.

Malcolm has had five jobs in the series. His first was a babysitter for a wealthy family to earn money to purchase a robotics kit, but he quit after learning that the family's parents were spying on him. In the fourth season, he worked as a tutor to a girl named Nikki, whom he eventually dated for a few episodes. Later, in the fifth season, Lois forced Malcolm to take a job with her at the Lucky Aide, as a way to have him under her control. While he hated the job and tried to quit many times, Lois would not let him. He finally quit at approximately the time he graduated high school. In Season 6, he had a job betting on horses. In the final episode, he gets a job as a janitor at Harvard to help with his tuition.

In the final episode it is revealed that Hal and Lois do not plan for him to have an easy life. Because Malcolm consistently exceeds his parents' expectations, by both his intellect, his character, and sense of ethics, by the time he graduates from high school, they have the highest of expectations for him: that he will become President of the United States. Pursuant to this, instead of letting Malcolm take a six-figure salary job out of high school, his parents force him to follow through on plans to attend college as part of an elaborate plan for his future. Lois says that at Harvard, Malcolm will have to work harder than his classmates and will accomplish more than they do, but they will continue to look down upon him. When Malcolm argues that he could have taken the job and 'bought (his) way into office', Lois concludes that Malcolm 'wouldn't have suffered enough' (though he has suffered his whole life.). Because of the struggles he's forced to endure, Malcolm will realize that there is more to life than flaunting how intelligent he is. After college, the plan provides for him to channel his energies into a political career, and after starting off as a district attorney or running a foundation, he will be elected governor of a mid-size state, and then President. They envision that he would then become one of the greatest Presidents ever because he would represent, understand, and, more importantly, show empathy with the interests of people like his family, which, his parents say, no other President has. (Though seems unlikely given Malcolm's selfishness)

It appears that his brothers and Grandmother are aware of these plans, as when Malcolm looks around at his family after being told this, they all nod at him, and Francis simply states, 'Thought you knew'. After hearing this, Malcolm ultimately understands that, even if he does move out of the house, he will never truly be free of his family, will never know happiness (or at least any of his own choosing), and will constantly be cursed by his genius. For all the misery he's had so far, Malcolm understands that his hardships have only just begun and his life's about to get much worse before it ever gets better. Although he recognizes that his parents' plans are outlandish and improbable, and complains that they are making decisions for him that are rightfully his to make, he signals that he has accepted their vision for him and will carry it in his valedictorian speech at his graduation ceremony. The series ends in a rather mediocre way for him, as he does maintain contact with his family (as evidenced from a phone conversation with Reese), he is shown to be working as a janitor while attending Harvard. Despite this, it should be taken into account that Malcolm does seem to have realized the good this will do for himself and the world, accepts he can do it, and has comes to terms with his future. Further, he realizes this is his role when his mother asked him to look her in the eye and tell her he could not do it, could not do all these things, but he cannot, knowing it well within his ability.

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Move to Malcolm '(Malcolm in the Middle character)' or something like that[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Move from Malcolm Wilkerson to Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle)

The name Wilkerson is not prominently featured in the series. It was discarded very early on, and viewers know the characters only by their given names. In my opinion, the article should be moved to Malcolm (TV character) or Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle Character). —AldeBaer 13:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. I don't really see a reason that the move does any good. I can't imagine that someone is going to put either of those into a the search engine, for instance. I think that we should only use parenthetical disambiguation when it's necessary. Croctotheface 14:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The point is that using the name 'Wilkerson' beyond mentioning that it was an idea by the makers of the show and that it was quickly discarded is simply inaccurate and misleading. The character's name is not 'Malcolm Wilkerson' but simply Malcolm. —AldeBaer 14:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the message on my talk page, but I have this article on my watch list, so it's not necessary. I don't know that we can say for sure that his name isn't Wilkerson. I do know that 'TV character' is not a good way to disambig, so it would need to be the long and clunky 'Malcolm in the Middle character' business, which I don't like. Besides, whether Wilkerson was intended to be part of the show or not, it shows up in the pilot, so it is. It shows that the family members are related, which neither of the other disambig strategies would do. Croctotheface 14:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The titles need not show that the characters are related, all about this is in the articles. You see, the nature of fiction is that it's not necessarily coherent. Since this article is not about Malcolm Wilkerson in the first episode of the show 'Malcolm in the Middle' but about the character throughout the show, it is indeed inaccurate to use a name for the character that was only used for the pilot episode. For the entire rest of the seven season run, the character's name was only 'Malcolm'. This is not a question of beauty or taste, but of plain accuracy. A title like 'Malcolm (XXX)' my appear clumsy, but Wilkerson is not an alternative. In my opinion. If can't build consensus on this between the two of us, I suggest asking for additional input at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions, since I didn't find anything in the guidelines for a specific case like this (although I'm fairly sure the fact that the character's name was 'Wilkerson' only during the first of 151 episodes of the show means that calling the character 'Wilkerson', esp. in the title, is inaccurate). —AldeBaer 14:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

What about making Malcolm (TV character) and Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle character) redirects to Malcolm Wilkerson? --דניאל - Dantheman531 16:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

My concern is not that this article (and the others) cannot be found, but that they are incorrectly titled. —AldeBaer 19:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Third Opinion The character's name is given as 'Malcolm' at the IMDb, with no last name provided, so I presume that this is the name by which the character is widely known and that many fans of the series who aren't devotees would not know to include Wilkerson in their search. the Fox website also does not include the last name. However, all of the other character pages are listed as 'Lois Wilkerson', etc., and standardization is important. It does seem to be common to list TV show characters by first name+last name when possible, even if those names are not widely used. The only characters I find on a search of (tv character) are those who do not have last names or who need disambiguation from similarly named articles. (I only examined a few pages, though.) The characters are linked through the master article, and a search of 'Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle)' brings up the t.v. show as its top hit. I don't see the move as necessary. If there is some concern about finding the article, I wonder if a redirect page at Malcolm (TV Character) leading to the existing article location would satisfy? --Moonriddengirl 16:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I certainly have no objection to the redirect pages. Croctotheface 16:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

List Of Malcolm In The Middle Characters - Wikipedia

As far as my primary concern regarding the inaccurate title goes: I agree that standardization is important. I decided to put this proposal here because Malcolm is the title character, and so as not to split up the discussion, but of course my proposal includes moving all of the articles to their accurate titles.Again: I'm convinced that this is not a matter of beauty or taste or actually of any choice at all, but of compelling logic and following our policy on original research. To be honest, I didn't expect any resistance, and indeed so far I can see no thing in the arguments that would convince me that the Wilkerson name should be included in the titles.As mentioned in the main article, the name Wilkerson is mentioned only once in the entire series, in the show pilot, when Francis speaks to Lois on the phone and his name tag says 'Wilkerson'.However, in the series finale, there are two unambiguous, unmistakable references that the Wilkerson name was discarded and effectively revoked and that the characters have only first names: One is when Francis' employee badge falls out of his pocket and the camera close-up reveals his last name as Nolastname, the second is when Malcolm is introduced to give the graduation speech and a static noise makes the last name inaudible. In short, renaming the articles to 'Malcolm Nolastname' and so on would be more accurate than using the Wilkerson name.Like Moonriddengirl said, the official Fox page for the show mentions no last name (Malcolm, Lois, [1], Reese). Bryan Cranston on his official website goes even further: he answers several related questions by saying that the crew jokingly used the name 'Nolastname'. Christopher Kennedy said in an interview with the BBC that the family has no last name [2]. —AldeBaer 18:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me in that case (and based on your note on my talk page) that this matter goes beyond this article and should probably draw participation from related pages, since any consensus you reach here might spark fresh contention when you attempt to standardize there. I'd like to suggest that you launch the conversation on one of the pages (this one or perhaps Malcolm in the Middle, since it is the trunk article of which these are branches) and put notes on each of the major connected pages advising of the issue and inviting input. --Moonriddengirl 19:01, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that the content of show itself basically indicated to the audience that the family does have a last name, but it was not going to be revealed. Otherwise, there would be no reason to have the squawk over the loudspeaker to cover up his last name, However, in my mind, it was revealed in the pilot. As such, the current method is the best way to disambiguate this Malcolm from every other Malcolm out there. Croctotheface 19:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, that logic is flawed in that there is a difference between the family having a last name within the fictional universe (which is a safe assumption) and the characters' actual names as used in the series (only by their forenames) and on the official page and in interviews with the crew (no last name, or 'Nolastname'). As I said, since the series finale changes the name to Nolastname, and it is the name used by the crew among themselves, as Bryan Cranston said (and Jane Kaczmarek as well) the articles on the family members should be renamed to Nolastname or only the first names, in recognition of the show's concept of not giving them a last name. You see, I could add well-referenced text to each of the articles that —as a concept— the family has no last name and that 'Wilkerson' was only in the original draft for the pilot and featured only on a name tag visible (without any special focus on it) in a single scene. That would be in stark contrast to the article titles featuring 'Wilkerson', don't you agree? If you insist on identifiers, the articles should be moved to 'Nolastname', which is more accurate since it is the last mention of a last name. —AldeBaer 19:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no evidence from the series that the family lacks a last name. In fact, as I said, evidence from the series very expressly supports the idea that they have a last name. I reject any claim, regardless of the source, that the last name for the family does not exist. I think that the leap required to accept that, within the fiction, their last name is 'Nolastname' is much greater than that required to accept that it is Wilkerson. I do not accept the argument that the 'last' mention of something resembling a surname is somehow more compelling. Because there is no evidence that the family actually lacks a last name, just that the audience is not meant to know what it is, and because there is a need to disambiguate this Malcolm from every other Malcolm in the least obtrusive way, then I still tend to favor the current arrangement. Croctotheface 19:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The evidence for 'Nolastname' is what I cited from the series finale. It is just as strong as what you are reyling on with 'Wilkerson', and it came later which is of course very important. Nolastname, or no last name. Wilkerson is definitely wrong. —AldeBaer 20:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Coming later in the fiction really doesn't mean anything to me. There are plenty of reasons that 'Nolastname' could be on a nametag. It's a leap to assume it's actually a surname. There's really only one reason for 'Wilkerson' to be on a military uniform. Croctotheface 20:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm with Aldebaer here. Fictional character articles should never use obscure surnames in their names. I had a big argument with most of the Final Fantasy Wikiproject over their habit of using seldom/never-used surnames for character articles and sections. For example, Aerith redirects to Aerith Gainsborough. My problem with the practice is that it embodies the three problems with in-universe writing; it's misleading, it gives undue weight and it tends towards original research. Malcolm Wilkerson is more elegant than Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle), until you consider that to avoid misleading the reader, the article will need to prominently state in the intro that Wilkerson is only used in the pilot and never again.--Nydas^(Talk) 20:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

• I've watched the show on and off for years, and never heard the name Wilkerson. Have to agree with AldeBaer here. I favor Malcolm (TV character).- Crockspot 21:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Malcolm (TV character) is not the kind of style used for fictional characters. I was actually put off by the case for moving, in part, because of the possibility that it would end up at a page with that kind of title. Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle) is the clear way to go if these end up being moved. I actually think that omitting the 'character' helps mitigate the awkwardness problem I had. It implies 'Malcolm from MitM' rather than 'some TV character named Malcolm', which could be any TV character named Malcolm. Croctotheface 21:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd also favor the Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle) format. —AldeBaer 22:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Just let me echo Nydas here. I've had similar debates about this kind of thing at Daffy Duck and Donald Duck with people trying to move them to Daffy Dumas Duck and Donald Fauntleroy Duck based on one-time gags from one-shot cartoons. It isn't the job of the Wikipedia editor to try to discern what is reality in a fictional universe. We are not to conclude anything from fictional source material that isn't cut and dried. And the matter of Malcom's family's last name is definitely not cut and dried. Since there's doubt, choosing one name over the other is a form of original research, fancruft, and undue weight. What would professional television critics do? Certainly not use the one-off 'Wilkerson'. — Brian (talk) 22:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

• Saw the note to comment from WT:WAF. While I can understand using a somewhat trivial last name as a form of disambiguation, I think this is one case where the disambig (Wilkerson) would actually confuse readers, rather than help them find the correct article. I would favor dropping Wilkerson from the article title. -- Ned Scott 03:44, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

This argument is the first that has caused me to really contemplate supporting the move in a serious way. Basically, as I can imagine someone getting this article as a search engine hit and not knowing who Malcolm Wilkerson is. I still do not accept many/most of of the other rationales people brought up (Daffy Duck, for example, does not pose a disambiguation problem, so it's not the same kind of case), but I think that Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle) and so forth have enough advantages that the current scheme does not to merit the move. Croctotheface 00:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• I agree with Ned Scott, Brian and others who have pointed out that Malcolm Wilkerson is confusing and/or incorrect. The title should be Malcolm (Malcolm in the Middle). --Serge 23:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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