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In the words of They Might Be Giants rollicking Grammy-winning theme song life is unfair. The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing but if life was fair it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual yes me worry expression Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ (as discovered in the pilot episode) but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) his obsessive control-freak mother; Hal (Bryan Cranston) his loving but ineffectual father; Francis (Christopher Masterson) his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school; middle brother Reese (Justin Berfield) a delinquent savant; and Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan) the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point This family may be rude loud