Army Buddy is the eighth episode of season seven.
Plot[]
When Abby, a former female army buddy of Reese's comes to their house for a visit, Reese starts thinking (after Malcolm tells him) that she wants to be more than friends with him. Reese decided to go for it, not realizing Abby is gay and actually only interested in Lois.
When Lois finds renewed energy with butt inserts for her shoes, Hal fears she will not look to him for support anymore and plots to destroy the inserts.
Malcolm gives Dewey a bunch of junk in order to pay off a $10 debt. One of the comics turns out to be rare and worth a lot. Dewey forces Malcolm to do embarrassing things in order to get the money back.
Cast[]
- Jane Kaczmarek as Lois
- Bryan Cranston as Hal
- Christopher Masterson as Francis
- Justin Berfield as Reese
- Erik Per Sullivan as Dewey
- Frankie Muniz as Malcolm
Guest Stars[]
Cameos[]
- Larisa Oleynik as Abby
Trivia[]
- It is revealed in this episode that Reese is a virgin.
- It is unclear at what point Reese and Abby met, as Reese was stationed for training in an all-men unit in Reese Joins the Army: Part 1 and Part 2, which cuts to the end of the episode which Reese is being sent to Afghanistan. Then in Reese Comes Home, Reese's squad seen around him were all men before he spent the entire episode in desertion and roaming all over the Middle East to find his way home.
- Hal says that he could only find the Japanese version of the washing machine repair manual. However, in the episode "Chad's Sleepover," Lois shows that she saves every scrap of paperwork from all appliances.
- Abby mentions an opossum; this is the fourth time the family has had problems with an opossum.
- Lois tells Hal that she learned that men could get yeast infections. This is actually true.
Quotes[]
- Abby: [to Lois] I'm Abby Tucker, it's nice to meet you.
- Lois: I'm Lois. This is Malcolm.
- Abby: Oh, right, Pea Pod. [to Reese] I see what you mean.
- Lois: The thing is absolutely nothing is on sale. They take all the stuff off the shelves, dump it in the bins and the people go nuts. I dropped my car keys in one of 'em. I had to wrestle a woman for 20 minutes to get 'em back. Then this 90-year-old man with glaucoma comes in. He wants to pay for his toiletries with a bag full of pennies. We finally settled on five dollars, six buttons, and a run-over bottle cap.
- Reese: [about Abby] You were right, Malcolm. She wants me bad. This is a disaster.
- Malcolm: Why? You've got a girl that's crazy about you.
- Reese: She's my buddy. The best friend I've ever had. But in a roll-around-on-the-floor-and-make-her-smell-my-armpit kind of way.
- Malcolm: Everyone has their own kind of foreplay. The important thing now is how you feel about her.
- Reese: It's hard to say. Now, when I think about her, I get all nervous in my stomach. Like my bowels could cut loose at any moment.
- Malcolm: That's love, dude.
- Reese: Wow. You'd think somebody would put that in a song.
- Lois: I'm sorry. Did you just make a pass at me?
- Abby: Ma'am, forgive me.
- Lois: Oh, no, no, no, it's not that I'm not flattered, but I'm the mother of, like, five children. I've been married for 100 years. Why would you think...?
- Abby: I was wrong, ma'am. I was way out of line.
- Lois: Do I give off that kind of vibe? Because I would hate to think people are walking around with me giving them false hopes. Would it help if I changed my hair?
- Abby : [to Reese] I've been waiting to get you alone, you miserable, scum-sucking piece of garbage.
- Reese: Short stack, is that you? I don't believe it! What the hell are you doing here, you ugly grub eater?
- Abby: I had a few days' leave. Thought I'd spend it with my favorite idiot.