Ira, portrayed by Jonny Acker, is a bully of Reese.
Biography[]
Ira makes his first appearance in Forbidden Girlfriend. Reese is intimidated by him after an argument which led to Reese getting splashed in mud by his car. Reese takes advantage of Dewey by having him pull pranks for him and letting Billy take the fall for them. A disguised Reese identifies Dewey as Billy Prescott and gives away Prescott's address as well. With his car ruined, and thinking that Billy is Dewey, Ira blames him for the prank, even identifying Billy to the police after they locate him. However, Reese's plans fall apart when Dewey sells him out to Ira. With Dewey's help, Ira gets his revenge on Reese for his actions in pranking him, ruining his car and using Billy as his fall guy by beating him up.
Ira makes a brief second appearance in Malcolm Films Reese as a student embarrassed over his own secret being exposed while fighting David Abernathy.
Ira makes a third appearance in Reese's Apartment and Malcolm helps him with his college essay as a deal with Oleski in exchange for the latter covering for Malcolm regarding Herkabe. Though reluctant, he agrees to help Ira out. This proves to be easier said than done and eventually Malcolm is fed up with him. He tells Ira off that he needs to work on his own college essay and tells him to leave his home. Ira talks to him and apologizes for his earlier behavior. He mentions that after Malcolm told him to work on his college application essay, he was inspired to work on a new one that impresses the recruiters.
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Trivia[]
- Although Malcolm claims that Ira is dumb like Reese, it's only because of his distraction for football.
- Forbidden Girlfriend proved how smart he was not to fall for Reese's lies.
- Despite the humiliation of his secret being exposed, Ira has more respect for Malcolm than Reese.
- In an interview after the show ended, Boomer alleged that Ira and Billy are brothers and planned to keep that way for later episodes involving them. He was disappointed by the Fox Producers and the bad writing that retconned their relationship. Despite Boomer's allegation, Ira and Billy clearly lived at separate addresses. In addition, it would be more common for siblings who know each other well to be able to identify each other, which Ira did not do. Ira even mistook Billy for Dewey when the police brought him over. It would also be highly likely that a sibling would know where their younger sibling lives when they are living in the same area, which Ira did not know when he believed Reese's deception. However, it should be known that Ira was helping his uncle's house and he lives with his mom and Billy.
- In "Reese's Apartment", Coach Oleski introduces Ira to Malcolm as "Ira James" rather than Ira Prescott, likely a writing oversight.