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Ira Prescott, portrayed by Jonny Acker, is a bully of Reese. He is the older brother to Billy.

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. With his car ruined, and thinking that Billy is Dewey, Ira blames him for the prank, much to their mother's embarrassment and Reese's delight. 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 admitted 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.
  • In "Reese's Apartment", Coach Oleski introduces Ira to Malcolm as "Ira James" rather than Ira Prescott, likely a writing oversight.
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