Trey, portrayed by Alex Morris, is a recurrent character of Malcolm in the Middle. He is a well-paid dentist, who enjoys playing poker with his friends: Abe, Hal, Malik, Brian, and Steve.
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Biography[]
Trey is a successful dentist introduced in the episode Poker along with Abe's friends who participates in the weekly poker night to Hal at Abe's house. He would appear again in Poker 2 when Hal hosts a poker game at his house as they all show more competitive sides and have little side contests between their poker game. He also participates with the rest of the poker pals in Long Drive forming a music group called the The Gentlemen Callers. They get their first big break to perform at the Elk's Club founders' dinner, who notably has not taken new acts in years. After a brief falling out and reconciliation, they won admiration for their performance. Trey declares that they go to his house to celebrate with pizza until Dewey is about to start another argument between them asking why they always go to Trey's house to celebrate.
Trey next appears in Baby Part 1, where he gets called by Lois and Abe, along with the rest of the Poker Buddies, to help scare away Lois's horrible mother, Ida Welker, as she is a bigot and using it to make her leave as she is an unwelcomed guest. However, in Baby Part 2, because of his dentistry career, he studied in medical background and was needed when Lois's water broke and needed to deliver the baby as the paramedics have not shown up. He confesses he went into dentistry because looking down at a woman's womb often makes him giggly. He instead guides Francis to deliver the baby and instructs Lois to push while Francis extracts the baby. The delivery becomes successful.
In Standee, he joins again at Hal's house for a poker game while they all make jokes at Hal's expense over his battle with the garbage man and how tons of trash have piled up on their front lawn. Lois tries to get Hal's friends in attendance to see the racially insensitive cutout of a black janitor and have Malcolm explain how he says it is not a big deal. However, the guys all just laugh it off with how their ancestors picked their cotton and now being used to solve their moral dilemmas and when Abe unintendedly ends up posing like it.
His final appearance was in Hal's Dentist. Hal breaks his crown eating a caramel corn during their poker night, Trey looks at it and determines he damaged #31 which is the important one for eating and talking. Hal gets upset as he has to get it taken care of at a dental college since they do not have dental insurance at work anymore. Trey offers Hal to come to his dental office, and he will "take care of it." Hal was so relieved by Trey's work and gets placed a temporary crown until the cracked tooth heals, however, Trey bills him for $2,000. Hal walks out on the bill angry as he thought when Trey said he'd take care of it, it meant he would not charge him. At the next poker game in Hal's house, the two get into an argument as Hal felt Trey misled him when he said he's take care of it and that he would do the work for free while Trey is accusing Hal of cheating out on the bill. When getting the rest of the group's opinion, they are divided on who is right, arguing over what "taking care of it" means. Malik was asked to mediate, given his experience in it for his law firm, and tried to get both of them to understand and listen to each other. When it seemed both of them were ready to apologize to each other, Hal asks Malik what they owe him for this mediation, to which he said nothing. Hal uses this to prove to Trey that he is wrong on his interpretation of "taking care of it." Hal then proceeds to yank his crown off to avoid being billed, much to everyone's shock.
For the next couple of days, Hal is in pain, slurring his words and unable to chew his food. Lois encourages Hal to go back to Trey, and they will figure out paying it somehow and that he has an infection now. Hal continues to refuse and is planning to take an appointment with Dr. Voorhees, whom they previously sought to heal Dewey's hamster. In the next poker game, the guys were secretly letting Hal win so he can rack up the money to pay the dental bill to Trey. However, Hal catches and refuses to accept the handout, Trey gets uncomfortable and guilty, and agrees to fix Hal's tooth for free. Hal relents and continues to accept Trey's offer and alleviate Trey from his guilty conscience. However, Hal puts himself in further pain by drinking ice cold water, forcing the guys to take him to Trey's office and tied up. They get comically pulled over by the cops who see all of them, being black and having the Caucasian Hal tied up in the back seat and being questioned. The officer believes their story of tying Hal up because he refuses to get his tooth fixed and lets them go.