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6. A Sense of Consistency.
A sense of consistency has been run in Malcolm’s family, like his brother, Reese. Despite Reese’s outwardly unintelligent facade, he discovered a gift for
cooking in his late teen years. He is gifted at gourmet cooking and finds a lot of enjoyment in it; the only effective way his parents can find to punish him is
banning him from the kitchen. He finds success in a meatpacking job, but is fired after setting all the cows free to impress a girl.
Title Original Airdate
Production Episode “Reese Cooks”
March 4, 2001 218
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excels at it. From the evidence above, it appear that even a punishment can be so valuable
that it gives a very good experience to master the cooking quickly. That was not all, especially when Reese in his late teen years, gets married to
an attractive immigrant girl who requires the marriage to stay in the U.S. Reese truly cares for her, and she claims to care about him. However, the marriage falls
apart when Reese and Lois discover her sleeping with another man inside the couple’s garage apartment. Added to the fact that Reese miserably failed the
immigration test to keep his wife in the country he mistakenly wrote that she has a tail, the character is never heard from again and presumably deported.
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Then, the next consistency proved as follow: Title
Original Airdate Production Episode
“Kitty’s Back” December 12, 2004
605 112
Kitty Merrin Dungey returns after having done everything imaginable and wants to return to her family to Loiss dismay.
This evidence serves us the good sample of consistency. After being succeeded and having done everything that she has been dreaming of, Kitty
returns to her family. This is as the fact that nuclear family teaches the best things for its members.
As well as Kitty, Reese comes with an example of not forgetting his brother, Malcolm. When he graduates from high school, he moves in with Craig Feldspar
and finally finds success, as a junior in his former high school. According to his phone call with Malcolm in the season finale, he tells Malcolm that when the
principal found the peepholes in the bathroom, the head janitor was fired, and his job was given to Reese.
7. Learning Skills.
The next tradition presented in MIM is learning skills. Learning skills here is not restricted to special things at certain places, but it is more than that. The
abilities and capabilities may be provided at any places, even in the time when groups of family or class enjoy the leisure time. It is not the leisure that merely as
the main destination of a group, but it could be more than a having fun. It is a presentation of skills that they have to show to others, like the episode below:
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