"STANDEE" Original Air Date 11/21/04
Chapter 603

Lois forces Hal to throw away the cat habitat he built.  Hal leaves it out for the garbage man to take – along with a six-pack for the trouble.  Later, the garbage man has taken the six-pack but not the cat habitat.  Hal confronts him.  The garbage man explains he thought the six-pack was an apology for being a family of pigs.  Hal follows the garbage man to his home and surreptitiously dumps a small bag of trash on the lawn.  The next morning, Hal discovers a mountain of trash 15 feet high on their front yard.  Hal seeks Reese’s help.  So together, they steal a garbage truck to exact revenge, but Reese accidentally destroys a fire hydrant and a neighbor’s car.  Hal and Reese run off.  Later, Hal serves the garbage man his weekly gourmet dinner on their lawn in exchange for the removal of two bags worth of garbage.

Lois has returned to Lucky Aide under probationary status (after her recent firing).  Craig sets up a standee featuring an African American man named holding a mop in one hand, and a six-pack of malt liquor in the other.  Lois removes it, because she thinks it's racist.  Days later, Lois finds Malcolm putting up the standee.  She insists Malcolm take it down, but he refuses, saying he’s just following his boss's orders.  Lois retaliates by displaying an embarrassing photo of Malcolm in drag at her register.  They battle back and forth.  Lois is about to remove the standee when another Lucky Aide employee mentions she’s glad to see Lois getting rid of it since it’s attracting so many African American customers.  Lois decides to display the standee, admitting to Malcolm that she was wrong.  Upon hearing this, Malcolm now only wants to take it down.  He wonders whether he is only doing it to be contrary.  He flips a coin to decide what to do, but the coin lands on its side.  Dewey plays in the trash as if it were freshly fallen snow.  He goes sledding, builds a “snowman,” and a “snow” fort etc.