DEWEY'S OPERA Original Air Date 2/20/05
Chapter 611

Lois buys a brand-new king-sized bed and Hal thinks she bought it to add more distance between them.

So he refuses to sleep in it, sleeping on the couch.

Eventually Lois confesses the reason she bought the bed was because of her flatulence problem. Hal says it doesn’t bother him, and that there’s no reason to be embarrassed – he’s the only one who knows. Lois says she’ll return the bed to the store.

Dewey is moved to tears by an opera on television. He struggles to write his own opera, in search of a story to attach to the music he hears in his head.

In the middle of the night, Dewey finds inspiration in Hal and Lois’ argument. At school, the Buseys rehearse Dewey’s opera based entirely on his parents’ dispute over the bed, but Dewey still needs an ending.

At home, he manipulates Lois to stoke the fire.

At school, the family comes to watch Dewey’s opera entitled “The Marriage Bed.”

Getting the idea from Stevie's magazine, Malcolm and Reese build their own street luging board. Malcolm races down a hill, but wipes out when a superior luger whips past him. Unbeknownst to him, it's Stevie.

After several encounters with the “mystery” luger, Malcolm and Reese decide to modify their board. Malcolm tells Stevie there's a rich brat who keeps beating him on the street luge.

Malcolm and Reese outline their plan to bet the luger, cheat and then win. At the race, Stevie reveals to Malcolm he's mystery luger. Stevie uses his inhaler to push him an inch past Malcolm, and wins the race. But Stevie then hits a ramp and winds up airborne, crashing into a tree.

Jamie falls head over heels for the baby girl across the street and is crushed when he discovers she is seeing another baby.