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During his teen years, Reese ran off to join the US military under a faked name and forged age (being that he was underage at the time)without telling his family where he had gone. He was successful in completing Basic Training and was praised as one of the most brilliant soldiers in his platoon after he learned to "turn his brain off" and surrender his will to his superiors. After being sent to Iraq in combat conditions, Reese struggles to stay alive. When his mother, Lois, catches wind of what Reese has done, she tracks him down in Iraq and personally brings him home without objection from the military since Reese was underage. |
During his teen years, Reese ran off to join the US military under a faked name and forged age (being that he was underage at the time)without telling his family where he had gone. He was successful in completing Basic Training and was praised as one of the most brilliant soldiers in his platoon after he learned to "turn his brain off" and surrender his will to his superiors. After being sent to Iraq in combat conditions, Reese struggles to stay alive. When his mother, Lois, catches wind of what Reese has done, she tracks him down in Iraq and personally brings him home without objection from the military since Reese was underage. |
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Despite Reese's outwardly unintelligent facade, he discovered a gift for cooking in his late teen years. He is gifted at gourmet cooking and |
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 meat packing job, but is fired after setting all the cows free to impress a girl. |
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In his late teen years, Reese 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, despite her dominating personality and refusal to have sex. 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. |
In his late teen years, Reese 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, despite her dominating personality and refusal to have sex. 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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Revision as of 21:42, 22 April 2008
Reese is a fictional character from Malcolm in the Middle. He is played by Justin Berfield.
Reese is the second oldest of the children, and is also the least intelligent and most destructive, although at some times, he shows even more intelligence than Malcolm when devising fiendish plans. He even had a mean streak in the womb; while his mother Lois was in labor, he kicked her so hard that she forcefully gave 'pre-mature' birth to him. Immediately following his delivery he kicked the doctor in the nose. His obsession with violence horrifies the family and leaves him with few friends, partly as he is a bully at school. He bullies the "Krelboynes" in Malcolm's class, as well as his younger brothers, especially Dewey. Due to this, Reese is seen working out a lot to give himself a muscular build.
During his teen years, Reese ran off to join the US military under a faked name and forged age (being that he was underage at the time)without telling his family where he had gone. He was successful in completing Basic Training and was praised as one of the most brilliant soldiers in his platoon after he learned to "turn his brain off" and surrender his will to his superiors. After being sent to Iraq in combat conditions, Reese struggles to stay alive. When his mother, Lois, catches wind of what Reese has done, she tracks him down in Iraq and personally brings him home without objection from the military since Reese was underage.
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 meat packing job, but is fired after setting all the cows free to impress a girl.
In his late teen years, Reese 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, despite her dominating personality and refusal to have sex. 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.
Reese is depicted as a virgin with limited sexual experience. In the penultimate episode, "Morp", a girl named Jeanie offers to pay Reese to take her to the senior prom because she had been too focused on getting into college to cultivate a social life and find a date by normal means. Jeanie says that she initially selected Reese because he isn't "completely hideous" and she knew he wouldn't have a date. However, Reese turns out to be a gentleman and sweeps her off her feet by being charming and considerate. Although Jeanie did not initially plan to do anything with Reese after the prom itself, she invites him to go to the beach with her and tells him, "I really want you." However, before Reese can accept the invitation, his watch alarm goes off, indicating that he is "off the clock", and he leaves, revealing that he was only nice to "satisfy his customer" and thereby passing up a chance to finally have sex.
After graduating high school, Reese moves in with Craig Feldspar and finally finds success, as a janitor 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.
It has been hinted that Reese may also be a genius, like Dewey and Malcolm. At the end of his senior year of high school, he is seen studying all day and night multiple times. He says that the tests are a bunch of true-false questions. When his results on the final exams come back, it is found out that he missed every answer on every test. He refers to this as his greatest work, because he had done so bad that he couldn't make it up in summer school so he would have to repeat the year and thus, not move out or need to get a job.
