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<img src="http://www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/images/frankie.gif" title="Frankie Muniz (Malcolm) Grows Up" alt="Frankie Muniz (Malcolm) Grows Up" align="left" height="150" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="129" />Some interesting quotes from Malcolm in the Middle creator Linwood Boomer on how season 2 may have been very different if <a href="http://www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/?cat=6" title="Frankie Muniz (Malcolm)">Frankie Muniz (Malcolm)</a> didn't grow up so fast!
"Malcolm in the Middle" went through its awkward stage early. It was an instant hit for Fox when it premiered in January 2000. However, its 14-year-old star, <a href="http://www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/?cat=6" title="Frankie Muniz (Malcolm)">Frankie Muniz</a>, who was 13 when he shot the first season as an 11-year-old whiz kid, <strong>had grown eight inches and his voice had dropped at least an octave</strong> before the show came back for a second season that fall. So <strong>producers scrambled for an early shoot over the summer</strong>, and <strong>juggled new story lines</strong> for their lead character.
"We realized that a lot of the fourth grade, fifth grade, <strong>10-11-year old stories we had been planning to do with Malcolm we couldn't do</strong> anymore," said creator Linwood Boomer. "We had to sort of write to his age."
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Source: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/25/entertainment/e141640D96.DTL" title="Soruce" target="_blank">sfgate.com</a>
 
MalcolmFun

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Watch 116 Water Park followed by 201 Traffic Jam. According to the cliffhanger story these episodes are actually the same day. In 116 Justin Berfield is clearly at least 4 maybe 6 inches taller then Frankie. In 201 they are nearly identical in height and Frankie's voice crackles most of the episode.

BTW that morphing pic is disturbing
 
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vching

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for some reason, I prefer the earlier episodes... They should have shot season 2 right after season 1 if they realised Frankie was at that maturing stage...

ps: that morphing picture is indeed disturbing... :D
 
Amigo22

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Linwood Boomer said:
We realized that a lot of the fourth grade, fifth grade, 10-11-year old stories we had been planning to do with Malcolm we couldn’t do anymore
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Wonder what story ideas they had? But even if they couldn't be used for Malcolm, the writers could still have used them for Dewey in Seasons 6 and 7, adapting them as necessary.
 
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yardgames

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Maybe they did and we didn't know. But either way, Malcolm and Dewey are really different so a storyline written for Malcolm might not fit Dewey even when he was the correct age.
 
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Amigo22 said:
Wonder what story ideas they had?
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Exactly what I was thinking reading this. I wish they'd've disclosed 'em to us. Actually... it's possible that these ideas were filtered into different projects. Just a thought... Mainly I'm just curious. And I agree with the others about the picture.
 
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