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I always fucking hated this moment, and it’s like the last one of the series. We don’t care what you want or who you want to be. Be the main character in the story we’ve invented for you. Like shitty parent 101. They’re basically pagent moms at this point

Seriously, Lois is a fucking awful mother, and that was just proven repeatedly over the course of the show.

Yeah seriously this moment sounds all fuckin inspirational and shit but in context its HER FORCING HIM TO HAVE THOSE STRUGGLES! she literally sabotages a potential career path for him because she thinks struggle will make him tougher, or some bullshit. No dont take this scholarship to a good school, work five part time jobs every day to afford a worse school. Just because if you were happy youd somehow become complacent???

It’s actually worse than that if I remember right, because it wasn’t a scholarship, it was a SIX-FIGURE JOB OFFER RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL that she refused on his behalf RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. He does go to Harvard at the end, which is like, one of the best colleges in the country, but the last shot of this series finale is Malcolm working as a janitor between classes. Lois is a piece of shit.

She’s banking on the fact that if she forces him to continue to live in poverty and misery, it will make him a better person rather than resentful. That he won’t come out of it with the idea that poor people are keeping themselves in poverty. Because this is not the only time in the series that Lois has fucked Malcolm over when it comes to money and his future. They literally stole $10,000 dollars from his scholarship and he’s supposed to what? Think better of them for continuing the cycle of poverty? Be grateful they put such high expectations on his shoulders? Nah.

I know the end is framed as Malcolm agreeing with her and that it’s also supposed to be both serious and funny but it’s so tone deaf to the actual struggle of being poor and working hard to achieve something for yourself.