Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle is an American situation comedy on the Fox Network. It first aired in 2000.

The setting

The setting of the show has never been revealed. The locale doesn't appear to have noticeable seasons, and also appears not to be in a desert environment, so one could conjecture the setting is somewhere in suburban California (the show is filmed in this state). Also, the schools the teens attend has the look and layout of a common California public school, with classes in many single story buildings, separated by open-air common areas, instead of a single multistory building.

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In various scenes, especially in later seasons, license plates show a non-existing "Cherokee State". Despite that, the look of the plates intentionally made like California's, such as the font of the words "Cherokee State", and digits are in the format of "1 XXX 111", where 1 is a digit, and X is a letter. However, in one episode, Hal comes to visit Francis at military school and upon seeing his father, Francis exclaims, "you drove eight hours just to see me!" The school is known to be located in Alabama, so Malcolm's family must live within an eight-hour drive of the state, perhaps in Florida. On the other hand there is also an episode where Reese is sent to Whitehorse on a bus for at least 52 hours. Malcom: "Reese, think about it. It takes 26 hours to get to Canada, and 26 hours to get back. Your bag is filled with food and nobody called Grandma!" Only Alaska is with 26 hours of Whitehorse, Canada.

Related Topics:
Cherokee - State - California's - Florida - Whitehorse

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It is also likely that there is no real-world location that is consistent with all the facts about Malcolm's location given in the show.

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