TJ
01-21-2003, 12:04 AM
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?29751
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Here's a piece of trivia: what's the last name of the main family on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle"?
While it has never been said on any episode that's aired, in the original pilot script there was a scene where Malcolm was walking to school when a neighborhood kid came running up shouting, "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm. I was talking to my parents last night -- I was listening to them talk, and what's your last name?"
To which Malcolm replied, "Wilkerson, why?"
"Oh. Who are the Pariahs?" says the other kid.
The joke didn't make it, and upon talking with the show's other writers, creator Linwood Boomer decided that Wilkerson was "a little white bread" while the family itself seems "a little more ethnic-y."
Thus, they decided to dispense with not only a surname but also every naming where the family lives.
"The minute you say where they are, you're also saying where they aren't," says Boomer. "We just decided not to limit ourselves. If we made them Italians, then we couldn't do Irish kinds of things, or East European kinds of things. So, we just kind of kept it amorphous just to give ourselves more freedom."
"Malcolm in the Middle" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Here's a piece of trivia: what's the last name of the main family on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle"?
While it has never been said on any episode that's aired, in the original pilot script there was a scene where Malcolm was walking to school when a neighborhood kid came running up shouting, "Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm. I was talking to my parents last night -- I was listening to them talk, and what's your last name?"
To which Malcolm replied, "Wilkerson, why?"
"Oh. Who are the Pariahs?" says the other kid.
The joke didn't make it, and upon talking with the show's other writers, creator Linwood Boomer decided that Wilkerson was "a little white bread" while the family itself seems "a little more ethnic-y."
Thus, they decided to dispense with not only a surname but also every naming where the family lives.
"The minute you say where they are, you're also saying where they aren't," says Boomer. "We just decided not to limit ourselves. If we made them Italians, then we couldn't do Irish kinds of things, or East European kinds of things. So, we just kind of kept it amorphous just to give ourselves more freedom."
"Malcolm in the Middle" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.