Kristin Quick

”Tick Tick Tick” is the tenth episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 146th episode overall. It aired on November 14,…

Michael decides to open a cafe-disco in his old office. Pam and Jim are planning a secret trip.

An academic competition faces the Krelboynes in an event Malcolm derides. Especially when he learns his teacher has a cheating plan. Also: a commitment to a formal dance ruffles Reese,…

Back in the general school population, the Krelboyne whiz kids wind up in cliques with jocks, skateboarders and brooding ”Goths.”

Trouble finds Reese at his new fast-food job; a new Krelboyne tutors Malcolm; Hal and Lois sabotage Dewey’s plan to get a dog.

Malcolm has a new light in his life: a perky classmate named Sara (whose face, in a quirky touch, is never shown). But, according to Malcolm , she’s ””good-looking and…

Still reeling over Francis’ break for freedom, Lois and Hal find themselves face to face with their newly independent son. While at home, Francis wins back Hal’s support, but Lois…

A cooking class energizes Reese; a planned party irks Malcolm, whose brutal honesty hurts the hostess, Krelboyne Cynthia.

There’s a new girl in the Krelboyne class. Malcolm learns that his dull pencils were part of an elaborate yet unknown hazing. Cynthia is a fresh recruit from New York,…

Reese is suddenly the school hero when he joins the wrestling team, but after he gets thrashed by a girl wrestler, he misses that feeling of pride. He decides to…

Malcolm’s humiliation as a Krelboyne drives him crazy, so he fakes his way into seeing the school’s shrink, with whom the con continues.

When the family goes to a water park for a day, Dewey is left home with an elderly, stern babysitter. Francis plays pool with Spangler and loses.

Reese becomes so head-over-heels for a girl on the cheerleading squad that he actually decides to join. Dewey tries to convince Lois and Hal to buy him a new toy….

After the kids blow up the store’s steam cleaner, and Dewey confesses to stealing a $150 bottle of cognac, Lois’s firing prompts household economizing to an extent that causes Malcolm…

Disasters abound at a gifted kids’ picnic, where stage acts bomb, families feud, and Malcolm’s dad Hal serves meat to vegetarians. Despite Malcolm’s best efforts — feigning sickness, planning to…

Parallel stories pit Malcolm against Kevin, a bullying, obnoxious new kid who goads Malcolm into beating him up; and Francis vies with his intimidating military-school commandant, who’s presenting sex-education lectures….

Perhaps the most original sitcom pilot in recent years, this first episode combines sharp writing with a hyperbolic camera style reminiscent of Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. Malcolm introduces us to…