Hal: Lois, honey, come home please. What do we have to do?
Lois: A lot of things. I don't want to be taken for granted anymore. If I come back, you guys are going to make some changes.
Hal: Anything, whatever you want.
Lois: I don't ever want to have to remind my own family that it's my birthday.
Hal: You are so right. It will never happen again.
Lois: And one night a week, I don't want to have to fix dinner.
Hal: Absolutely, good, fine, done.
Lois: And I want dirty laundry in the hamper, not on the floor, not over a lampshade, not shoved in some mattress crack.
Reese: No problem.
Malcolm: In the hamper.
Lois: It's just that easy, huh?
Hal: Yes, it's just that easy.
Lois: Then why do I even have to ask? [boys are silent] If it's so obvious I need a little human consideration... I shouldn't even have to ask.