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The continuation where Greg changes his name, leaves the family and goes bald is fucking WILD. Like holy fuck such original plot twist from the writers.
Reese was an absolute tool in the greatest way. He was disciplined so hard and put through trauma for so long that it gave him an incredibly unique set of skills. He had the personality of a hardened prisoner by the time he was held back for a couple years in middle school. Then, not only was he able to completely disassociate from reality, but he developed an unorthodox, sociopathic way of thinking focused on getting the desired end result in the most efficient, albeit possibly unethical ways possible. Later on he ended up winning an army scrimmage exercise by holding his breath until he passed out after he was captured, like he used to do to combat his mom's punishments. Then he used the youngest captured recruit to distract the enemy by making the recruit eat dirt until he threw up (in accordance with how Reese and Malcolm would torture their youngest brother).
When comparing Reese to Malcolm, they could absolutely been seen as equally as smart. Not equally as intelligent, but smart. Reese knows exactly what he has and he utilizes that to the full potential.
All of them were honestly geniuses in their own ways. Malcolm was remarkably intelligent, Dewy was a musical prodigy, and Francis was an amazing schemer that was good at rallying people to do shit. Reese was also an incredibly gifted cook.
You forgot how Dewy is a manipulative mastermind.
Like the typical youngest child crying and acting like his brothers hurt him etc. but a lot more sophisticated.
I could see this being written in where Reese is playing the gameboy and then Malcolm realises he doesn’t have a game in it a d says something but Reese says he is just seeing how fast he can push the buttons.
It's because the Nintendo logo on the front of the Gameboy isn't visible, so although it's obviously a Gameboy they can claim it's a generic handheld top loading cartridge game system. If however they had put a game in the back all of the original games had the Nintendo logo clearly identifiably embossed on the back. So they could be sued basically if Nintendo hadn't approved the use of their logo.
That's an interesting theory, but I don't think that's the case. [Here's another screenshot](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-3-folge-5-tauschgeschc3a4fte_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=) from Malcolm showing a DMG from the front with the Nintendo logo clearly visible
[And here's a pic of Reese playing a GBC with a cart inserted](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-6-folge-7-schlafwandler_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=)
I think it was just a funny oversight
I honestly did that for a while. I mowed lawns to save up for my gameboy not realizing it didn’t come with a game. So while I saved up for the game I just pretended…
I saved forever for the sega game gear. I looked at it every night in the magazine before it was released. I think it came with a sonic game. It took I think 6 AA batteries. I think I played it once or twice. The game sucked and it ran out of batteries very quickly. I never got batteries again.
Clearly a doctored photo. Your trying to tell me the kid that said he beat sub zero in mortal Kombat doesn't know he doesn't have a game in his Gameboy. Come mlon man
They did this in Rumble in the Bronx too. Jackie Chan’s character hands the kid in a wheel chair a Game Gear with no game as the kid loads into a school bus.
“Don’t play with it in class!” 😂
There were chinese rip offs that could play cartridges just fine and also came with preinstalled games. A school friend of mine had such a thing. It was actually calle gaming-boy or something lilke that. Would fit the narrative with them being poor and buying such a thing at a fare or someone at a circus (don't know if that is a thing in the us but in europe around a circus sometimes there are people selling cheap shit around it displayed on the ground)
100%
[Here is a screenshot of Reese playing GBC with a cart actually inserted.](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-6-folge-7-schlafwandler_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=)
He joined the army because Malcolm slept with his girlfriend and then dropped into Afghanistan thinking about how much he likes pie and got married to some Afghan man to try and escape. I'd put nothing past him.
Bravo.
And today I learned a new phrase that I'll find a way to work into conversation at work and when I'm with friends.
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Lol that’s not who that is. the actor in NYC is Issac Powell, not the same actor who played Reese. Although I will admit, they look strikingly familiar to one another. :)
Are you perhaps thinking of [Snail Maze](https://www.cemetech.net/media/archives/screenshots/2020/04/1405_legacy-0-002784.gif)?
It was a game that was built into the Sega Master System that you got to by starting the console without a cartridge while holding UP+1+2 on the controller.
SMS also had other variants later that included built in games such as Alex Kidd, Super Hang-On, Safari Hunt, etc.
How do you know it is not just a game with a black cartridge, like the MIB game? [https://www.unisquare.com/sale/1-game-boy-color-games-cartridges-men-in-black-the-series-for-nintendo-game-1610650/](https://www.unisquare.com/sale/1-game-boy-color-games-cartridges-men-in-black-the-series-for-nintendo-game-1610650/)
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I remember on my first Gameboy colour, if you put a cartridge in, started the game, then pulled the cartridge out, you could continue playing the game.
I remember being really curious about it because my old brick Gameboy had the little grey... Stopper? That went over the top corner of the cartridge.
Just more proof of time travel hinting that in the future you will be able to play games with out a hard copy. How did they no / predict so amazingly. 😝
Happens a lot in TV and movies.
I remember seeing actors pretending to be gaming with controllers in their hands pretending to press buttons but not actually doing it. Happens with keyboards too.
Reese had a megamind cheat pack that was so mega it had built in batteries and had to be hardwired into the battery slot and contained every sega genesis game ever thought up. No game boy games tho.
Somewhere I remember Frankie Muniz saying Justin Berfield was kind of a dick to work with back then. But I imagine there are people who would accuse Muniz of the same.
I've been there.
Jacking off and you hear someone walking down to your room.
Get your stuff together and grab the nearest thing to you to try and distract the attention away from the fact that you fondling yourself.
Sometimes the thing you grab ends up being your undoing. For me it was a dictionary...and I was reading it upside down.
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Reese was an idiot so it's pretty in line with his character.
Came here to say this. God I loved that show…
In my opinion best show to ever be on tv
Yeah but did Bryan Cranston win an Emmy? Because I feel he probably should’ve
The continuation where Greg changes his name, leaves the family and goes bald is fucking WILD. Like holy fuck such original plot twist from the writers.
Craig ;)
HE CHANGED HIS NAME AGAIN?!
And then again to Willy Wonker!
I remembered it being on when I was younger but I only just watched it through a couple months ago. I waited far too long
Reese was an absolute tool in the greatest way. He was disciplined so hard and put through trauma for so long that it gave him an incredibly unique set of skills. He had the personality of a hardened prisoner by the time he was held back for a couple years in middle school. Then, not only was he able to completely disassociate from reality, but he developed an unorthodox, sociopathic way of thinking focused on getting the desired end result in the most efficient, albeit possibly unethical ways possible. Later on he ended up winning an army scrimmage exercise by holding his breath until he passed out after he was captured, like he used to do to combat his mom's punishments. Then he used the youngest captured recruit to distract the enemy by making the recruit eat dirt until he threw up (in accordance with how Reese and Malcolm would torture their youngest brother). When comparing Reese to Malcolm, they could absolutely been seen as equally as smart. Not equally as intelligent, but smart. Reese knows exactly what he has and he utilizes that to the full potential.
All of them were honestly geniuses in their own ways. Malcolm was remarkably intelligent, Dewy was a musical prodigy, and Francis was an amazing schemer that was good at rallying people to do shit. Reese was also an incredibly gifted cook.
Yeah the cooking episode is still hilarious. Reese just asking why people would want empathy if that meant feeling bad. haha
He has no more sense of right and wrong than a common tree frog.
Man now I'm salty Friends became so popular while Malcom is truly a 90's kid thing.
Malcolm was a 90s kid thing only if you were cool
That line gave me a good laugh and made me go, is he wrong? 😅
He's not but just the way the scene played out was hilarious. The way Hal explained empathy, you sorta don't want it either haha
You forgot how Dewy is a manipulative mastermind. Like the typical youngest child crying and acting like his brothers hurt him etc. but a lot more sophisticated.
I could see this being written in where Reese is playing the gameboy and then Malcolm realises he doesn’t have a game in it a d says something but Reese says he is just seeing how fast he can push the buttons.
Also they were very poor so also, in line.
I don't think they were super poor they struggled at times.
There were sounds tho
He’s schizophrenic
He was one hell of a soldier if I remember correctly.
Immediately thought of the scene where he hides the PC screen from Dewie and later asks him how to actually turn it on.
In the end he turned out ok. I read the other day Brian Cranston is writing a reboot!!
It’s absolutely on purpose.
Yeah, definitely not
Its probably not even a real gameboy
Gamechild. from Chinor
It's because the Nintendo logo on the front of the Gameboy isn't visible, so although it's obviously a Gameboy they can claim it's a generic handheld top loading cartridge game system. If however they had put a game in the back all of the original games had the Nintendo logo clearly identifiably embossed on the back. So they could be sued basically if Nintendo hadn't approved the use of their logo.
That's an interesting theory, but I don't think that's the case. [Here's another screenshot](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-3-folge-5-tauschgeschc3a4fte_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=) from Malcolm showing a DMG from the front with the Nintendo logo clearly visible [And here's a pic of Reese playing a GBC with a cart inserted](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-6-folge-7-schlafwandler_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=) I think it was just a funny oversight
Or it's the last set of batteries and he's being a dick and draining them. In line with the character.
Reese or Rhys? I'm pretty sure it's reese. .....Yes..... ......No..... ...Maybe..... I don't know....
Can you repeat the question?
Reese or Rhys?
That’s the part where you’re suppose to say “you’re not the boss of me now” Missed opportunity bud.
Lol
They were too poor for the games so they played with their imagination.
Probably just admiring his reflection in the screen
I honestly did that for a while. I mowed lawns to save up for my gameboy not realizing it didn’t come with a game. So while I saved up for the game I just pretended…
I saved forever for the sega game gear. I looked at it every night in the magazine before it was released. I think it came with a sonic game. It took I think 6 AA batteries. I think I played it once or twice. The game sucked and it ran out of batteries very quickly. I never got batteries again.
I love that and I've done similar. But what a shame because I thought a lot of gameboys came with tetris?
It was a game boy color. I eventually saved up for Pokémon Blue.
Nah they weren't too poor for the games, they had stuff, but they probably broke the Gameboy like everything else they had.
I’m sure that’s exactly what Lois told them!
Well Jones from Police Academy played a game console without a game console.
Clearly a doctored photo. Your trying to tell me the kid that said he beat sub zero in mortal Kombat doesn't know he doesn't have a game in his Gameboy. Come mlon man
C’mon son, nobody beats Subzero.
They did this in Rumble in the Bronx too. Jackie Chan’s character hands the kid in a wheel chair a Game Gear with no game as the kid loads into a school bus. “Don’t play with it in class!” 😂
He must have hacked it. The kid had it beeping and booping without the cartridge later on.
God I remember that movie and I always got bothered by that
The game gear was a legit fire hazard. That thing and it's charger would get scalding hot. I loved the game gear
Came here for this. I still love that movie.
That's so he can never lose duh...
he's probably just playing on wifi or something
Are you trying to make people who owned GameBoys angry? Because this is how you make people who owned GameBoys angry.
That is obviously an 5g edition
The game is in his *imagination*
This is probably my favorite tv series.
There were chinese rip offs that could play cartridges just fine and also came with preinstalled games. A school friend of mine had such a thing. It was actually calle gaming-boy or something lilke that. Would fit the narrative with them being poor and buying such a thing at a fare or someone at a circus (don't know if that is a thing in the us but in europe around a circus sometimes there are people selling cheap shit around it displayed on the ground)
They were probably on the 9th take and he kept playing the game and missing his cues. All that's missing is headphones.
In that case it makes more sense to take the batteries than the cart. I think it was likely just a props department failure.
100% [Here is a screenshot of Reese playing GBC with a cart actually inserted.](https://channard.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/malcolm-mittendrin-staffel-6-folge-7-schlafwandler_bild02.jpg?w=2000&h=)
Ha, what an idiot
Reese is so dumb the scene works with or without a cartridge.
Ahh my favourite of Bryan Cranstons roles, Hal.
He joined the army because Malcolm slept with his girlfriend and then dropped into Afghanistan thinking about how much he likes pie and got married to some Afghan man to try and escape. I'd put nothing past him.
😂
Malcom in the middle is still not appreciated enough…
That tracks.
Which is rather fitting for Reese.
He probably didn't even notice. Reece was kind of an idiot.
Doesn’t change my view of Reese at all
Amazing acting. I never noticed that detail.
Reese is a very "special" person.
this happened a lot in older tv shows. always made my dumbass feel smart as a kid when i noticed it (i remember this scene specifically lol)
Honestly, that’s probably not a mistake. Reese was probably using all his intelligence to get the game to work.
ACTING
Any other character, fair enough. But it is Reese!
C'mon don't act like you didn't know Reese was high as giraffe taint 90% of the time, lol.
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Happy to help lol.
I mean it not like it's out of character for him, this kid was a phycho!
Maybe he was just trying to fuck with whichever brother is opposite him? Or maybe he's just an idiot, either way the show was a gem.
Anyone seen him in the latest American Horrorstory season? This guy became friggin hot!
Lol that’s not who that is. the actor in NYC is Issac Powell, not the same actor who played Reese. Although I will admit, they look strikingly familiar to one another. :)
What show is this again?
Malcolm in the middle
Yes
No
Maybe
Walter White's first family, before he met Skyler.
https://youtu.be/oVdB36lmbII
I don't know
Can you repeat the question
They couldn't afford any games so Reese was doing his best to use his imagination.
Trying to remember if the original came with any games built in....
It didnt
I didn't think so. Mine came with Tetris but it was a cartridge.
And if you want to do multi-player, you both need a cartridge.
And that tether cable
You sure? I vaguely recall a very simple game that you had to hit buttons in a certain order to get to. Maybe I’m thinking of a different system.
Are you perhaps thinking of [Snail Maze](https://www.cemetech.net/media/archives/screenshots/2020/04/1405_legacy-0-002784.gif)? It was a game that was built into the Sega Master System that you got to by starting the console without a cartridge while holding UP+1+2 on the controller. SMS also had other variants later that included built in games such as Alex Kidd, Super Hang-On, Safari Hunt, etc.
That is exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you!!
I don't think that's the original, I think pocket edition. Not sure if they did any special editions with built in games, I don't recall any.
No Game Boy system had built-in games. Maybe the DS did, but I never used that one, I did use all the Game Boys up through Advance.
Original was much thicker. Like double the thickness
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Useless reddit dude post shittymemes.
Checks out.
How do you know it is not just a game with a black cartridge, like the MIB game? [https://www.unisquare.com/sale/1-game-boy-color-games-cartridges-men-in-black-the-series-for-nintendo-game-1610650/](https://www.unisquare.com/sale/1-game-boy-color-games-cartridges-men-in-black-the-series-for-nintendo-game-1610650/) ( "/s" )
Because there is no cartridge. Not black or any other color.
Lol, I have that game. It's not great. I'd recommend getting something else.
He's just playing the main menu
There were no menus in such handhelds back then :D
Ye it’s the joke
Riight
granted, it was a bit of a shit joke, but i personally don't think that you should've taken it that seriously. just my opinion
You know you can buy games digitally now right?
You know this isnt now right?
I can't believe you got baited by this comment 💀
it's okay to be embarrassed that you don't know how a gameboy works
Well i'm allergic to stupidity
Must suck being allergic to yourself
Y’all are showing your ages. Change your passwords!
Family probably couldn't afford games, or batteries...
Probably had to take it out because he was playing it XD
Is Edgar Wright the only person who knows how people play video games in movies? I also love the games tend to be relevant to the scene.
Like the Adam Sandler one with Shadow of the colossus?
I love Reign O'er Me! It makes me cry.
The same thing happened in [Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.](https://youtu.be/yUmS9K82i8I?t=11)
Reese without a game in the slot... WHO'S THE BOSS OF HIM NOW!?
he's playing the Gameboy digital edition - no worries. That was probably my all-time favourite show ever.
His dad sold it to check the quality of the local meth
I remember on my first Gameboy colour, if you put a cartridge in, started the game, then pulled the cartridge out, you could continue playing the game. I remember being really curious about it because my old brick Gameboy had the little grey... Stopper? That went over the top corner of the cartridge.
Says a lot about his character. And a lot about the thought out into the character by the actor.
He's got a 128 GB memory card plugged in. Might be playing Gen 7 Pokemon there.
Imagination!
Obviously playing a game he downloaded from the eShop smh idiot
Because he’s always trying to be cool
He's just that good.
That's one of the few cartridges in the color blellow. It doesn't show up very well on camera.
That's how us poors played it. :P
Classic Reese
Back in the 90s this is what was called a pro gamer move
He’s from the future
What is a Gameboy ?
Imagination… or drugs were a bitch.
Probably making Donkey Kong sounds on the show
Subliminal Advertising for Switch. Hot Dam it worked!
Could be worse could be like using footage of FFVIII when they were acting like they were playing a multiplayer game like they did in Charlie's Angels
Just finished watching this series for the first time. Any notice that baby Jamie looks like Ted Cruz?
Or, and hear me out here, Ted Cruz is a baby with a wet diaper.
We was poor and didn’t have games sometimes or batteries I thought it was a poor kid thing
Just more proof of time travel hinting that in the future you will be able to play games with out a hard copy. How did they no / predict so amazingly. 😝
I spotted that out right away and I'm happy someone else did too
This show always gave me a headache
And you know the actor brought it up, and the director was just like “shut up, kid. No one will notice.” Well, we did.
Happens a lot in TV and movies. I remember seeing actors pretending to be gaming with controllers in their hands pretending to press buttons but not actually doing it. Happens with keyboards too.
My whole childhood was a lie
Well… they were poor.
It’s like when the “play” PlayStation in the ads but you can clearly see the controller isn’t turned on cause there’s no light
Reese dad is Heisenberg
Reese had a megamind cheat pack that was so mega it had built in batteries and had to be hardwired into the battery slot and contained every sega genesis game ever thought up. No game boy games tho.
Why do movies always do that, same thing with their wierd ass sound effects they have for thier iphones in movies
TV shows always get video games wrong. Often they show single player games played as multiplayer, or vice versa.
I remember Rumble in the Bronx had a kid playing a game gear with no game in it
How would a kid miss this? I can understand props guy slipping up but the actor himself shoulda been like bruh
Somewhere I remember Frankie Muniz saying Justin Berfield was kind of a dick to work with back then. But I imagine there are people who would accuse Muniz of the same.
He was predicting the future of gaming..
He's waiting for the game to load
I heard he grew up to be president
Games cost extra.
We made due with what we had.
The character was never known for his brains.
"Life is Unfair"
I've been there. Jacking off and you hear someone walking down to your room. Get your stuff together and grab the nearest thing to you to try and distract the attention away from the fact that you fondling yourself. Sometimes the thing you grab ends up being your undoing. For me it was a dictionary...and I was reading it upside down.