2. Red Dress

Lois makes plan with Hal to meet at an expensive restaurant for their anniversary, but forgets to go after she finds the red dress she intended to wear burned and flushed down the toilet. She spends the night punishing the boys, trying to figure out which of them did it. Meanwhile, Hal makes friends with a member of the restaurant staff while waiting for Lois. Malcolm, seeing that he and his brothers cannot fight Lois alone, calls Francis for help against Lois, but this leads to further trouble for them when she finds out. Despite the tension, Lois decides to take the kids out to dinner, and Hal, coming home to an empty house, accidentally burns and flushes Lois' other dress, revealing he was the culprit.