Plot summary
The family prepares for their Aunt Helen's funeral, but, after Malcolm gives her a hard time arguing about skipping it to go to a concert with Julie (Landry Allbright), a girl he likes, Lois gives up and decides to take a bubble bath while everyone else does their own things. Hal listens to his old record player, while Dewey invites a friend—who he nicknames "Egg"—and after they leave a spill in the kitchen, they make a bigger mess trying to clean it. Julie comes to see Malcolm, but she catches him changing in his underwear and runs away, getting injured when slipping on the spill.
Malcolm takes Francis' advice to use a scapegoat, and tells his parents that Reese broke Dewey's birthday present and planned to stash the remains in Aunt Helen's coffin. Lois promptly decides that they will attend the funeral after all so Reese can apologize, and they attend it while he stands in the corner, punished.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Malcolm in the Middle season 1. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.