Plot summary
The boys enter Lois in the Mrs. Tri-County Pageant as a joke. When they overhear the other contestants remarking that Lois doesn't have a chance of winning, they plot to help their mother take the crown. Meanwhile, Malcolm is blackmailed into delivering love notes to a contestant for Herkabe and Reese discovers that, according to the Mrs. Tri-County pageant handbook, he has the good looks of a middle-aged woman, only to be heartbroken that he can't enter the competition because he's a teenage boy.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Malcolm in the Middle season 6. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.