Plot summary
Malcolm and Reese attempt to hitchhike their way to the annual Burning Man festival but are caught by Hal and Lois. Malcolm makes the event sound so interesting that they decide to turn the trip into a family vacation. At the festival, everyone heads out to participate except Hal and Dewey; Hal is scared of the Burning Man attendants who mistake his bourgeois lifestyle for performance art, while Dewey has to do all the chores around the RV. Reese and Lois fit in well at the festival, while Malcolm has sex with a healer named Anita ( Rosanna Arquette ), although he is dismissive of her beliefs.
Reese is nominated to "burn the man down" to end the festival but cannot accept that it has ended, and in his attempts to keep the weekend going, he accidentally torches the RV. Hal and Dewey are forced to work to pay for the RV, Malcolm ends up depressed, and Lois and Reese secretly agree to return the following year.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Malcolm in the Middle season 7. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.