There's nothing wrong with be-ing cut from the herd," frazzled mother Lois tells her son Malcolm, who has just tested-to his chagrin-as a genius. "It makes you the one buffalo that isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff." That, or it makes you the easiest target for sharpshooters; whoever coined the term "gifted" clearly never received a wedgie for being a brain. As the oddball sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) shows, being pegged as special is more a "gift" in a Let's Make a Deal sense. Behind one door is advantage and opportunity; behind another, humiliation and alienation. (Look what it -did for Anakin Skywalker.
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