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  The Middle. (2009) [TV series]  
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OMDB: 0435267
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
   
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Patricia Heaton Frankie Heck
Neil Flynn Mike Heck
Charlie McDermott Axl Heck
Eden Sher Sue Heck
Atticus Shaffer Brick Heck
Chris Kattan Bob
Brian Doyle-Murray Mr. Ehlert
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The Middle
Format Sitcom
Created by Eileen Heisler
DeAnn Heline
Directed by Julie Anne Robinson
Starring Patricia Heaton
Neil Flynn
Charlie McDermott
Eden Sher
Atticus Shaffer
Chris Kattan
Country of origin  United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) DeAnn Heline
Eileen Heisler
Running time 30 minutes (20-22 min. without commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 30, 2009 – present
External links
Official website

The Middle is a American sitcom series that debuted on ABC at 8:30, September 30, 2009. The show features Patricia Heaton as a middle-class, Midwestern mother of three married to Neil Flynn.[1] Chris Kattan is Heaton's friend at the used-car lot where she works.

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Frankie and her husband, Mike, have lived in Orson, Indiana their whole lives. A man of few words (every one a zinger), Mike is a manager at the town quarry and Frankie is the third-best used car salesman (out of the three) at the local dealership. She may not be a high-powered career woman, but when it comes to her family, she'll go to just about any length. And with kids like these, she had better. There's Axl, her semi-nudist teenage son conceived with Guns N' Roses playing a significant role; Sue, the awkward teenage daughter who fails at everything with great gusto; and their seven-year-old son Brick, whose best friend is his backpack.

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The series was originally developed in the 2006–07 development cycle and starred Ricki Lake.[1]

[edit] Reception

The show has been described as "...a dead ringer for 'Malcolm in the Middle' with its realistic, wry take on regular family life."[2] One TV critic described the show as a "live action version of Family Guy".[2]

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Order Episode Rating Share Rating/share
(18-49)
Viewers
(millions)
Rank (viewers)
(Timeslot)
Rank
(Night)
Rank
(Week)
Aired
1 "Pilot" 5.4 9 2.6/8[3] 8.71 1 5 TBA September 30, 2009
2 "The Cheerleader" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA October 7, 2009
3 "The Floating Anniversary" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA October 14, 2009
4 "The Trip" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
5 "TBA" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
6 "TBA" TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA

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  The Middle.:   Episode 1 -  Pilot
Frankie is struggling in her career as a car salesman because she has yet to sell one. She finally thinks that she has made her first sale, but the car is stolen right in front of her. Meanwhile, Sue becomes part of the school choir... as...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 2 -  The Cheerleader
Trying to save her job, Frankie organizes a publicity stunt by filling a car with jelly beans. Meanwhile, Sue fails to make the swim team and realizes that she needs glasses and Brick starts reading his mother's romance novels when he can't...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 3 -  The Floating Anniversary
Frankie and Mike's romantic anniversary get-away is ruined by various family matters, including Brick being sick, Sue being lovesick, Axl just getting his learner's permit, and two psychotic aunts and their dogs.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 4 -  The Trip
Sue sells sausage and cheese samples for the school. All her efforts go in vain as the school fails to see this. Frankie demands her daughter fights for her rights. Meanwhile, Brick discovers love with his current girlfriend a little...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 5 -  The Block Party
Brick's teachers tell Frankie and Mike that he is "socially challenged". Mike believes that enrolling Brick on a basketball team is a good way to get him to interact with others, but the idea falls through. However, when Mike enters the...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 6 -  The Front Door
When Axl accidentally breaks down the front door, Mike insists that, he fix it in order to teach him a lesson, which leaves the Heck house wide open for days. At work, Frankie needs to sell a car within a week or she will have to wear a dog...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 7 -  The Scratch
When the Heck family goes into a cleaning frenzy in order to get the trash out to a passing garbage truck, Frankie accidentally hits Brick with a beer bottle as she attempts to toss it into a bag, causing a small scratch. But when Brick...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 8 -  Thanksgiving
Frankie’s dream of an idyllic family Thanksgiving is thwarted when Mr. Ehlert forces the staff to work on the holiday. Meanwhile, Frankie and Mike approve of a clueless Sue’s first boyfriend (who turns out to be a safe choice); and a...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 9 -  Siblings
Frankie observes what she thinks are the perfect siblings, and it becomes her mission in life to make her kids stop fighting with one another and interact as a loving family. Meanwhile, Mike contemplates firing Aunt Edie after she makes a...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 10 -  Christmas
While Frankie focuses on rehearsing for a solo in her church's midnight Christmas mass, Mike takes over handling the chores of setting up the Heck family Christmas. But Frankie becomes a bit jealous when it seems that Mike is doing a better...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 11 -  The Jeans
Frankie and Mike must endure the unpredictability of teenagers when a hormonally charged Sue wants a cool pair of jeans in order to fit in with her peers, and Axl wants a car to impress a girl. Meanwhile, in an attempt to teach Brick about...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 12 -  The Neighbour
Frankie fears that a confrontation with trashy neighbor Rita Glossner (Brooke Shields) is at hand when Sue has a run-in with her sons. Meanwhile, Axl tries to bribe Brick when he's asked to teach his little brother how to kick a ball for a...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 13 -  Interview
Mike's discovery of a dinosaur bone in the quarry causes the plant to get shut down for scientific research - leaving him out of a job. But he begins to feel like a dinosaur himself when he discovers how drastically things have changed...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 14 -  The Yelling
Frankie vows to stop yelling at and nagging her kids if they agree to follow through on their school work and chores without her intervention. Meanwhile, Mike reluctantly takes a night job as a driver delivering snack cakes with Bob.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 15 -  Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day unexpectedly finds Frankie and Mike home alone and ready for a romantic evening while Brick is away at his first sleepover, Sue goes to her first boy-girl party, and Axl has a big date night planned with some friends. But...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 16 -  The Bee
When Mike discovers that Brick is a spelling whiz and won the school spelling bee, he puts all his efforts into training him to win the regional bee, which could ultimately lead to competing in the Scripps Spelling Bee. But as the family...


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  The Middle.:   Episode 17 -  The Break-Up
Axl has a seemingly normal girlfriend who ultimately breaks up with him. Meanwhile Sue and Brick watch a zombie movie and have nightmares.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 18 -  The Fun House
Frankie's boss hires a motivator named Abby (Amy Sedaris) and the family briefly has the "cool house" in the neighborhood.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 19 -  The Final Four
Mike gets tickets to The Final Four, but a death in the family may change his plans.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 20 -  TV or Not TV
The family gives up cable to save money. Sue dreams of being a model and starts saving the money to do so. Brick experiences recess with "regular" kids, much to his dismay.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 21 -  Worry Duty
Axl gets back together with Morgan, the girlfriend previously in The Break-up, who Frankie now sees as annoying and controlling. Brick becomes "mother" to a baby chicken.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 22 -  Mother's Day
Frankie experiences a hectic and emotionally exhausting Mother's Day, which she unfavorably compares to Father's Day. Sue is tormented because she stole an inspirational refrigerator magnet.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 23 -  Signals
Mike and Brick both try to be more sociable and end up in awkward situations due to it. Sue is enamored with a local youth pastor who calls himself "Tim Tom." Axl hopes the barbecue will allow him to see attractive girls in bikinis.


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  The Middle.:   Episode 24 -  Average Rules
Parent-Teacher conferences cause Frankie to worry about the kids. In them she's told Axl is gifted but not applying himself, that her teachers still do not know who Sue is, and Brick may have to repeat the second-grade due to failure to...


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