Best of The Middle, S1
My top 10 episodes from the first season of The Middle.
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- DirectorKen WhittinghamStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottBrick's teachers tell Frankie and Mike that Brick tested as "socially challenged," so Mike thinks basketball is the answer to help Brick interact with others. When that fails, Mike enters the neighborhood block-party lawnmower contest and discovers that Brick has a talent for souping up machines. Meanwhile Frankie joins the booster club to raise money for new football jerseys for Axl's team, but Axl refuses to give his old one to her.
- DirectorLee Shallat ChemelStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie summons up the courage to confront the scary mother of the neighborhood bullies after they get in a fight with Sue, while Axl agrees to teach Brick how to play kickball.Brooke Shields makes her first guest appearance in this episode.
- DirectorWendey StanzlerStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe Hecks parents must react to school assessments of their kids. Axl scored high on aptitude, so his slacking and poor grades are no longer acceptable, but cramming all night with Mike still doesn't do the trick. Brick may a librarian's dream, the only school kid who truly enjoys reading, mean old Mrs. Nethercott, who luckily can't prove vandalism, still threatens to prevent him passing to the next grade unless he returns all missing books, now found all over the Heck home. Sue is the only school kid without a yearbook picture, so Frankie steps up the search for some activity she can join. the principal opens up track running without time threshold, but even a passing deer proves too much opposition fro the eternal failure.
- DirectorWendey StanzlerStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottMike and Frankie are shocked to find out that Axl is dating the head cheerleader, but what will happen when she breaks up with him? Meanwhile, Sue and Brick become freaked out after they watch a horror movie about zombies.
- DirectorLee Shallat ChemelStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottPayments delayed until 2009 come due just as the dryer breaks, Sue needs glasses and Frankie comes within a jelly bean of losing her job. Sue tries out for the swim team with disastrous consequences but a tornado brings good fortune.
- DirectorBarnet KellmanStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie 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 costly mistake at the quarry.
- DirectorKen WhittinghamStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe family takes a weekend trip to Chicago so that Brick can take part in a spelling bee, but Sue gets to call the shots because Mike and Frankie forgot her birthday.
- DirectorJulie Anne RobinsonStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottSue tries out for show choir with disastrous results. Frankie desperately tries to close a sale with disastrous results. Brick has trouble relating to his teacher with odd results.
- DirectorMichael SpillerStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe Hecks' Thanksgiving plans are thrown into a loop when Mr. Ehlert makes her work a shift at the car dealership on Thanksgiving Day.
- DirectorChris KochStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottAxl has a date, Sue has her first boy-girl party, and Brick is at a sleepover. So will Mike and Frankie have an opportunity to have a romantic Valentine's Day?
- DirectorReginald HudlinStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie writes a Christmas letter and comes up with interesting interpretations of the family activities. She gets the lead in the Christmas choir's solo and has to attend more practice sessions. Mike takes over home duties.