The Middle – Who was texting Sue?

There’s little question that no one in the Heck family really gives their best on a daily basis. Well, except perhaps for Sue … I feel like she’s probably putting it all out there regularly; there’s just not much to see.

But everyone else is barely slogging through the interminable hours that they find themselves at home, charging their batteries for the next time they have to face society at large. Certainly not a good situation to be in, but I’d be willing to bet that a lot of us suffer from the same malady to one extent or another.

But then it’s all in how the sad reality gets utilized. Frankie and Mike getting mad at Axl for putting on his best face for the college football recruiter? Awesome. Frankie losing it because she’d done her best and cooked for her family for once, after almost twenty years? Ugh.

I loved interview Axl almost as much as I loved his lightning fast transformation back to every day Axl. I find it a little hard to believe that Frankie and Mike would have never encountered the transformation before, but regardless their indignation at the Axl that they have to deal with daily, compared with who he has the potential to be, was awesome.

The other story last night was probably the better of the two, especially given how well Brick and Sue play together. Loaded up with all sorts of horrors goodies from Aunt Edie (Jeanette Miller), Sue and Brick set to split the goldmine down the middle: lighters, ashtrays, theme lighters (I find it interesting to see how much exposure those kids get to smoke and smoking in this day and age). When they stumble upon Edie’s cell phone, a plan is devised for shared custody. And, go!

I actually thought it was really funny that we didn’t see Sue do much of anything with the phone. If either of the two would be considered to have “more” friends it would have to be Sue (Carly and Brad), and yet we only caught a glimpse of her recording an awesome message that informed people whose phone they’d reached depending on the day and hour.

Brick, on the other hand, placed a call to any number he found written on papers strewn all over town. He got involved in a missing dog case, found himself a guitar teacher … he was even prepared for notifications from the library regarding their early hours. That was great.

But who in the world were they texting? I guess there are all sorts of things out there now where you can text a number and you get sent back some sort of message, but in seven hundred texts some of them must have been back-and-forths with actual people. No offense, but who?

Anyway, I loved the scene with Brick and Sue at the phone company, first bartering to pay Aunt Edie’s bill, and then getting seduced by the lure of new phones. Seriously, it was made that much funnier given who these two kids are, and what we know about their (nonexistent) social lives. Good times!

Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Nov 03, 2011 @ 08:00 EST5EDT