Anyone watch The Middle?

[Mrs Eeyore]

Love The Middle and we call ourselves the Hecks too. We only have two kids but I can identify each of them with Heck kids: one is Axl/Sue and the other is Brick/Sue. We often watch and shriek "That's you!" when we recognize one of the quirks. Favorite episodes include the recent Halloween one with Brick as Rod Serling, the one where Sue makes the cross country team, Sue's graduation, and of course the Disney episodes. I could watch half an hour of Axl twisting himself off the sofa and/or ripping his clothes off in one motion.

 

[PollyannaMom]

This show is a favorite at our house too! - one of the few things we all watch together. We love how they'll take something that totally happens in regular families, and just push that little bit further over the edge.

 

[sunnyshari]

We like this show too & watch every week. It does drive me crazy tho when they whine about how poor they are. Mike is supposed to be a foreman & Frankie a dental assistant or hygienist. Sorry, they should have money to buy a dishwasher, or at least the basics without whining. They are supposed to be "the middle" class, not the poorest.

I love this show also! I am thinking it is called "the middle" because they live in the "middle of nowhere." I could be wrong. I started watching this show a few years ago because I found it on Viggle. I no longer use Viggle but still watch this show. I haven't seen the episode with the foreign exchange student. I will have to see if I can find it.

 

[mom2rtk]

You know, it's funny but the foreign exchange student episode was one of the rare ones I just didn't care for. But it's sure getting a lot of love here!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I love this show also! I am thinking it is called "the middle" because they live in the "middle of nowhere." I could be wrong. I started watching this show a few years ago because I found it on Viggle. I no longer use Viggle but still watch this show. I haven't seen the episode with the foreign exchange student. I will have to see if I can find it.

I think it's the "middle" of America, the Midwest, "flyover land".

 

[tcherjen]

I have only watched it a couple of times. One spring break while we were there, they were filming the Disney World episode. It was interesting to see.

 

[FINFAN]

I think it's the "middle" of America, the Midwest, "flyover land".

and I think middle class...not "upper" middle class, just good old normal middle class.

 

[MomofKatie]

and I think middle class...not "upper" middle class, just good old normal middle class.

They don't seem like middle class to me-more like working class. Their house is pretty small and seems to be falling apart. They never have money for anything, although that may have more to do with them mismanaging their money. They also cheered that they were poor when they got their federal financial aid notification for Sue's college- you have to be practically destitute to qualify for Pell Grants and other federal money. Their cars are awful, too.

 

[Christine]

and I think middle class...not "upper" middle class, just good old normal middle class.

No, it's about them living in The Middle. In flyover land--Indiana.

 

[Kenny1113]

We love the middle. The whole family watches it. The Wens line up is our family tv night. The middle, Goldbergs, modern family and shark tank are the only tv shows we watch as a family.

My kids caught on to the sock too! Cute how they threw that in there.

A couple of years ago I Told my mom (who grew up in Midwest) about it, she loves it too!

 

[mom2rtk]

They don't seem like middle class to me-more like working class. Their house is pretty small and seems to be falling apart. They never have money for anything, although that may have more to do with them mismanaging their money. They also cheered that they were poor when they got their federal financial aid notification for Sue's college- you have to be practically destitute to qualify for Pell Grants and other federal money. Their cars are awful, too.

Can't you be working class and middle class at the same time?

 

[Mizzoufan]

Can't you be working class and middle class at the same time?

I think you can be

 

[NewRVLady]

I think they are working class or lower middle class

I picture middle class with better cars and house
However it's a good picture of how HaRD it is to raise 3 kids on basic wages in America

 

[mom2rtk]

I can definitely agree they are not middle class by DIS standards.

 

[FINFAN]

I can definitely agree they are not middle class by DIS standards.

lol~ yeah, I should have notated that.

 

[Straitlover]

Love the show! I thought the Middle referred to their location (middle of the country) not necessarily their class. I thought that's why they use the cornfield in their opening credits.

 

[Christine]

Love the show! I thought the Middle referred to their location (middle of the country) not necessarily their class. I thought that's why they use the cornfield in their opening credits.

It is. At the start of every show, when Frankie narrates, it seems she always says "Out here in The Middle, we like our <insert rest of narrative here>..."

 

[mom2rtk]

Love the show! I thought the Middle referred to their location (middle of the country) not necessarily their class. I thought that's why they use the cornfield in their opening credits.

I think it can mean more than one thing. A little bit of other discussion about it:

http://movies.stackexchange.com/que...the-middle-refer-to-in-the-tv-show-the-middle

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Absolutely love this show and watching the new one right now!

 

[powellrj]

This is why I have always heard it's called The Middle.

One of the ex producers was born in Muncie Indiana and both of her parents went to Ball State University in Muncie.

There was a study done that Muncie In was Middletown because it was the perfect example of middle America. In the 1980s, PBS did a series about Muncie called Middletown.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...Tv7d4A9Q_E9LasbXg&sig2=M3T6Gq6JLVwa4WDTOqVf6A