The Middle (TV Series)

Last Whiff of Summer: Part 1 (2012)

Patricia Heaton: Frankie Heck

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• Frankie Heck : Look at this, you guys. It's a triple feature. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "Fiddler on the Roof", and "Serpico".

  Mike Heck : Mm. Two bucks a car. It makes sense.

  Sue Heck : I've never even heard of any of those movies. You never said they were going to be old movies.

  Frankie Heck : They're not old. They're classic.

  Axl Heck : Classic is code for lame. I mean, how could it not be. The first one has chitty right in the title.

• Axl Heck : Well, I can explain, all right. The first half of the year I didn't even know I was taking it. I thought I had a free period. Then everyone was too far ahead and I was totally lost.

  Frankie Heck : In English.

  Axl Heck : That shouldn't even be a requirement. I've been speaking it, like, half my life.

• Sue Heck : Do you guys have favorite kids?

  Frankie Heck : I like those Donahues.

  Sue Heck : No, of us. Mom, I really want to know this. Do you guys have favorite kids, among us kids? Do you guys have favorites?

  Frankie Heck : Honey, don't be ridiculous. Parents love all their kids infinitely. If there's infinite love, then it's not possible to love one more than the other because infinite love is infinite.

  Mike Heck : Guess I'd say Axl.

  Sue Heck : Dad!

  Frankie Heck : Mike!

• Sue Heck : Of course, it would make sense that Axl would be your favorite. You spend more time with him, and he's a boy and everything, and I've got to own that.

  Mike Heck : Sue, he's not my favorite. It's just a dumb thing I said.

  Sue Heck : [hand up]  Owning it. But it's not enough to just own it. I have to fix it. And that's why I'm declaring this "The Summer of Sue and Dad".

  Mike Heck : Wow. That's a... big book.

  Sue Heck : Yes, it is. And you and I are gonna fill every single page with special memories we make starting now.

  [snaps picture] 

  Sue Heck : Ahh! Adorbs. I'm gonna go print it out right now!

  Mike Heck : Okay.

  Frankie Heck : Infinite love. Could have been so easy.

• Frankie Heck : What's this I just found under your bed?

  Axl Heck : I swear it's not mine.

  Frankie Heck : It's a report card with your name on it.

  Axl Heck : Oh, yeah. That's mine.