The Middle (TV Series)

Last Whiff of Summer: Part 1 (2012)

Neil Flynn: Mike 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.

• 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!

• Mike Heck : I'm just saying East Indiana State is closer. You gotta consider that. I still don't know how much they're gonna play you, but I like the package they're putting together.

  Axl Heck : I don't want to be closer. I want to be as far away from you people as possible. It's like when Tevye decided his town was too small, so he went on the flying car to New York to become a cop.

  Mike Heck : You do know that's three separate movies?

• 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.