The Middle (TV Series)

Last Whiff of Summer: Part 1 (2012)

Charlie McDermott: Axl 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 : Brick, what are you doing? You didn't kill another pet, did you?

  Brick Heck : No, I don't even have a pet right now. Do I? I'm planting a tomato.

  Axl Heck : That's weird.

  Brick Heck : I found it in my backpack.

  Axl Heck : Oh, that's much more normal then.

  Brick Heck : I must have left it in there from when we were learning about photosynthesis.

  Axl Heck : Ha! That sounds like a school word, Brick. It's summer, leave the learning inside.

• Axl Heck : God, this is lame. Every year they go through some kind of mid-life crisis. Thank God their lives are more than halfway over.

• Axl Heck : Everybody has a favorite everything, and, in this family, I'm the favorite kid.

  Sue Heck : Ha! That's hilarious. Why would you be their favorite? You cause them so much stress, you get bad grades, you do dumb things with your friends. There is no way you're their favorite.

  Axl Heck : Oh, there is way. I was their firstborn. I was born when they still had love to give.

  Brick Heck : Well, actually, I'm the baby, so I'm pretty sure I'm their favorite.

  Axl Heck : You're a loser who misses a tomato. I win.

  Brick Heck : Believe what you want, but in every book, every movie, the baby is always the favorite.

  Axl Heck : Not when he's an accident.

  Brick Heck : That is not true! Sue?

  Sue Heck : They called you "Oops" until you were three. Look, there is two of you, and I am the only girl. Everyone knows girls are easier. I am so, so nice. I'm pretty sure it's clear who the favorite would be, if they had a favorite, which they don't.

  Axl Heck : Sue, think about it. What do you really contribute to this family? I mean, "Oops" is freakishly smart, I got recruiters all wanting a piece of the Ax. And, hm, what has Sue Sue Heck really brought to the party?

• 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?

• 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.