The Middle - Season 1
Run Time: 22 mins
Air Date: Wed, 30 Sept 2009
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.576 (695 votes)
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Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1
The pilot episode of the American television series The Middle, written by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler and directed by Julie Anne Robins...
The Cheerleader
Season 1 - Episode 2
Trying to save her job, Frankie organizes a publicity stunt by filling a car with jelly beans. Meanwhile, Sue fails to make the swim team an...
The Floating Anniversary
Season 1 - Episode 3
Frankie and Mike's romantic anniversary get-away is ruined by various family matters, including Brick being sick, Sue being lovesick, Axl ju...
The Trip
Season 1 - Episode 4
Sue sells sausage and cheese samples for the school. All her efforts go in vain as the school fails to see this. Frankie demands her daughte...
The Block Party
Season 1 - Episode 5
Brick's teachers tell Frankie and Mike that he is "socially challenged". Mike believes that enrolling Brick on a basketball team is a good w...
The Front Door
Season 1 - Episode 6
When Axl accidentally breaks down the front door, Mike insists that, he fix it in order to teach him a lesson, which leaves the Heck house w...
The Scratch
Season 1 - Episode 7
Frankie accidentally hits Brick in the head with a beer bottle when trying to get the trash out before the garbage truck leaves. But when Br...
Thanksgiving
Season 1 - Episode 8
Frankie's plan to have an idyllic family Thanksgiving backfires when Mr. Ehlert demands his staff work over the holiday. Brick goes missing ...
Siblings
Season 1 - Episode 9
Frankie encounters two perfect siblings and vows to make her children stop fighting and become a loving family. Meanwhile, Aunt Edie makes a...
Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 10
Mike takes over the responsibility of organizing the Heck family Christmas while Frankie practices for a solo that she is singing at midnigh...
The Jeans
Season 1 - Episode 11
A hormonally charged Sue wants a cool pair of jeans in order to fit in with her peers, resulting in Frankie and Mike enduring the unpredicta...
The Neighbor
Season 1 - Episode 12
When Sue has a run-in with her sons, Frankie fears that a confrontation with the trasy neighbor may be at hand. Meanwhile, Axl attempts to b...
The Interview
Season 1 - Episode 13
Mike loses his job when the plant shuts down for scientific research after he discovers a dinosaur bone in the quarry. However, Mike starts ...
The Yelling
Season 1 - Episode 14
Frankie makes a deal with her kids, that if they do their homework and keep chores she won't nag them. Meanwhile, Mike takes a job as a nigh...
Valentine's Day
Season 1 - Episode 15
Valentine's Day unexpectedly finds Frankie and Mike home alone and ready for a romantic evening while Brick is away at his first sleepover, ...
The Bee
Season 1 - Episode 16
When Mike discovers that Brick is a spelling whiz and won the school spelling bee, he puts all his efforts into training him to win the regi...
The Break Up
Season 1 - Episode 17
Axl is heartbroken when his girlfriend (Alexa Vega) breaks up with him; Sue and Brick watch a scary movie.
The Fun House
Season 1 - Episode 18
Frankie fears for her job when a motivational consultant comes to get the sale team into shape. While Frankie is putting in many extra hours...
The Final Four
Season 1 - Episode 19
Mike's dream comes to fruition when Frankie's boss, Mr. Ehlert, offers him two tickets to the Final Four. Unfortunately, Frankie's uncle die...
TV or Not TV
Season 1 - Episode 20
After failing to pay the electric bill on time, the electric company shuts off the Heck's power. This leads Frankie and Mike to cut down on ...
Worry Duty
Season 1 - Episode 21
Frankie is worried that Axl's going to get his heart crushed again when his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Morgan (Alexa Vega, "Spy Kids," "...
Mother's Day
Season 1 - Episode 22
Mother's Day for Frankie is anything but serene when she finds herself doing more for Mike and the kids and less for herself. But she learns...
Signals
Season 1 - Episode 23
Frankie points out to Mike that his social ineptness has been passed on to Brick, leading Mike to decide that both he and Brick need to be m...
Average Rules
Season 1 - Episode 24
Parent-Teacher conferences cause Frankie to worry about the kids. In them she's told Axl is gifted but not applying himself, that her teache...