The Middle: Uma Família Perdida no Meio do Nada(2009)
{"pt-BR":"Em Orson, uma cidade fictícia em Indiana, vive a atrapalhada família de classe média dos Heck, liderada pela mãe, Frankie, uma vendedora de carros usados em crise de meia-idade e seu marido, o calado Mike. Juntos, ambos tentam dar a melhor educação possível para os seus três filhos: Axl, um adolescente meio rebelde de 15 anos, a esquisita Sue de 13 anos, e o pequeno Brick, 8, o garotinho nerd que tem o hábito de "conversar" com sua mochila. Com todas essas diferenças existe algo que una esta família?","en-US":"The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.","es-ES":"La de Frankie Heck es una familia de libro: tiene un hijo adolescente que se pasa el día en su cuarto y cuando se pasea lo hace sin camiseta ni pantalones; una hija que es un desastre en casi todo lo que intenta; y otro chico, el pequeño, que repite las últimas palabras en susurros porque le hace sentir bien. Además, intenta vender coches cuando su marido no se olvida de ir a recoger a los chicos al colegio."}
Elenco principal
Neil Flynn
Mike HeckCharlie McDermott
Axl HeckEden Sher
Sue HeckAtticus Shaffer
Brick HeckBlaine Saunders
CarlyJohn Gammon
DarrinBrock Ciarlelli
Brad BottigJen Ray
Nancy DonahueMidia
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1 - Pilot
The pilot episode of the American television series The Middle, written by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler and directed by Julie Anne Robinson, premiered on the ABC network in the United States on September 30, 2009. The pilot introduces viewers to the five central characters within the show who make up the Heck family: Frankie the working mother; her husband Mike; and their three children - teenagers Axl and Sue and their youngest child Brick. The show follows the characters as they deal with everyday challenges and family life, with Frankie serving as narrator.
2 - The Cheerleader
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 and realizes that she needs glasses and Brick starts reading his mothers romance novels when he cant check books out of the library.
3 - The Floating Anniversary
Frankie and Mikes romantic anniversary get-away is ruined by various family matters, including Brick being sick, Sue being lovesick, Axl just getting his learners permit, and two psychotic aunts and their dogs.
4 - The Trip
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 daughter fights for her rights. Meanwhile, Brick discovers love with his current girlfriend a little stressful as she bosses him about.
5 - The Block Party
Bricks teachers tell Frankie and Mike that he is socially challenged. Mike believes that enrolling Brick on a basketball team is a good way to get him to interact with others, but the idea falls through. However, when Mike enters the neighborhood block-party lawnmower contest, he realizes that Brick has some special talents. Meanwhile, Frankie joins a booster club in the hopes of raising enough money for Axls football team to buy new jerseys, but Axl refuses to give his old one up.
6 - The Front Door
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 wide open for days. At work, Frankie needs to sell a car within a week or she will have to wear a dog suit outside the lot for promotion. Meanwhile, its picture day at school and Sue is concerned because she has never had a flattering picture taken of herself.
7 - The Scratch
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 Brick innocently tells his school that the scratch was caused by his mother throwing a beer bottle at him, a social worker comes to evaluate the Heck family. Meanwhile, Bob helps Mr. Ehlert shoot a commercial for the car lot.
8 - Thanksgiving
Frankies plan to have an idyllic family Thanksgiving backfires when Mr. Ehlert demands his staff work over the holiday. Brick goes missing in a corn maze.
9 - Siblings
Frankie encounters two perfect siblings and vows to make her children stop fighting and become a loving family. Meanwhile, Aunt Edie makes a costly mistake at the quarry and Mike considers firing her.
10 - Christmas
Mike takes over the responsibility of organizing the Heck family Christmas while Frankie practices for a solo that she is singing at midnight mass. However, she gets jealous when Mike seems to be doing a better job than she ever did. Meanwhile, Frankie and Mike help Brick get over a problem so he can get into the Christmas spirit.
11 - The Jeans
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 unpredictability of teenagers, while Axl wants a car to impress a girl. Meanwhile, attempting to teach Brick about responsibility, Frankie and Mike reluctantly allow him to take care of Aunt Edie and Aunt Ginnys dog Doris for a few days.
12 - The Neighbor
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 bribe Brick after hes asked to teach his little brother how to kick a ball for a gym requirement. However, Brick is the one turning the tables and it ends up bribing him for another favor.
13 - The Interview
Mike loses his job when the plant shuts down for scientific research after he discovers a dinosaur bone in the quarry. However, Mike starts to get irregular feelings when he discovers how drastically things have change technologically over the years when considering the terms of searching for a job. Meanwhile, Frankie feels she must once again come to Bricks rescue when he decides to run for school historian.
14 - The Yelling
Frankie makes a deal with her kids, that if they do their homework and keep chores she wont nag them. Meanwhile, Mike takes a job as a night driver with Bob.
15 - Valentine's Day
Valentines Day unexpectedly finds Frankie and Mike home alone and ready for a romantic evening while Brick is away at his first sleepover, Sue goes to her first boy-girl party, and Axl has a big date night planned with some friends. But Cupids arrow doesnt exactly hit the target, and the best laid plans soon begin to unravel.
16 - The Bee
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 regional bee, which could ultimately lead to competing in the Scripps Spelling Bee. But as the family gets set for their road trip to Chicago for the regional bee, Frankie and Mike are horrified when they realize they forgot one thing -- Sues birthday.
17 - The Break Up
Axl is heartbroken when his girlfriend (Alexa Vega) breaks up with him; Sue and Brick watch a scary movie.
18 - The Fun House
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, Mike has to deal with the children and their issues, including making the house more fun for Axl and his friends, giving advice to Sues ex-boyfriend and helping Brick with a school project.
19 - The Final Four
Mikes dream comes to fruition when Frankies boss, Mr. Ehlert, offers him two tickets to the Final Four. Unfortunately, Frankies uncle dies and the funeral is set for the same day, leaving the two in a battle and Frankie making Mike chose what life event is more important to him. Meanwhile, Sue gets Brick out of going to a birthday party by impersonating Frankie over the phone, but the plan hits a bump when Frankie needs to call and tell them that Brick cannot attend because of the funeral.
20 - TV or Not TV
After failing to pay the electric bill on time, the electric company shuts off the Hecks power. This leads Frankie and Mike to cut down on their unnecessary expenses, including their cable TV. The kids take up other activities to fill the void, but Frankie and Mike have a hard time figuring out what to do. Meanwhile, Brick and his other socially-challenged friends have to go outside for recess when the school library shuts down.
21 - Preocupação
Frankie fica preocupado depois que Axl decide voltar para Morgan e ser comandado por ela.
22 - Mother's Day
Mothers 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 that the apple doesnt fall far from the tree when she escapes the family for a few hours to go to her moms (Marsha Mason, The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two) and ends up acting like a child by making her mom wait on her hand-and-foot. Meanwhile, Sue feels guilty when she steals a motivational magnet from a store whose message actually enticed her to shoplift it.
23 - Signals
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 more social, and the Heck family BBQ is the perfect time to try. Meanwhile, Axl volunteers to clean the family pool in an attempt to get girls to stop by and swim and Sue tries to raise money for a local parish because her new friend, Reverend TimTom might be leaving in order to keep costs down
24 - Average Rules
Parent-Teacher conferences cause Frankie to worry about the kids. In them shes told Axl is gifted but not applying himself, that her teachers still do not know who Sue is, and Brick may have to repeat the second-grade due to failure to return over 30 library books. Guest star Betty White as the school librarian.