The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

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Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

This has quietly become one of my favorite new shows!

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

It's good, not great, but definitely deserves to be in the lineup. I like it and watch it.

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

good 1/2 hour comedy.. I agree that it does deserve to be in the nightly lineup. this is my favorite comedy of the year.

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

This was one of the funnier episodes in the last couple of weeks, but the mother just went over the top the last 5 minutes.

Chris

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

reminds me of malcolm in the middle.

that was the first thing I thought of last nite when we watched for the first time.

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

That is what most of the people here are saying, especially comparing the 2 young boys.

Chris

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

Great show. Familiar ground for me.

When my younger daughter was just about one, my wife was away for weeks at a time training or going across state to various work sites. I was left alone with our two daughters (the other was 4 or 5).

The baby had a habit of getting her fat, little leg stuck between the slats of her crib. Well, one night, she did this and fell asleep. When i went in there hours later, she had quite the mark on each side of her upper-thigh near her waist. She was fine, not sore to the touch, so I dressed her and took her to day care.

Few hours later, I'm in my office, plodding along (probably on DVD Talk, actually) when my phone rings. It's the wife. "What is going on!?"

So she tells me this story of how she gets called and threatened with police/DCPS action because there's an obvious "belt mark" on our child. Of course, she's out of town and I hadn't had the chance to tell her what had happened. I relayed the story, she called the day care back and made them ask our 5 year-old what had happened. Luckily she was able to corroborate my story and, on second look, they agreed that it could have been caused by what I described.

I understand why they'd be so protective, but sometimes I think people jump to the worst possible conclusion too quickly and, as alluded to in the show, once shit escalates, there's really no clearing your name. It's like that story of the girl breaking down in tears because her mother drinks and drives every morning after being told the dangers of drinking and driving. Never occurred to the administration to qualify what "drinking" means and that coffee isn't applicable :rolleyes:

Needless to say, I checked on her more frequently during the night until we could get her out of the crib and into a toddler bed.

Re: The Middle -- "The Scratch" -- 11/18/09
 

why isnt this online. its not on hulu or abc.com, though Modern Family and couger town are

The Middle -- "Thanksgiving" -- 11/25/09
 

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Re: The Middle -- "Thanksgiving" -- 11/25/09
 

Just got to watch this episode (leaked online somehow), and thought it was pretty good. Not that many moments that had me laughin that much, but it was still a solid episode. The Chris Kattan part towards the end did have me laughing though.

The Middle -- "Siblings" -- 12/02/09
 

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Re: The Middle -- "Siblings" -- 12/02/09
 

When Brick was doing his football dance, he reminded me so much of the dancing dwarf from Twin Peaks. His moves seemed so similar.

The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

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2 episodes back to back tonight:

The Jeans:

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The Neighbor:

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Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

2 episodes?!?! :banana:

(I hope this doesn't mean "burn off". I really like this show!)

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

No I don't think it's burnoff. The 8pm timeslot is available right now because of Hank's cancellation and they probably wanted to come back from the holidays with 2 new episodes to filll that 30 mins. I'm sure it will go back to something else next week. Plus the show got a full 22 episode order.

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

We tried this show last night for the first time, the pants one. We didn't like it all. I did like that the Janitor didn't let the son talk to him that way. You don't see strict parenting enforced shows very much.

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

Two good episodes.

IIRC, all 3 Wednesday shows got an additional 2 episode order this season, so it will be 24 episodes.

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

And these 2 episodes averaged 7.9M viewers last night which is really good.

Chris

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

I didn't like the Jeans episode too much (except for Mike putting Axl in his place), but the Neighbor was better. All that crust and mayhem on Brooke's face made my stomach turn.

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

Had an 8 episode marathon today (Yeah I was that far behind)

Good stuff. Really liking this show. It's not laugh out loud funny, but the characters are really enjoyable and the show has alot of heart.

I liked the Jeans episode. It wasn't great, but it had some good moments. It was funny seeing Frankie freaking out after she shrank Sue's and how ridiculously dinky they got.

The Neighbor episode was good. Brooke Shields looked fricking scary as the white trash neighbor. The makeup people on this show did a really good job on her.

Re: The Middle -- "The Jeans; The Neighbor" -- 01/06/10
 

Definitely not that <i>Blue Lagoon</i> look.

This has become one of my favorite shows!

The Middle -- "The Interview" -- 01/13/10
 

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All caught up now after having an 8 episode marathon last week. Very fun comedy and glad it will be back for a season 2.

Re: The Middle -- "The Interview" -- 01/13/10
 

awesome episode! when sue was talkin about how she didnt make the chess team bc checkers is nothin like chess had me dying. and brick's speech at the end was awesome..although i was hoping he wouldve whispered to himself at the end of it lol

Re: The Middle -- "The Interview" -- 01/13/10
 

Yeah - I had a feeling Brick would pull it out... but I was thinking that he would win because he was running unopposed.

Fun show.

Re: The Middle -- "The Interview" -- 01/13/10
 

The Middle actually ran second in total viewers! :thumbsup:

Chris

The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

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Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I liked how fast forwarding video on a cell phone still resulted in the same sound as fast forwarding physical tape.

Can you even hook up a phone like that to TV?

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I had the misfortune of catching about half of this last night and wow, what a mediocre, unfunny show. Those kids have to be three of the worst child actors I've ever seen and Patricia Heaton is just awful.

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I think they're hilarious and easily the best part about the show.

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I agree, but Sue takes some getting used to. I was looking at Axl's facial expressions last night thinking that you just can't fake that. I think he's being himself, but in a good way. He kind of acts like he's high, though.

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I laughed at that as well (and the quality was like HD).

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

The material is horrible, but I like the cast. Sometimes it can be funny (rarely laugh out loud), but last night was the most annoying episode yet. The title says it all.

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

Yeah, it was not a LOL episode.....but still decent.

Re: The Middle -- "The Yelling" -- 02/03/10
 

I agree - this episode was not one of the best ones

The Middle -- "The Bee" -- 03/03/10
 

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Re: The Middle -- "The Bee" -- 03/03/10
 

rotfl rotfl rotfl That little quirk of his cost Brick a trip to DC!!

Re: The Middle -- "The Bee" -- 03/03/10
 

I missed a lot of this ep so I'll have to see it again.

Re: The Middle -- "The Bee" -- 03/03/10
 

hysterical episode! i think this was axl's funniest episode so far... poor brick ruining it for himself at the end. lol

Re: The Middle -- "The Bee" -- 03/03/10
 

Never has the letter 'T' cost someone so much! :lol:

Chris