Her frenetic act is also very different from the way her character played especially in the first half of the first season. At its worst, it can completely sink an episode as with 6.10 Pam Freakin' Staggs.

Brick's "Testify!" almost saved the episode for me. Almost.

I had a route for about a year. The money was nice (and I tried unionizing my fellow paperboys [for some reason there were no papergirls] without success), but bicycling to 40+ houses in New York winters was no picnic.

They usually do a good job hiding it, but isn't the actress herself in the neighborhood of 36-26-36? If the writers ever decide Sue needs to blossom, the raw material is already present.

No one wants to read about you drooling over an underage character, slut.

"…started French-kissing before she was ready…" Was he really to supposed to ask? You know that "affirmative consent" is really just an hilarious feminist prank, right?

"…but, no, I think he really just loves his sister and doesn't want to see
her get any more hurt than she already is. But don't let it get out,
because it'll only spoil his reputation."

She's extraordinary. I'm looking forward to seeing what else she does over the next five, ten years. I think it was her Kung Fu Fighting scene with the Glossner boys that made it clear the actress is actually very coordinated and moves extremely well when she wants to.

Axl a more well-rounded character? Shirley you jest.
Starting with The Map he's not only become almost continuously abusive, but Charlie McDermott has decided for some reason that shouting all his lines makes for great comedy. And for some reason the showrunner is letting him do this. Ugh.

"Bite anyone you like."

Your obsession with this is bizarre.

I'm guessing the ep was written before Matt became a prominent character.

Yes, please shut the fuck up. Thanks.

Your drooling over an underage character disgusts me. It also appears to be more acceptable here wrt underage boys than underage girls. Why do you suppose that is?

I've noticed we accept gay crassness far more readily than straight crassness. Why do you suppose that is? And how do you suppose a similar comment about the character of Sue would be greeted?

It did not, but I've always assumed we get a bell rather than a buzzer on a missed word because of some curious contemporary inversion of the traditional bell=good buzzer=bad. It's use in The Middle seems to restore that sensible pairing.

It's too bad the writers missed the opportunity to make Mike flub the Pledge of Allegiance intentionally, thereby providing the distraction he predicted earlier on purpose. Falling on the sword of ridicule on his son's behalf, if you will.

That sounds about right.

It's really something, then, that he seems not to know a single good one.

Is there a good fart joke?