It's tough, because I have to keep track of who's offended by genderspecific language, and who's not. And I'm getting old and am all perimenopausal and the gray matter doesn't have the skills it used to. I'm trying, and have told them all that if I slip up it's not because I'm unsupportive or anything, I get where…

Well, shucks, Adam… but the Anne Edmunds episode would have been the dullest episode of any TV show ever, anyway. I'm super-boring, and my '80s years were not much more exciting. I had an after-school job in a convent for heaven's sake. Really. I did.

Love the band Rush. Still can't stand The Goldbergs. Probably because I was actually alive and Jr high/high school age during the better part of the '80s. The Middle was genius tonight. My husband and I both laughed so hard at "Jeremy's a KNOB!" We remember those college days of staying up all night discuss how…

Someone's gonna be in trouble down the road, though, for using up Frankie's frosting stash!

And for what it's worth, Brick and Mike are a lot alike. Brick's oblivious anti-socialness is Heck-Man Concentrated (see Grampa Big Mike, Uncle Rusty). Mike's role here is to try and dilute that in Brick as he is the most functional member of his side of the family