Best of The Middle, S1
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- DirectorWendey StanzlerStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe Hecks parents must react to school assessments of their kids. Axl scored high on aptitude, so his slacking and poor grades are no longer acceptable, but cramming all night with Mike still doesn't do the trick. Brick may a librarian's dream, the only school kid who truly enjoys reading, mean old Mrs. Nethercott, who luckily can't prove vandalism, still threatens to prevent him passing to the next grade unless he returns all missing books, now found all over the Heck home. Sue is the only school kid without a yearbook picture, so Frankie steps up the search for some activity she can join. the principal opens up track running without time threshold, but even a passing deer proves too much opposition fro the eternal failure.
- DirectorElliot HegartyStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie vows to stop yelling at and nagging her kids if they agree to follow through on their school work and chores without her intervention. Meanwhile, Mike reluctantly takes a night job as a driver delivering snack cakes with Bob.
- DirectorKen WhittinghamStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottBrick's teachers tell Frankie and Mike that Brick tested as "socially challenged," so Mike thinks basketball is the answer to help Brick interact with others. When that fails, Mike enters the neighborhood block-party lawnmower contest and discovers that Brick has a talent for souping up machines. Meanwhile Frankie joins the booster club to raise money for new football jerseys for Axl's team, but Axl refuses to give his old one to her.
- DirectorKen WhittinghamStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottThe family takes a weekend trip to Chicago so that Brick can take part in a spelling bee, but Sue gets to call the shots because Mike and Frankie forgot her birthday.
- DirectorLee Shallat ChemelStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie summons up the courage to confront the scary mother of the neighborhood bullies after they get in a fight with Sue, while Axl agrees to teach Brick how to play kickball.
- DirectorJamie BabbitStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottAs the Hecks prepare for their annual spring barbecue, Mike and Brick work on their social skills together and Sue becomes infatuated with the pastor in charge of her youth group.
- DirectorMichael SpillerStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie is caught in the middle when Axl accidentally breaks down the front door, and Mike insists that he fix it - which could leave the Heck house wide open for days. Meanwhile, Frankie must sell a car within a week or be forced to wear a dog suit outside the lot, and it's school picture time for Sue, who has never had a flattering photo taken of her.
- DirectorBarnet KellmanStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottFrankie observes what she thinks are the perfect siblings, and it becomes her mission in life to make her kids stop fighting with one another and interact as a loving family. Meanwhile, Mike contemplates firing Aunt Edie after she makes a costly mistake at the quarry.
- DirectorAlex ReidStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottMike's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to the Final Four is put into jeopardy when Frankie's uncle's funeral is scheduled for the same day.
- DirectorJulie Anne RobinsonStarsPatricia HeatonNeil FlynnCharlie McDermottSue tries out for show choir with disastrous results. Frankie desperately tries to close a sale with disastrous results. Brick has trouble relating to his teacher with odd results.