The Middle

            The ABC hit comedy show, The Middle, is a show about a typical family that argues, does not spend enough time together, and is usually strange and crazy. The family includes Frankie, the mother, Mike, the father, and Axl, Sue, and Brick, the children.

            On one of the most recent episodes, one of the family’s neighbors puts their child in a foreign exchange program and they get a kid from Spain. They really enjoy him and they both explain their culture to each other and had a blast. So Frankie and Mike decide to get a foreign kid and they get a boy from Japan. When the kid arrives, the family tries to act very normal and make the kid fit in. Trying to act normal gets out of hand and the family goes crazy and makes the trip for the Japanese boy awkward. On their way to a trip, their car breaks down and they are stuck in the middle of nowhere. They all get in a large argument and the Japanese boy says his first and only three words of the week, “I fix car.” He fixed the car and the family got to finish the trip.

Matt Powell