The Middle (TV Series)

The Sit Down (2012)

Atticus Shaffer: Brick Heck

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Quotes 

• Axl Heck : Oh, and, Dad, your problem is you're always giving out these crazy punishments without ever hearing our side of things. Sue's not allowed to have a friend over till she's thirty-five.

  Mike Heck : I never said that.

  Sue Heck : Brick, can you please read the minutes from our last meeting?

  Brick Heck : Last Thursday, Sue and Carly took the batteries out of your remote and put them in their karaoke machine, and you said, quote "No more friends over for twenty years" end quote.

  Mike Heck : You have meetings?

  Axl Heck : Hey, we're not just out in the yard breaking rocks. We're in the prison library trying to figure out how to bust out of this joint.

• Brick Heck : [reading]  "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. "A few miles south of Soledad the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside - "

  Axl Heck : You can't read every word. Just give me the highlights. And keep an ear out for when the mice come in. I think they're gonna be important.

• Sue Heck : I really thought it was in there. Maybe someone stole it.

  Axl Heck : Yeah, there's a band of nerds running around stealing nerd jackets, selling them to nerds in Russia. You gotta be more responsible. Brick! Read my book!

  Brick Heck : Aw, somebody at the ranch is giving Lennie a puppy. Man, he just killed it.

• Brick Heck : Lennie's freaking out because he killed the puppy. Now Curly's wife is trying to calm him down. She's letting him stroke her hair. It's working. He's calming down. Oh, he just snapped her neck.

• Axl Heck : How did I ask Weird Ashely to prom again? How?

  Brick Heck : Good news. Lennie just escaped.

  Axl Heck : She must have put some kind of spell on me. I bet she took one of my hairs from our bathroom.

  Brick Heck : Now Curly's organizing a mob, and they're going after him.

  Axl Heck : She's the weirdest girl in school and probably a witch, and now I'm going to prom with her two years in a row. I might as well marry her and get it over with 'cause it's not like I've got a choice in the matter.

  Brick Heck : He and George are hiding by a pond. Lennie's flipping out, but George is telling him about the rabbits. He says they're going to live on a farm and raise the rabbits. Lennie's hugging him.

  Sue Heck : Aw.

  Brick Heck : Curly and the boys are getting closer. George is pulling out a gun.

  Axl Heck : Whoa. He's gonna fight off the bad guys?

  Brick Heck : He just shot Lennie in the back of the head!

  Sue Heck : What?

  Axl Heck : No way!

  Brick Heck : This shouldn't be called "Of Mice and Men". It should be called "Of Men Killing Other Men"!

• Brick Heck : Aah! The moth went in my ear! Get it out! Get it out!

  Axl Heck : Really?

  Brick Heck : I can hear it flapping.

  Axl Heck : Oh. Ugh.

  Sue Heck : Everything's going to be fine, Brick.

  [to Axl] 

  Sue Heck : If it goes in his brain, he's dead.

  Brick Heck : What? Why is this happening to me?

  Axl Heck : It's Ashley! I told you she's a witch. She turned herself into a moth, and now she's going after my brother!

  Brick Heck : Ahh! It's burrowing!

  Axl Heck : Just stay calm.

  [to Sue] 

  Axl Heck : I need scissors and matches.

  Brick Heck : Ahh!