Christmas Quotes Page 3 of 4
Enjoy holiday quotes from Christmas episodes of The Middle.
Quote from Brick in Not So Silent Night
Brick: Well, since it's an iconic family Christmas photo, I assume you won't need me in it.
Frankie: We left you off of one Christmas card. You were a baby. We made it up to you. Move on.
Quote from Brick in The Christmas Wall
Brick: Fake trees are weird. They don't smell like Christmas.
Axl: If being weird was a reason not to take things home, we would have left you at the hospital.
Brick: [sighs] You did.
Mike: Hey, Axl, I'm going to the mall. Did you do your Christmas list?
Axl: Cash, a cell phone, and to be left alone.
Quote from Axl in The Christmas Tree
Frankie: Oh, come on, Axl. We have to see you tomorrow. We were all gonna get the tree and decorate it as a family.
Axl: Yeah, that's a definite no.
Frankie: Uh, that's a definite yes.
Axl: What?
Frankie: This is a family holiday. If you think you're gonna come home and blow off your family for the entire Christmas, you got another thing coming.
Axl: What? All of a sudden, Christmas is about family?
Quote from Sue in A Christmas Gift
Brick: I just don't get it. Why can't anybody answer my questions? I mean, I've found a lot of plot holes in here, and now I'm wondering if any of it's true.
Sue: Brick! Shh! [lowered voice] Lower your voice. Of course it's true.
Brick: Well, how can you be so sure?
Sue: It just is, okay? You should not be talking like this, especially around Christmas.
Brick: So many things don't make sense.
Sue: Hey. There's a lot of episodes of Glee that don't make sense, but I still cry. Okay. I know someone who can answer your Christmas questions. He always comes around this time of year, spreading joy and happiness wherever he goes, and kids wait in line just to see him.
Quote from Mike in A Christmas Gift
Mike: [lowered voice] Hey, Sue. Guess what? I bought your mom a new dishwasher for Christmas.
Sue: [screams]
Mike: Shh. Shh.
Sue: [lowered voice] Aah.
Mike: Now, see, I know I've got a history of giving bad presents, but...
Sue: Oh. You're the worst. Remember when you got mom that spoon rest that said "Queen of the Kitchen"? [chuckles]
Mike: Got it. I'm bad at presents, but this year I'm making up for it. I got it all planned out. I'm gonna get up in the middle of the night and hook up the dishwasher and put a big, red bow on it, and then in the morning, I'm gonna ask your mom to fix me a cup of coffee, and she'll say, "Are your legs broken?" And she'll gripe all the way to the kitchen, and that's when she'll see it. Mm. Good, huh?
Sue: [chuckles] Yeah!
Quote from Frankie in A Simple Christmas
Frankie: Oh, are you kidding? We got this stupid shower radio for Axl last Christmas, and look. He didn't even open it.
Mike: Good. We'll give it to him again. He won't remember.
Frankie: And this... I spent $20 for rush delivery so the kids could open it Christmas morning only to have them dump it down here Christmas night. Ugh.
Mike: You know what? Don't even tell me those things. It makes me kind of mad.
Frankie: Me, too. I mean, I drive myself nuts running around buyin' all this stuff for them, and for what, Mike? Really, for what?
Mike: Didn't you say you were looking for stockings?
Frankie: Yeah.
Mike: Ah. Here they are, in the Easter box. What the hell is that?
Frankie: It's the orange... The orange I put in their stocking every year, you know? 'Cause during the depression, the only thing that my grandma got in her stocking was an orange, but she loved it and it was enough. And that's why my mom put it in my stocking, we put one in our kids', 'cause I never want them to forget to appreciate something as pure and simple as an orange.
Mike: Look, you're always complaining about how hard Christmas is? What if we found a way to...
Frankie: to find the true meaning of Christmas again?
Mike: I-I was thinking spend less money. But that'd work, too.
Quote from Frankie in A Simple Christmas
Frankie: You know, look at it this way... After tonight, there's only 11 more days. [gasps] Oh, no. I only have 11 days until Christmas? I still have to shop for presents and find the stockings and finish the tree. Oh, my God! Oh, and if you go out, I need a present this big for Sue.
Mike: What are you looking for?
Frankie: It doesn't matter. I got Axl and Brick something this big, and it has to take up the same amount of floor space so it doesn't look like we have favorites.
Quote from Frankie in The Christmas Wall
Sue: Brick, Mom says she's not getting sucked into the trappings. Tell her she can't do that.
Brick: Is this 'cause you think the holiday should be more about Jesus?
Frankie: S-sure. That too. But right now, for me, it's just more about laying around and watching TV, eating my mom's fudge, and actually having fun at Christmas for once.
Axl: But you can't just, like, lay around all Christmas.
Frankie: Why can't I? You do it all the time. As a matter of fact... [removes her pants] Okay. There. Now, this is the way to relax. I think you're onto something, Axl.
Axl: Good god! Cover yourself!
Frankie: Stop it!
Axl: Aah!
Frankie: Let me enjoy my Christmas!
Quote from Mike in The Christmas Wall
Mike: I see you wrapped the presents.
Frankie: [sighs] Mike, I know it was an unconventional Christmas, but I got to say, I really enjoyed it.
Mike: Yeah, well, you needed a break. I'm just happy to see you happy.
Frankie: Aw. If there was mistletoe up, I'd kiss you.
Mike: Mm. [sighs] It's funny... for me, I always kind of enjoyed all the Christmas stuff.
Frankie: Hmm.
Mike: Didn't really get that in my house growing up. I mean, after my mom died, it was just a bunch of guys. Nobody was gonna decorate. [chuckles lightly] In fact... I didn't really ever celebrate Christmas until I met you. Anyway, I'm sure the kids will be up early. I'm gonna go to bed. [kisses Frankie and exits]
Frankie: [to herself] Aw, crap.