Frankie Quote #8
Sue: Oh. I'm thinking maybe I won't try out for show choir... if you guys don't think I should.
Frankie: [v.o.] Of course she shouldn't. Show choir in Indiana has always been huge. Next to basketball, its combination of singing and Broadway-caliber choreography is the most cutthroat competition around. I didn't want to see her get hurt, but then I looked at her young and shiny face not beaten down yet by busted dryers and mean bosses with guns...
Frankie: Go for it.
Mike: Hmm?
Sue: You really- You really think so?
Frankie: [v.o.] No.
Sue: Dad?
Mike: This could be your year.
Sue: Okay! Cool.
Frankie: [v.o.] We are so screwed.
The Middle Quotes
‘Pilot’ Quotes
Quote from Brick
Brick: You have a meeting with my teacher Monday.
Frankie: What?
Brick: It's imperative that you both be there, she says. [whispers] Imperative!
Mike: Who's he whispering to? Why does he do that? I thought I told you to knock that off.
Brick: I like it. It soothes me.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Oh, damn it. Come on! Can you hear me?
Frankie: [v.o.] Some people call this the middle of nowhere... You know, one of those places you fly over on your way from somewhere to somewhere else, but you wouldn't live here.
Airline Steward: Folks, right now we're flying over the great state of Indiana, if you'd like to take a look. [nobody looks]
Frankie: [v.o.] Well, look down next time, and you'll see us down here in the middle... Orson, Indiana, heart of the heartland, proud home of Little Betty Snack Cakes, the demolition derby for the homeless and the world's largest polyurethane cow. So how'd I end up in the middle of the road in this getup?
Frankie: Here? No. Bars! I got bars.
Frankie: [v.o.] Guess it all started a couple of weeks ago, and no, I'm not an actual superhero, not unless you count getting my kids out the door for school every morning.
Quote from Mike
Mrs. Rettig: Well, that may be because you haven't spent much time here in the classroom.
Mike: Are we supposed to? I mean, isn't that the point of school. That between 8:00 and 3:00, he's your problem? If he, you know, eats his napkin at dinner, we don't call you and ask you to come over to our house. [chuckles]