The Middle2009

Sue Heck:
It's just... at my school, people don't always, you know, know who I am, and I've always been pretty okay with that. But now I'm in high school, and there's just all these boys. And the girls are different and the boys are different, and I'm just not on anybody's radar. And I don't know exactly why. Is it something I'm doing?

Mike Heck:
Uh, you know, maybe you could stop dressing like a third-grader.

Sue Heck:
Oh my God.

Mike Heck:
Oh no, Sue, I didn't-I didn't mean...

Sue Heck:
No, you're right. I get what you're saying.

Mike Heck:
You do?

Sue Heck:
Yeah! Yeah, you know, I-I've changed a lot on the inside; maybe my outsides haven't changed as much. I gotta bring my inner Sue out. Like when Beyonce became Sasha Fierce. Thanks, Dad.

Mike Heck:
Okay. Sure. [pauses] We can talk again. But if feels like we don't need to.