The Middle2009

Frankie Heck:
Axl's eating broccoli now, and that's how it starts. She tells him to eat broccoli, so he does. Then she tells him what friends he can have, what college he should go to. He should go to a college near her, so he moves there and when he does, she breaks up with him again. Then she takes him back and they get married and have kids, and then she gets bored, which is her pattern. So then they get divorced, and Axl's living in our basement, and she's moved with the kids to Florida because that's where her parents have retired. And they get to see the grandkids all the time and get to be called Nana and Pop-Pop and we have to be boring Grandma and Grandpa, and we only get to see them once a year and when we try to hug them, they're all stiff and awkward because we're strangers to our own grandkids.

Mike Heck:
And it all starts with broccoli?

Frankie Heck:
It all starts with the broccoli.

Mike Heck:
I think you worry too much.

Frankie Heck:
I have a right to be worried. Our grandkids live in Florida.