The Middle (season 7)

The seventh season of the television comedy series The Middle began airing on September 23, 2015, on ABC in the United States. It is produced by Blackie and Blondie Productions and Warner Bros. Television with series creators DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler as executive producers.

The Middle
Season 7
Region 1 DVD cover art
Starring	Patricia Heaton Neil Flynn Charlie McDermott Eden Sher Atticus Shaffer
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23) – May 18, 2016 (2016-05-18)
Season chronology

The show is about Frances "Frankie" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a middle-class, middle-aged Midwestern woman married to Michael "Mike" Heck (Neil Flynn) who resides in the small fictional town of Orson, Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer).

Cast

Main cast

• Patricia Heaton as Frankie Heck
• Neil Flynn as Mike Heck
• Charlie McDermott as Axl Heck
• Eden Sher as Sue Heck
• Atticus Shaffer as Brick Heck

Recurring

• Alphonso McAuley as Charles "Hutch" Hutchinson, Axl's football teammate and best friend at college. His full name is revealed this season.
• Tommy Bechtold as Kenny, Axl and Hutch's weird roommate, a hardcore gamer. He speaks for the first time in "Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death".
• Casey Burke as Cindy Hornberger, Brick's classmate, with whom he is in the early stages of a relationship.
• Brock Ciarlelli as Brad Bottig, Sue's best friend who comes out to her this season.
• Daniela Bobadilla as Lexie Brooks, Sue's closest friend at college who becomes her second roommate and is an incredibly kind rich girl.
• Jen Ray as Nancy Donahue, the Hecks' neighbor and friend.
• Pat Finn as Bill Norwood, the Hecks' neighbor and friend.
• Julie Brown as Paula Norwood, the Hecks' neighbor and friend.
• Beau Wirick as Sean Donahue, one of Axl's friends who is away at college. He shows up this season with a hipster look and claims he is now a vegan.
• Gia Mantegna as Devin Levin, Frankie's hairdresser's relative and Axl's college classmate/ex-girlfriend. They break up when Devin thinks they should see others.
• Brittany Ross and Natalie Lander as Courtney and Debbie, airheaded cheerleaders who dated Axl as one in high school.
• Paul Hipp as Reverend Timothy "TimTom" Thomas, a youth pastor at the Hecks' church.
• Jack McBrayer as Dr. Ted Goodwin, Frankie's boss at the dental office.
• Jovan Armand as Troy, Brick's tall, heavyset classmate who initially protects him at school, then becomes his friend.

Guest

• Norm Macdonald as Rusty Heck, Mike's brother.
• Brooke Shields as Rita Glossner, the Hecks' uncouth and troubled neighbor.
• Marsha Mason as Pat Spence, Frankie's mother.
• Faith Ford as Sheila, Frankie's co-worker at Heritage Village.
• John Cullum as "Big Mike" Heck, Mike's father.
• Cheryl Hines as Dr. Sommer Samuelson, head of the company that takes over Frankie's dental office.
• Alan Ruck as Jack Kershaw, Axl's boss at Little Betty.
• Brian Stepanek as Merv, Cindy's father.
• Lauren Drasler as LuEllen, Cindy's mother.
• Emily Rutherfurd as Dierdre Peterson, the Hecks' new neighbor.

Episodes

See also: List of The Middle episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
145	1	"Not Your Brother's Drop Off"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Tim Hobert	September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)	4X7101	8.21[1]
The Hecks face obstacles as they prepare to drop off Sue and Axl at college. Axl has an extra week before his classes begin and doesn't want to go with the family, but Sue insists because they all went with Axl two years ago. Frankie can't bring herself to cry like she did when Axl was leaving, while Mike shows his love for Sue by trying to teach her life lessons. Meanwhile, Brick starts eighth grade and is worried when Cindy says they should take their relationship to the "next level", as he has no idea what that is. Frankie finally realizes that she's not upset about Sue leaving; she feels more confident about Sue doing well on her own away from home than she did about Axl being on his own.
146	2	"Cutting the Cord"	Danny Salles	Rich Dahm	September 30, 2015 (2015-09-30)	4X7102	7.91[2]
A lonely Sue is texting Frankie at all hours because her dorm roommate still hasn't arrived on campus. Mike insists Frankie has to cut the cord with Sue, but when she does, Sue just starts texting Mike instead. Things get worse when the roommate shows up: Holly is a hard-partying junior with no interest in being studious. Meanwhile, Brick learns he has a protector at school, but gets a little creeped out when the boy starts following him around; and Axl and Hutch deal with a rash of ants in their apartment. Later, Axl invites Sue to have pizza with him and she is surprised to learn that Axl also missed home a great deal during his first couple of months on campus.
147	3	"The Shirt"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Jana Hunter & Mitch Hunter	October 7, 2015 (2015-10-07)	4X7103	7.30[3]
Mike and Frankie have dinner with the Norwoods, and Mike wears a Hawaiian shirt instead of one of his favored plaids. This causes surprise and shows new sides of Mike's personality, as he also buys a motorcycle. With Axl and Sue now in college, Brick realizes he's the only one who must do chores. He thus tries to clean the bathroom following instructions in a YouTube video, but ends up destroying the wall on one side of the bath. Sue is thrilled that she can sign up for whatever campus activity she likes. She goes to the activities fair with Devin Levin, telling her that Axl loves her and might even marry her one day. Devin gets scared and breaks up with Axl, who blames Sue and forbids her to talk to him. With the help of the a cappella choir she joins, Sue sings a song to Devin that suggests that Axl isn't really in love with her, Devin and Axl reconcile and agree that while in college they should just hang out and have fun.
148	4	"Risky Business"	Phil Traill	Ilana Wernick	October 14, 2015 (2015-10-14)	4X7104	7.12[4]
Mike helps his brother with his new business idea: printed "rivalry" disposable diapers, but Frankie fears it will be a failure. Sue comes home and visits Brad, who learns she'd been sleeping in her car because Holly's boyfriend is always in their dorm room. Brad and Sue pretend to be a couple to make Holly leave the room, but it doesn't work. Eventually Sue works up the courage to talk about this uncomfortable situation to her RA. Axl is back home and determined to convince his parents that he should be trusted to ride the new motorcycle. He starts doing 'dangerous' things to prove he knows how to be safe. Brick is glad his siblings are home so they can help him with chores and asks for Axl's help with his new desire -- being allowed to walk home alone from the library at night.
149	5	"Land of the Lost"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Roy Brown	October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)	4X7105	7.08[5]
Mike is mopey and upset but doesn't say why, so Frankie calls Reverend TimTom hoping he'll find out what is worrying Mike. It turns out Mike can't cope with Frankie turning 50, taking it as a sign they are both getting close to death. Sue organizes a tour of the East Indiana State campus for Brick. While walking Brick around, she meets Logan, whom she hasn't seen since prom. Logan asks her out, so Sue tells Brick to go to the library and wait for her, but of course she later loses him. She starts searching for Brick and is afraid she might not be able to see Logan, but he helps her look. Eventually, Sue finds Brick (it turns out there are 12 libraries on campus) but loses Logan. When Axl and Hutch try to complain to their landlord about the conditions at the rental house, they discover that they've been paying rent to a fake landlord. The real one evicts them, so Axl, Hutch, and Kenny temporarily move into the Hecks' home.
150	6	"Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death"	Elliot Hegarty	Tim Hobert	October 28, 2015 (2015-10-28)	4X7106	7.43[6]
Frankie is tired of having Axl, Hutch, and Kenny at home and hopes they can find a new place to live. Sue comes home for Halloween, so Frankie decides they can celebrate it together and plans to take revenge against Rita Glossner. Scared when someone dressed as Death knocks on the door and keeps standing in the garden staring at the house, Axl and friends eventually pack up and flee. Brick goes to the Orson Heights part of town with Mike to get better candy and learns that there is a woman named Cindy, married to a man who loves books, looks like Brick, and whose surname is Heck. All these strange coincidences make him think he is a time traveler. "Death" ends up being Cindy in costume, who was waiting in the yard for Brick to get home.
151	7	"Homecoming II: The Tailgate"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Ilana Wernick	November 11, 2015 (2015-11-11)	4X7107	7.62[7]
Sue returns home to head up an alumni group at Orson High's homecoming, but winds up being the hen mascot after learning that no current students want to do it. Frankie worries that her visiting mom will embarrass her at the tailgate party, only to have Sue become embarrassed of Frankie. Meanwhile, Mike loses his partner in the homecoming cornhole tournament when Axl gets sick, but he soon discovers that Brick is better at the game than his brother...as long as he's not playing in front of a crowd.
152	8	"Thanksgiving VII"	Elliot Hegarty	Rich Dahm	November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)	4X7108	7.93[8]
Frankie learns that her dentist office has been taken over by a chain and that it will be closed through the end of the year for renovations. She decides to get holiday work at her old standby, the Heritage Village, where she gets called out by co-worker Sheila (Faith Ford) for not taking her role seriously enough. Sue returns to pick up some hours at Spudsy's, mainly because she is hoping Logan will be working at the Abercrombie store (where they first met) over the holiday. Unfortunately, she later learns Logan went to visit family in Chicago instead. Axl meets Sean and some old high-school friends at a bar, where he laments his current situation at college and shocks everyone by crying. At home, a power outage ruins Mike's day of football-watching so he decides to teach Brick how to play poker. One by one, they are joined in the game by Sue, Axl, and Frankie as they return home from their tough days.
153	9	"The Convention"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Jana Hunter & Mitch Hunter	December 2, 2015 (2015-12-02)	4X7109	7.64[9]
Frankie is upset when Dr. Goodwin's office goes through the change of being taken over by a dental conglomerate. She is then forced to go to a convention in Des Moines, Iowa and ropes Mike into going with her, given that the trip's expenses are covered. While there, the two are excited to find that the hotel room has more bells and whistles than their house. They begin raiding the room's mini bar, ordering room service, and renting movies...then later learn that "extras" aren't covered in the convention expenses. Meanwhile, the household is not enjoying Axl's company. Sue has an extra bed in her dorm room and, much to her dismay, Axl begins staying there. Her attitude soon turns around when Axl's popularity gets her noticed by the other students who visit her room. After a night of partying with the visiting students and Axl, Sue oversleeps, misses a final exam, and vomits on her professor. Grandpa Big Mike is asked to babysit Brick while his parents are out of town, but Brick soon finds their roles reversed.
154	10	"Not So Silent Night"	Melissa Kosar	DeAnn Heline & Eileen Heisler	December 9, 2015 (2015-12-09)	4X7110	8.06[10]
Christmas Eve starts off well as the Hecks decide to skip church and relax while watching a service on TV. Sue takes a picture of the family wearing Santa hats that she wants to display on social media, but, in the process of uploading and doctoring the digital photo on the family's old computer, she accidentally deletes seven years of photos that Frankie never backed up or printed. This sends Frankie into a full breakdown as she also realizes she misplaced the family's analog photos.
155	11	"The Rush"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Roy Brown	January 6, 2016 (2016-01-06)	4X7111	7.84[11]
Sue desires to join a sorority. Though she is rejected by all of them, she is still happy when she becomes friends with a fellow reject, Lexie (Daniela Bobadilla). Frankie feels useless when she learns Brick went shopping by himself and bought a new pair of pants. Axl starts interviewing for internships and helps Mike learn to use social media for his diaper business.
156	12	"Birds of a Feather"	Victor Nelli	Tim Hobert	January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13)	4X7112	7.46[12]
Axl's first day as an intern at Little Betty isn't exactly what he thought: he gets assigned the "grunt" work. Frankie is no happier as she returns to work at Smile Sensations and doesn't like the changes. Mike later tells her that both she and Axl are natural-born complainers. Cindy tells Mike that she kissed another boy and insists that Mike tell Brick. Elsewhere, Sue's professor challenges her to be more of a critical thinker despite her optimistic outlook.
157	13	"Floating 50"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Rich Dahm	January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20)	4X7113	7.24[13]
Mike asks Axl and Brick to help him organize a belated party for Frankie's 50th birthday, but Brick is detained by Coach Tink who is convinced that she can turn him into an athlete. Sue becomes a laughingstock when she posts a note about her lost sock on a bulletin board at college.
158	14	"Film, Friends and Fruit Pies"	Blake T. Evans	Jana Hunter & Mitch Hunter	February 10, 2016 (2016-02-10)	4X7114	6.85[14]
Axl learns a secret from his boss at Little Betty that affects the regular staff, causing him to stress out. Lexie keeps buying expensive things for the dorm room and expecting Sue to pay half, although she never consults Sue on the purchases. At home, Brick must create a short video for a school project and gives Cindy and Troy the lead roles, then turns tyrannical and replaces them with Frankie and Brad.
159	15	"Hecks at a Movie"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Ilana Wernick	February 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)	4X7115	7.29[15]
The Hecks give Brick his first movie-theater experience, but the book-lover becomes outraged during the preview for an upcoming film based on the Planet Nowhere series. Meanwhile, Frankie becomes irritated at Mike after he "shushes" her when she interrupts Bill Norwood's story multiple times. Elsewhere, Axl and Sean reminisce about their first kisses; Sue reconnects with Logan, who says he's thinking of becoming a priest; and the photos that Sue accidentally deleted from the computer on Christmas Eve return, giving everyone some perspective.
160	16	"The Man Hunt"	Danny Salles	Roy Brown	February 24, 2016 (2016-02-24)	4X7116	7.30[16]
Trying to get over Logan, Sue goes to a college mixer with Lexie, but strikes out. She then gets flirting advice from Frankie...that only makes things worse. Axl and Hutch move into a motor home they bought at a police auction, but discover few places they may legally park it. Meanwhile, Brick returns from a friend's bar mitzvah and asks Mike about their Protestant family's own rites of passage into manhood.
161	17	"The Wisdom Teeth"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Stacey Pulwer	March 16, 2016 (2016-03-16)	4X7117	7.15[17]
When Axl and Sue have their wisdom teeth removed over spring break, Frankie cannot wait to shower the kids with affection. Meanwhile, Mike tries to derail Rusty's ex-wife Marlene from pursuing a lawsuit after Rusty claims that she came up with the idea for their diaper business. Elsewhere, Brick tries to enforce new household rules, and Axl regrets confessing his love and admiration for Sue during a delirious post-surgery spout that Brick happened to record.
162	18	"A Very Donahue Vacation"	Jaffar Mahmood	Rich Dahm	March 23, 2016 (2016-03-23)	4X7118	7.24[18]
After making a big sale in the diaper business, Mike treats the family to a vacation at Mammoth Cave and Frankie insists that the Donahues come along. Frankie gets a big head when both Nancy and Sean Donahue tell her she's a good mother. Later, the youngest Donahue daughter overhears Frankie calling Nancy "smothering" in a conversation with Mike and uses it to blackmail Frankie. Elsewhere, Axl uses Brick in a game of "jerk/no jerk" to pick up women, while Sue announces to Mike that she and Brad have landed summer jobs at Dollywood.
163	19	"Crushed"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Tim Hobert	April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06)	4X7119	7.04[19]
When Frankie, Mike, and Brick go out to dinner with Cindy and her parents, Cindy's family asks the Hecks for a substantial loan to save their home. Meanwhile, Sue develops a relentless crush on her college professor.
164	20	"Survey Says..."	Lee Shallat Chemel	Ilana Wernick	April 13, 2016 (2016-04-13)	4X7120	6.98[20]
Frankie visits Sue at college and meets Jeremy, Sue's new environmentalist/activist boyfriend. Sue and Jeremy proceed to insult Frankie for not caring enough about their various causes. Learning that Axl wants to quit football, Mike tries his best to dissuade him. Meanwhile, Brick labors over his answers to a customer-satisfaction survey regarding graph paper he bought online.
165	21	"The Lanai"	Blake T. Evans	Jana Hunter & Mitch Hunter	April 27, 2016 (2016-04-27)	4X7121	6.72[21]
Frankie is excited when Mike's co-workers build her a lanai, but finds she can't relax on it because new neighbor Dierdre (Emily Rutherfurd) has three noisy, rambunctious children. It's dorm lottery day and Sue and Lexie are nervous about the room they may get for the upcoming semester. When they get the most perfect room in the building, they are thrilled until the girls learn that the current resident is suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and needs the room more than they do. To be generous, Sue and Lexie decide to trade assignments, forcing them into one of the worst rooms available. Axl and Hutch start a business selling Kenny's grilled cheese sandwiches out of their RV on campus. Brick asks Mike if his "friends" can build him a new bookshelf after they finish the lanai. Mike says that's not fair to his friends, but Brick makes him realize that his co-workers only do nice things for him because he's their boss.
166	22	"Not Mother's Day"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Rich Dahm	May 4, 2016 (2016-05-04)	4X7122	7.02[22]
After a man behind her in line pays for her groceries, Frankie vows to pay the good deed forward. Having previously canceled Mother's Day, Frankie makes each member of the family do something nice for another by drawing names from a hat. Naturally, chaos ensues as the Hecks and visiting Pat (Marsha Mason) try to fulfill their promises.
167	23	"Find My Hecks"	Phil Traill	Roy Brown	May 11, 2016 (2016-05-11)	4X7123	6.73[23]
Home for summer vacation, Axl and Sue come home from a party at 2 A.M. and Frankie and Mike attempt to set a curfew for them. When they refuse and argue that they don't have a curfew while away at college, Frankie comes up with an idea that will let her know--without their knowledge--where both of them are at all times. Meanwhile, as middle-school graduation nears, Brick desperately tries to discover who he's up against for class valedictorian.
168	24	"The Show Must Go On"	Lee Shallat Chemel	Tim Hobert	May 18, 2016 (2016-05-18)	4X7124	6.73[24]
After almost forgetting that Brick's middle-school graduation is only days away, Frankie goes on a mission to right a wrong when Brick discovers that the song he was supposed to sing at the ceremony has been cut. Meanwhile, Sue needs to be at Dollywood to begin her summer job on the same day as Brick's graduation; and Axl takes a job as a country-club day-camp counselor and finds himself being mocked by a 10-year-old carbon copy of himself.

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	Total (18–49)
1	"Not Your Brother's Drop Off"	September 23, 2015 (2015-09-23)	2.1/8[1]	8.21[1]	0.9	3.0[25]
2	"Cutting the Cord"	September 30, 2015 (2015-09-30)	2.2/8[2]	7.91[2]	N/A	N/A
3	"The Shirt"	October 7, 2015 (2015-10-07)	2.0/7[3]	7.30[3]	0.9	2.9[26]
4	"Risky Business"	October 14, 2015 (2015-10-14)	2.0/7[4]	7.12[4]	0.8	2.8[27]
5	"Land of the Lost"	October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)	1.9/7[5]	7.08[5]	N/A	N/A
6	"Halloween VI: Tic Toc Death"	October 28, 2015 (2015-10-28)	2.0/7[6]	7.43[6]	0.8	2.8[28]
7	"Homecoming II: The Tailgate"	November 11, 2015 (2015-11-11)	2.0/7[7]	7.62[7]	N/A	N/A
8	"Thanksgiving VII"	November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)	2.1/7[8]	7.93[8]	0.8	2.9[29]
9	"The Convention"	December 2, 2015 (2015-12-02)	2.0/7[9]	7.64[9]	0.7	2.7[30]
10	"Not So Silent Night"	December 9, 2015 (2015-12-09)	2.0/7[10]	8.06[10]	N/A	N/A
11	"The Rush"	January 6, 2016 (2016-01-06)	2.1/7[11]	7.84[11]	0.8	2.9[31]
12	"Birds of a Feather"	January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13)	1.9/7[12]	7.46[12]	0.7	2.6[32]
13	"Floating 50"	January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20)	1.8/6[13]	7.24[13]	0.7	2.5[33]
14	"Film, Friends and Fruit Pies"	February 10, 2016 (2016-02-10)	1.8/7[14]	6.85[14]	0.8	2.6[34]
15	"Hecks at a Movie"	February 17, 2016 (2016-02-17)	1.9/7[15]	7.29[15]	N/A	N/A
16	"The Man Hunt"	February 24, 2016 (2016-02-24)	1.9/6[16]	7.30[16]	N/A	N/A
17	"The Wisdom Teeth"	March 16, 2016 (2016-03-16)	1.7/7[17]	7.15[17]	0.8	2.5[35]
18	"A Very Donahue Vacation"	March 23, 2016 (2016-03-23)	1.7/7[18]	7.24[18]	0.7	2.4[36]
19	"Crushed"	April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06)	1.7/6[19]	7.04[19]	0.7	2.4[37]
20	"Survey Says..."	April 13, 2016 (2016-04-13)	1.7/6[20]	6.98[20]	0.7	2.4[38]
21	"The Lanai"	April 27, 2016 (2016-04-27)	1.7/6[21]	6.72[21]	TBA	TBA
22	"Not Mother's Day"	May 4, 2016 (2016-05-04)	1.7/6[22]	7.02[22]	TBA	TBA
23	"Find My Hecks"	May 11, 2016 (2016-05-11)	1.6/6[23]	6.73[23]	TBA	TBA
24	"The Show Must Go On"	May 18, 2016 (2016-05-18)	1.6/6[24]	6.73[24]	TBA	TBA

Notes

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