They JUST had the house cleaned and Brick knock over a gallon of OJ. Instead of racing over to stop it from spilling completely out they just watch it spill on the floor. Then they do NOTHING to clean it up.
6% of scientists are republican. Scientists have no explanation why that number is so high
Yeah, that was pretty frustrating to watch. I wondered if they were just so "broken down" at that point, they stopped caring about anything. But that explanation doesn't seem to work here.
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shareWhile that is true that this is a TV show. That was perhaps the DUMBEST moment ever filmed for the small screen. There was nothing funny or entertaining about that scene.
6% of scientists are republican. Scientists have no explanation why that number is so high
That was perhaps the DUMBEST moment ever filmed for the small screen.
Have you never had a day or a time where you feel so defeated that when something like that happens you don't even feel like moving? You feel like "What's the point of hurrying to clean it up?"
What the hell should she feel "defeated?" About what?
Cripes, sometimes I wonder if you people even watch the show.
Frankie sees into her future and knows that the house will quickly end up just as dirty as it has always been. She can't win. That's the point. How can you people not get that? This isn't Heart of Darkness with some deep, esoteric symbolism. It's fairly simple to understand.
She has two kids in college, and it never cost her a single dime.
Maybe this was another case of wasting large amounts of food on ABC sitcoms! I wrote up the following in another board, in a thread about connections, like using the same story, between the different series:
Yes - the one that has made the biggest impression on me is throwing away large amounts of food. Beverly Goldberg's Thanksgiving test turkey - the look on Barry's face when she dropped it in the garbage after he tasted it and pronounced it delicious! On Modern Family, Claire threw away a bunch of fancy sandwiches her assistant had made for her family, because she decided she was cheating by having him secretly do things she felt she should be doing along with her new responsibilities at work. In an earlier episode she threw away a whole batch of cupcakes when she realized her daughter had tricked her into doing all the work for her to take to school. On Fresh Off the Boat the dad threw away a whole pot of chili, preparing for a cookoff. And on the O'Neals the older son threw away a huge plate of food he had just been served at a church supper, after breathing in a deep whiff of the aroma - I don't remember why (not because there was anything wrong with the food).
I read an article about how pay TV shows (I only see broadcast TV with an antenna) are one-upping each other with shocking content (like rape and incest, apparently) and thought maybe broadcast TV was trying to be more shocking in their own way.
When I was writing this the other day, I couldn't think of a case on The Middle because they usually only have a little food around at a time. But now that I think of it, the Thanksgiving episode, when they ate all of the Donahues' food, could be seen as a slow motion abuse of a large amount of food.
I don't think Frankie and Brick are mental.
shareThe writers did it to shock the audience, and it worked!
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