The Middle – Season 1, Episode 21

G Sue auditions for show choir; Brick asks Frankie to come to his class presentation dressed in a costume; Frankie thinks she has finally sold a car.

G Facing financial disaster, Frankie tries to save her job, Sue fails swim team try-outs and learns she needs glasses, and Brick starts reading his mother's steamy romance novels.

G Frankie and Mike's romantic plans for their anniversary are thwarted by a sick Brick, a lovesick Sue, a learner's permit-toting Axl, two crazy aunts and their nappy-wearing dog.

G Frankie urges Sue to fight for her right to attend a class trip after making the grade by selling thousands of dollars' worth of sausage and cheese, and Brick gets his first girlfriend.

G After Brick's teachers tell his parents that he's socially challenged, Mike tries to help Brick make friends, while Frankie needs her son's coveted football jersey.

G Mike insists that only Axl fix the front door after he knocks it down, Frankie must sell a car within a week, and it's school picture time for a photogenically challenged Sue.

G Frankie must create the illusion of a picture-perfect family when an accident causing a small scratch on Brick leads a social worker to visit the Heck household.

G Frankie's dream of the perfect Thanksgiving turns into a nightmare when Mr Ehlert forces the staff to work on the holiday - and Axl loses Brick in a corn maze.

G Frankie vows to make her kids stop fighting with each other and interact as a loving family, while Mike contemplates firing Aunt Edie after she makes a costly mistake.

G Heck! It's Christmas! Rehearsing for the church's midnight mass, Frankie becomes jealous when it seems Mike is doing great at organising the family Christmas.