The Middle (TV Series)

Royal Wedding (2011)

Charlie McDermott: Axl Heck

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Quotes 

• Frankie Heck : This is the Super Bowl times a million, plus crowns; so nobody relapse. Not this weekend.

  Mike Heck : Frankie, I got some bad news. We're not British.

  Axl Heck : Yeah, we won the Civil War, so we don't have to care.

• Frankie Heck : She's arriving in a car as a commoner, but she leaves in a carriage as a princess.

  Axl Heck : Princess of what? Seriously, is she even allowed to behead people?

• Mike Heck : Come on, Frankie, lighten up.

  Frankie Heck : No! You lighten up! All you've done this past week is smirk and laugh and make fun of me. And what have I done for you? Wipe your snot, carry your vomit, take you sneaker shopping 'cause your old ones weren't awesome enough. How dare Mom ever want anything for herself. To celebrate that a girl could start the day as a commoner and end it as a princess. "Oh, ha-ha. It's stupid. It doesn't matter." Well, it matters to me! Yeah. And I don't have to explain it or justify it to any of you. That's right, there's no historical significance. I just think it's pretty!

  Mike Heck : Jeez, Frankie, calm down. You're getting all bloodshot.

  Frankie Heck : Oh no. You just don't get the needs of the common people, do you, Mike? Pretzels aren't important, royal weddings aren't important. Oh no, not like football! Do I talk smack about all this Colts stuff that you get? No. But I buy one little plate and suddenly,

  [flings hand, plate shatters] 

  Frankie Heck : I'm crazy, I'm obsessed...

  [tearfully leaves] 

  Axl Heck : God, who knew she cared so much about the royal wedding? She should have said something.