The Middle: Life Skills

This episode was good, but not as good as they have been in the past.
There were three plots some of which deserved more time. A tree branch falls down and breaks the windshield of Frankie's car, but the insurance won't cover it, despite Frankie and Mike believing that it is an act of God, which would be covered. However, the insurance broker doesn't agree with this because the tree branch was not properly trimmed, so it's negligence instead. But God (aka the pastor at their church) comes through for them by allowing the Hecks to borrow the crazy Church van if they take the seniors to get their hair down on Wednesday. Frankie looks on the bright side, "at least it has a windshield."
Then Brick has to meet the equally socially awkward guidance counselor who gives him some bad tips to make friends of his own age, but these tips don't really work. This coming from the guidance counselor who didn't have a girlfriend until he was thirty, yikes. But Brick gets the better of him, stating that he doesn't need to have friends of his own age because he has friends such as the librarian and to the counselor's delight, Brick, despite everything, considers him to be a friend. In the end, Brick tries to make friends so the counselor can keep his job. He's just doing him a solid.
The main plot is the one that was entertaining but also ludicrous. Axl finds Sue to be in his life skills class which upsets him massively. It becomes worse when they are left without partners on a project because Sue (being typical Sue) was unable to find a partner and Axl was too busy tying his shoes together to find one. Sue begins immediately working on the project while Axl creates new ways to waste time. Then on the morning of the project, Sue discovers that she tragically grabbed the wrong bag, meaning all the hard work she did will go to waste. She is devastated. However, Axl comes through. Because he has done stuff for other people, including setting this one guy up with this girl, Axl is able to get everything he needs for the project, including getting this one guy to hack into Sue's computer to obtain the necessary papers. The project is a success and Sue is shocked that everything worked out. Although this was hilarious, it stretched the limit of the truth, though this show has often done that in the past.
Though the acting was once again great as it always is in this show because Sue's face can tell the whole story itself, the story line was not that good. This is probably one of the weakest episodes of this season. They need to bring Axl's girlfriend back, stat. Grade: B