The Middle: The Safe

I am so mad, but I'll get to that later. First of all, this episode was a repeat but I have not really reviewed it yet, so I'll do that now.
Axl is still upset at Sue for running over his foot with a car and it doesn't help that his chances of getting into college is growing dimmer by the moment. His parents arrange for him to get a tutor at the school. In the meantime, Frankie is also returning to school for dental assisting. Also, Sue gets Brick snacks for his social skills club. Some plots work out better than others.
For Sue and Brick, they have money left over from getting the snacks and see a yard sale (who has a yard sale in the middle of the week?). They find an antique and buy it so they can flip it and help contribute to the household. Then they find a safe and Brick insists on buying it because well, who knows what is in it? It takes some time, but they finally open it, only it comes at a cost. There is now another hole in Sue's wall, right where the old hole used to be. And nothing important nor interesting is in the safe. The rental car receipt isn't from Gerald Ford after all, but from some guy named Gerard Furd and they make little money from it.
Frankie is not having a good time at her school. She shows up late and is ill-prepared for the class as she doesn't have a lap top. Her teacher (Jane Kaczmarek) is also out to get her.  The next day, she brings cookies which makes the teacher only angrier, telling the class that Frankie doesn't respect the tooth. She proceeds to turn Frankie into the guinea pig and uses her as the example patient for the other students to pock around in her month.
Axl gets a tutor, Cassidy Finch (Galadrial Stineman) but they got off on the wrong foot. Axl doesn't want to be there and doesn't like that Cassidy doesn't care about football. She completely doesn't care and he's never met anyone like that before. And Axl certainly doesn't devote enough time to his studies. When Cassidy insults him, he realizes this but tells her that she needs to use smaller words, making her point. But then for the next meeting, Cassidy states plainly that God doesn't give with both hands and then proceeds to explain the Bay of Pigs better than most history teachers (luckily mine explained it well). Axl, then, kisses her on the lips and she immediately leaves the room, giving a little smile as she shuts the door behind her. As my friend put it, "I can't tell if she's angry or happy about it." We'll get the answer.
Needless to say, both Frankie and Axl are not prepared for the big tests that they have the next day and Mike sits down to help both of them study. And then Frankie takes the wrong medication and gives some to Axl, so yes, she drugged her son, but not the illegal kind.
In the end, Axl wrote down the answers on Frankie's arm and her teacher encourages her to quit. Frankie says that she has been a lifelong quitter and will probably quit, but will most certainly do it on her own terms.
Axl apologizes to Cassidy and says that it was a lame thing to do. Cassidy said that it was pleasant but because she has a boyfriend in college, the point was moot.
In the end, when Frankie is helping Mike fix the house, she puts her new knowledge to good use and Sue and Brick hit another yard sale, having not learned from the first one.
Now to the reason why I am mad and will never read spoilers again. For the longest time, I was convinced that Cassidy made up the fact that she had a college boyfriend. He was conveniently never named and she did do a good amount of flirting with Axl, especially in the Thanksgiving episode, but apparently I was wrong as they are currently casting that role for an upcoming episode. I am SO mad. Sorry if I ruined anyone's lives but I've learned my lesson and will never do something like that again.
Okay, sorry for my rant, and back to The Safe. This was a decent episode, mainly because it introduced us to the wonderful Cassidy, but I hated the subplot that dealt with the safe as it didn't really highlight the talent of Sue and Brick who are normally much funnier and better utilized than that. Grade: B+