Frankie (Patricia Heaton) begins the episode by looking under the sofa for the Halloween candy she bought in March but hid from herself so she wouldn't eat it all. Yet, she still can't find it. Instead, the Hecks will be handing Easter eggs that Frankie put behind the frosting, thinking that by the time she was done with the frosting, she would be too sick for the eggs and she was right.
Sue (Eden Sher) needs money for college and has even created a suemometer to measure her earnings and so far she's not doing great despite having a job serving potatoes to people. So she comes up with an awesome plan that screams Halloween, showing It's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in a pumpkin patch. Brad (J. Brock Ciarlelli) loves the plan while Courtney and Debbie (Brittany Ross and Natalie Lander) spin it into their own idea. They will show Poltergeist in a graveyard. Now, to no one's surprise, people don't come to Sue's gig. Of course Brad shows up but after pulling on Sue's heartstrings with his plea on how much time he spent on his costume, she lets him go. But Sue doesn't give up. And, luckily, finally someone shows up. He (Jerry Hardin) couldn't figure out his TV because it had too many buttons. He even donates fifty dollars to her cause though she insists he doesn't have to. Despite this bust, she thinks that her plan for earning money is totally doable. She's crazy, but whatever.
Brick (Atticus Shaffer) invites his friend Cindy (Casey Burke) over to the house just to hang out and to Mike (Neil Flynn) and Frankie's shock, it seems to be working at first. They even put their arms around each other in an awkward fashion. But then, for some bizarre never explained reason, Brick goes trick-or-treating. Apparently, he did ask Cindy but she didn't want to go, so he went without her. Once he arrives home, his parents lecture him on how he should behave around women and how he must be chivalrous. What I didn't like is that, according to the Hecks, that means the man never gets to have his way. And it never ends.
Axl (Charlie McDermott) doesn't have that much to do but he is brilliant nevertheless. He needs to write a paper about Pearl Harbor and thinks that watching the movie is a great way to review. At his parents insistence, he goes to the library and finishes the paper with two whole minutes to spare. But then, he is locked in. This focuses him to spend some time alone, bonding with the Shakespeare sculpture that he calls LeBron. He's never been alone before, which scares him and he's worried about his future. He doesn't know about business and that's his major. But luckily, he falls asleep and then goes home to eat leftover Halloween candy and contemplate his future. Frankie and Mike assure him that he doesn't have to figure out his future right now; he's only a sophomore after all.
This was still a great episode, though the Halloween plots were quite odd and it bothered me that Brick never told anyone that he actually changed his mind. And Sue is always optimistic which is nice but unrealistic especially over something as unobtainable as college is for her but Axl actually wasn't annoying for once so there is improvement somewhere. Grade: A-
Side Notes:
-Cindy has an older sister and doesn't know what her parents do for a living. She's odd, maybe even odder than Brick which is really saying something.
-Brad's costume is fantastic. He's half Sandy, half Danny, from Grease, of course, and it took him eight hours to piece together that costume.
-Axl assumes that Shakespeare was a feather salesman because he was holding a feather in his hand.
-Axl can't dial the phone in the library because it is a rotary phone, ancient to him. A great gag scene.
-Where the heck is Darrin? He lost boyfriend points for not showing up to Sue's picture show, regardless of how stupid the whole thing was.
-Cindy only wants to eat shrimp, so Mike goes to Frugal Hoosier to buy some and they must be eaten within the hour. Unfortunately, after that whole ordeal, she only eats one of the shrimp.
-At the end of the episode, the family quizzes Brick on what he should do while waiting at a girl's house for her to get ready, he finally says that he should talk to her parents. He can't believe that that is the right answer, that was just his joke answer.
-Courtney and Debbie even dare to have kettle corn at their movie showing.
-Axl finishes his paper with a Ben Affleck quote.
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