It is fall, almost autumn, according to April (Greer Grammer). Axl (Charlie McDermott) is still madly, hopelessly in love with her and is just the sweetest to her while he is pretty nasty to his family, telling Sue (Eden Sher) that dogs can't eat chocolate.
However, Sue has bigger problems. She is desperate to get her very own room back, but Brick (Atticus Shaffer) isn't budging. In fact, quite the opposite, he even put a chain lock on the door for even more privacy. Despite Sue's good points on why she should get her room back, Brick refuses, forcing Sue to take extreme measures which end badly for all involved. Mike (Neil Flynn) breaks down her door as the chain is latched and Brick shoves through the not-yet healed hole in Sue's room so now she has a huge hole in her wall. Mike is livid but Brick once again, pulls the pity card, saying that he has never had anything that belongs just to him. The family does feel sorry for him, though there are bigger fish to fry.
While carving pumpkins with April, Frankie (Patricia Heaton) rushes to protect her precious People magazines and Sue learns that Brad Pitt was once married to Jennifer Aniston but they divorced over the issue of children which leads to a discussion of who the Heck children would live with if Mike and Frankie ever got divorced. Needless to say, the kids say Mike without any hesitation. Frankie is hurt at the speed in which they said it.
While Frankie admits that the divorce discussion is hypotetical, her feelings were very real and so she storms out. On Halloween night Frankie is so angry that the family is just so cruel to her, making fun of her clapping visibly flinching whenever she puts her hands together that she leaves the house. But she's okay with her decision, even stopping by the Donohue's Bible-themed haunted house, a combination I never thought I would see, but it oddly works for them.
Frankie does return, only mildly reluctantly where she is greeted by April who told Axl that he should be nicer to Frankie as you only have one Mom. Mike is the only one still awake when Frankie gets in the door, with some donuts still remaining. She wonders what she is doing wrong and Mike tells her nothing, but that he wouldn't take the kids anyway in a divorce. I think he's only have joking.
The episode does end happily with Mike finding another matching chair down in the basement underneath a pile of junk and Brick is thrilled, he finally feels like he belongs in the family, and just think, it only took fourteen years.
While this episode was good and had some fun gags throughout, it lacked the emotional punch of last weeks. Still, there is never a false note when it comes to the acting or realism and the dialogue is always great. Grade: B+
Side Notes:
-The episode begins by the whole family staring in amazement as Axl and April are frolicking in the fall leaves.
-Sue is still twenty percent scared of ghosts.
-Axl tells Mike that he should force Frankie to be more organized.
-When April is carrying the pumpkin into the house, she runs into the glass sliding door twice before Axl opens it for her. The looks on Frankie's and Mike's face is priceless.
-Still, while Axl thinks that Brad Pitt played Thor, April miraclously corrects him and informs him that it was Chris Hemsworth.
-Frankie thinks her job is on to her stealing toilet paper.
-As Sue is still in Axl's room, he puts on one of her shirts.
-In addition to Brick refusing to give up Sue's room, he also steals the bowl for her cereal right out from under her.
-The kids don't know who Jerry Lewis is.
-When prompted, Brick almost starts writing a list on all of his problems with Frankie, but she wasn't serious.
-Mike eats crackers with sardines on them once a week. That sounds disgusting.
-April and Axl dress up as Cinderella and Prince Charming for Halloween. Axl isn't thrilled, but April wanted to pass out candy and he sucks it up for love. But April doesn't get Frankie's joke that April's car will turn into a pumpkin at midnight.
-Brick and Cindy (Casey Burke) are a bowling ball and bowling pin, which is very creative, only Brick stands Cindy up as he is more concerned with saving Sue's room for himself.
-Brick keeps a picture of Cindy on his nightstand.
-Even Mike is reading an issue of Frankie's magazine on trick-or-treat night.
-The names of the room still stands. Sue named her room Tina while Brick thought Santiago suited it better.
-Also, a good call-back to the other baby they brought home from the hospital.
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