Things are happening in the Heck household. Poor Frankie's (Patricia Heaton's) ovaries are akin to wrinkled, dried up grapes so she's upset that she can't have another child. So Mike (Neil Flynn) decides that the solution is babysitting the neighbor's baby. Frankie isn't as happy as you would think, as she knows how much hard work babies are, plus, she didn't actually want another baby, she just wanted to have it as an option.
Brick (Atticus Shaffer) finally got his beloved font club to have activity status which means all the kids who come can have their community service credit. And he gets a challenging kid, Gibson (Cooper Roth) who acts all tough and actually knows his stuff and can randomly name fonts off the back of feminine hygiene products. In fact, Brick loses the club over their odd duel of naming the fonts quickest. But as it turns out, Gibson is only an eighth grader, forced to come over to the high school as that is where his mom works and she needs to give him a ride home, so Brick is once again, in charge of the club.
Axl (Charlie McDermott) is happy that his friend Sean (Beau Wirick) has come to visit, but he is most excited about taking a shower in Sue's (Eden Sher's) fancy steam shower. But Sue disappears when Lexie (Daniela Bodadilla) arrives, he literally leaves Sue hanging. The two (Sean and Lexie) get along splendidly and though Axl and Sean act like its fine, they are really grossed out but in the end, they decide not to pursue things further. Lexie feels that Sean is just like every other guy she's dated, someone who is squeaky clean and has their whole life figured out. She needs to date a bad boy, someone who is bumbling along like the rest of us. Sean merely doesn't want to continue their mutual chemistry because he will soon be starting medical school. So that problem is solved. And Sue comes to the conclusion that she needs to put herself out there more. Which is something that we all should do, but Sue will actually do it, unlike me.
In the end, Frankie calls Mike out, for getting the baby for himself as he is at peace sniffing the baby's little head. Then they take the baby for a ride in the car to get her to go asleep and reminisce over when they had done the same thing for their own kids, bringing them down memory lane. Needless to say, it makes them appreciate their own kids more.
While this was a good episode and gave Brick some interesting scenes, I found it odd that Lexie had completely forgotten that moment she and Axl had two episodes ago. But I'm glad this show can't go the route of basically every sitcom in the history of sitcoms, the main couple have a baby as the show gets boring. For this one, that is off the table. And it is nice seeing Mike and Frankie have a real talk, with feelings involved on both ends and also Sue and Axl got along, again, something that we should see more often. Grade: B+
Side Notes:
-Brick wants Cindy (Casey Burke) by his side as he makes his big announcement that he is resigning. She will do so, but it depends on what he says.
-Sean calmly informs Axl that if Axl had told him how hot Lexie was, he would have visited a lot sooner.
-Lexie knows the name Donohue name from all the care packages Mrs. Donohue sends to Sue. She scones are especially good, from the five pounds of butter she puts in them.
-Sue has taken to calling Mike to chat and mentions that she sometimes she feels special and other times, she doesn't. Mike doesn't feel special.
-Frankie believes that Sue calls him all the time is because she's not dating and he's sort of her boyfriend substitute. Mike has an appropriate grossed out face at that one.
-Axl had his own key to Sue's fancy apartment made, which could be an interesting subplot at some point.
-At first Mike doesn't even ask if the baby is a boy or a girl, but he isn't worried as they will find out eventually.
-Brad Paisley concert tickets are a good anniversary present, for the record.
-Susie Q is a very special snowflake.
-Even Brick knows about Frankie's shriveled ovaries as the walls are very thin in that house. Why am I not surprised?
-Brick needed to obtain some paper to see fonts in their natural form.
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