History Trivia / TheMiddle

* PlayingAgainstType: Patricia Heaton (Sue) played the ComicallySerious Deborah Barone on ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. Here? She's ''just'' as much the funny one as Mike and literally everyone else.

** A rare forgivable example in the cases of Axl since he actually looks much younger than his actual age. Even at the age of 23, the actor who plays Axl still looks like a teenager. Though the same can't be said for the actors who play Darren and Sean who both look like they're in their late 20s. It was even lampshaded in the episode where Sue wanted to date Darren with Mike objecting because "he's 18 and he looks 30![[note]]Darren's actor John Gammon was born in 1980, so he actually ''was'' thirty[[/note]]"

** A rare forgivable example in the cases of Axl since he actually looks much younger than his actual age. Even at the age of 23, the actor who plays Axl still looks like a teenager. Though the same can't be said for the actors who play Darren and Sean who both look like they're in their late 20s. It was even lampshaded in the episode where Sue wanted to date Darren with Mike objecting because "he's 18 and he looks 30!"

* [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim The Character Died With Her]]: Aunt Ginny. At the end of the third-season episode "The Map", which had begun with the Hecks coming back from her funeral, there was an InMemoriam to Frances Bay, the actress who had played her until her death several months earlier.

** When the show started, Axl is a high school freshman and he's played by a 19 year old. Sue, a seventh grader, has an 18 year old actress (Creator/EdenSher). Brick is supposed to be in second grade, but the actor playing him is 11 years old. To be fair, the actor playing Brick (Atticus Shaffer) has Type IV Ostogenesis Imperfecta (also known as brittle bone disease), which causes him to be a lot smaller than average.

* NamesTheSame: Brick is not a [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Rowdyruff Boy]].

* RealitySubtext:
** Plots in two episodes are based on events from the actors' real lives. Atticus Shaffer once went out for Halloween as the same obscure Scottish World War I hero Brick did in the first Halloween episode, and Patricia Heaton's family once hosted a Japanese exchange student who didn't say a word to them for two weeks—just like what happens in "Foreign Exchange".

* OutOfOrder: It seems that "The Wind Chimes" was aired out of order. In "The Walk", Darrin kisses Sue at the prom. Two episodes later, in "The Wind Chimes", Sue says that she and Darrin got back together after he kissed her at prom "last night", meaning "The Wind" Chimes was supposed to air directly after "The Walk".

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: When Axl finds Kenny a girlfriend, he impresses Kenny by telling him that she's "on level 5 of World of Warcraft". Not only is this not impressive, but it's also not how the game works. "Levels" are measurements of experience and, in WoW, level 5 can be easily achieved in under an hour by completing the introductory missions. The show's writers most likely thought that "levels" were stages like in a more traditional game, such as the ''Mario Bros.'' games.