Line #34 WMG/TheMiddle


1	[[WMG: Brick isn't as short as the actor who plays him.]]
2	Episodes like "Hecks vs. Glossners: The Final Battle" make it clear that Frankie is an UnreliableNarrator. While Brick is often said to be very short, his height is never suspected to be the result of a medical problem. It's also never said in the latter seasons that his mother or his sister is taller than him. In "Man Hunt" Brick also says that a male friend of his, who is just one year younger than him, is several inches shorter than him. Atticus Shaffer is 4'8" due to osteogenesis imperfecta. However, it's possible that Brick's height at the age of 16 is something like 5'3", which is well below the average for an American man, but possibly not unique in Frankie's family, which is said (and sometimes shown) to be relatively short.
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4	[[WMG: Kenny talks every day - Axl and Hutch just don't remember that.]]
5	While Kenny spends most of his time playing video games and never talking, it's possible that he is a professional player and avoids talking while he is playing because every word can be misinterpreted by his teammates and make them react in a way that can make them lose the match. In "Man Hunt" Kenny tells Frankie that Axl and Hutch know about his "complex" family situation, which they don't seem to remember hearing about. It's possible that most of Kenny's conversations with Axl and Hutch occur late at night, after Kenny finishes playing for the day, but Axl and Hutch are too tired or drunk to remember them the day after.
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7	[[WMG: Mike knew where the family photos were.]]
8	In "Not So Silent Night" he doesn't seem to worry that the photos are lost and even discourages the kids from looking for them. At the end of the episode, he [[spoiler:brings the photos to Frankie as a Christmas gift]]. Why is that? Because he [[spoiler:forgot to get her a gift, and the only way to pass something she already has as a gift is to make her think she has lost it]].
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10	[[WMG: There will be a crossover with {{The Goldbergs}}]]
11	Axel will screw up badly and trick Brick into reading a ton of physics and engineering books, then get him to build a time machine. Brick will screw up due to lazy designing and they will get sent to the '80s.
12	* [[spoiler:Mostly jossed. Barry makes a cameo in "Operation Infiltration" as an April Fools' joke.]]
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14	[[WMG: Sue's going to be the most successful of the three]]
15	Y'know how Karma's a bitch, right? Well, it works the other way around when you're pretty much the biggest ChewToy ever.
16	** And then in college she will run into Malcolm. After realizing they are {{Opposite Sex Clone}}s they will join forces to fight crime.
17	*** That would be an awesome TV show.
18	* If "successful" means professionally, then the finale [[spoiler:josses this theory, as Brick is the most successful]].
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20	[[WMG: The whole series is actually a TV show created by...]]
21	...an adult [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Dewey]]. In order to cope with the insanity of his childhood, he decided to create a whole series based around it. Of course, he changed a few things like the names (he even wrote a daughter in!) as not to embarass his real family.
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24	[[WMG: Brick is autistic.]]
25	He does seem to manifest some of the characteristic signs of Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.
26	** The Blog/FireBlogger would be proud.
27	* Mostly [[spoiler:jossed. While still weird, in latter seasons he doesn't seem to be autistic.]]
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29	[[WMG: After Brad finally realizes he's gay]]
30	Sue will gladly become his FagHag slash BFF.
31	* [[spoiler:Confirmed!]]
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33	[[WMG: Brad is CampStraight, but straight nonetheless]]
34	Because not everyone who's camp with feminine interests is gay. Plus, he's never shown any attraction to males in the show, and has dated more than one girl. He's just a very extreme CampStraight
35	** [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} by the season 7 episode "Risky Business".]]
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37	[[WMG: [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Dewey]] and his youngest brother had created The Middle]]
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39	Dewey and Jamie bonded their minds just as the series was over, entering a polar opposite of both family and friends. Dewey developed into Brick while Jamie matured into Axl. Reese's prank was a mark elaborated by Dewey and Jamie to choose who exists in this new universe. Sue is Lois as a child who's actually happy. Mike the perfected version of Hal. Frances is a younger Aida, a perpetually young woman chosen to happen because of Aida's attempt to rescue Dewey.
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41	[[WMG: Zach Braff will appear as Mike's nemesis.]]
42	He'll be an immature, obnoxious rival construction site owner. Why? Because both Doris Roberts and Ray Romano have appeared in ActorAllusion cameos for Patricia Heaton. It'd be funny if Neil Flynn got the same.
43	** Seriously! This has got to happen!
44	*** Even better, have Mike moved to the night shift and get tortured by the night Janitor, played by Zach Braff.
45	* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]
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47	[[WMG: The [[JerkAss Glossners]] are how the rest of their neighbours see [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Malcolm's]] family]]
48	Sons terrorise at will? Check. Social pariahs? Check. Mother often hostile? Check! Their ages are even roughly representative of Malcolm and his brothers, minus Francis but with Jamie. Of course, they're not really [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold that bad,]] but they're still as rightly feared.
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50	[[WMG: Axl's [[TheAllegedCar '75 Ford Torino]] used to be Series/StarskyAndHutch's car.]]
51	It could've been repainted blue, possibly sometime in the early '80s which would've left plenty of time for the blue to deteriorate.
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53	[[WMG: Brick deliberately plays up his VerbalTic.]]
54	Somehow, Brick's big brain gave him psychic/telepathic powers (NinetyPercentOfYourBrain illogical-ness aside) and he learned, from listening in on his parents' thoughts, that he was accidentally switched into the wrong family for a few weeks. Ever since then, he has lost his ability to trust anyone, and he therefore finds himself unwilling to form any social relationships with anyone, preferring the sheer escapism of books. In an effort to drive people away, he started repeating the last words he said, so people will want to leave him alone. [[note]]leave him alone...[[/note]] Just watch him with his new tic in "Bunny Therapy" [[note]]WHOOP![[/note]] and tell me it doesn't look like he's doing it on purpose to dick around with everyone. It also has the added bonus of making his parents wonder what they did wrong with him...and then they remember, thus they are guilted forever. Brick, you are an evil genius.
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56	[[WMG: Alternativelly, Brick is a [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry voyager witch]] and his {{verbal tic}} plays an important role when travelling fragments]]
57	He is an unimeko!witch or he's used as a piece by a witch (much like the way Bernkastel and Erika Furudo are related) and his verbal tic functions similarly to a savestate on a videogame [[note]]videogame[[/note]] so if something goes REALLY wrong he can just go back to that point instead going to a different fragment entirelly. At one point Mike outright told him to repress his "tic" and the moment he couldn't hold it anymore he did it a lot of times in a row claiming to be stuck, but that was his unconsicious mind (or the witch using him as a piece) desperatelly using savestates after a meta form of {{CheckPointStarvation}}. During the "Bunny Therapy" episode his new verbal tic[[note]]WHOOP[[/note]] was him trying a new utility spell (like Maria's Uuu sound was meant to be a spell to summon happiness).
58	His abuse on his "verbal tic" as a savestate spell may be the reason he's a bit of a {{karma houdini}}.

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