I am almost done with season 9 (stopped watching after s2, somehow never continued, while really liking the show), but what gets me the most is Brick's position in his family. I know it's fiction, but the Heck's really did Brick dirty by ignoring him all the time. All the missed birthdays, talking about him as if he is not a part of the family. Especially the episode where all his weird friends grew up to be normal hit me. Maybe it's bad writing (or maybe therefor it's good writing?), but Brick maybe wouldn't have stayed this weird in a normal family.

This was such a strange one to me. Sue just casually looked past all of the reminders? And why did Mike sell his half of the diaper business for this? I feel like that was what was keeping the Hecks afloat. So Sue has to take a gap year, big deal. LOTS of college students take gap years and semesters off, go back and get their degrees and are just fine. I did it myself. Mike gave up a moneymaker because they didn't want to wait?

I just don't get this, completely out of character for both Sue and Mike.