Guest Star: Dierk Torsek
You are viewing a list of Dierk Torsek's 11 appearances on The Middle.
Christmas
Season 1, Episode 10 - Aired December 9 2009With Frankie practising a solo she'll be singing at Midnight Mass, Mike takes over the Christmas preparations.
Appeared as Reverend
The Final Four
Season 1, Episode 19 - Aired March 31 2010Mike's wishes come true when Mr. Ehlert offers him two tickets to the final four, but unluckily for Mike the game is the same day as the funeral for Frankie's uncle.
Appeared as Reverend
TV or Not TV
Season 1, Episode 20 - Aired April 14 2010When the Hecks are advised to cut out cable TV, Mike and Frankie struggle to find new activities, while the kids quickly find new things to do.
Appeared as Reverend
Foreign Exchange
Season 2, Episode 5 - Aired October 20 2010Frankie convinces Mike and the kids that the Heck family should host a foreign exchange student from Japan to expose him to life in an average American family. But the Hecks become frustrated when the student shows no sign of interest whatsoever in the family.
Appeared as Reverend
Valentine's Day II
Season 2, Episode 14 - Aired February 9 2011As Valentine's Day approaches, Frankie becomes elated when elusive son Axl asks her to accompany him to help pick out a present and choose a restaurant to impress his mysterious new girlfriend - who may be way out of his league. Meanwhile, Mike inadvertently spills the beans about Brick's crush on fellow student Autumn, which totally humiliates his extremely shy son; and having neglected to get a name or email address, Sue begins a diligent search for the boy she kissed during a Halloween hayride.
Appeared as Reverend
Get Your Business Done
Season 3, Episode 20 - Aired April 11 2012When the Hecks attend a new church, Frankie is inspired by the pastor's sermon about getting one's business in life completed before death rears its ugly head. So she makes it her mission to ensure that her family puts it into practice. To that end, Mike wants to thank his dad for being there for him and his brother after their mom died, Sue starts up her own baby-sitting service, and Brick thinks a new bed will meet the requirement, while Axl believes that helping Brick get his new bed will fulfill his. But Frankie finds it difficult to figure out what it is that she should be doing to fulfill her own life's destiny.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver
The Wedding
Season 3, Episode 24 - Aired May 23 2012Frankie and Mike are surprised to receive an invitation to Mike's brother Rusty's (Norm Macdonald) fast approaching wedding. But their surprise turns to panic when they discover that he has listed the Heck house as the site of the ceremony. Meanwhile, Axl and his friends decide to become their own bosses and set out to form their own company to garner summer jobs, and Brick is upset with Mike when he finally accepts an invitation to a fellow student's party but is not allowed to go because it falls on the same day as the wedding.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver
Life Skills
Season 4, Episode 11 - Aired January 9 2013Axl is shocked to discover that he and Sue are enrolled in the same Life Skills class. And things only get worse for the Ax-Man when he is assigned to work with his sister on a big class project. Meanwhile Brick's school therapist, Dr. Fulton, tries to teach him how to reach out to his fellow students in order to make some friends; and Frankie and Mike find themselves dealing with an unreasonable insurance company after they discover a tree branch has fallen and broken the windshield of Frankie's car.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver
The Potato
Season 5, Episode 3 - Aired October 9 2013After Frankie and Mike are forced to return the church van when it's discovered that their car has been repaired, Sue - who has been driving the other car - begins to freak out because she'll have to start taking the bus again. But when her parents tell her that she could get her own car if she got a job, Sue ends up working as a potato girl at a local mall eatery. Meanwhile, Frankie and Mike are called into Brick's principal's (Rachel Dratch) office and are informed that he has not attended any of his classes - and much to the family's dismay, Axl begins to spend his nights back home when he becomes fed up with having to deal with his horrible college roommate.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver
Not So Silent Night
Season 7, Episode 10 - Aired December 9 2015Dreading the fact that they are always late to church and end up in the overflow room, Frankie makes the decision to have the family watch a Christmas Eve service on TV from the comfort of the Heck house. But a string of events make their evening anything but a peaceful, silent night.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver
Exes and Ohhhs
Season 8, Episode 17 - Aired March 14 2017After Axl runs into just about all of his ex-girlfriends while attending a St. Patrick's Day party – including Devin Levin, Cassidy and even Weird Ashley – Hutch tells Axl that the universe is trying to tell him something about his love life, and that he must speak with each of them to try and figure it out. Meanwhile, Brick discovers that Frankie and Mike aren't half as thrilled as he is when he buys an old microfiche machine at a library sale; and not knowing that Tyler is set to take Sue to the Chancellor's Ball, Sean Donahue pays her a surprise visit and offers to escort her to it.
Appeared as Reverend Hayver