Episode 5.20 Ratings Posted May 1 2014

Episode 5.20 Ratings

Last night's episode of The Middle finished a solid third place in the ratings for its time period.

This week's episode, "The Optimist", was watched by 7.39 million people, adding 200,000 people over last week. The Middle had a 1.8/6 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic, down a tenth from April 23. The Middle ranked third in the ratings in all main metrics.

Episode: The Optimist Tags: Season 5, ratings

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The Optimist
Season 5, Episode 20 - Aired April 30, 2014

With high school graduation less than two years away, Sue finds herself becoming super stressed out when she hunkers down and frantically tries to earn a scholarship to help pay for college. Meanwhile, upon figuring out that business is down because she forgot to send out all of Dr. Goodwin's dental appointment reminder cards, Frankie tries to find a way to secretly send them out without her boss finding out. After Mike misinterprets a situation and scolds a girl for picking on Brick, Brick demands that Mike formally apologize, and Axl and his football buddy, Hutch, eat the Hecks out of house and home in order it try to bulk up so that they are big enough to be picked again to play on the team next year.

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