The Middle (2009)

Comedy · Family

The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.

Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

7.64 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 8.1 21 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.6	1,165
2	The Cheerleader	7.6	864
3	The Floating Anniversary	7.3	814
4	The Trip	7.6	738
5	The Block Party	7.8	720
6	The Front Door	7.6	710
7	The Scratch	7.7	712
8	Thanksgiving	7.7	708
9	Siblings	7.6	669
10	Christmas	7.8	686
11	The Jeans	7.6	671
12	The Neighbor	7.7	716
13	The Interview	7.6	654
14	The Yelling	7.5	632
15	Valentine's Day	7.8	669
16	The Bee	7.8	652
17	The Break-Up	7.9	660
18	The Fun House	7.4	620
19	The Final Four	7.3	607
20	TV or Not TV	7.6	618
21	Worry Duty	7.5	617
22	Mother's Day	7.5	636
23	Signals	7.7	618
24	Average Rules	8.1	656

7.54 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.7 21 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Back to School	7.7	600
2	Homecoming	7.6	583
3	The Diaper Incident	7.6	574
4	The Quarry	7.5	561
5	Foreign Exchange	7.4	624
6	Halloween	7.5	585
7	A Birthday Story	7.9	596
8	Errand Boy	7.4	562
9	Thanksgiving II	7.6	569
10	A Simple Christmas	7.6	567
11	Taking Back the House	8.1	582
12	The Big Chill	7.7	552
13	Super Sunday	7.3	530
14	Valentines Day II	7.4	555
15	Friends, Lies, and Videotape	7.5	539
16	Hecks on a Plane	7.4	580
17	The Math Class	7.4	540
18	Spring Cleaning	7.7	537
19	The Legacy	7.5	538
20	Royal Wedding	7.3	548
21	Mother's Day II	7.5	535
22	The Prom	7.4	522
23	The Bridge	7.3	536
24	Back to Summer	7.7	521

7.67 avg 24 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 21 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Forced Family Fun: Part 1	7.4	559
2	Forced Family Fun: Part 2	7.4	547
3	Hecking Order	7.9	558
4	Major Changes	7.6	529
5	The Test	7.5	510
6	Bad Choices	7.7	514
7	Halloween II	7.9	532
8	Heck's Best Thing	7.7	508
9	The Play	7.6	512
10	Thanksgiving III	7.6	522
11	A Christmas Gift	7.6	521
12	Year of the Hecks	7.9	553
13	The Map	7.9	544
14	Hecking It Up	7.5	507
15	Valentine's Day III	7.8	511
16	The Concert	7.6	493
17	The Sit Down	8.0	527
18	Leap Year	7.8	514
19	The Paper Route	7.5	490
20	Get Your Business Done	7.4	523
21	The Guidance Counselor	7.8	519
22	The Clover	7.8	502
23	The Telling	7.5	474
24	The Wedding	7.6	512

7.73 avg 24 episodes 7.5 → 8.0 23 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last Whiff of Summer: Part 1	7.5	513
2	Last Whiff of Summer: Part 2	7.8	520
3	The Second Act	7.4	470
4	Bunny Therapy	7.6	490
5	The Hose	7.6	502
6	Halloween III: The Driving	7.8	491
7	The Safe	7.6	515
8	Thanksgiving IV	7.6	502
9	Christmas Help	7.5	485
10	Twenty Years	7.9	491
11	Life Skills	8.4	599
12	One Kid at a Time	7.8	480
13	The Friend	7.8	502
14	The Smile	7.8	508
15	Valentine's Day IV	8.1	497
16	Winners and Losers	7.9	490
17	Wheel of Pain	8.1	492
18	The Name	7.5	465
19	The Bachelor	8.0	486
20	Dollar Days	7.4	453
21	From Orson with Love	7.3	464
22	Hallelujah Hoedown	7.7	454
23	The Ditch	7.4	443
24	The Graduation	8.0	495

7.66 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 8.4 21 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Drop Off	7.8	492
2	Change in the Air	7.6	477
3	The Potato	7.4	466
4	The 100th	7.7	479
5	Halloween IV: The Ghost Story	7.4	465
6	The Jump	7.6	454
7	Thanksgiving V	7.7	473
8	The Kiss	7.4	480
9	The Christmas Tree	8.0	501
10	Sleepless in Orson	7.5	461
11	War of the Hecks	7.8	464
12	The Carpool	7.7	478
13	Hungry Games	7.6	475
14	The Award	7.5	450
15	Vacation Days	7.4	449
16	Stormy Moon	7.4	455
17	The Walk	8.2	499
18	The Smell	7.7	466
19	The Wind Chimes	7.4	460
20	The Optimist	7.3	438
21	Office Hours	7.5	433
22	Heck on a Hard Body	7.8	454
23	Orlando	8.1	495
24	The Wonderful World of Hecks	8.4	575

7.80 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 8.7 21 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Unbraceable You	7.8	490
2	The Loneliest Locker	7.5	479
3	Major Anxiety	7.8	464
4	The Table	7.8	468
5	Halloween V	7.8	478
6	The Sinkhole	7.7	446
7	Thanksgiving VI	8.0	481
8	The College Tour	8.0	471
9	The Christmas Wall	7.7	454
10	Pam Freakin' Staggs	7.2	477
11	A Quarry Story	7.9	461
12	Hecks on a Train	7.8	469
13	Valentine's Day VI	7.8	463
14	The Answer	8.3	549
15	Steaming Pile of Guilt	7.6	435
16	Flirting with Disaster	7.8	455
17	The Waiting Game	8.0	460
18	Operation Infiltration	7.7	446
19	Siblings and Sombreros	7.7	424
20	Food Courting	7.5	428
21	Two of a Kind	7.5	492
22	While You Were Sleeping	8.0	437
23	Mother's Day Reservations	7.7	436
24	The Graduate	8.7	655

7.78 avg 24 episodes 7.9 → 8.5 21 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Not Your Brother's Drop Off	7.9	499
2	Cutting the Cord	7.9	479
3	The Shirt	7.7	456
4	Risky Business	7.9	474
5	Land of the Lost	7.5	445
6	Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death	8.5	595
7	Homecoming II: The Tailgate	7.3	429
8	Thanksgiving VII	7.8	444
9	The Convention	7.9	451
10	No Silent Night	7.6	456
11	The Rush	7.8	438
12	Birds of a Feather	7.6	429
13	Floating 50	8.1	451
14	Film, Friends and Fruit Pies	7.5	434
15	Hecks at a Movie	7.6	445
16	The Man Hunt	7.7	433
17	The Wisdom Teeth	7.8	433
18	A Very Donahue Vacation	7.9	428
19	Crushed	7.7	426
20	Survey Says...	7.5	424
21	The Lanai	7.4	416
22	Not Mother's Day	7.8	433
23	Find My Hecks	7.8	428
24	The Show Must Go On	8.5	498

7.87 avg 23 episodes 7.7 → 8.1 21 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Core Group	7.7	487
2	A Tough Pill to Swallow	7.9	466
3	Halloween VII: The Heckoning	7.7	451
4	True Grit	7.5	436
5	Roadkill	8.0	452
6	Thanksgiving VIII	7.8	438
7	Look Who's Not Talking	7.8	430
8	Trip and Fall	7.8	450
9	A Very Marry Christmas	8.3	486
10	Escape Orson	7.9	436
11	Hoosier Maid	7.8	415
12	Pitch Imperfect	7.5	430
13	Ovary and Out	7.6	418
14	Sorry Not Sorry	7.9	442
15	Dental Hijinks	7.7	419
16	Swing and a Miss	7.8	427
17	Exes and Ohhhs	8.4	507
18	The Par-Tay	8.3	465
19	The Confirmation	7.9	440
20	Adult Swim	7.7	412
21	Clear and Present Danger	7.8	406
22	The Final Final	8.1	503
23	Fight or Flight	8.1	416

7.92 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 9.2 23 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Vive La Hecks	7.7	485
2	Please Don't Feed the Hecks	7.7	442
3	Meet the Parents	7.7	446
4	Halloween VIII: Orson Murder Mystery	7.8	444
5	Role of a Lifetime	7.7	435
6	The Setup	7.5	419
7	Thanksgiving IX	7.9	430
8	Eyes Wide Open	7.7	415
9	The 200th	8.2	441
10	The Christmas Miracle	7.9	470
11	New Year's Revelations	7.8	447
12	The Other Man	7.2	494
13	Mommapalooza	7.7	422
14	Guess Who's Coming to Frozen Dinner	7.7	429
15	Toasted	7.9	416
16	The Crying Game	7.7	415
17	Hecks vs. Glossners: The Final Battle	7.9	512
18	Thank You for Not Kissing	7.6	420
19	Bat Out of Heck	7.8	414
20	Great Heckspectations	8.2	438
21	The Royal Flush	8.0	441
22	Split Decision	8.2	441
23	A Heck of a Ride: Part 1	9.3	960
24	A Heck of a Ride: Part 2	9.2	632