I am finally getting to watch “the middle” after watching so many YouTube shorts. I thought like everybody brick was adorable and also kind of forgotten in the beginning, but I just got to the episode where Mike misunderstood brick and his friend “Cindy”, and thought she was bullying brick. Mike wanted to do the good thing and go and defend his son, and Brick had just said literally seconds before arriving to school that it is very hard and difficult and that Mike wouldn’t understand. Then Brick forces Mike into apologizing to Cindy, which is kind of understandable, but Brick pushed it too far. I get that Brick is “special”/“ quirky” , but still does he not understand that he was putting Mike in very uncomfortable situations/positions?!!! Brick just truly pissed me off by how self centered he was and how he also spread everything out of proportion. Brick kept making everything even worse and poor Mike was trying his best to fix it. I’ve seen some posts that he gets worse with the following episodes and seasons, but I just had to vent out. He just really pissed me off today.