this show is so awful. I can't even watch it. I mean where is the humor? it's just awful the jokes. the family with their pithy dialogue. is rubbish. what was ABC thinking of having this on their station? I mean, the writers can't even write. did they think "oh gee. I should really make this TV show. for others to watch it" give me a break. I can write a way better sitcom,TV show than this and I'm not even a writer. ABC. please cancel this awful show. I don't know how this is on the air. I've tried and tried to watch it and every time. I'm like "I feel like I am lowering my IQ watching this" I knew this sitcom would be awful since, Rosanne created it. this is the worst The series features Frances "Frankie" Heck (Patricia Heaton), a working class, middle-aged, Midwestern [2] woman and her husband Mike (Neil Flynn), who reside in the small fictional town of Orson in Southwest Indiana. They are the parents of three children, Axl (Charlie McDermott), Sue (Eden Sher), and Brick (Atticus Shaffer).[3] The series is narrated by Frankie, initially an under-performing salesperson at a used-car dealership and later a dental assistant. Her stoic husband Mike manages a local quarry and serves as a stabilizing influence in the family. The children are quite different from one another: oldest son Axl, a popular but under-motivated and cynical teenager, does well in sports but not in academics; daughter Sue is an enthusiastic young teen but chronically unsuccessful and socially awkward; and youngest son Brick, an intelligent but introverted compulsive reader with quirky behavioral traits.