document_title: Full House (season 7)

question_text: when did teddy come back on full house

question_tokens: when did teddy come back on full house

text: Full House (season 7)

text: Plot[edit]

text: In season seven, Danny ends his relationship with Vicky after she is offered a news anchor position in New York City. Jesse ends up renovating and re-opening The Smash Club as he is the new owner. Rebecca and Jesse realize that they need to start disciplining the twins. Meanwhile, Jesse suffers a tremendous blow when his beloved grandfather comes for a visit and succumbs to old age in his sleep. He and Joey continue their radio gig, and Joey later becomes Michelle's new soccer coach. D.J. is a junior in high school. Stephanie begins sixth grade, Michelle enters second grade.

text: Main cast[edit]

text:
John Stamos as Jesse Katsopolis
Bob Saget as Danny Tanner
Dave Coulier as Joey Gladstone
Candace Cameron as D.J. Tanner
Jodie Sweetin as Stephanie Tanner
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen as Michelle Tanner
Lori Loughlin as Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis
Andrea Barber as Kimmy Gibbler
Scott Weinger as Steve Hale
Blake & Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit as Alex & Nicky Katsopolis

text: Episodes[edit]

text:
No.overallNo. inseasonTitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers(millions)1451"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"John TracyMarc Warren & Dennis RinslerSeptember 14, 1993 (1993-09-14)17.8[1]
D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle anxiously return to the site of their summer camp, but they are surprised with how everything turns out. Meanwhile, Nicky and Alex will not sleep in their own beds, preferring Jesse and Becky's bed.
1462"The Apartment"John TracyTom BurkhardSeptember 21, 1993 (1993-09-21)N/A
Steve moves into his own apartment, and D.J. is excited about how much privacy she and Steve can get over there, but a worried Danny spies on them through a window when D.J. breaks curfew. Meanwhile, Michelle is unable to find a hobby for Hobby Day at school, so she begins collecting leaves from the yard, much to Stephanie's dismay. Jesse and Joey try to pave the driveway – with disastrous results.
1473"Wrong-Way Tanner"John TracyJamie Tatham & Chuck TathamSeptember 28, 1993 (1993-09-28)N/A
While playing a soccer game, Michelle accidentally scores the winning goal for the opposing team. Her team gets angry at her, which leaves Michelle feeling terrible and never wanting to play soccer again by feigning a broken leg. Joey isn't fooled and tells her that she shouldn't let others bring her down for making one unintentional mistake. Meanwhile, Stephanie is videotaping her family for a school project, but catches all of them in embarrassing moments.
1484"Tough Love"Joel ZwickEllen GuylasOctober 5, 1993 (1993-10-05)N/A
Jesse and Becky, with some guidance from the rest of the family, realize that the twins are not being disciplined enough, when they roam aimlessly around the house and end up destroying Michelle's science project. Danny bribes the girls to pretend to like Vicky's cooking.
1495"Fast Friends"John TracyBob SandOctober 12, 1993 (1993-10-12)N/A
Stephanie goes to junior high school, and attempts to make new friends, thanks to a new redistricting plan. However, the group she meets tries encouraging her to smoke cigarettes. Meanwhile, D.J., Kimmy, and Steve join Jesse and Joey on a special segment of their radio show, of which Jesse and Joey argue about the segment's title.
1506"Smash Club: The Next Generation"John TracyCarolyn OmineOctober 19, 1993 (1993-10-19)N/A
Jesse inherits the "Smash Club", but needs a bank loan because the place needs to be brought up to code. During an interview, Jesse uses D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle to help him pass code inspections. Meanwhile, Michelle gets two new assistants: Nicky and Alex.
1517"High Anxiety"John TracyTom AmundsenOctober 26, 1993 (1993-10-26)N/A
Danny forgets how fast Michelle is growing up, and unintentionally treats her like a baby. Michelle gets mad at Danny, and he agrees to let her grow up and be a "big girl", even though it hurts so much. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles on making decisions for the reopening of the Smash Club.
1528"Another Opening, Another No Show"Joel ZwickStory by: Elias DavisTeleplay by: Tom BurkhardNovember 2, 1993 (1993-11-02)N/A
Jesse officially opens the "Smash Club", but inadvertently gets locked in a storage closet with Kimmy, and other calamities ensure. The kids become waiters and Danny is mostly hyper from drinking too much coffee. Ben Stein makes a guest appearance.
1539"The Day of the Rhino"James O'KeefeAdam I. LapidusNovember 9, 1993 (1993-11-09)N/A
Michelle and Denise get "ripped off" when they order Rigby the Rhino dolls that end up being miniature plastic figures. They, Stephanie and Joey protest at a Rigby showing. In the subplot, D.J. and Steve face their own problems when preparing for an opera, including hair and focus.
15410"The Prying Game"John TracyEllen GuylasNovember 16, 1993 (1993-11-16)N/A
Fearful that Steve is cheating on her sister, Stephanie's attempts to discover the truth incurs DJ's anger. Danny, Jesse, and Joey try to sell a new hair-spraying product on an infomercial, but they find out that it was already made via a live phone call directly from its inventor.
15511"The Bicycle Thief"John TracyChuck Tatham & Jamie TathamNovember 23, 1993 (1993-11-23)N/A
Michelle loses her bike and assumes that someone stole it. Jesse, Danny, and Joey each go look for the bike, but they unintentionally steal three bikes that look like Michelle's. The neighborhood "crime catchers" (Kimmy and Mrs. Carruthers) start to investigate, while the family hopelessly tries to hide the stolen bikes.
15612"Support Your Local Parents"James O'KeefeBob SandNovember 30, 1993 (1993-11-30)24.0[2]
Jesse and Becky join a local support group when Nicky and Alex will not interact with other children in their playgroup, just each other.
15713"The Perfect Couple"John TracyMarc Warren & Dennis RinslerDecember 14, 1993 (1993-12-14)19.5[2]
Joey gets a job as the host of a local game show, The Perfect Couple. He gets the family to do the first show with him, with D.J. and Steve as the dating couple, Jesse and Becky as the married couple, and Danny and Vicky as the engaged couple. Vicky cannot make it on time, so Danny has to pair up with an old woman named Estelle. The director of the show tells Joey to embarrass the contestants, and he does, much to the family's dismay. At the end of the show, Vicky arrives and tells Danny that she accepted a job as a network anchor in New York City. Danny tells her that he cannot take a long-distance relationship, and the two break off their engagement and break up, although they still have feelings for each other. Back at home, Stephanie has trouble getting Nicky and Alex into their pajamas and in bed.

Note: This episode marks the final appearance of Vicky Larson (Gail Edwards).
15814"Is It True About Stephanie?"Joel ZwickCarolyn OmineJanuary 4, 1994 (1994-01-04)25.8[2]
Gia (Marla Sokoloff) and Stephanie both have a crush on Jamie, the new boy in school. When Jamie asks Stephanie out on a date, Gia is enraged and attempts to make her life miserable if she does not cancel it. Stephanie and her friend Mickey attempt to take revenge against Gia and then learn that it is not the right way to go.

Note: Several of the show's crew members surnames are used as Gia's teachers, as shown on her blown-up report card.
15915"The Test"John TracyDan Chasin & Linda LaneJanuary 11, 1994 (1994-01-11)21.8[2]
D.J. is nervous about taking the upcoming SAT test. The night before the test is given, D.J. has a nightmare about the test going all wrong. Meanwhile, Michelle goes overboard with her whistle reporting "safety violations".

Note: A sequel was produced in season eight, titled "Taking the Plunge". Vanna White guest stars.
16016"Joey's Funny Valentine"John TracyAdam I. LapidusJanuary 25, 1994 (1994-01-25)25.3[2]
Joey's girlfriend, Roxy (Felicia Michaels), meets the family for the first time, but then makes fun of them during her stand-up comedy routine, which alienates the Tanners.  Meanwhile, after finding the parrot of a huge store owner, the girls get a store credit, but what will they get?
16117"The Last Dance"John TracyTom AmundsenFebruary 8, 1994 (1994-02-08)26.6[2]
Jesse's grandfather, Papouli, comes to visit the Tanner family. During his visit, a strong relationship builds between him and Michelle. He promises Michelle that, for show and tell at school, he will come and do a Greek dance with her. Sadly, Papouli dies of a heart attack in his sleep the night before. Everyone is mourning, but especially Michelle and Jesse, due to their strong relationship with Papouli. Jesse ends up saving the day by going to school with Michelle and doing the dance for show and tell.  Two subplots: DJ and Kimmy get into a fight over a pair of sunglasses, and Danny fulfills a longtime dream of his and Joey's by buying a boat, which ties in with the main plot as they decide to christen it the "Papouli" as a tribute to Papouli.

Note: John Stamos appears as himself prior to the episode telling parents that this episode deals with death in the family.
16218"Kissing Cousins"John TracyTom BurkhardFebruary 15, 1994 (1994-02-15)N/A
Upon his return from Papouli's funeral in Greece, Jesse brings back his cousin Stavros, who ends up taking advantage of the Tanners' generosity and kindness. Stavros apologizes, claiming his village was destroyed in an accident, for which the family stages a dance marathon at the Smash Club. However, he actually lied and was planning to go to Orlando, Florida, which comes to light when Rebecca tricks him into revealing his plan over the club's PA system which angers the family and Jesse kicks Stavros out of his life

Note: Along with his usual role as Jesse, John Stamos appears in a dual role as Stavros.
16319"Love on the Rocks"Tom RickardEllen GuylasMarch 1, 1994 (1994-03-01)22.9[3]
Feeling that her relationship with Steve has drifted apart, D.J. explores all other options, before ultimately breaking up with him. Meanwhile, Joey plays a pre-April Fool's Day prank on the family and they try to get back at him with a prank of their own, involving a lottery ticket.
16420"Michelle a la Carte"John TracyCathy JungMarch 15, 1994 (1994-03-15)22.3[3]
Michelle decides to enter a Soap Box Derby. She and Becky begin working on the car that Michelle will ride, but Michelle quits after a fellow racer makes fun of her for being a "girl racer" and saying girls are not good with cars. However, Danny and Jesse help Michelle prove her fellow racers wrong. Subplots include D.J. trying to deal with her recent breakup and Stephanie teaching Joey ballet.
16521"Be Your Own Best Friend"Joel ZwickStory by: Marc Warren & Dennis RinslerTeleplay by: Tom Amundsen & Ellen GuylasApril 5, 1994 (1994-04-05)19.8[3]
Michelle is assigned a project to draw the outline of her best friend on paper, but Teddy moves back to San Francisco, leaving Michelle to choose between Denise (new) and Teddy (old) with their possessions. Meanwhile, Jesse feels left out when Joey and his girlfriend, Roxy, hog the mike on Jesse and Joey's radio show.
16622"A Date with Fate"Joel ZwickStory by: Marc Warren & Dennis RinslerTeleplay by: Bob Sand & Chuck Tatham & Jamie TathamMay 3, 1994 (1994-05-03)16.7[3]
D.J. and Danny go out on separate blind dates, but end up alone together at the same restaurant. Jesse prepares for Mother's Day, but the twins want to celebrate it a day early, much to his chagrin.
16723"Too Little Richard Too Late"John TracyStory by: Marc Warren & Dennis RinslerTeleplay by: Elias DavisMay 10, 1994 (1994-05-10)17.0[3]
Joey decides to run for PTA President to help save Michelle's art class, but finds it hard to compete with Mrs. Carruthers' extensive promotion campaign, only for Denise's uncle, Little Richard to come in to help.
16824"A House Divided"Joel ZwickStory by: Marc Warren & Dennis RinslerTeleplay by: Tom Burkhard & Adam I. Lapidus & Carolyn OmineMay 17, 1994 (1994-05-17)16.3[3]
The whole family complains about the lack of space in the house, including Joey hogging the bathroom for an hour when DJ needs to use it and Stephanie complaining about Michelle using the room to practice "Down in the Valley" with her harmonica when she needs the same room to study homework and projects. But when a millionaire (Keene Curtis) who lived in the Tanner house growing up wants to buy it from Danny, offering twice as much money as the house is worth, everyone agrees and is excited about moving and starting new lives, except little Michelle, and she will stop at nothing to stay in "the only house she's ever lived in".

Note: This is the last appearance of Scott Weinger as Steve, until the series finale. This episode is the last with production credit and distributor voice-overs by Dave Coulier for syndicated reruns.


document_title: Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

question_text: who played philip in yours mine and ours

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text: Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: Frank Beardsley is a Navy Chief Warrant Officer, recently detached from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and assigned as project officer for the Fresnel lens glide-slope indicator, or "meatball," that would eventually become standard equipment on all carriers. Helen North is a civilian nurse working in the dispensary at NAS Alameda, the California U. S. Navy base to which Frank is assigned.

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text: Frank meets Helen, first by chance in the commissary on the base and again when Frank brings his distraught teen-age daughter for treatment at the dispensary, where Helen informs him that the young lady is simply growing up in a too-crowded house that lacks a mother's guidance. They immediately hit it off and go on a date, all the while shying away from admitting their respective secrets: Frank has ten children and Helen has eight, from previous marriages ended by their spouses' deaths.

text: When each finally learns the other's secret, they initially resist their mutual attraction. But Chief Warrant Officer Darrell Harrison (Van Johnson) is determined to bring them together, so he "fixes up" each of them with a sure-to-be-incompatible blind date. Helen's date is an obstetrician (Sidney Miller) who stands a good head shorter than she ("Darrell had a malicious sense of humor," Helen observes in voice-over); Frank's date is a "hip" girl (Louise Troy) who is not only young enough to be his daughter, but is also far too forward for his taste. As the final touch, Harrison makes sure that both dates take place in the same Japanese restaurant. As Harrison fully expects, Frank and Helen end up leaving the restaurant together in his car, with Frank's date sitting uncomfortably between them as they carry on about their children.

text: Frank and Helen continue to date regularly, and eventually he invites her to dinner in his home. This nearly turns disastrous when Mike, Rusty, and Greg (Tim Matheson, Gil Rogers, and Gary Goetzman), Frank's three sons, mix hefty doses of gin, scotch, and vodka into Helen's drink. As a result, Helen's behavior turns wild and embarrassing, which Frank cannot comprehend until he catches his sons trying to conceal their laughter. "The court of inquiry is now in session!" he declares, and gets the three to own up and apologize. After this, he announces his intention to marry Helen, adding, "And nobody put anything into my drink."

text: Most of the children oppose the union at first, regarding each other and their respective stepparents with suspicion. Eventually, however, the 18 children bond into one large blended family, about to increase—Helen becomes pregnant.

text: Further tension develops between young Philip North and his teacher at the parochial school that he attends: his teacher insists that he use his "legal" name, which remains North even after his mother marries Beardsley. This prompts Helen and Frank to discuss cross-adopting each other's children, who (except for Philip) are aghast at the notion of "reburying" their deceased biological parents. The subsequent birth of Joseph John Beardsley finally unites the children, who agree unanimously to adoption under a common surname.

text: The film ends with the eldest sibling, Mike Beardsley, going off to Camp Pendleton to begin his stint in the United States Marine Corps.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Henry Fonda as CWO Frank Beardsley, USN
Lucille Ball as Helen Brandmeier North Beardsley

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text: Adult friends and relatives[edit]

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Van Johnson as CWO Darrell Harrison, USN
Walter Brooke as Howard Beardsley (Frank's brother, who in this film temporarily "borrows" Germaine and Joan Beardsley after Frank's detachment from the Enterprise.)
Nancy Howard as Nancy Beardsley (Frank's sister-in-law)
Sidney Miller as Dr. Ashford (Helen's date, an obstetrician who stands a good head shorter than she)
Louise Troy as Madeleine Love (Frank's date, a "hip" girl young enough to be his daughter)
Tom Bosley as a family doctor who makes a house call on the Beardsleys, and is also the consulting physician for the California Draft Board when Mike Beardsley reports for a required physical exam.

text: Frank's children[edit]

text:
Tim Matheson as Mike (credited as "Tim Matthieson")
Gil Rogers as Rusty
Gary Goetzman as Greg
Nancy Roth as Rosemary
Morgan Brittany as Louise (Credited as "Suzanne Cupito")
Holly O'Brien as Susan
Michele Tobin as Veronica
Maralee Foster as Mary
Tracy Nelson as Germaine
Stephanie Oliver as Joan

text: Helen's children[edit]

text:
Jennifer Leak as Colleen
Kevin Burchett as Nick
Kimberly Beck as Janette
Mitch Vogel as Tommy
Margot Jane as Jean
Eric Shea as Philip
Greg Atkins as Gerald
Lynnell Atkins as Teresa

text: Other acquaintances[edit]

text:
Ben Murphy as Larry, Colleen's boyfriend
Jennifer Gan as Young Lady In Coffeehouse

text: Teachers, officials, etc.[edit]

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Mary Gregory as Sister Mary Alice, who questions Philip's use of the Beardsley name
Harry Holcombe as the judge who handles the grand mutual adoption

text: Frank's unsuccessful housekeepers[edit]

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Ysabel MacCloskey as Number One, who lasts less than a day.
Pauline Hague as Number Two, aka "Mrs. Anderson." She lasts a week because she is hiding from the police. After a stint with the Beardsleys, she turns herself in.
Marjorie Eaton as Number Three, aka "Mrs. Ferguson," who famously says, "Mrs. Anderson was last week; I'm Mrs. Ferguson, and you can mail me my check!" She has the fight with Louise that precipitates Frank's second meeting with Helen.

text: Reality versus film[edit]

text: This film departs in several various ways from the actual lives of Frank and Helen Beardsley and their children. The names of Frank and Helen Beardsley and their children are real; the wedding invitation that appears midway through the film is the actual North-Beardsley wedding invitation. The career of Lieutenant Richard North USN is also described accurately, but briefly: specifically, he was a navigator on the crew of an A-3 Skywarrior that crashed in a routine training flight, killing all aboard, exactly as Helen describes in the film. Frank Beardsley is described correctly as a Navy warrant officer. The "loan-out" of the two youngest Beardsleys is also real, and indeed Michael, Charles ("Rusty"), and Gregory Beardsley were determined to see their father marry Helen North as a means of rectifying this situation. The movie correctly describes Frank Beardsley as applying his Navy mind-set to the daunting task of organizing such a large family (although the chart with the color-coded bathrooms and letter-coded bedrooms--"I'm Eleven Red A!"—is likely a Hollywood exaggeration). Finally, Michael Beardsley did indeed serve a term in the Marines, as did Rusty.

text: The differences from what Helen Beardsley's book Who Gets the Drumstick? puts forth include the following:[3]

text:
The film changes the ages and birth order of many of the children, and places some of the children, most notably Colleen and Philip North, into situations not mentioned in the book. For example, Colleen North is not mentioned in Beardsley's book as ever having a boyfriend who took inappropriate liberties with her.
Contrary to the depiction in the film, Helen North and Frank Beardsley began their relationship by corresponding with each other in sympathy for their recent losses. Furthermore, each knew how many children the other had before their first meeting, which was not by accident in a Navy commissary; Frank's sister told Helen about Frank's situation and she wrote to him to offer her sympathy. On their first date, Helen made no attempt to hide her children from Frank.
Frank Beardsley was a yeoman in the Navy and afterward the personnel officer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He played no role in the development of the "meatball", nor is he listed as having served aboard any ship named USS Enterprise.
Frank's friend "CWO Darrell Harrison USN", the character (portrayed by Van Johnson) who draws Frank and Helen together, was invented for the film. Helen Beardsley writes in Who Gets the Drumstick? that her own sister and brother-in-law played this role.
Frank Beardsley never told his own story in print, and Helen provides very little description of his homelife before he married her; there is no mention of Frank's home not being exactly "shipshape", or his not being able to keep a housekeeper longer than a week.
The couple who temporarily took care of Germaine and Joan Beardsley were not Frank's brother and sister-in-law as depicted in the film, but two unrelated friends of his.
The North and Beardsley children received the prospect of Helen and Frank's marriage with enthusiasm and without reservation. When Helen visited Frank's home for the first time, she took her five oldest children along. They met some of their Beardsley counterparts and immediately became friends. From the moment that the prospect of Frank and Helen's marriage became real, the children all began regarding Frank and Helen as their parents and even pressured them to marry as soon as possible.
The "drunken dinner scene" in which Mike, Rusty, and Greg Beardsley serve Helen North a double (or perhaps triple) screwdriver with Scotch and gin makes no appearance in the book. Rather, it is reminiscent of the "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" episode in Lucille Ball's television show I Love Lucy, in which she over-rehearses a television commercial for a vitamin elixir (Vitameatavegamin) with a very high alcohol content. Two I Love Lucy writers who wrote that episode--Madelyn Davis and Bob Carroll—are given story credit in the film.
Mike, Rusty, and Greg observed "company manners" from the beginning of Helen's first visit to the Beardsley home. Helen describes their gestures as touching her greatly. The film does not depict this.
The blended family did not move into a neutral home as shown in the film. Instead, Frank Beardsley had bedrooms and bathrooms added to his existing home, and Helen North sold her house when she and her children moved into his. (The leaking-roof scene is based on the incident that prompted Helen North to move to California from Whidbey Island.)
The North boy who was determined to be bad because "the good die young" was actually Nicholas North, not Philip. It was also Nicholas whose teachers commanded him to use the North name after his mother's marriage although he preferred the Beardsley name. (However, the ruckus in the film—that a schoolteacher incites in her classroom over the naming issue—is also a dramatization.)
Philip's idolization of Mike, and Mike's willingness to be a role model to Philip, are touched on in the book. However, all of Frank Beardsley's three eldest sons actually played this role. Likewise, all of Helen North's sons, not Philip alone, lionized Mike, as well as Rusty and Greg. The high mutual respect that the stepbrothers developed for one another was one of the most important developments that knit the blended family together. (In this regard, the petty jealousies between Frank's and Helen's children, as depicted in the film, are generally dramatic liberties.)
The one incident of mutual jealousy that did develop in real life—between the eldest Beardsley and North daughters—is not depicted in the film.
The children never objected to the massive cross-adoption. The chief objectors fell into two groups: Richard North's brother and some of his other relatives, who objected to the "erasure" of Mr. North's name; and a large number of readers of a major magazine (which Helen Beardsley never named) who objected in principle to the adoption when that magazine mistakenly reported it as an accomplished fact. However, Frank and Helen ultimately ignored those objections in the face of more pressing and important consequences of their having married without initially adopting each other's children.

text: The film also takes dramatic liberties with its depiction of Navy life and flight operations aboard an aircraft carrier:

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When Frank learns that Helen is pregnant (with Joseph John), he asks the catapult launch officer to stop the launch of the mail plane to permit him to board it; in reality, this officer does not have that authority. In fact, the Air Boss is the lowest-ranking officer who can stop the launch of an aircraft, and normally he does not keep station on the flight deck at all.
Frank is seen wearing a ship's ballcap, and then a combination cap. Neither would be permitted, as they constitute a foreign object damage hazard. Additionally, no one would be permitted on the flight deck during active flight operations without wearing helmet, goggles, and ear plugs.

text: As much as this film departed from the Beardsleys' actual life, the remake departed even more significantly.

text: Production notes[edit]

text: Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball take turns providing voice-over narration throughout—and in at least one scene, Van Johnson talks directly to the camera, as does Fonda.

text: That Lucille Ball would portray Helen Beardsley was never in doubt. But a long line of distinguished actors came under consideration, at one time or another, for the role of Frank Beardsley. They included Desi Arnaz, James Stewart, Fred MacMurray, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and John Wayne. Henry Fonda finally accepted, and indeed asked for, the role in a telephone conversation with Robert F. Blumofe in 1967. Ball, who had worked with Fonda before in the 1942 release The Big Street, readily agreed to the casting.[4]

text: One account[which?] says that Ball recalled in 1961 that Desilu Productions first bought the rights to the Beardsley-North story in 1959, even before Helen Beardsley published her biography, but this is highly unlikely because Frank and Helen Beardsley married on September 6, 1961. More likely is the story that Bob Carroll and his wife brought the story of the Beardsley family to Ball's attention after reading it in a local newspaper.[5] However, Mr. Carroll is said to recall his wife mentioning the story in 1960—again, a full year before the Beardsleys were married and probably when Dick North was still alive. In any event, Desilu Productions did secure the rights early on, and Mr. Carroll and Madelyn Pugh began instantly to write a script.

text: Production suffered multiple interruptions for several reasons. It began in December 1962 after Ball's abortive attempt at a career on the Broadway stage. In 1963, production was halted after the box-office failure of her comedy effort Critic's Choice (with Bob Hope). Later, she had a falling-out with Madelyn Pugh (then known as Madelyn Pugh Martin) and Bob Carroll, precisely because their script overly resembled an I Love Lucy television episode, and commissioned another writer (Leonard Spigelgass) to rewrite the script.[citation needed] Mr. Spigelgass does not seem to have succeeded in breaking free of Lucy's television work, so producer Robert Blumofe hired yet two more writers (Mickey Rudin and Bernie Weitzman) to make an attempt.[citation needed] When this failed, Blumofe hired Melville Shavelson, who eventually directed. All further rewrite efforts came to an abrupt end at the insistence of United Artists, the film's eventual distributor.[citation needed]

text: At this point in the production cycle, Helen Beardsley's book Who Gets the Drumstick? was actually released in 1965. Like many film adaptations, exactly how much the book informed the final shooting script is impossible to determine.

text: Production began in 1967 with Henry Fonda definitely signed on to portray Frank. Mort Lachman, who had been one of Bob Hope's writers, joined the writing team at the recommendation of Shavelson.[citation needed] Leonard Spigelgass received no on-screen writing credit for his efforts in this film.

text: Filming was done largely on-location in Alameda and San Francisco, California with Mike's high-school graduation being filmed at Grant High School in southern California (Frank Beardsley's home, into which the blended family eventually moved, was in Carmel). The total budget is estimated at $2.5 million (equivalent to $17.6 million in 2017),[6] including $1,700,000 for actual filming and post-production.

text: Reception[edit]

text: The film received lukewarm critical reviews—although Leonard Maltin[citation needed] looked favorably upon it as a "wholesome, 'family' picture" with an excellent script. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and praised the performances of Ball and Fonda.[7]

text: It was a massive commercial success, earning nearly $26 million ($182 Million adjusted for inflation) at the box office (on a tight budget of $2.5 million) and earning over $11 million in rentals.[8] Thus, it was the top-grossing film released by United Artists in 1968 and the 11th highest-grossing film of the year. (Both figures are for U.S. and Canada only.) This came about probably on the strength of Lucille Ball's name and performance (which many of her fans regard as a classic).[citation needed] Some critics felt that Ball, then in her late 50s, was too old for the part of a middle aged mother.

text: Frank Beardsley commented that his family enjoyed the film as general entertainment, and acknowledged that perhaps the scriptwriters felt that their screenplay was "a better story" than the truth.[9]

text: Not anticipating the huge box office returns from the movie, Lucille Ball failed to make appropriate tax shelter and thus saw most of her share going to pay taxes.

text: The film's success partly inspired network approval of the television series The Brady Bunch; the original script for the series pilot was written well before this movie became a reality.

text: Among the child actors cast as the Beardsley and North children, several went on to greater success, including Tim Matheson (billed here as Tim Matthieson) who went on to play the character Otter in the more adult-oriented comedy Animal House; Morgan Brittany (billed here as Suzanne Cupito) appeared in many episodes of Dallas; Mitch Vogel appeared in The Reivers with Steve McQueen for which Vogel received a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination in 1970; and Tracy Nelson, daughter of actor/musician Ricky Nelson, who eventually starred in the series Father Dowling Mysteries beside Tom Bosley, who portrayed the doctor in this movie. Also, Matheson (Mike Beardsley) and future soap-opera actress Jennifer Leak (Colleen North) married in real life in 1968, although they divorced in 1971.

text: Home video releases[edit]

text: Yours, Mine and Ours was released on VHS by MGM/UA Home Video in 1989, 1994, and 1998. A Laserdisc version was released in 1994, featuring noise reduction applied to the film soundtrack.

text: It was released to DVD on March 6, 2001. While the DVD was released in full frame, the original film was a widescreen release; this, therefore, constitutes a pan and scan.

text: It was released on Blu ray on September 13, 2016. The sole special feature is the original movie trailer.

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Lucille Ball received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
The film itself was a candidate for the Golden Globe Award for Best Musical or Comedy Picture of 1968.
Lucille Ball won the Golden Laurel award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy. Henry Fonda placed third in the Golden Laurels for Best Male Performance in a Comedy.
The film itself won the Golden Laurel for Best General Entertainment Film.
Melville Shavelson and Mort Lachman received a nomination for the 1969 Writers Guild of America Award for Best-written American Comedy.


document_title: 2017 World Series of Poker

question_text: how many entries in 2017 wsop main event

text: 2017 World Series of Poker

text: New events[edit]

text:
Event 19: $365 The Giant No Limit Hold'em - The event will feature five starting flights spread out over five weeks, with remaining players returning for Day 2 on July 8. A player who survived one flight can choose to abandon their stack and re-enter into another flight. The money will be reached during each flight, giving a player the opportunity to cash multiple times in the event.
Event 23: $2,620 The Marathon No Limit Hold'em - Players will begin with 26,200 chips and play 100-minute levels.
Three WSOP.com Online Events - There will be three events offered exclusively on WSOP.com with buy-ins of $333, $1,000, and $3,333.

text: Event schedule[edit]

text: Source: [3]

text:
#

Event

Entrants

Winner

Prize

Runner-up

Results

1

$565 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em

651

Bryan Hollis

$68,817

Chris Solomon

Results

2

$10,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'em Championship

102

Liv BoereeIgor Kurganov

$273,964

Joe KuetherAnkush Mandavia

Results

3

$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

369

Upeshka De Silva

$229,923

Louis Helm

Results

4

$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

905

Benjamin Zamani

$238,620

Jared Hemingway

Results

5

$565 The Colossus III No Limit Hold'em

18,054

Thomas Pomponio

$1,000,000

Taylor Black

Results

6

$111,111 High Roller for One Drop No Limit Hold'em

130

Doug Polk

$3,686,865

Bertrand Grospellier

Results

7

$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball

225

Jesse Martin

$130,948

James Obst

Results

8

$333 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em

2,509

Joseph Mitchell

$122,314

Mark Scacewater

Results

9

$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

154

Abe Mosseri

$388,795

Daniel Negreanu

Results

10

$1,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'em

843

Nipun JavaAditya Sushant

$150,637

David GuayPablo Mariz

Results

11

$1,500 Dealers Choice Six-Handed

364

David Bach

$119,399

Kevin Iacofano

Results

12

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,739

David Pham

$391,960

Jordan Young

Results

13

$1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw

266

Frank Kassela

$89,151

Bernard Lee

Results

14

$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

736

David Singer

$203,709

Kevin LaMonica

Results

15

$10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship

129

Adrián Mateos

$336,656

John Smith

Results

16

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed

1,748

Anthony Marquez

$393,273

Demosthenes Kiriopoulos

Results

17

$10,000 Dealers Choice Six-Handed Championship

102

John Racener

$273,962

Viacheslav Zhukov

Results

18

$565 Pot Limit Omaha

3,186

Tyler Smith

$224,344

Jason Stockfish

Results

19

$365 The Giant No Limit Hold'em

10,015

Dieter Dechant

$291,240

Hrair Yapoudjian

Results

20

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Millionaire Maker

7,761

Pablo Mariz

$1,221,407

Dejuante Alexander

Results

21

$1,500 Eight-Game Mix Six-Handed

472

Ron Ware

$145,577

Mike Ross

Results

22

$10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship

92

John Monnette

$256,610

Per Hildebrand

Results

23

$2,620 The Marathon No Limit Hold'em

1,759

Joseph Di Rosa Rojas

$690,469

Alexander Lynskey

Results

24

$1,500 Limit Hold'em

616

Shane Buchwald

$177,985

Sandy Tayi

Results

25

$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha

1,058

Tyler Groth

$179,126

Jonathan Zarin

Results

26

$10,000 Razz Championship

97

James Obst

$265,138

Eric Kurtzman

Results

27

$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed

959

Chris Moorman

$498,682

Bernardo Dias

Results

28

$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw

326

Brian Brubaker

$109,967

Brendan Taylor

Results

29

$2,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,086

Gaurav Raina

$456,822

James Calvo

Results

30

$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship

150

David Bach

$383,208

Eric Rodawig

Results

31

$1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em Championship

5,389

Frank Maggio

$617,303

William Murray

Results

32

$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Mix

688

Vladimir Shchemelev

$194,323

Howard Smith

Results

33

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,698

Christopher Frank

$384,833

Ryan Leng

Results

34

$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship

80

Ben Yu

$232,738

Shaun Deeb

Results

35

$1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'em

1,720

James Moore

$259,230

Kerry Goldberg

Results

36

$5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed

574

Nadar Kakhmazov

$580,338

Chris Hunichen

Results

37

$1,000 No Limit Hold'em

2,020

Thomas Reynolds

$292,880

James Hughes

Results

38

$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship

120

Joe McKeehen

$311,817

Jared Talarico

Results

39

$1,000 No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty

1,868

Rifat Palevic

$183,903

Ryan Olisar

Results

40

$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better

595

Ernest Bohn

$173,228

William Kohler

Results

41

$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha

870

Loren Klein

$231,483

Chun Law

Results

42

$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-Handed Championship

332

Dmitry Yurasov

$775,923

Tommy Chen

Results

43

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout

1,025

Ben Maya

$257,764

Thomas Boivin

Results

44

$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

399

Matthew Schreiber

$256,226

Phillip Hui

Results

45

$5,000 No Limit Hold'em

505

Christopher Brammer

$527,555

Jett Schencker

Results

46

$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better

830

Nathan Gamble

$223,339

Adam Hendrix

Results

47

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Monster Stack

6,716

Brian Yoon

$1,094,349

Ihar Soika

Results

48

$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

125

Christopher Vitch

$320,103

Benny Glaser

Results

49

$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Handed

630

Luis Calvo

$362,185

Rudolph Sawa

Results

50

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Bounty

1,927

Chris Bolek

$266,646

Bryan Emory

Results

51

$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship

207

Bryce Yockey

$511,147

Jeremy Joseph

Results

52

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,580

Mohsin Charania

$364,438

Cary Katz

Results

53

$3,000 Limit Hold'em Six-Handed

256

Max Silver

$172,645

Guowei Zhang

Results

54

$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Eight-Handed Championship

428

Tommy Le

$938,732

Chris Lee

Results

55

$1,500 Seven Card Stud

298

Tom Koral

$96,907

Tsong Lin

Results

56

$5,000 No Limit Hold'em

623

Norberto Korn

$618,285

Pete Chen

Results

57

$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Mix

405

Smith Sirisakorn

$215,902

Jameson Painter

Results

58

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,763

Artur Rudziankov

$395,918

Mario Prats

Results

59

$2,500 Big Bet Mix

197

Jens Lakemeier

$112,232

Jason Stockfish

Results

60

$888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em Eight-Handed

8,120

Alexandru Papazian

$888,888

Kilian Kramer

Results

61

$3,333 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em High Roller

424

Thomas Cannuli

$322,815

Tara Cain

Results

62

$50,000 Poker Players Championship

100

Elior Sion

$1,395,767

Johannes Becker

Results

63

$1,000 No Limit Hold'em

1,750

Rulah Divine

$262,501

Patrick Truong

Results

64

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha Eight-Handed Mix

1,058

Sebastian Langrock

$268,555

Ryan Laplante

Results

65

$1,000 No Limit Hold'em

1,413

Shai Zurr

$223,241

Ognjen Sekularac

Results

66

$1,500 No Limit Hold'em

1,956

Chris Klodnicki

$428,423

Emile Schiff

Results

67

$25,000 Pot Limit Omaha Eight-Handed High Roller

205

James Calderaro

$1,289,074

Alexey Rybin

Results

68

$3,000 No Limit Hold'em

1,349

Harrison Gimbel

$645,922

Chance Kornuth

Results

69

$1,500 Razz

419

Jason Gola

$132,957

David Baker

Results

70

$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em Championship

718

Heidi May

$135,098

Deborah Worley-Roberts

Results

71

$1,000 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em Championship

1,312

Nipun Java

$237,688

Jason James

Results

72

$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship

88

Mike Wattel

$245,451

Chris Ferguson

Results

73

$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event

7,221

Scott Blumstein

$8,150,000

Dan Ott

Results

74

$1,000 The Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em

4,391

Adrian Moreno

$528,316

Martin Lesjoe

Results

tag: table

text: Main Event[edit]

text: The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 8 with the first of three starting flights. The final table was reached on July 17. In a change from the November Nine, the finalists returned on July 20 with the winner being determined on July 22.

text: The Main Event drew 7,221 players, the largest field since 2010. The top 1,084 players finished in the money. Each player at the final table earned $1,000,000, with the winner earning $8,150,000.

text: Performance of past champions[edit]

text:
Name

ChampionshipYear(s)

Day ofElimination

Tom McEvoy

1983

3

Johnny Chan

1987, 1988

3

Phil Hellmuth

1989

2C

Scotty Nguyen

1998

4 (549th)*

Chris Ferguson

2000

2C

Carlos Mortensen

2001

4 (984th)*

Robert Varkonyi

2002

2AB

Chris Moneymaker

2003

1B

Greg Raymer

2004

3

Joe Hachem

2005

3

Jamie Gold

2006

1B

Jerry Yang

2007

1A

Joe Cada

2009

4 (948th)*

Jonathan Duhamel

2010

2AB

Greg Merson

2012

1B

Ryan Riess

2013

2C

Martin Jacobson

2014

2AB

Joe McKeehen

2015

2C

Qui Nguyen

2016

2AB

text: * Indicates the place of a player who finished in the money

text: Other notable high finishes[edit]

text: NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

text:
Place

Name

Prize

23rd

Marcel Luske

$263,532

text: Final Table[edit]

text: Antoine Saout and Ben Lamb both made the Main Event final table for the second time, having finished 3rd in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Michael Ruane, 4th-place finisher in 2016, was knocked out on the final table bubble in 10th place to just miss making it for the second straight year.

text:
Name

Number of chips(percentage of total)

WSOPBracelets

WSOPCashes*

WSOPEarnings*

 Scott Blumstein

97,250,000 (27.0%)

0

0

0

 John Hesp

85,700,000 (23.8%)

0

0

0

 Benjamin Pollak

35,175,000 (9.8%)

0

16

$532,038

 Bryan Piccioli

33,800,000 (9.4%)

1

27

$552,208

 Dan Ott

26,475,000 (7.3%)

0

2

$3,656

 Damian Salas

22,175,000 (6.1%)

0

13

$177,983

 Antoine Saout

21,750,000 (6.0%)

0

13

$3,999,582

 Jack Sinclair

20,200,000 (5.6%)

0

2

$4,088

 Ben Lamb

18,050,000 (5.0%)

1

14

$6,209,724

text: *Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2017 Main Event.

text: Final Table results[edit]

text:
Place

Name

Prize

1st
Scott Blumstein
$8,150,000

2nd
Dan Ott
$4,700,000

3rd
Benjamin Pollak
$3,500,000

4th
John Hesp
$2,600,000

5th
Antoine Saout
$2,000,000

6th
Bryan Piccioli
$1,675,000

7th
Damian Salas
$1,425,000

8th
Jack Sinclair
$1,200,000

9th
Ben Lamb
$1,000,000


document_title: Bed size

question_text: how long is a single bed in meters

question_tokens: how long is a single bed in meters

text: Bed size

text: Table of common sizes[edit]

text: Modern manufacturing conventions have produced many standard mattress and box spring sizes. Beds vary by country of origin as per the table below. These dimensions are for the mattress – actual bed frames are a little larger to accommodate the mattress. Mattress thickness varies considerably.

text:
North America

South America

Europe

Oceania

Asia

US and Canada

Brazil

Continental Europe

Scandinavia

UK and Ireland

Australia

New Zealand

China

Japan

Singapore

Thailand

Small singleor Cot

76 cm × 191 cm(30 in × 75 in)

80 cm × 190 cm(31 in × 75 in)

60 cm × 190 cm(24 in × 75 in)

91 cm × 188 cm(36 in × 74 in)

85 cm × 195 cm(33 in × 77 in)

Single, Twin,or Bunk

97 cm × 191 cm(38 in × 75 in)[1]

88 cm × 188 cm(35 in × 74 in)

90 cm × 200 cm(35 in × 79 in)

90 cm × 200 cm(35 in × 79 in)

90 cm × 190 cm(35 in × 75 in)

92 cm × 188 cm(36 in × 74 in)

91 cm × 188 cm(36 in × 74 in)

106 cm × 188 cm(42 in × 74 in)

97 cm × 195 cm(38 in × 77 in)

91 cm × 191 cm(36 in × 75 in)

107 cm × 198 cm(42 in × 78 in)

Twin extra long

97 cm × 203 cm(38 in × 80 in)[1]

90 cm × 210 cm(35 in × 83 in)

91 cm × 203 cm(36 in × 80 in)

97 cm × 205 cm(38 in × 81 in)

King singleor Super single

96 cm × 203 cm(38 in × 80 in)

120 cm × 200 cm(47 in × 79 in)

107 cm × 203 cm(42 in × 80 in)

107 cm × 203 cm(42 in × 80 in)

110 cm × 195 cm(43 in × 77 in)

107 cm × 191 cm(42 in × 75 in)

Small doubleor Three-quarter

120 cm × 190 cm(48 in × 75 in)

140 cm × 200 cm(55 in × 79 in)

120 cm × 190 cm(47 in × 75 in)

122 cm × 195 cm(48 in × 77 in)

Full or Double

130 cm × 190 cm(53 in × 75 in)

138 cm × 188 cm(54 in × 74 in)

140 cm × 200 cm(55 in × 79 in)

180 cm × 200 cm(71 in × 79 in)

135 cm × 190 cm(53 in × 75 in)

138 cm × 188 cm(54 in × 74 in)

137 cm × 188 cm(54 in × 74 in)

152 cm × 188 cm(60 in × 74 in)

140 cm × 195 cm(55 in × 77 in)

122 cm × 198 cm(48 in × 78 in)

Double extra long

130 cm × 200 cm(53 in × 80 in)

140 cm × 205 cm(55 in × 81 in)

Queen

150 cm × 200 cm(60 in × 80 in)

158 cm × 198 cm(62 in × 78 in)

152 cm × 203 cm(60 in × 80 in)

152 cm × 203 cm(60 in × 80 in)

182 cm × 188 cm(72 in × 74 in)

154 cm × 195 cm(61 in × 77 in)

152 cm × 191 cm(60 in × 75 in)

152 cm × 198 cm(60 in × 78 in)

Expanded, Super,or Olympic queen

170 cm × 200 cm(66 in × 80 in)

King or Eastern King

190 cm × 200 cm(76 in × 80 in) or500 cm2 (78 in2)

193 cm × 203 cm(76 in × 80 in)

160 cm × 200 cm(63 in × 79 in)

152 cm × 198 cm(60 in × 78 in)

183 cm × 203 cm(72 in × 80 in)

167 cm × 203 cm(66 in × 80 in)

182 cm × 212 cm(72 in × 83 in)

170 cm × 195 cm(67 in × 77 in)

183 cm × 191 cm(72 in × 75 in)

183 cm × 198 cm(72 in × 78 in)

California King,Western King, or King long

180 cm × 210 cm(72 in × 84 in)

180 cm × 210 cm(72 in × 84 in)

200 cm × 200 cm(80 in × 80 in)

170 cm × 205 cm(67 in × 81 in)

Grand King Super King,Athletic King, or Texas King

200 cm × 250 cm(80 in × 98 in)

180 cm × 200 cm(71 in × 79 in)

180 cm × 200 cm(71 in × 79 in)

203 cm × 203 cm(80 in × 80 in)

183 cm × 203 cm(72 in × 80 in)

194 cm × 205 cm(76 in × 81 in)

Large Emperor

213 cm × 213 cm(84 in × 84 in)

Caesor

245 cm × 200 cm(96 in × 79 in)

text: Canada and United States[edit]

text: Standard sizes[edit]

text: Standard bed sizes in the US and Canada are:

text: Other sizes[edit]

text: Europe[edit]

text: UK and Ireland[edit]

text:
Most modern beds/mattresses available in the UK and Ireland are sold using metric dimensions,[5]  as required by law.[which?][citation needed]
The names of standard mattress sizes were, however, originally attributed to specific imperial dimensions which remain in common use as a point of reference.

text:
Size

Dimensions

Notes

Small Single

75 cm × 190 cm (30 in × 75 in)[5]

Common UK size for hospitality (zip & link) twin beds as beds can be combined to make a short king bed.[6] Equivalent to previous 2'6" x 6'3"

Single

90 cm × 190 cm (35 in × 75 in)[5]

Also a standard hospitality sized twin bed in Ireland,[citation needed] two mattresses can be zip linked to make a short Superking bed. Equivalent to previous 3' x 6'3"

European single

90 cm × 200 cm (35 in × 79 in)[7]

Small Double

120 cm × 190 cm (47 in × 75 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 4' x 6'3"

Double

135 cm × 190 cm (53 in × 75 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 4'6" x 6'3"

European Double

140 cm × 200 cm (55 in × 79 in)[7]

King

150 cm × 200 cm (59 in × 79 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 5' x 6'6"

European King

160 cm × 200 cm (63 in × 79 in)[7]

Superking

180 cm × 200 cm (71 in × 79 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 6' x 6'6"

Emperor

200 cm × 202 cm (79 in × 80 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 6'6 x 6'8"

Large Emperor

215 cm × 217 cm (85 in × 85 in)[5]

Equivalent to previous 7' x 7'

text: It is worth noting that "bed size" in the UK generally refers to mattress size. This is because mattresses have a standard size grading, whereas bed frames do not. While many companies in the UK do offer bespoke bed making services, most mass-produced bed linens,[5] bed frames and mattresses fit only the standard bed sizes above. A Queen size mattress in the UK is often misunderstood to be one of the larger sizes as is the case in many other parts of the world. At 120cm in width, however, it is smaller than a UK double. Another common mistake is to use a mattress size as the required space for the full dimensions of the bed and mattress.

text: France[edit]

text: Single size beds are usually 90 centimetres (35 in) wide by 190 centimetres (75 in) long.

text:
Most common sizes for double beds are:
140 centimetres (55 in) wide by 190 centimetres (75 in) long
160 centimetres (63 in) wide by 200 centimetres (79 in) long
180 centimetres (71 in) wide by 200 centimetres (79 in) long (less common, but increasing popularity).

text: Due to the popularity of imported beds (especially from IKEA), the 200 centimetres (79 in) length is becoming more common.[citation needed]

text: Italy[edit]

text: In Italy, beds are classified by name and use the term Piazza as in "one place" Standard sizes are:[8]

text: Less common:[citation needed]

text: Northern Europe[edit]

text: These sizes are for Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. There are some variations between the Nordic countries and the Baltic nations, but these are the most common sizes:

text: Single:

text:
80 cm × 190 cm (31 in × 75 in), traditional standard for bunk beds in Germany
90 cm × 190 cm (35 in × 75 in), traditional standard in Germany
75 cm × 200 cm (30 in × 79 in), standard in Norway[citation needed]
80 cm × 200 cm (31 in × 79 in), common variant in Finland[citation needed]
90 cm × 200 cm (35 in × 79 in), standard single bed in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany.
90 cm × 210 cm (35 in × 83 in)
90 cm × 200 cm (35 in × 79 in), common variant in The Netherlands
90 cm × 220 cm (35 in × 87 in), extra large variant in The Netherlands
100 cm × 200 cm (39 in × 79 in), now very common in Germany
105 cm × 200 cm (41 in × 79 in)
120 cm × 200 cm (47 in × 79 in)[citation needed]

text: Three-Quarter:

text:
120 cm × 200 cm (47 in × 79 in), less common in Scandinavia
140 cm × 200 cm (55 in × 79 in), very common three-quarters in Scandinavia

text: Double:

text:
120 cm × 200 cm (47 in × 79 in), referred to as a "doubter" in the Netherlands, somewhat common for younger people
140 cm × 200 cm (55 in × 79 in)
150 cm × 200 cm (59 in × 79 in), common
160 cm × 200 cm (63 in × 79 in), very common[citation needed], common variant in Finland[citation needed]
180 cm × 200 cm (71 in × 79 in), very common double bed in current Danish, Swedish and Norwegian standards[citation needed]
180 cm × 210 cm (71 in × 83 in)
200 cm × 200 cm (79 in × 79 in) (very wide)

text: Most beds are 200 cm (79 in) cm long. Extra long beds are usually 220 cm (87 in), but they are rare.

text: Portugal[edit]

text: In Portugal the most common sizes for beds are:

text:
Solteiro (single)
80 centimetres (31 in) wide by 190 centimetres (75 in) long (can go up to 105 cm wide by 200 cm long)

text:
Casal (double)
140 centimetres (55 in) wide by 190 centimetres (75 in), 195 or 200 cm long

text:
Queen Size
160 centimetres (63 in) or 180 centimetres (71 in) wide by 190, 195 or 200 cm long

text:
King Size
180 centimetres (71 in) wide by 190, 195 or 200 cm long

text:
Super King Size
200 centimetres (79 in) wide by 200 cm long

text: Spain[edit]

text: In Spain the most common sizes are:

text: 180/190/200 cm long

text: 80/90/105/120/135/150 cm wide, the most common:

text: "Individual" (single) = 90 cm wide

text: "Matrimonio" (marital) = 135/150 cm wide

text: Switzerland[edit]

text: Single:

text:
70 cm × 200 cm (28 in × 79 in), only used for double beds with two separate mattresses
80 cm × 200 cm (31 in × 79 in), only used for double beds with two separate mattresses
90 cm × 200 cm (35 in × 79 in), common single bed
120 cm × 200 cm (47 in × 79 in), uncommon, mainly available as European-style futon beds that are sold with mattress, slats and frame
140 cm × 200 cm (55 in × 79 in), common, especially among young people

text: Double:

text:
160 cm × 200 cm (63 in × 79 in), common
180 cm × 200 cm (71 in × 79 in), common
200 cm × 200 cm (79 in × 79 in), proposed when enough space is available

text: Oceania[edit]

text: Australia[edit]

text: The following bed sizes are available in Australia

text: New Zealand[edit]

text: The following bed sizes are available in New Zealand

text: Africa[edit]

text: South Africa[edit]

text: Comprehensive list of bed sizes in South Africa:

text: XL mattress sizes vary only in length but not in width.

text: Asia[edit]

text: China[edit]

text: In China, the regulation standard has following sizes available:[10]

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Length: 1900 mm, 1950 mm, 2000 mm, 2100 mm;
Width: Single: 800 mm, 900 mm, 1000 mm, 1100 mm, 1200 mm;
Width: Double: 1350 mm, 1400 mm, 1500 mm, 1800 mm.

text: In practice, bed sizes are usually categorized by the width. The length is typically two metres, but may vary. The most common sizes are:

text: There are also extra size beds available, but they are less common.

text: Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia[edit]

text: The following bed sizes are available in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia:


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text: List of The Middle characters

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Patricia Heaton as Frances "Frankie" Heck (née Spence), wife of Mike and mother of Axl, Sue, and Brick. Frankie is the central character in the show, as her voice is heard narrating at various points in every episode. She is a devoted wife and mother and sees family as the most important thing in her life. Her motto, "You do for family," guides her daily routine, despite the frustrations she encounters with her husband and three kids, as well as her older ailing relatives who often depend on her. Frankie attended college but did not finish. When the family goes on a trip, she always forgets "the blue bag" which has the food in it. She worked as a salesperson at Ehlert Motors, a job she took after losing her position as a dentist's receptionist when the office closed, only to lose her job at Ehlert Motors early in season 4. She completes dental assisting school, and gets a new job at a dentist's office near the end of season 4. Heaton wore a wig for seasons 1–4; from season 5 on, her real hair has been featured.
Neil Flynn as Michael "Mike" Heck Jr., Frankie's husband, known for his straightforward manner and lack of emotion. Mike works at the local limestone quarry as the manager. He reached his 20-year work anniversary at the quarry in the season 5 episode "The Award". Despite his no-nonsense approach to work and family, Mike is a devoted and understanding husband and father who always seems to come through for Frankie and the kids. It has been said on several occasions that Mike's favorite film is Reservoir Dogs and that he only asked Frankie out on a second date because she lied and said she also liked the film. Mike's reclusive, emotionally distant father, "Big Mike" (John Cullum), and Mike's well-meaning but unreliable brother Rusty (Norm Macdonald) both live in Orson. It is revealed in Season 8's "Clear and Present Danger" that Mike's mother died of lung cancer at age 42, and his father made him do his homework and go to school the next day instead of allowing Mike time to mourn. Mike loves all sports but is particularly passionate about seeing the Indianapolis Colts play in the Super Bowl. He and Rusty start a business in season 7, designing disposable diapers with sports team logos on them and naming their creations "Li’l Rivals."
Charlie McDermott as Axl Redford Heck, the oldest son of Frankie and Mike and who cannot be bothered to wear more than boxer shorts most of the time at home. As the elder brother, he is sarcastic, lazy, narcissistic, and selfish to his siblings. However, he has shown flashes of kindness to his family occasionally and is good at heart, which he shows when he deliberately loses a basketball game in an attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend, Morgan. He is frustrating to Frankie, who wishes he would be more open with her, as he was apparently a very loving "momma's boy" when he was a child, something Frankie seems to want to re-capture. Axl is much more popular and socially outgoing than his siblings, but is not as scholarly as they are. He plays the electric guitar, and it's presumed that he was named after Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose. It is revealed in season 3 that Axl is two years older than Sue as he starts his junior year at high school while Sue starts her freshman year. Mike has said that Axl is his favorite child. He has gone to prom twice with Weird Ashley (Katlin Mastandrea), an outcast at his school, both times accidentally inviting her. Axl gets another girlfriend in season 4 named Cassidy, who tutors him after Sue runs over his foot and breaks it while learning to drive. Axl and Cassidy later break up in "Hallelujah Hoedown". As a running back on his high school football team, he was recruited by a Division II state college in Indiana. After being a star player in high school, Axl was a bench warmer in college, causing him to take his pursuit of a business degree a bit more seriously. At the end of season 8, he begins dating Sue's roommate Lexie and graduates from college with a bachelor's degree in business. Between seasons 8 and 9, he travelled in Europe with Kenny to promote Kenny's upcoming apps. After briefly working as a bus driver and at Spudsy's early in season 9, Axl gets his first professional job as a sales rep for a plumbing fixture company in the episode "The 200th".
Eden Sher as Sue Sue Heck, socially awkward middle daughter of Frankie and Mike whose genuine nature, bubbly personality, and persistent sunny optimism tend to make her an object of ridicule, especially by her older brother. Despite her best efforts, she is usually unrecognized by teachers and other students, and snubbed by her peers. Her best friends are Carly and Brad. She looks up to reverend Tim-Tom. When she doesn't know something she goes to kickingitteenstyle.com. When she is lying she will say "and so on and so forth and what have you." Many of her plot lines involve her being overlooked, or trying to organize parties or events and receiving no help. In season 1, she is not pictured in the yearbook despite having her picture taken three times, and she finds her favorite teacher has no memory of her at all. (She is eventually placed in the yearbook, but in the section reserved for students who died, with the caption reading: "In Loving Memory of Sue Heck, Gone Too Soon.") She wears braces on her teeth, which were briefly removed in season 3, but it was determined that they over-corrected her condition. She had them removed at the beginning of season 6, needing only a retainer. She is also left-handed, apparently the only southpaw in her immediate family. She is two years behind Axl in school, graduating high school in the season 6 finale. She is known for trying out for almost everything but never actually getting picked, because she is always terrible. When she is lying she says "and so on and so forth and what have you". In season 2, she joins the no-cut cross country team by heroically going around the track five times on crutches because she was hit by a deer the day before. She becomes a "wrestlerette" in season 3 (which turns out to be a group of fellow misfits) and dates a wrestler named Matt for a short time. In season 4, she dates Axl's friend Darrin. She is engaged to Darrin for three days in season 6, before deciding she doesn't want to get married yet and ending their relationship. This marks a rare moment where Sue is not a pushover, explaining her situation to Darrin in an intelligent, articulate, and socially mature manner. The season 3 episode "Leap Year" reveals she was a leap day baby, but then she had her 16th birthday the following season (season 4, episode 17, "Wheels of Pain"). She gets accepted to the same college Axl is attending. He didn't want her to go, but Mike and Frankie tell him it isn't his decision, and Sue does later accept the offer to attend the college. In season 9, she is a junior in college and is majoring in hotel management. In season 9 she turns 21 and Frankie comes to college and they get drunk together.
Atticus Shaffer as Brick Heck, youngest of Mike and Frankie's children. He loves to read and has a case of palilalia, which is demonstrated by his repeating words from previous sentences to himself in a whisper. In season 1 episode 5, it is revealed that he possesses an eidetic memory. He is smarter than most teenagers, having read Of Mice and Men, a book his elder brother is struggling with at the same time. He also loves the Planet Nowhere book series, which is native to the show, and the real-life Percy Jackson & the Olympians. He has referred to Diary of a Wimpy Kid as "the book that changed my life." He is exceptionally intelligent but easily distracted, leading him to procrastinate on doing his homework assignments and projects (it is loosely implied that he may perhaps have Asperger's syndrome). Brick is a known gephyrophobiac and is fascinated with fonts. Due to his awkwardness, he struggles to make friends. In season 2, he befriends an equally awkward boy named Arlo, whom even Brick struggles to deal with. He is five years behind Sue in school, starting the eighth grade in the seventh season. In season 2 Episode 7, it is revealed that he was accidentally switched at birth with another baby due to Mike watching a football game and taking home a child that the nurse brought up next to Brick, and he spent a month with that child's family while the other baby was with the Hecks. In season 8, Brick meets the other child, Blake Ferguson, along with the literature-loving Ferguson parents, and discovers that it was likely exposure to them as an infant that led to his appreciation for reading and classical music. While Sue gets overlooked by classmates and teachers, Brick is constantly overlooked by his own family. Frankie and Mike have forgotten his birthday multiple times. In Season 8, Brick makes it into the National Honor Society, a first for a Heck family member, but his parents did not know until Nancy Donahue told them. He has a girlfriend named Cindy. In Season 9, Brick is a Sophomore at Orson High School.

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Actor
Character
Seasons

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Brock Ciarlelli
Brad Bottig
Recurring

Jen Ray
Nancy Donahue
Recurring

Beau Wirick
Sean Donahue
Recurring

Malcolm Foster Smith
Dave
Recurring

John Gammon
Darrin McGrew
Recurring

Blaine Saunders
Carly
Recurring
Guest

Guest

Jeanette Miller
Edie Freehold
Recurring

Brian Doyle-Murray
Mr. Elhert
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Guest

Guest

Troy Metcalf
Jim
Recurring
Guest
Recurring

Peter Breitmayer
Peter Miller
Recurring
Guest

Frances Bay
Ginny Freehold
Recurring

Andrew J. Fishman
Zach
Recurring
Guest
Recurirng
Guest

Krista Braun
Mrs. Tompkins
Recurring
Guest

Alexa Vega
Morgan
Recurring

Paul Hipp
Reverend Tim-Tom
Guest
Recurring
Guest
Recurring
Guest

Guest
Recurring

Marsha Mason
Pat Spence
Guest
Recurirng
Guest
Recurring

John Cullum
Michael Heck Sr.
Guest
Recurring
Guest

Guest

Pat Finn
Bill Norwood

Recurring

Recurring
Guest
Recurring

Julie Brown
Paula Norwood

Recurring

Guest

Recurring

Greg Cipes
Chuck

Guest
Guest
Guest

Nick Safer
Arlo

Recurring

Katlin Mastandrea
Ashley Wyman

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Recurring

Norm Macdonald
Rusty Heck

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Sean O'Bryan
Ron Donahue

Guest
Recurring

Guest

Recurring

Jerry Van Dyke
Tag Spence

Guest
Recurirng

Grace Bannon
Ruth

Recurring
Guest
Recurring

Jessica Marie Garcia
Becky

Recurring
Guest

Brittany Ross
Courtney

Recurring
Guest

Guest

Natalie Lander
Debbie

Recurring
Guest

Guest

Christopher Darga
Mr. Farrar

Recurring
Guest

Moises Arias
Matt

Recurring
Guest

Jack McBrayer
Dr. Ted Goodwin

Recurring

Recurring
Guest

Galadriel Stineman
Cassidy Finch

Recurring

Guest

Dave Foley
Dr. Fulton

Recurring
Guest

Guest

French Stewart
Principal Cameron

Recurring

Guest

Guest

Tommy Bechtold
Kenny

Recurring

Alphonso McAuley
Hutch

Recurring
Guest

Brooke Dillman
Tink Babbit

Guest
Recurring
Guest

Casey Burke
Cindy

Recurring

Gia Mantegna
Devin Levin

Recurring
Guest

David Hull
Logan

Guest
Recurring

Jovan Armand
Troy

Recurring

Daniela Bobadilla
Lexie Brooks[2]

Recurring

Will Green
Jeremy

Recurring

Keaton Savage
Tyler

Guest
Recurring

Greer Grammer
April

Recurring

Lisa Rinna
Tammy Brooks

Guest

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Edie and Ginny Freehold (Jeanette Miller and Frances Bay, introduced in Season 1) are Frankie's elderly aunts who are heavy smokers and drinkers. Aunt Edie used to work in Mike's quarry as the bookkeeper, often showing signs of memory loss. One such occasion is when they went to a funeral for Edie and Ginny's brother, and Aunt Edie thought it was her birthday. Aunt Ginny uses a wheelchair and rarely talks. They have a sickly Basset Hound named Doris. On many occasions, Frankie is forced to care for Doris unexpectedly; on one such occasion, Doris gave birth to puppies. In the season 3 episode "The Map", which premiered in early 2012, Aunt Ginny dies. (The actress who portrayed her, Frances Bay, had died in real life.) Brick's elderly friend, Grandma Dot, then moves in with Edie to take care of her. In the early 2015 episode, "Hecks on a Train", Aunt Edie has just died (actress Jeanette Miller had retired from acting) and the Hecks are left to care for Doris.
Michael "Big Mike" Heck Sr. (John Cullum, introduced in Season 1) is Mike's reclusive, man-of-few-words father, who is a widower. He appears to be an unloving, uncaring parent, but this is primarily because he simply does not want to be a "bother" for either of his sons. He is also depicted as a hoarder. In Season 6, Big Mike and Axl fixed the Hecks’ kitchen sink, which was a rare bonding experience for the two of them. In Season 8 it is revealed that he sent Mike Jr. to school the day after his mother died, not allowing him time to grieve.
Orville "Rusty" Heck (Norm Macdonald, introduced in Season 2) is Mike's unreliable, silly brother. He often makes up excuses why he can't be anywhere or do anything Mike asks him to do. He once took Brick out of school to bowl and to teach him how to drive, even though he was not old enough or ready. It is revealed in the season 3 finale that his real first name is Orville. In the season 3 finale the Hecks get an invitation to his wedding but it says the wedding is happening at their house. Rusty marries a woman called Marlene, but in season 5 when Marlene invites herself to Thanksgiving at the Hecks' house, Rusty tells them that they got a divorce because she slept with his best friend. Rusty appears later in season 5 and is homeless (again). He ends up moving in with the Hecks, and accompanies Mike and Brick to Brick's spelling bee in Chicago, where Rusty makes a deal with Brick to lose, allowing Rusty to win some money on a bet he made. In Season 7, Rusty comes up with a business idea that Mike shockingly thinks might work, and the two start a side business together.
Pat Spence (Marsha Mason, introduced in Season 1) is Frankie's mother. Pat appeared at least once in all of the first seven seasons. Her first appearance was in season 1 episode 22 ("Mother's Day"). Her latest appearance was in the season 9 episode "The Setup".
Tag Spence (Jerry Van Dyke, introduced in Season 2) is Frankie's father. Tag is a schmoozer and always talks to Mike endlessly, which Mike finds very uncomfortable and annoying. In season 4 Tag calls Mike to meet up at a Stuckey's restaurant, to have man-to-man chats every Sunday. After a couple of meetings, Mike decides he just can't possibly stand to do it any longer, so he suggests that Tag should try chatting with people on Facebook. Tag's latest appearance was in season 6, episode 21 ("Two of a Kind"). The episode reveals a longstanding feud between Tag and his brother Dutch (played by Jerry Van Dyke's real-life brother Dick Van Dyke), which is mostly fueled by Tag's jealousy, and Mike and Frankie end up trying to resolve it.

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Bob Weaver (Chris Kattan, introduced in Season 1) is Frankie's co-worker and friend at Ehlert Motors. He is depicted as a lonely, insecure man who lives with his mother and doesn't seem to have any friends. Thus, he tends to insert himself into the Hecks' family life whenever he can. Bob was credited as a main character in the first two seasons, but the role was significantly reduced after Frankie was fired from Ehlert Motors. He was a recurring character in Season 3, and has since made two other appearances (the most recent in Season 5, when Frankie rushes out to her dental office job but accidentally goes to Ehlert Motors). Bob and Mike once moonlighted together delivering Little Betty snack cakes to stores.
Don Ehlert (Brian Doyle-Murray, introduced in Season 1) is the racist and misogynistic owner of the car dealership where Frankie used to work, and where Bob presumably still works. Frankie and Bob constantly worry that he is going to fire them. Ehlert's wife left him when he chose work over her, and Frankie was first sympathetic but later turned angry. He often drinks at work. Elhert, like Mike, likes sports. As with Bob, appearances by the Mr. Ehlert character were significantly reduced after Frankie was fired from Ehlert Motors.
Pete Miller (Peter Breitmayer, introduced in Season 1) is Ehlert Motors' best salesman and star employee, and he is not afraid to tell everyone about it. Pete often brags about his success at Frankie’s and Bob's expense, putting them down about how little they contribute to the business while developing a "teacher's pet" relationship with Mr. Ehlert.
Dave (Malcolm Foster Smith, introduced in Season 1) is an employee at the quarry Mike manages. He has appeared in at least two episodes every season.
Jim (Troy Metcalf, introduced in Season 1) is an employee at the quarry Mike manages. He has appeared in at least one episode every season.
Chuck (Greg Cipes, introduced in Season 2) is a younger employee at the quarry Mike manages. He once babysat for Brick, giving him questionable advice on a school project. He often speaks in the third person, referring to himself as "The Chuck".
Dr. Ted Goodwin (Jack McBrayer, introduced in Season 4) is the dentist who hires Frankie as a hygienist in season 4. He has few friends, and Frankie is forced to spend time with him after work in "The Jump" (season 5).[3] Ted's dental office is bought out by the conglomerate Smile Sensations in Season 7, and Frankie does not like the changes.
Edwin (Jimmy Bellinger, introduced in Season 5) is the young manager at Spudsy's, where Sue has worked steadily since season 5.

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Sean Donahue (Beau Wirick, introduced in season 1) is one of Axl's best friends, teammate on the high school football team, and neighbor Nancy Donahue's only son. He is helpful, polite, and friendly, which makes him outwardly the opposite of Axl; that said, he always supports everything Axl does. In season 2, Sue develops a crush on Sean, but eventually ends the one-way relationship. In season 5, Sean came back from college to take Sue to prom upon learning that she had no date, but by the time he arrived, Sue had made plans to go with Darrin. Similarly, he often makes the several hour drive home from Notre Dame (at the request of his mother) to help the Hecks whenever there is a crisis, only to find the crisis resolved by the time he gets there. It was revealed in the season 7 episode "Hecks at a Movie" that his and Axl's respective first kisses were inadvertently with one another in a dark closet, something they have vowed to never speak of again. Also in season 7, Sean has taken on a "hippie" persona and has become a vegetarian (much to Nancy's embarrassment). By season 8, Sean has reverted by to a more clean-cut look. The events of Season 8 reveal that Sean and Sue have a mutual affection, but neither person is yet aware of the other's feelings. In the season 9 episode "The Christmas Miracle," Sue and Sean are talking when the eventually realize they both have feelings for each other and kiss.
Nancy Donahue (Jen Ray, introduced in season 1) is the Hecks' neighbor and president of the booster club. The Donahues (Nancy, her husband Ron, their son Sean, and their two daughters) are portrayed as the idyllic family Frankie yearns to be like. From season 5, episode 4 ("The 100th"), Nancy and Frankie's friendship has waned a little, mainly because Nancy overheard Mike and Frankie talking about her. In Season 7, Episode 18 ("A Very Donahue Vacation") Nancy's daughter, Shelly hears Frankie talking about Nancy and tells her. However, Nancy forgives Frankie and they remain good friends.
Ron Donahue (Sean O'Bryan, introduced in season 2) is Nancy's husband and Sean's father, who appears to be very involved in his kids' lives.
Rita Glossner (Brooke Shields, introduced in season 1) is the Hecks' uncouth and troubled neighbor. She is the single parent of three rambunctious boys, as she had kicked the boys' father out of the house some years ago. The Glossners appear to be the only family on the block that is worse off financially than the Hecks. Rita often shows her disdain for the Hecks' higher status, even calling Frankie a "one-percenter" in the Season 7 episode, "Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death". The Season 8 episode "Trip and Fall" reveals that Rita has a fourth son, Rodney, her oldest child who has just made her a grandmother.
Derrick Glossner (David Chandler), Wade Glossner (Parker Bolek), and "Diaper" Glossner (Gibson Bobby Sjobeck) (all introduced in season 1) make up the dreaded Glossner boys, Rita's children. They are neighborhood bullies who used to terrorize Sue and Brick. In the first season, Sue and Carly attempt to fight the two older Glossner boys via a dance routine set to "Kung Fu Fighting". In the fifth season, Derrick reveals he has a crush on Sue and unexpectedly kisses her multiple times. Despite describing her as a "rich girl" with "one dad and two different kinds of chips" (and thus out of his league), he vows to better himself and come back for her someday.
Paula Norwood (Julie Brown, introduced in season 2) is another of the Hecks' neighbors. She serves as somewhat of a counterpoint to the idyllic Nancy Donahue in that her life and family (including husband Bill) is depicted as being similar to Frankie's, having a lot of the same issues.
Bill Norwood (Pat Finn, introduced in season 2) is the Hecks' neighbor and Paula’s husband who frequently embarrasses her. Bill tends to try too hard to convince Mike he's his friend, to the point of buying Mike expensive sunglasses for Christmas, even though the two had never agreed to exchange gifts. Bill reveals in the Season 9 episode "The 200th" that he and Paula are separated.
Dierdre Peterson (Emily Rutherfurd, introduced in season 7) is the Hecks' new next-door neighbor. She has three rambunctious, noisy children, plus a new baby.

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Darrin McGrew (John Gammon, introduced in season 1) is Axl's other best friend (along with Sean Donahue) and teammate. Darrin is the most passive and simple of Axl's friends, often landing himself, Sean, and Axl in problematic situations. In season 3, he takes Sue to the prom because of her "sunny disposition" and explained to Axl that he (Darrin) just wanted to go with someone and dance. In season 4, Darrin takes Sue to a Valentine's Day dance after her date cancels; and when tidying up in the hall after the dance they share a kiss. Later Darrin confides that he wants to continue dating Sue, which angers Axl. However, near the end of season 4, Sue breaks up with him after he accidentally punched her in the face while she was trying to break up a fight between him and Axl. After high school, Darrin enrolls in a heating and air conditioning repair school. In season 5, Sue feels like the breakup was a mistake and realizes that they only broke up because Axl was being so weird about it. With Axl having gone off to college, Sue gains a renewed interest in Darrin until she sees that he has a new girlfriend (Angel). Darrin later decides that his current girlfriend is too high-maintenance and he brings flowers to Sue, only to see her being kissed by Derrick Glossner. Despite a series of misunderstandings, the two ultimately reconnect at Sue's prom in season 5, and become a couple again. He proposes to Sue in the 6th season, and under pressure, she accepts. (In this episode, you see Darrin's mom for the first time and Darrin's last name is revealed to be McGrew, after Axl jokes that Sue's married name would be Sue Sue McGrew.) After realizing she doesn't want to be married yet, Sue breaks off the engagement with him three days later. Darrin has not appeared since that episode.
Carly (Blaine Saunders, introduced in Season 1) is Sue's best female friend. She began in season 1 as a geeky character, wearing glasses and braces. Her braces were removed mid-season 1, and she became more popular as a result. Sue seems to be jealous, if only subconsciously, and wears makeup which her family finds garish. From season 2 onwards, Carly has reverted to a more geeky look. After making multiple appearances in Seasons 1–4, Carly only made one appearance in Season 5 (Episode 14, "The Award") and one appearance in Season 6 (Episode 11, "A Quarry Story"). In a season 9 episode ("New Year's Revelations"), Carly attends the Hecks' New Year's Eve party, where it is revealed that she has a baby (and it is implied that she is a single mother).
Zack (Andrew J. Fishman, introduced in Season 1) is Brick's friend from the socially challenged class. He has a tendency to behave like a cat, meowing and wearing oven mitts. Zack has not appeared in the show since Season 4.
Arlo (Nick Shafer, introduced in Season 2) is a friend Brick meets during the second season. He has an obsession with keeping everything on a schedule and takes frequent and lengthy bathroom breaks in the episode "Mother's Day II" when he is accompanying the Hecks to Brown County. He does not show up in the third or fourth season, although in "Year of the Hecks", he is mentioned.
Ashley "Weird Ashley" Wyman (Katlin Mastandrea, introduced in Season 2) is Axl's weird classmate who has twice been his accidental date to prom. She is also on Sue's wrestlerette team. She has a keen interest in wizards, although she has never heard of Harry Potter. At their third prom together, Ashley is not Axl's date but dances with him when he's announced as prom king, as Axl and his date Cassidy had broken up only a few moments before the announcement. Axl is known to have a hatred towards her as he still regrets sending a text message about going to a prom with her. In season 5, Ashley invites Sue to hang with her at prom, as they are both there without dates, while Frankie's voice-over chides: "It wouldn't be prom if a Heck wasn't accompanied by Weird Ashley." In season 6, Ashley appears in Axl's dorm building out of nowhere, announcing she has transferred to East Indiana State because of their hotel management program. She tells Devin Levin that Axl was her boyfriend, which Axl of course vehemently denies. During an encounter with Axl in Season 8 ("Exes and Ohhhs"), Ashley gets angry with him because he never officially said that he had no romantic interest in her, leading her to believe there was always a chance.
Ruth (Grace Bannon, introduced in Season 3) is a member of Sue's wrestlerette team, depicted as an extreme religious conservative, often referencing "the rapture". Unlike the other wrestlerettes, Ruth wears an ankle-length skirt.
Becky (Jessica Marie Garcia, introduced in Season 3) is a rough-and-tumble member of Sue's wrestlerette team.
Charles "Hutch" Hutchinson (Alphonso McAuley, introduced in Season 5) is Axl's football teammate, best friend, and eventual roommate at college. Like Axl, Hutch does not get much playing time on the East Indiana State football team. In the Season 9 episode, Eyes Wide Open, Axl visits Hutch at his new place in Chicago and finds that Hutch has turned into a responsible adult.
Kenny (Tommy Bechtold, introduced in Season 5) is Axl's college roommate who does nothing but play World of Warcraft. He is mostly shown from behind as he sits at his computer. His face was shown briefly at the end of the season 5 episode "The Kiss". In an episode of season 6 ("The Table") Axl and Hutch move out of the dorm and into a rental house, but realize they can't afford it on their own. They look up Kenny and invite him to be their roommate, too, as he apparently is reliable in paying bills and rent. Kenny speaks on-screen for the first time (and his face is shown again) in the Season 7 episode "Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death". The Season 8 episode "Pitch Imperfect" reveals that Kenny has developed some apps in between playing games, and has a fairly substantial net worth.
Cindy (Casey Burke, introduced in Season 6) is a classmate of Brick's who becomes his pseudo-girlfriend in season 6. Though she stands taller than Brick, she seems as quirky as he is. She always wears a safari hat, her facial expression shows no emotion, and, since she finds Brick's missing shoe in her first appearance, it is heavily implied that the character is named for Cinderella. Cindy is very brief and direct in her communication. She has stated in multiple episodes that her favorite food is shrimp. Cindy's flaky parents are introduced in the season 7 episode "Crushed", when they ask the Hecks for a significant loan to save their house from foreclosure. The Hecks aren't able to help, forcing Cindy's family to move in with her grandparents. This seemingly ends her relationship with Brick, until it is shown that her grandparents live only a block away. It's implied in the season 7 episode "Halloween VII" that Brick and Cindy eventually marry and start a family. In Season 8's "The Final Final", Brick is elated to learn that Cindy's doctor told her she has likely stopped growing. Cindy and Brick briefly break up early in season 9, but are back together as of the episode "The 200th".
Troy (Jovan Armand, introduced in Season 7) is Brick's large classmate who initially protects him from school bullies, then later becomes his friend.
Lexie Brooks (Daniela Bobadilla, introduced in season 7) is Sue's college classmate who, like Sue, fails to get accepted by any sororities at the school. She later becomes Sue's dorm mate and friend. She loves horses, and her family is rich. In the Season 8 episode "Hoosier Maid", Lexie realizes she likes Axl, after denying his implications for several weeks. Because Axl is with April, she doesn't act on her feelings. However, after one date with Sean Donahue, Lexie tells Sue she thinks she wants more of a "bad boy". She ultimately reveals to Sue that she really really likes Axl in the Season 8 episode "Swing and a Miss". Axl returns her feelings by kissing her in "The Par-Tay." They date in secret in "The Confirmation" and then by the end of the episode, their relationship is public knowledge. In "The Final Final", they're shown to be happily together.

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Morgan (Alexa Vega, introduced in Season 1) is Axl's first girlfriend on the series, whom Frankie takes an instant liking to due to her straight-A grades and talent in multiple areas. However, after she breaks Axl's heart more than once, Frankie eventually explodes with anger and throws a beanbag at Morgan during a birthday party.
Courtney and Debbie (Brittany Ross and Natalie Lander, introduced in Season 3) are airheaded, think-alike cheerleaders in Axl and Sue's high school who date Axl as one. Because the two are inseparable, Axl struggles to figure out which one is his real girlfriend and which one is just hanging out with the other. He makes a calculated guess that Courtney is his girlfriend and kisses her, which causes both girls to slap him and break up with him. They perpetually overlook Sue, often thinking she is a new exchange student, and later calling her a freshman during her senior year. In Season 7, it is revealed that Courtney and Debbie are assistant cheerleading coaches at Orson High, and that they no longer like each other.
Cassidy Finch (Galadriel Stineman, introduced in Season 4) is Axl's girlfriend in his senior year of high school. She met Axl when he was trying to boost his grades and needed a tutor. They didn't get along very well in their first session, but then Axl kissed her and soon found out she had a boyfriend. She later broke up with her old boyfriend to be with Axl. Late in season 4, Cassidy's ex-boyfriend returns, putting tension between Axl and Cassidy for a while before they come back together. They break up in the episode "Hallelujah Hoedown", after Cassidy reveals she is going away in three weeks for an internship program and that they will be in different colleges come September. They begin speaking again in "The Award" (season 5), after Cassidy leaves an embarrassing message on Axl's voicemail. After a brief reconnection during spring break, Cassidy breaks up with Axl again, saying it isn't fair to either of them to pursue a relationship while being 800 miles apart.
Devin Levin (Gia Mantegna, introduced in Season 6) is a relative of Frankie's hairdresser who was only an acquaintance of Axl's in the past. In season 6, he notices how she has blossomed and that they share many interests, and they begin dating. The two briefly break up when Devin notices that Axl still has her listed as "Uggo from Idaho" in his cell phone contacts, but they get back together later on. Early in Season 7, they break up again, each agreeing they should see other people during their college years.
April (Greer Grammer, introduced in Season 8) is Axl's love interest, whom he meets offscreen between Seasons 7 and 8. April is beautiful and sweet, but not very smart. Frankie immediately tells Axl he can do better, causing a rift between mother and son. Mike initially likes April, but later has a conversation with Axl in which he calls her "dumb as a box of hammers". Defiant, Axl marries April in a civil service. After both sets of parents find out, the marriage is annulled. Axl briefly continues to date his ex-wife, but later breaks up with April in order to pursue Lexie.
Lexie Brooks[4] (Daniela Bobadilla, introduced in Season 7) is Sue's best friend at college who is also now Axl's girlfriend.

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Brad Bottig (Brock Ciarlelli, introduced in Season 1) is Sue's flamboyant, theater-loving, tap dancing and slightly camp ex-boyfriend, who is on the high school wrestling team. They date during Thanksgiving (Season 1), but soon break up. Mike and Frankie assume the breakup was the result of Sue learning that Brad is gay, but Sue claims it’s because she found out Brad has a smoking habit. Brad and Sue have remained good friends despite their breakup, and she remains seemingly unaware of his obvious, if stereotypical, homosexual behavior. From Season 5 onwards, Brad seems to be Sue's closest friend. In Season 7, Brad prepares to tell Sue a secret (in which he is about to come out as gay), to which she responds that she knows, and she shows him love and support. In Season 8, Brad transfers to East Indiana State, saying he felt dwarfed as a student at NYU.
Matt (Moisés Arias, introduced in Season 3) is a boy on the wrestling team at Orson High who likes Sue; he becomes Sue's first real boyfriend but eventually ends the relationship after moving away and falling for another girl. In season 4, Matt asks Sue to the school Valentine's Day dance because he broke up with his girlfriend Sherrie. He later calls Sue at the last minute to say that he and Sherrie got back together, and he is no longer taking her to the dance. This paves the way for Darrin to swoop in and save the day for Sue.
Darrin McGrew
Logan (David Hull, introduced in Season 6) is a guy from another high school who works as a shirtless model in the Abercrombie & Fitch store at the same mall where Sue works. He asks Sue to her prom after seeing her depressed over breaking up with Darrin, and he later reveals that he likes her. The two later try to connect during a chance encounter at East Indiana State, but Sue had taken Brick along that day, and he gets lost. Finally, Logan and Sue meet at a movie theater, where Logan says he is majoring in Religious Studies and plans to be a priest, disappointing Sue.
Jeremy (Will Green, introduced in Season 7) is a hardcore environmentalist and anti-capitalist whom Sue first meets when he is chained to a tree on campus. The two briefly date, but Sue breaks up with Jeremy early in season 8.
Tyler (Keaton Savage, introduced in Season 7) is the boy who drives the safe ride cart on the East Indiana State campus. He becomes Sue's brief love interest in season 8, until she spends most of their first date talking about Sean Donahue.
Sean Donahue has a crush on Sue, but Sue doesn't know. Sue has a crush on Sean, but Sean doesn't know. In the season 9 episode "The Christmas Miracle," the two finally kiss.
Aidan (Jackson White, introduced in season 9) delivers food to Lexie and Sue's apartment on the evening when Sean Donahue is supposed to set up Sue with a blind date. In reality, Sean was going to surprise Sue by being her mystery date, but Sue assumes that Aidan is actually whom Sean sent. They go on an accidental date that evening, and Aidan later surprises Sue at the Hecks' New Year's Eve party, where he kisses her at midnight (thwarting Sean's plans to kiss Sue). Aidan is very clumsy and keeps accidentally injuring Sue, causing her to try to break up with him, but Brad begs her not to end the relationship until he has a chance to ask out Aidan's bandmate Luke. By the time Brad and Luke hit it off, Sue realizes how similar she and Aidan are and decides not to break up with him after all.

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Mrs. Tompkins (Krista Braun, introduced in Season 1) is Brick's social skills mentor and guidance counselor.
Mr. Farrar (Christopher Darga, introduced in Season 3) is a teacher at Orson High.
Dr. Fulton (Dave Foley, introduced in Season 4) is the school therapist. He is an odd character who helps Brick bond with his peers and try to fit in more at school. An insecure man himself, Dr. Fulton is obsessed with his ex-wife Shelly, whom he mentions nearly every time Brick talks to him for "help". In Season 8, he tells Brick he is dating a 68-year-old woman named Barbara, whom he prefers to call "Shelly".
Principal Cameron (French Stewart, introduced in Season 4) is the principal at Orson High.
Coach Tink Babbitt (Brooke Dillman, introduced in Season 5) is a physical education teacher and detention monitor at Orson High. In the Season 8 episode "Swing and a Miss", Mike hires Tink as a part-time assistant at the quarry, solely for the purpose of making her eligible to play on the quarry's softball team.

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Reverend Timothy "Tim-Tom" Thomas (Paul Hipp, introduced in Season 1), is a youth minister at the Hecks' church whom Sue deeply admires. He surprised Sue by remembering her name after only having met her once, and always seems to appear just when Sue needs help the most. He is known for frequently playing his acoustic guitar and making almost anything into a song. He plays guitar with Axl on one occasion when encouraging him to do the right thing. In season 5, Reverend Tim-Tom gets a girlfriend (Reverend Tammy, played by Casey Wilson). Sue takes a disliking to Tammy and isn't sure how to tell Reverend Tim-Tom, but Sue changes her mind about Tammy after the two talk.
Reverend Hager (Dierk Torsek, introduced in Season 1) is the pastor at the Hecks' church.

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Amy Sedaris as Abby Michaels (Season 1)
Betty White as Mrs. Nethercott (Season 1)
Doris Roberts as Mrs. Rinsky (Season 2)
Ray Romano as Nicky Kohlbrenner (Season 3)
Molly Shannon as Frankie's sister Janet (Seasons 3 and 4)
Ed Asner as Ben (Season 3)
Richard Gant as Pastor Watkins (Season 3)
Whoopi Goldberg as Ms. Jane Marsh (Season 3)
David Koechner as Jeff Webber (Season 4)
Carolyn Hennesy as Connie McDonald (Season 4)
Marion Ross as Ms. Dunlap (Season 4)
Rachel Dratch as Principal Barker (Season 5)
Keegan-Michael Key as Reverend Deveaux (Season 5)
Casey Wilson as Reverend Tammy (Season 5)
Nicole Sullivan as Vicki (Season 5)
Mindy Cohn as Kimberly (Season 5)
Richard Kind as Dr. Niller (Season 6)
Kirstie Alley as Pam Staggs (Season 6)
Dick Van Dyke as Paul "Dutch" Spence (Season 6)
Faith Ford as Sheila (Season 7)
Cheryl Hines as Dr. Sommer Samuelson (Season 7)
Josh Cooke as Nick Grant (Season 7)
Alan Ruck as Jack Kershaw (Season 7)
Monica Horan as Anna Ferguson (Season 8)
Alan Rachins as Mort (Season 8)
Lisa Rinna as Tammy Brooks (Season 9)
Gregory Harrison as Bennett Brooks (Season 9)