Hey guys, Audrey Cleo here in the middle of ABC's The Middle and I'm getting all of their set secrets. And I mean all of them. Atticus has been so generous and offered to give us a tour of his TV home. Thank you so much, Atticus.

Absolutely.

So whose room? This is the master bedroom, isn't it?

This is the master bedroom. So this is Frankie Mike's room.

So many seasons into this show. Congratulations, by the way. I mean in TV years, that's that's quite an achievement. Welcome back to set. I mean so many seasons into this show. Does it ever get old when you start ramping up production and and start shooting?

Thank you. No. That's one of the fortunate things about this experience is that everyone gets along well. I understand that's not always the case. Right, right. And so, no. I think we all feel very lucky. This was cool too. At the very, very, very beginning of the show, they're like, get- give us baby photos.

This is you?

This is me. This is an actual baby photo of mine. There's a Patty photo from long ago.

Oh my gosh. What's it been like seeing the kids grow up?

You know, you don't realize it until you go back and look at the original Oh my gosh, Atticus was like talking like this. It's a little crazy. And it's it's just every time we come back to the set, it's like it just started yesterday. This is of course, Axl and Brick's room.

Okay. You've spent a lot of time in here.

Yes, most definitely. This is definitely, while it's a cluttered room, it's really cool 'cause every time we shoot in here, there'll be something else new to see because there's so much

Like one of those puzzles, like

It is. There's a exac- exactly. It's like a detective mystery game.

But you've been playing Axl now for what, fifty seasons on this show. Of course. And you basically grown up on this show.

Yeah. Yeah.

What's that been like for you?

Kind of bizarre. Yeah. I'm pretty shy and so it's been weird being on television through from like my teenage years to now. In here is Sue's room. It's my spirit animal.

Eden Sher. Lenny. Ah. So nice to see you again. Well, welcome back to your TV home. What I think is so great about this show is that you guys have literally grown up on this set. What has that been like for you?

Like I definitely like evolved as a human being. Definitely just like grown and grown through the truth. You guys

Now, it's not every day you see a full on light rig in a bathroom. It's true. And and there's not a lot of privacy in this bathroom. And of course having the fan there doesn't help. There's still the evil Bernie lurking around, but he's he's we don't know what happened to him. But this was actually, I wrote this. This was something that they had me write and doodle on and And then uh as we continue, here's village. This is where all all all the lovely um behind the scenes creatures and whatnot.

With Greer Grammer, you are playing Axl's love interest. What do you think it is about this show that people have latched onto and have resonated with?

I think it's just a real family show. Like all the awkward moments that everybody had in high school, all the kids leaving to go to college. Kids can relate to all the different kid characters and then parents can relate to the struggles that Frankie and Mike go through.

What the writers have done is craft characters that are three dimensional. And so you weren't getting a typical oh, here's the teen daughter and she's kind of snarky and snotty. I mean there's a lot of those. And so for instance the creation of Sue, a girl who is really happy, really optimistic, not talented in anything and not successful in anything. It's the same with Brick's character who has all these quirks and you know, many families have one kid who's just like, ah, you can't figure 'em out. Yeah. And so you get an audience that's so invested that they want to come back year after year and watch the progression of the family.

because you're not a newbie on this set, I wanted to play set superlatives with you. Okay. So, do not hold back. So who's most likely to flub a line?

Patty Heaton. Patty. I'm gonna say Patty Heaton, but it's because she has the most lines.

Wasn't he say we're in the fourth quarter of this thing? Oh, was there something else to add to that? Most likely to keep a souvenir from set.

I would say Charlie. Yeah. Charlie. Me, 'cause I've stolen a bunch of things.

Really? What have you stolen? How do you

I don't know if I'm allowed to. It's safe. No, it's fine. These children's books I really loved as a kid. And I just had these these images in my head of what the books were about but I couldn't remember the names of them or the author and I found them in Brick's room. And I was like, that's those are the books. So I I I stole them.

Charlie's like the set klepto. Watch out. I know. First team? Already. Oh, I gotta go. I have to go, but here, I'll just I'll just take you through just right here. Okay, so I'll just uh see myself out.

See yourself out. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thank you. Boom. Hope you enjoyed. All right, I'll just uh