The Heck family from ABC TV's "The Middle" visits Walt Disney World on its fifth season finale. Their journey features 800-page planning binders, MagicBands, the Magic Kingdom'sFantasyland expansion and a Disney Vacation Club destination. (Note: spoilers follow.)
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The episode entitled "The Wonderful World of Hecks" uses a Disneyland / Walt Disney World ticket mix-up to highlight the new MagicBand technology installed at theme park entrances.
This same plot device also leaves the family without a hotel room for the night. Fortunately the fabled "Disney Magic"--or perhaps television magic--lands the Hecks in a three bedroom Grand Villa in the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa.
For the sake of those not familiar with the show, the Hecks are the prototypical hard-working, middle-american nuclear family. Mom Frances Heck is a dental assistant while husband Mike Heck toils away in his job as a quarry manager. Teenage children Axl, Sue and Brick face the challenges of college, high school and middle school, respectively.
The Hecks find themselves a bit out of their element, gifted with a night in Disney's flagship resort.
"Check out this flat screen!"
"There's a TV in the mirror!"
"Look at this table! When I get rich, I'm gonna buy one of these and never use it!"
"Everybody start loading your bags with toilet paper!"
"There's a phone in the bathroom!"
"Guys, they microwave works! Everything in here works!"
"The Middle" stars Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher and Atticus Shaffer. The episode "The Wonderful World of Hecks" is available to stream now for Hulu Plus subscribers, as well as via ABC.com for viewers with certain cable and satellite providers. Additional providers gain access to stream later this week.
