My wife and i were watching some of our built up TiVo shows last night, and we watched an episode of "The Middle" from April. It stars the janitor guy from "Scrubs" and Patricia Heaton from "Raymond". Anyway, the husband gets free tickets to the Final Four, which are being played nearby in Indianapolis (they live in Indiana). They're not well off, so this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for him. Anyway, they then find out that the wife's great uncle died, and the funeral's the same day, so she guilts him into going to that instead. He's all angry, and tapes the games. He threatens people all day that he'll kill them if they tell him the scores. Odd events happen at the funeral that cause the wife to tell him to go ahead and go, that he can still catch the second game. As he's leaving, he doubles over and collapses with appendicitis. As they're loading him on the gurney, he begs the paramedics not to tell him the scores. In the last scene, they anesthesiologist is putting the mask on him with the surgeons and nurses all crowded around, and one guy asks if anybody saw the game. A woman sighs and says it was the greatest ending ever, and another male voice says "Yea, it's a great day to be a Duke fan," and the dad starts crying.
So, I just thought it was cool that the show mentioned Duke. However, I thought it was a little weird, since they were talking about the Final Four, NOT the final game, and Duke won that one by 21 over WVU, so it wasn't really a "great ending". I mean, it was an awesome game from a Duke perspective, obviously, but I hardly saw it as a "great ending". The great ending was in the final game, I thought. Maybe the Butler game was the great ending, and they just did a little bit of a non sequitur. What do you guys think? Did anybody else see that episode?
