Louis in the Middle

what happens

In the cafeteria one day Louis saves the school's sort-of celebrity Blake Thompson (who's made a couple of TV commercials) from choking. Blake is grateful and takes a liking to Louis, inviting him to join his ""in"" crowd. Louis takes to his new status right away, putting a strain on his old friendships with Twitty and Tawny. But as soon as Blake sees that Louis is gaining some popularity himself, he drops him like a hot potato. The result is that Louis is out of favor with both his new friends and the old ones, too. Tawny comes up with a ""life-saving"" scheme, though. Meanwhile, Ren is being given a hard time in her job as school policy monitor by Larry Beale, who heckles her when she speaks at lunch and fills her suggestion box with not-so-nice suggestions. Ren feels like she's ""lost her mojo"" when it comes to handling Larry and is going to quit her policy monitor position, but she gets some encouragement from Louis--and unexpectedly, from Larry, too.

who made it

directed

Jonathan Winfrey

written

Mark Fink

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Ty Hodges as Larry Beale
• Eric Jungmann as Ivan
• Margo Harshman as Tawny Dean
• A.J. Trauth as Alan Twitty
• SShannon Marshall as Charlotte
• TTimothy Everett Moore as Blake Thompson