'Mike & Molly': Season 3, Episode 20: 'Mike Can't Read' Recap

Mike and Molly try to read in bed. Mike says the light is no good, but Molly suggests he needs glasses. Molly has an old sketch pad of her mother’s that she found. Joyce used to be very talented.

Molly shows Victoria the drawings. She is impressed. Joyce comes in with Vince to go feed ducks at the park, and sees the drawings. They ask why she gave it up, and she says she had no more time after having the girls.

Molly realizes there are still things she wants to do before they have kids. He encourages her to follow her dreams, and to get milk. She insists they are both going to mix things up—they can learn to rollerskate!

At the diner, Carl has to hold the menu so Mike can read it. He talks to Carl about Molly’s suggestion they mix things up. He has an old trombone, maybe he can start a Dixieland band.

Molly gets home early, and gives Joyce a present—sketch pads and pencils, and a college catalogue with art classes. Joyce tells her she doesn’t have time for this kind of stuff. Vince comes in and Molly tries to get him to push her. He does—he tells her she is not going back to college. Joyce gets mad at him and decides to pick out an art course.

Molly brings Mike skating, which he hates.

Mike tries to read the paper, and Vince comes down upset because Joyce won’t talk to him. He is worried about Joyce going to college and finding someone else. Mike comforts him by reminding him their amazing women chose them… so they can’t be that smart. He encourages Vince to be loving and supportive.

Vince makes Joyce breakfast, trying to be supportive and loving. Joyce gets demanding, and he loses his temper. She goes to campus, and he is mad she still wants to go. Mike comes in with his trombone.

Staying late with a kid, Molly is surprised to see Joyce come to visit. She left her class—the art teacher was an art douche. She admits she was just doing it to annoy Vince. She has everything she wants. She didn’t give up anything—Molly and Victoria were the best things to ever happen to her.

Joyce goes to the park and finds Vince on the park with his ducks. She tells him she’s done with the class, but he tells her he doesn’t want to hold her back from something she wants to do.

Later, Mike and Molly, sick of skating, decide they need another lap when they find naked Vince being painted in the living room.