'Mike & Molly' Season 3, Episode 4: 'Molly in the Middle' Recap

Mike and Molly are watching scary movies, and note that you never see a fat vampire. They have a little back and forth, and Molly gets gooey-eyed unexpectedly. She’s just imagining a little monster of their own sitting between them—no, not her mother.

“You really imagine it being little, huh?”

Molly suggests she’s been thinking about having a baby.

“All right you talked me into it let’s knock you up,” Mike says eagerly, but Molly says they have to consider the logistics. It doesn’t make sense to have one yet in their situation. Mike reminds her if their parents had waited, they wouldn’t be there… and they happen to have the house to themselves. She’s sold and they go upstairs.

Mike almost ruins the mood by singing and wearing his lucky Cubs hat, but Molly goes with it. He’s pretty convinced she’ll get knocked up ASAP but she tells him it might take a while.

At the diner, Mike later tells Carl about how great reproductive sex is, but Carl reminds him he just broke up with his girlfriend and doesn’t want to hear about how happy and in love Mike is.

Molly has Joyce, Victoria, and Christina in the living room enjoying a drink that evening, and she tells them their plans. Christina is helpful but Joyce pretty much attributes kids to ruining her life, and that it was “Mostly just trying to keep you little idiots alive.”

Mike is not pleased to come home and see Christina, who is now the enemy after dumping Carl. Molly insists she won’t give up her friendship with her.

The next morning, Vince is in the kitchen deciding on grandpa monikers when Carl comes in looking for Mike. Molly asks if he minds if she stays friends with Christina, and he says of course not. But when Mike comes down, he’s pissed to hear Christina is still around.

“I don’t know how you sleep at all, you duplicitous lying backstabber.”

Carl silent treatments him, and on the job when Mike is trying to apprehend a graffiti artist, his adolescent buddy spray paints Mike’s back. Mike is horrified Molly’s relationship with Christina means Carl doesn’t have his back anymore.

Molly goes to see Carl, who is noting that there are no monsters of color on T.V. He confesses he feels like she chose Christina over him, but she reminds him that he is an important part of their lives and Uncle Carl to their unconceived child.

Molly later picks up Christina to hang out with, and comes clean about the Carl issue. Christina asks how he is, and then goes on a ramble about his flaws.

“I’ve never dated a man that cries more than me.”

When Christina calls him a nitwit, Molly has had enough. She pulls to the side and tells her to hit the bricks.  He may be crazy, but she chooses Carl. She goes home and tells Mike she broke up with Christina. They decide that because of Carl’s infant-like traits, they’re totally ready to have a baby. And it would probably cry less.