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On the ABC comedy “The Middle,” a dad who works at a quarry explains why he won’t go to career day at school to one of his three children.

“If I don’t clock in,” Mike Heck says, “I don’t get paid. And if I don’t get paid, you guys are wiping your butts with junk mail again.”

The Hecks are a sitcom family that struggles to pay bills and juggle…