40 Fun Facts About Stuck in the Middle

Which actress, later famous as Wednesday Addams on Netflix, played inventor Harley Diaz in Stuck in the Middle?

Jenna Ortega led the sitcom from 2016 to 2018, taking an apartment in Los Angeles once she booked the part. She filmed there through the working week and went home at weekends.

Which actress, who played the youngest Diaz child in Stuck in the Middle, later appeared as Sasha in the film Barbie?

Ariana Greenblatt began her career on the sitcom, and in the year it ended she also reached cinemas as the young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War.

Which High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star played Harley Diaz's neighbor Aidan in Stuck in the Middle?

Joshua Bassett landed Aidan as his first substantial role, having moved to Los Angeles at 16 and lived in his car for a time to get by.

Which Olympic gold-medal gymnast plays herself in Stuck in the Middle, coming to dinner at the Diaz family home?

Laurie Hernandez finds the family's meal too spicy, then tells Harley and Georgie about her own rough patches as a gymnast to show them that failure can be survived.

Which animal, mistaken for a cat by the youngest Diaz child, crashes a family church photo in Stuck in the Middle?

A skunk is the pet she has been looking after, unmasked only when the picture is taken. In the same episode Harley, newly 13, wins the right to work at her father's store.

Which celebration for Harley Diaz, one that brings sister Rachel home from abroad, ends the Stuck in the Middle series?

Her quinceañera nearly goes wrong when the box holding her grand-entrance plans never reaches the venue, so Harley improvises an acrobatic arrival instead.

Which storytelling device does Harley Diaz use throughout Stuck in the Middle to comment on her family's chaos?

Fourth-wall breaks have Harley speak straight to viewers about whatever situation she is in, which suits a character who sees herself as the family's inventor and fixer.

Before Stuck in the Middle, the actress behind Harley Diaz played the title character as a child in which CW series?

Jane the Virgin kept her as the young Jane Villanueva from 2014 to 2019, so the recurring part ran alongside all three seasons of the Disney sitcom.

Joe Nieves, dad Tom Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, also played Carl the bartender on which sitcom?

How I Met Your Mother gave him the part by accident: his scene was cut from the pilot, nobody told him, and when he arrived in a police costume he was made the barman instead.

What does Harley Diaz build as her family's big activity for the neighborhood block party in Stuck in the Middle?

A roller coaster comes to her only once she is back in the noise: shut away in a quiet closet to think, Harley finds her ideas go flat without her siblings' chaos.

In Stuck in the Middle, what do the Diaz kids call the best spot in the family car, kept for the oldest?

The sweet seat belongs to Rachel, and Harley schemes for it on her forgotten 13th birthday before deciding she can wait. When Rachel later moves abroad, not even Harley is ready to claim it.

Which bicycle-powered invention does Harley Diaz build in Stuck in the Middle after her dad rejects a $500 machine?

The Slushinator is pedalled by her younger twin brothers, whom Harley hires for the job, and it lifts trade at the store until the pair quit and start a feud.

What is the name of the marina store that Harley Diaz's father runs in Stuck in the Middle?

Tom's Bait and Bite sells camping and fishing gear, and the family nearly loses it when a yacht-club owner buys the shop intending to build over it.

Which Diaz child, the youngest of the family, sleeps in an indoor dollhouse in Stuck in the Middle?

Daphne hosts tea time for her dolls, yet she is no pushover: she retaliates against anyone who takes her things without her approval.

In Stuck in the Middle, who is Harley Diaz's best friend, the daughter of fussy neighbor Bethany Peters?

Ellie is afraid of heights, darkness and birds, and her fear of heights once left both girls locked out on the Diaz roof while they waited for a comet.

Which holiday is Harley Diaz's favorite in Stuck in the Middle, because her inventions give her an edge over her family?

Halloween suits her because her gadgets give her an edge at frightening the family each year, until they rig the Secret Scarer draw and terrify her in pumpkin heads as payback.

In season three of Stuck in the Middle, oldest sibling Rachel Diaz leaves home for a fashion internship in which city?

Paris nearly loses her: afraid to leave, Rachel secretly withdraws her application, and her sisters have to talk her through it before the airport goodbye.

In the Stuck in the Middle special Stuck at Christmas, the Diaz family sets out to surprise Abuela in which state?

Florida is reached the hard way: a storm grounds their flight in Ohio, their money burns in a campfire, and they have to win a holiday race to get their broken-down ride repaired.

During Stuck in the Middle, the actress behind Harley Diaz also voiced Princess Isabel in which animated series?

Elena of Avalor made her the heroine's little sister, who is also an inventor, so she was playing gadget-minded girls on two Disney shows at the same time.

Which astrophysicist does Harley Diaz hope to see in Boston in the Stuck in the Middle episode Stuck in the Dark?

Neil deGrasse Tyson goes unseen in the end: Harley gives up the trip to stay with her little sister, who has admitted during a sleepover that she is afraid of the dark.

In Stuck in the Middle, what do the Diaz parents call their harshest punishment, once earned by a laundry invention?

Lockdown confines a child to the bedroom, and one episode ends with five Diaz kids serving it together after the youngest gets herself punished just to join her sisters.

In Stuck in the Middle, Harley Diaz invents remote-controlled balls to get sister Georgie onto which school team?

Golf is the off-season sport Harley picks because Georgie tends to score low at whatever she plays, but the rigged balls leave Harley so guilty that she owns up.

Aidan, the boy next door who irritates Harley Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, is a skilled player of which sport?

Lacrosse starts their feud: his stray shots keep landing in the Diaz backyard during Harley's children's camp, and he then moves the fence deeper into her family's yard.

In Stuck in the Middle, Aidan turns down escorting Harley Diaz to her big party to join his father in which city?

Tokyo is where his father Charles lives, and it is Harley who reunites them: she secretly asks Charles to visit as her present to Aidan.

What nickname does Rachel Diaz's irresponsible boyfriend, whose real first name is Warren, use in Stuck in the Middle?

Cuff is disliked by Rachel's father, yet ends up working at his store, only to be fired for defacing the merchandise in a grand gesture to win Rachel back.

Which actress, Abuela Claudia in In the Heights, played the Diaz children's grandmother in Stuck in the Middle?

Olga Merediz originated Claudia on Broadway and earned a Tony nomination for it, years before she arrived at the Diaz house as the grandmother who insists she has no favorites.

Which former Yellow Ranger from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy played the mother, Suzy Diaz, in Stuck in the Middle?

Cerina Vincent broke through as Maya in that series, then became a horror scream queen with Cabin Fever before turning up as a Disney Channel mom.

Ronni Hawk, who played Rachel Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, went on to play Olivia in which Netflix teen series?

On My Block cast her for its first season, and the part arrived in the same year her Disney character was written out to study abroad.

Kayla Maisonet, the sporty Georgie Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, earlier played Lindsay on which Disney Channel sitcom?

Dog with a Blog had her as Lindsay, the heroine's hat-wearing best friend, a recurring part that won her a Young Artist Award in 2014.

Nicolas Bechtel, Lewie Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, was already known as Spencer Cassadine on which daytime soap?

General Hospital had him as Spencer from 2013, and he went back for one last episode in 2020, after the Disney sitcom had ended, before the role was recast.

What is the fictional Massachusetts town where the Diaz family lives in Stuck in the Middle?

Marshport marks its tricentennial in season one with a parade that sister Georgie, chosen to lead it, marches straight into the Diaz backyard.

Georgie Diaz joins the school dance squad in Stuck in the Middle after being cut from the team in which sport?

Basketball is the sport she lives for, so the cut leaves her distraught; Harley first lands her the job of school mascot, and the dancers notice her moves from there.

In Stuck in the Middle, which Harley Diaz invention does Mr. Pillman steal, prompting her to threaten a patent suit?

The Dry-Through had earlier won the family a free water-park weekend, and Harley uses the theft as leverage to make Pillman hand her father's store back.

In the Stuck in the Middle special Stuck at Christmas, which vehicle do the Diaz family take over and decorate?

A band's tour bus replaces their two cramped rental cars, and they can use it only because the father happens to hold a license for that kind of vehicle.

Which actor, who played twin Beast Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, later starred in The Villains of Valley View?

Malachi Barton is the son of a former American Idol contestant, and he sings too: he later played a vampire in the Disney musical Zombies 4.

Which Latino-focused honors named Stuck in the Middle's lead actress best young television actor in 2018?

The Imagen Awards nominated her three times for playing Harley, and the win came in the same summer the sitcom aired its final episode.

In Stuck in the Middle, Harley Diaz's best friend is sent to which boarding school after the pair wreck a mailbox?

Radistone Academy begins as a punishment that her mother cancels when the girls protest; then Harley researches the school and persuades her friend to go after all.

Six Stuck in the Middle shorts follow the Diaz family, already on two strikes, on a shopping trip to which store?

Mega Mart's manager Rodney is waiting for a third strike so he can ban them from the shop for good, and he gets it when he rips his pants trying to stop Rachel's in-store broadcast.

Which dreaded family trip does Harley Diaz recreate in the attic as an escape game in Stuck in the Middle?

Pilgrim Land is the outing the Diaz kids fear most, so their parents turn the tables: once the siblings escape the attic, they must beat a second game or face the real trip.

In Stuck in the Middle, the older Diaz kids rent their house to a celebrity fisherman to fund a trip to where?

Hawaii is the dream trip the younger siblings always seem to wreck, and this time the guest's demands, from a security system to a dog-sitter, swallow every dollar earned.