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xxx Best Modern Family unit Episodes Ranked

"Trip the light fantastic toe until your feet injure, sing until your lungs hurt, deed until y'all're William Hurt." Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) is full of spunky bites of wisdom from his book of Phil's-osophies. And it'southward painfully clear that the patriarch lives past his own words. Life with the Dunphy and Pritchett families are a chip of an adventure. While they may seem like average suburban people living in Southern California, they're anything just. Not only is this blended family diverse in many ways, they're also the life of the party that is one of Television receiver's best sitcoms, "Modern Family."

For those who have seen the show — and let's hope that is everyone reading this spoiler-filled slice — awkward coincidences, hilarious karmic comeuppances, and the rudimentary just valuable need to feel loved and accepted by family are what make "Modernistic Family" the comedic, heart-warming sitcom that information technology is. In honor of the series, let's take a look at 30 of the best episodes "Modernistic Family" has to offer, ranked.

30. Two Monkeys and a Panda (Flavor 2, Episode 17)

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The episode'due south title refers to Cam (Eric Stonestreet), Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and their adopted daughter Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons). When Cam decides to write a book that celebrates their daughter, he discovers that Lily actually has Mitchell'southward last proper noun only. Cam'due south last proper noun is Lily's middle name. The two have a lengthy, drama-infused conversation over the matter. But Mitchell eventually admits he worried virtually a future where he and Cam potentially split when he made that decision. He resolves the problem past committing to giving Lily a hyphenated surname. On that note, Mitchell hilariously confesses that the house is just in his name. Cam better not exit him any fourth dimension shortly.

Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Alex (Ariel Wintertime) detect themselves at sisterly odds over a sweater, while Phil heads to the spa to use a almost-expired coupon. Alex mistakenly tears her sister'due south sweater and Claire (Julie Bowen) attempts to keep the peace past scouring the clothing stores for an identical replacement. Meanwhile, Phil is getting a fun lesson from the women at the spa on how to validate his wife'southward frustrations. While Claire manages to find a sweater, information technology still has a security tag that ruins the sweater with ink once removed. After the fiasco inevitably explodes, Phil arrives at domicile in time to validate Claire'south frustrations putting the new tools he learned to work –- information technology'due south a major success.

29. Chirp (Season 2, Episode 7)

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The title of this episode is derived from the incessant chirping noise of a fume detector depression on batteries. Claire is sick, and it is up to Phil to manage both her tasks for the twenty-four hour period and his own as a real estate agent. He hears the chirping and replaces the batteries in all of the detectors he tin can notice, but the chirping persists. The chirping taunts him every bit he attempts to make it through the mean solar day. He eventually finds detectors Luke tossed in the cranium were the culprit.

Elsewhere, Cam is preparing Lily for her big suspension in a commercial for a children-centric furniture shop fifty-fifty though Mitchell opposes the idea. However, Cam's glee over Lily'due south stardom instantly fades when he sees that those making the commercial dub stereotypical Japanese vocals for babe Lily while set up to the backdrop of a Godzilla-like monster (SaveZilla) attacking. When Cam asks for the stereotyping to cease, the managing director remarks that it's satire. Angrily, Cam grabs the incorrect baby and marches off earlier realizing his mistake.

While Claire and Haley are at home sick, Claire encourages Haley to dump her dense boyfriend Dylan (Reid Ewing) and go out with a more promising private past relating the background of the soap opera on television. Yet, Claire isn't direct and merely talks virtually the show without ever mentioning Dylan by name. In an amusing mix-up, Haley doesn't make the connexion and instead thinks Claire is referring to herself and Phil — and that Claire is lamenting wasting her entire life with a "buffoon."

28. One thousand Sale (Flavour iv, Episode 6)

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In an endeavor to aid Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould) enhance money for a school charity fundraiser, Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria (Sofia Vergara) hold a garage sale. When the boys try to bring a box from the attic, Gloria angrily takes it from them. Of grade, Manny and Luke are curious about what is in the box and attempt to discover the undercover ... which turns out to exist a ventriloquist dummy. Gloria used to practice ventriloquism and the family eggs her on to perform. Hilariously, the dummy, Uncle Grumpy, looks and sounds only like Jay, and Claire realizes Gloria married her dummy.

Jay decides to sell his motorbike, since he has a new baby on the way. Phil gets a wild pilus and thinks he might want to buy the bike after Jay goads him into taking it for a test bulldoze. Phil tries to prove his manhood past taking the bicycle out into the canyon. When he stops, the bike topples over on height of him. While he's stuck, he makes a video for his family in case he dies. Of course, he manages to become out of the predicament, but upon his return, he's missing his entire left pant leg.

During the result, Alex is flirting with a boy she likes but Claire believes the boy is gay. She fifty-fifty has Mitchell and Cam confirm he'due south gay through their ain deduction. Claire attempts to put the fling to an terminate to spare Alex the hurting of that discovery. Naught goes her way, all the same, and she resigns herself to the fact that Alex will learn on her own.

27. Virgin Territory (Flavor 3, Episode sixteen)

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The narrative of this episode is similar one behemothic Rube Goldberg machine, simply like the i Luke and Manny set up as a trap to strike dorsum at Lily for consuming all the attention. Instead of Lily, all the same, Cam falls prey to the automobile and allegedly "hurts" his dorsum while breaking Lily'southward favorite doll. In an attempt to keep Lily happy, Phil, Alex, Haley, and Lily caput to the mall to see if they can become the doll repaired. On the trip, still, Alex accidentally reveals that Haley and Dylan were having sex activity. This puts an awkward strain on the trip, every bit Phil tries to cope with the thought that his daughter isn't his little daughter any longer.

At a breakfast that morning, the family unit has fun making confessions of old misdeeds. Mitchell confesses that long-agone, Jay never actually made his famous hole-in-one shot during a golfing friction match. Mitchell kicked the ball into the hole. Jay is hurt by the reveal because that hole-in-1 has been a part of his identity among his friends. He even earned the title of "Ace" for the supposed feat. Jay ultimately decides he doesn't need to pass this new revelation onto his friends because they all have their ain secrets. Mitchell, still, walks in during a conversation that leads him to believe Jay confessed — and he stands up for his dad inadvertently, revealing the truth to his friends.

While the entire family is out doing their own matter, Cam continues to feign a back injury so that he can stay and search for his Tupperware — which Claire alleges she doesn't take. In comedic twist of fate, Cam manages to actually hurt himself during the search — just does recover the Tupperware, leaving him elated.

26. Election Day (Season 3, Episode 19)

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Claire has been running for urban center council, and the mean solar day of the election has come. Everyone has been given a task on this of import day. Laughably, however, they are all unable to complete their tasks. Phil is supposed to drive fifty senior citizens to their local polling identify in order to vote ... simply he barely is able to send one after using a bunch of time helping the man make return trips to think his glasses, food, and medicine. Luke makes wild promises that citizens won't have to pay taxes if they vote for his mom. Alex fails miserably to manage the phone banks. Jay is simply supposed to just make his vote only later on running into a one-time flame working the polls, she callously refuses to cast his vote.

Claire is attempting to gain the necessary press the big day requires. After trying to bite off a tag from her suit, Claire loses her fake tooth correct before she's supposed to have a photograph for the local newspaper. Losing her tooth also makes her sound drunk during her radio interview. The entire day was an accented train wreck, only underscored the idea that non everything goes according to plan — especially with a family unit that has a bad history with luck.

25. Dandy Expectations (Season 1, Episode 8)

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In "Great Expectations," Claire and Phil testify us all only how perfect they are for each other, despite their flaws. The couple is jubilant their ceremony, and those who are familiar with the Dunphy clan know that Phil is a romantic and Claire is ... well, she's not. Being what he is inherently makes Phil a stellar gift-giver. Claire, still, fails in that department time and fourth dimension again. In a hilarious attempt to subvert Phil's expectations for this particular anniversary, Claire hires a the (fictional) bass thespian of Spandau Ballet to put on a private evidence at their home. The bass player, Izzy LaFontaine (Edward Norton), begins to notice that Phil isn't exactly the Spandau Ballet fan Claire talked him upward to be. While Phil stumbles unable to produce whatever song championship from Spandau's discography, Izzy becomes offended.

Claire then comes to the awful realization that Phil doesn't like Spandau Ballet and that the vocal "True" is not the couple's special song that was playing during their get-go osculation. Phil adamantly declares with a perfect retentiveness of the event that "If Y'all Leave" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark was their song. While the moment was a humorous disaster, the two still connect just because Claire tried.

24. En Garde (Season 1, Episode 7)

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Every bit the title implies, this episode is all about the art of fencing. Manny embraces his "onetime soul" and pursues the hobby, but attempts to quit when he realizes he has to face off confronting a girl. Gloria teaches Manny that that'south not a skilful reason to quit, and that he should compete but as aggressively as he would if his opponent were male person.

Of course, both Gloria and Jay'south goading to vanquish the competition comes dorsum to seize with teeth them when they learn that Manny's opponent lost both of her parents and is contesting an affliction. While Jay and Gloria attempt to reach out to Manny to get him to dorsum down and let her win, Manny is likewise far gone, taking the lesson Gloria taught him to center. He bests his opponent and talks a little scrap of smack along the way. Information technology's not exactly Gloria's proudest moment, and the couple feels a fleck of awkward shame for their son touting his win over an ailing opponent.

23. Undeck the Halls (Season i, Episode x)

In the starting time Christmas episode of the serial, Phil uncharacteristically lands himself in the role of the Grinch. Later Claire finds a burn mark on the couch, the couple deduce that one of their children was smoking –- a rather farthermost conclusion to jump to without any other evidence. This perfectly encapsulates the hapless Dunphy duo, who tend to bound before they look. Regardless, Phil attempts to prefer a firmer stance as a parent (which he isn't known to do) and threatens to cancel Christmas unless the culprit steps forward. Eventually, Alex confesses to the crime and is grounded the week afterward Christmas. Afterwards, all the same, the family discovers that a dangling Christmas ornament is refracting light and burning the couch. Alex falsely confessed in guild to go along Christmas. Phil feels his own shame and inadvertently promises the family a trip to Italy -– a wild, expensive hope Claire isn't happy near.

Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell accidentally get a mall Santa fired when they complained that he didn't expect the part. Feeling guilty, they invited him over for dinner. When Cam's old a cappella group, the Greensleevers, arrives to taunt him for being kicked out of the group, he gets aroused. The mall Santa explains that forgiveness is the style to become, just as he forgave them for getting him fired. Only when the leader of the grouping dismisses Cam's polite seasons greetings, the Santa decks the vocalizer's halls and runs. Sometimes a hefty right hook is advisable.

22. Moon Landing (Season i, Episode xiv)

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E'er had an awkward moment in locker room where you mistakenly brushed up against someone while undressing? Well, Jay has the pleasure of experiencing that with his own (futurity) son-in-law, Cam. The two caput to the gym to play racquetball, and while in the locker room they both accidentally press their bare butts together while they are undressing. Cam is perfectly fine with the mishap, recognizing it as life in a locker room. He dubs it a "moon landing." Jay, on the other paw, is completely bad-mannered near it and keeps telling Cam to stop talking about it. After Jay mops the floor with Cam, he hits the showers and and then does the same matter once over again — just with a random stranger who he thinks is Cam. Jay proudly exclaims it doesn't bother him any more and intentionally presses his butt against the poor guy over again. Subsequently Cam waltzes effectually the corner Jay's centre sinks and he rushes out there while near of us viewers are wiping abroad tears of laughter.

Also in this episode, Jay, Manny, and Mitchell all have problem against Gloria over her terrible driving. Jay and Manny know Gloria and fright the confrontation with her spicy atmosphere as they attempt to push button Mitchell into taking the estrus. While she gives Mitchell a run for his coin, she eventually apologizes afterward crashing her car into a eatery.

21. The Kiss (Season 2, Episode 2)

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"The Kiss" is, of grade, centered around kissing and the emotions associated with it. While Alex may be the brainy girl, she'south still young, and awkward when it comes romantic engagements. Claire finds that her daughter is flirting with a male child at school, and Claire encourages Haley to arroyo Alex on the subject. Of grade, Haley pulls a "big sister" stunt and tells Alex that if she doesn't bustle up and kiss the boy, he'll go the incorrect idea and possibly even remember she's a lesbian. Experiencing a sudden sense of urgency, Alex runs to the house of her beat and unloads her feelings on him and asking him to buss her at the front door ... while the rest of the male child's soccer team listens behind the door. Alex heads home and unleashes her righteous acrimony on her sister and mother for their misguided "help."

Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell are shopping when Cam goes for a kiss. Mitchell declines the kiss, leading Cam to chide his boyfriend over his trouble with public displays of affection. Cam amusingly recounts the time that Mitchell high-fived him at a New Year's Eve party instead of resorting to the vacation tradition of a buss.

Once the unabridged family unit gathers for dinner at Jay and Gloria'south house, Mitchell rejects another kiss from Cam. Then, things get interesting. Jay is defendant of being emotionally closed off, which allegedly led to Mitchell's distaste for PDA. The humorous tension boils over, and Jay kisses both Claire and Mitchell in an endeavour to quit the conversation and motility on.

20. Mother's Twenty-four hours (Season 2, Episode 21)

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It's Mother'due south Solar day and everyone seems to be doing their own affair in society to celebrate the festivities. Claire and Gloria get hiking, and ultimately leave the bickering children behind in an attempt to become some peace and placidity. When Claire asks Gloria whether Manny gets on his nerves, she opens upward that Manny struggles to be outgoing socially and that his poetry is subpar. Unfortunately, Manny is close enough backside to hear everything.

Meanwhile, after Mitchell serves Cam breakfast in bed, Cam begins to worry about being considered the "woman" in the human relationship. After the two head to the park, the other mothers inquire Cam to exist in the picture every bit an honorary mom, further stoking his irritation over the event. Cam and Mitchell insist that information technology's insulting when people treat them like women, diminishing their sense of masculinity. The two continue to dispute the issue, leading to some of the hilarious banter that we've become accustomed to from the pair.

Jay and Phil stay dwelling house to melt dinner. Phil manages to have Jay arrive touch on with his emotional side, as he causes him to recall a letter Jay wrote when he was ix-years-old to his mom. The patriarch denies that he cried when Phil later tells the whole family of the moment. But the truth shines forth when Jay begins weeping over again later telling a story of his mother.

19. Treehouse (Flavour 3, Episode 7)

We've all committed to a projection we that ultimately concluded upward existence more than of a challenge than we envisioned. Phil and Luke find themselves in that predicament equally they set out to build a treehouse. After Luke throws in the towel, Phil'southward neighbor, Andre (Kevin Hart), offers to assist.

In some other office of the Dunphy household, Haley is attempting to write an essay about the biggest obstacle she's e'er had to overcome. She struggles establishing her basis for the newspaper, equally she recognizes that she'southward lived a pretty comfortable life. Haley blames Claire for making her life so easy. So, similar whatsoever good mother would practise, Claire takes Haley on a quick car ride and ditches her out in the boonies without coin or a telephone, proclaiming that Haley's found her topic for the paper.

Elsewhere, Cam believes a waitress is flirting with him and Mitchell balks at the idea, stating that she clearly but wants to make coin. Offended, Cam sets out to go a woman'due south number. He finds Katie (Leslie Mann) and strikes up a conversation, in which he does retrieve her number. She subsequently finds herself over at Cam'south house and he confesses that he is a gay man and was but trying to win a bet. Katie already knew that, and only wanted to find a gay best friend. Subsequently Mitchell comes dwelling, yet, she puts on a show — proclaiming her dearest for Cam while puckering upwards and laying a big on him, before yelling at Mitchell to cherish him as she storms out.

18. The Musical Man (Flavor 2, Episode 19)

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Phil'southward antics are a hoot, and this episode'due south sensational Phil maneuver certainly delivers. Every bit a real estate agent, he decides to annunciate his business concern on his van. Since he declares that his family is his best asset, he decides to take his family unit represented in the ad. The slogan on the image reads "I can't be satisfied until y'all're satisfied, allow me make your dreams come true." When the wrapped advertisement is applied to the van, all the same, 1 side of the van shows an image of Claire with the portion of the line that says "I tin can't be satisfied" while the other side is an prototype of Haley stating "Let me make your dreams come true." It was a hilarious blunder that led to Phil receiving many callers asking if he is selling sex services. Claire and Haley weren't amused.

Cam recently landed the office of interim music director at the school. Manny complains to Mitchell that Cam is overworking them, pushing them to learn material chop-chop. Mitchell already raised that objection to Cam but was criticized for non being supportive, and so Mitchell doesn't get involved. After developing a phase production that ends with kids belongings letters displaying "We love the world" aslope "F" (representing Franklin Middle School), a mishap causes Luke to exist stuck in suspension. This results in a message to the audience that reads "Nosotros dearest the F word" after the letter F is lowered.

17. Disneyland (Season three, Episode 22)

Many sitcom families have experienced the magical kingdom of Disneyland or Disney World. "Blackness-ish," "Boy Meets World," "The Goldbergs," "The Middle", and "Full Firm" (all of which ran on ABC, which is owned by Disney) are just a few sitcoms where the star families visited a beloved Disney park. It was only a thing of time before the Dunphy and Pritchett families made the visit, especially since they alive in SoCal. Of course, nothing tin can ever become smoothly in a sitcom. Otherwise, it wouldn't be any fun.

Phil starts to panic that he's feeling his historic period and unable to savor theme parks like he used to. Of course, he later realizes he has come downward with a bug and is relieved that this is all that he is experiencing. Haley runs into her former ex-boyfriend Dylan, who Claire despises for his lack of intellect. He is working at the park equally a Dapper Dan. Cam and Mitchell struggle to wrangle Lily equally she has a proclivity for running off. When they attempt to use a kid leash, they feel the judgements of those effectually them. Jay helps them resolve the issue by outfitting Lily with a pair of kid-sized high heels that keep her from bolting out of sight. A family vacation wouldn't quite feel like one if there wasn't plenty of family issues and drama to go around.

sixteen. Tiresome Down Your Neighbors (Season 2, Episode 11)

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Infuriated by a neighbor'south negligence and penchant for speeding through the neighborhood, Claire vows to put an cease to it. She prints out several posters directing the license plate number of the culprit to dull down. At 1 bespeak, Claire even rabidly attempts to hunt down the car on her bicycle but still manages to lose sight of the speeder.

All the while, Phil is attempting to sell a house for his client Laura (Jami Gertz). Phil throws an open up house for Laura ... and discovers that her silver Camaro is the very same car that Claire has been criticizing for speeding. Afterwards Claire meets Phil at the open business firm by chance later on attempting to hunt the speeder on bike, Laura agrees to requite Claire a ride dorsum home. Phil knows that Claire is about to discover that his client is her arch nemesis. Claire doesn't even pay attention to the car as she is talking and seats herself in the passenger seat. But when Laura references a "neighborhood whack chore" and speeds out of her driveway, Claire glances back at Phil every bit she is sped away with a look of both daze and betrayal. Hopefully the ane dozen mylar balloons Phil ordered equally an amends will suffice.

xv. Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)

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Often, new Goggle box serial have to notice their basis first before truly hooking audiences. However, "Modern Family" managed to rope plenty of viewers in for the long booty with just the showtime episode. That'southward right, the pilot episode stands among the best episodes in the serial. Of course, the pilot introduces the states to each member of this sprawling family unit. Jay shows how self-conscious he is almost beingness older than his gorgeous newlywed wife. Haley gives Claire and Phil a run for their coin as she attempts to have alone time with her boyfriend Dylan.

But the big news of the episode involves Jay's son Mitchell and his partner Cam, who are merely returning from Vietnam with a newly adopted infant daughter named Lily. Mitchell misunderstands a passenger who refers to Lily and her "cream puffs" and responds angrily believing the reference is to Cam and Mitchell ... when it's just nearly the cream puffs Lily is really snacking on. This won't be the last time Mitchell has to insert his pes into his oral fissure.

14. Party Crasher (Season 4, Episode 12)

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It'due south Manny'south xiv^th birthday, and Jay and Gloria attempt to throw him a surprise party. Niggling do they know that Manny would actually bring dwelling a girl and kiss her in the dark, with everyone watching waiting to leap out and surprise the birthday boy. When the daughter flips on the lights, she is shocked to come across all of Manny's similarly shocked family watching. She runs out in embarrassment, and Manny angrily runs to his room.

Meanwhile, Haley is taunting her parents by dating an older guy past the name of Kenny (Jason Mantzoukas). Phil is a fleck slow on the uptake, however, and doesn't realize they're actually dating until much after. When he does finally realize it, yet, he is enraged and nearly assaults the guy with a pair of gardening shears.

Later, when Manny finally comes out of his room, Gloria's h2o breaks and she has to go to the hospital. But she commits to not letting the baby out before midnight so Manny can go along his birthday all to himself. Manny, even so, understands how much she loves him and tells her that it'due south perfectly okay if he shares a birthday with his new sibling.

thirteen. Halloween (Season two, Episode 6)

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Halloween is a huge product at the Dunphy house, thanks to Claire'south admiration for the holiday. Every year, she puts on a big haunted display, and typically reels in the family to participate and scare trick-or-treaters. Of course, nothing goes according to plan. Everyone has their assignment in the haunted house display, simply the rest of the family'south heart is only non in it. Gloria attempts an American accent that is a bit worse for wear, while the kids do a terrible task pulling off their characters. Additionally, Jay doesn't initiate the haunted house furnishings until it's also late.

The funniest moment of the episode, however, is that Mitchell finds that his new law firm allows costumes for the vacation. As a big fan of the superhero, Mitchell dresses as Spider-Man. When he arrives at work, however, he finds that he is simply one of three dressed in costume — and overhears other employees mocking that the other 2 costumed individuals. Mitchell wears a suit over the costume until he can take it off. He finally finds a moment to catch a bathroom stall and change. Haphazardly, he drops his pants in a toilet. He attempts to pull off actual Spider-Man moves and climb down the building from the outside to get the spare adapt in his car. But as luck would take it, he sets off the car alarms and turns around to come across the whole office watching him out the windows.

12. Hawaii (Season 1, Episode 23)

During a family unit trip to Hawaii, Phil decides to double the trip as a honeymoon that he and Claire never got to have due to the birth of Haley. Of course, a honeymoon should exist spent without children, right? Well, Phil and Claire do their all-time to push their kids away and let them enjoy the vacation on their own terms. Of course, in Haley'southward instance, if you give her an inch, she'll take a mile. She parties with local youth her historic period and gets hammered, leaving Claire to assistance her through her first major drunken ordeal.

Speaking of child difficulties, Cam and Mitchell experience some of their ain after they accidentally leave Lily in an elevator. The moment is a scrap of a hilarious anarchy, every bit Cam hysterically yells for someone to "seal off the island!" Fortunately for the daddy duo, Gloria happened to find Lily.

While enjoying some fourth dimension in the lord's day, Jay initially wants to relax and eat whatever he wanted. However, he is reminded that his father died in his early on 60s due to existence unhealthy. All of a sudden realizing his own mortality, Jay begins working out — irritating Gloria, who simply wanted to relax on the trip. Of grade, the moment eventually gives style to Jay opening up to Gloria about his fears, and the two decide to at to the lowest degree enjoy their vacation together.

11. Under Pressure (Season v, Episode 12)

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Being the erudite and motivated child in a family isn't all it's croaky upwardly to be. Alex understands that all too well. Being the independent and smart child that she is, she always feels pressure to be the all-time, since that what she believes anybody expects of her. She actually goes to see a therapist when she has a meltdown feeling overwhelmed. Meanwhile, the parents are attending an open business firm at the school. Claire visits each of Alex'southward advanced classes and gains a new appreciation for her daughter and the workload that she is saddled with.

Elsewhere, Phil and Jay are interim similar kids in schoolhouse over again. They're supposed to be attending Luke and Manny's classes just skip and head to the instructor's lounge to spotter football game. Riding on a bit of a high after Jay complimented Phil beingness able to fix the TV in the lounge, Phil attempts to go bigger and sets up the projector in the gymnasium. Perhaps Phil should take quit while he was alee — the projector breaks, and the two state themselves in the master's function.

As the gym teacher, Cam prepares a presentation for the parents wants them to play dodgeball. The principal, however, tells Cam that is a no-get. Only, when Cam sees that the parents aren't engaged, he breaks out the dodgeballs. E'er the firecracker, Gloria gets a change to let off a chip of steam during the friction match.

x. The Wedding ceremony, Function ii (Flavor 5, Episode 23)

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In typical "Mod Family" fashion, Cam and Mitch's wedding is an accented disaster. Their original hymeneals venue, prepared by their friend Pepper (Nathan Lane), is threatened past a wildfire. Every bit they attempt to continue the ceremony, their officiant and friend Sal (Elizabeth Banks) goes into labor. When Phil volunteers to pace in, the crowd is told by firefighters that they must evacuate. After shifting to a back-up venue, the wedding is then put on hold past the couple who scheduled that venue for the day. Finally, every bit a last-ditch attempt, the nuptials is moved to Cam and Mitch'south house which is far as well small-scale to accommodate all the guests. Some have to stand outside. The couple then get-go to believe that mayhap the hymeneals isn't supposed to happen.

Jay, who has always shown some aversion to Mitch's sexual orientation, shows some real character growth as he exclaims that his son shouldn't be getting married in a firm. Instead, he has the wedding moved to his country guild and proclaims that he is proud to accept Cam as a son-in-police force. Finally, the wedding goes off without a hitch as both sets of parents walk their sons downwardly the aisle.

ix. Schooled (Season 4, Episode 2)

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As the title implies, this episode sees the Dunphy and Pritchett families go to school. Haley heads off to college, but not before Phil provides her with a volume full of his cheeky advice titled "Phil'due south-osophy." Meanwhile, Jay and Gloria take a class on caring for a brand-new baby. While they obviously both take had children of their own, times certainly do change. Of course, the whole venture turns into a humorous scene of Jay and Gloria attempting to share their wisdom with the residuum of the grouping. They leave the class early, much to Manny's disapproval.

Lily then heads to her first day of kindergarten. She gets into her showtime fight about immediately, and Mitch and Cam come to her help. They ultimately notice themselves sitting before the principal over the incident. The immature culprit, Connor, is besides joined by his parents –- a lesbian couple. The two couples brainstorm tossing accusations and stereotyping one another, and the principal suggests that they have a playdate for the kids to get to know each other. They mind to the principal's advice and the playdate doesn't really get well ... for the parents. The couples bicker and banter, much to our amusement. In the stop, all the same, they do hold that they share the similarity of being fiercely defensive of their children.

8. Family unit Portrait (Season 1, Episode 24)

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Wrangling a large family together for a family moving picture can sometimes be daunting -– especially if there's plenty of drama causing friction between different family members from the 24-hour interval'southward events. Claire, a perfectionist who only wants the best photos of the whole family, finds this out the hard manner.

Phil, Alex, Gloria, and Manny become to a Lakers game. During the consequence, Phil and Gloria appear on the kiss cam. Of form, they are not a couple and Phil tries to moving ridge it off. However, the crowd isn't besides pleased and they boo the couple. So, Gloria grabs Phil and puckers up for a large 1. Meanwhile, Claire'south frustrations are already get-go as she attempts to fix the broken stair in their dwelling house for the family pictures. She winds up making it worse. Alex tells Phil that Claire is aroused. Of course, Phil believes she saw the kiss on idiot box and is furious about information technology.

Mitchell has his own battles to fight, namely a pigeon that managed to enter his home. As Mitchell chases the bird around the firm, much of the place winds upwardly being destroyed. When Claire asks Mitchell if they can now have the photo shoot at his business firm, he declines since his home looks like the site of a massacre.

The family however gets dressed in matching white attire and prepares for an outdoor photo. Cam is angry with Mitchell about their business firm and Phil brings upwards the kiss, which starts drama. Then Jay slings mud after getting irritated over Claire's micromanagement. A mud fight ensues, but the picture is one that volition be rife with memories.

vii. Fizbo (Flavour 1, Episode ix)

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It's Luke'southward birthday party. Claire and Phil tin't seem to agree on the altogether festivities, so they combine their ideas for one wild bash. Of course, Phil is the life of the party, hiring an animal handler and bringing in a bounce house. Claire, on the other hand, is a bit of a moisture blanket, choosing to prepare a craft stand where kids tin make sheaths for combs.

Meanwhile, Manny is attempting to woo a girl from school named Bianca (Kaitlyn Dever). His attempts at being a funny homo crumble pretty fast, equally he botches all of the jokes he attempts to tell her before he even gets to the dial line.

Cam debuts his clown grapheme Fizbo in an effort to add to the life of the political party. Mitchell has a hard time grasping Cam's fondness for "clown culture" and isn't shy about letting his partner know information technology'due south an embarrassment. However, when Cam steps up to a man bullying Mitchell at the gas station, Mitchell realizes that Cam's clown exterior is just one other side of the man he loves. Hilariously, Phil has a deep-seated fright of clowns, and stumbles his style through the party anxious at the site of Fizbo. He casually remarks that he has no idea where the fear came from, fifty-fifty though his mother ever told him it'south considering he plant a dead clown in the forest as a young boy.

6. Phil's Sexy, Sexy Business firm (Season 7, Episode 7)

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Every bit part of Phil's real estate gig, he sometimes gains access to some killer pads. That is one benefit his daughter, Haley, recognizes about his job. In this particular episode, Phil's customer has decadent house with several mod amenities, including a hot tub. Haley decides to hang out at the house to have some time alone, though Phil's protégé in the business concern too happens to be at the dwelling house to fix for an open house. The person is none other than Andy (Adam DeVine), Haley's onetime love involvement. The two always shared a connection, but never acted on information technology since Andy had a girlfriend he wished to propose to. While at the home, the two accidentally fall into the tub, dry out off, and relax on the burrow before hiding afterward thinking Phil was entering the house.

It turns out that Cam and Mitch arrived to also take advantage of the ritzy home. They plow on some music while making some cocktails. Suddenly, Phil does arrive, and walks to another room. And so Luke and his friends testify upwardly with a six-pack of beer. Phil then bursts into the room, wearing a VR headset and playing a game. Cam, Mitch, Luke, and his friends all freeze in place and remain serenity as Phil dances around them playing his virtual reality game. Equally they endeavor to escape, Claire arrives in a Medieval get-up — thinking she was going to do sexy fantasy function-playing with Phil, not realizing he but wanted her to join him in his VR game instead. The intruders are discovered, leaving Phil to kick everyone out before running off with Claire for some intimacy.

5. My Funky Valentine (Flavor i, Episode 15)

Phil and Claire both have fictional characters they portray in an effort to spice upward their romantic evenings. The debut of Phil's businessman Clive Bixby and Claire's uncomplicated housewife Julianna occurs in this episode. For Valentine'south day, they "bump into each other" at a hotel bar, where they strike upwards a flirtation that volition obviously lead them to a fun evening in a hotel room. At i betoken, Claire'due south Julianna excuses herself to go to the bathroom. She emerges in a long coat, telling her function-playing husband that she's entirely naked underneath. Every bit the couple ride an escalator, Claire's glaze gets stuck and she cannot move or remove her coat without revealing all to the globe. Of form, Gloria later comes to the rescue providing her with a covering to walk away unscathed.

Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell try to help Manny express his feelings to a girl he's admired from afar. Manny had written a poem for the daughter, just another boy plagiarized his work and used it as his own landing the girl's affection. Mitchell stands up for Manny and reveals the deceit to the daughter, only she realizes she notwithstanding likes the other boy afterward he tells her he used Manny's words because he didn't know how to limited those feelings. Someday, Manny. Your time will come.

4. American Skyper (Season 6, Episode 24)

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It's Alex's loftier school graduation and the family is celebrating. Phil joins the family unit via skype on a mobile robot with the help of Andy. Haley and Andy share a strong connection that they ultimate avoid, considering Andy has a girlfriend to whom he plans on proposing. However, he does experience a bit of confusion internally and asked Phil for advice — telling him that there was another daughter, and he wasn't certain he should propose to Beth. Phil encourages him to motion forward with the proposal if he has feelings for her. And then Phil has a conversation with Haley, and later on Andy and Haley share a goodbye hug, Phil realizes that Haley is the other girl and that they honey each other. But a technical malfunction stops Phil from busting the revelation of their beloved wide open.

In another bit of drama, Cam believes Mitchell is cheating on him after he sees Mitch acting weird. In reality, Mitch lost his task and is trying become Phil to cancel a bargain they had to buy the apartment above them for invitee housing. He's afraid to share the bad news with Cam. Somewhen, all the same, Cam confronts Mitch and he tells Cam he's been going to the park every solar day and spending his days with an erstwhile man and his pet bird instead of going to work.

iii. Fulgencio (Season iv, Episode 13)

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What will one do to appease a mother in law? Jay sets a new standard in that department. Jay and Gloria withal haven't managed to pick a name for their newborn son. Leading upwards to the christening of the baby, Gloria'south mother Pilar (Elizabeth Peña), and her sister Sonia (Stephanie Beatriz), visit. Pilar is adamant that Gloria and Jay requite their son the Colombian family name of Fulgencio. Jay hates the name, and he too finds out that his mother-in-law greatly dislikes him. Ultimately, Jay agrees to calling their child Fulgencio Joseph Pritchett to appease his mother in law. However, he swears to Gloria that they will not use his first name but will simply telephone call him Joe.

Phil is left with the kids, who all seem to accept problems with unlike people. Alex has a classmate who is throwing the same party she wants to throw for her upcoming altogether party. Luke'south friend told anybody that he called the instructor "mommy." Haley was hired to park cars for a lady simply keeps running into her poorly-placed tree. Phil even has a bone to choice with a store owner who is blocking his existent estate signs with balloons. When Phil sets out to show them that kindness gets them further than the more bullish approach their female parent would accept, he manages to make things worse.

Phil then commissions Luke to take care of business while he heads to the christening of Gloria and Jay'due south baby to be recognized as a godfather. During the christening, Luke is seen terrorizing those who have wronged them, paying a hilarious homage to "The Godfather."

two. Caught in the Act (Flavour 2, Episode 13)

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This episode follows the Dunphy children as they attempt to provide their parents breakfast in bed for their anniversary only to see the unthinkable -– their parents having sex. In the aftermath, the kids endeavor to distance themselves from their parents every bit they effort to make sense of what they saw. Luke is a bit immature at this bespeak and even explains that he isn't sure what he saw. The moment is particularly traumatic for Claire, who experienced the aforementioned moment with her own mother and male parent as a kid.

The children leave the firm to hash out the next steps. Ultimately, the clumsiness of talking about sex with their parents is a topic to be avoided. They settle on a new idea for an ceremony gift, however. The children produce a lock for their parents door that should hopefully ease the trauma they had just suffered, knowing it shouldn't likely happen once more.

1. Connexion Lost (Season 6, Episode 16)

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"Connexion Lost" is the best "Modern Family" episode for its originality, unique presentation, and smart humor. The unabridged episode takes identify on FaceTime screens. Claire is attempting to reach out to Haley because the two recently had a fight. When she tin can't get a agree of Haley, she FaceTime's Phil, hoping he can tell her what Haley is up to. Phil thinks she is at a friend's firm.

Upon realizing it's Mitchell's birthday, Claire calls her blood brother. Later wishing him a happy birthday, she asks about Haley since she had babysat Lily recently. Cam and Mitchell's most recent interaction with Haley is when she borrowed a blue suit. Claire then sees on Facebook that Haley's status has been inverse to "married." When Claire accesses her girl's iCloud account, she tracks her phone to a wedding chapel in Las Vegas.

Like whatsoever female parent might, Claire begins to panic, thinking Haley has gone off and gotten married. More than evidence appears suggesting that Haley, perhaps, married her contempo fellow Andy and that she is perhaps pregnant. Afterward Claire breaks down and calls Jay, he helps panel her over the idea. Afterwards all, Claire did the aforementioned thing in her determinative years, and she apologizes to her male parent for putting him through that.

Hilariously, the episode ends with Haley finally calling Claire after having woke up ... in her own bed. She was in the house the whole time and there were logical explanations for every bit of evidence Claire uncovered.

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