“Every realtor is just a ninja in a blazer. The average burglar breaks in and leaves clues everywhere. Not me. I’m completely clueless.” – Phil
I’m just a little tightly wound after watching this episode of Modern Family. Parts of it were really funny, as usual, but travel is such a stressful thing for me that watching other people freak out about the same things I freak out about wasn’t nearly as entertaining as watching a clown beat up someone at a gas station or seeing a dad shoot his son with a BB gun. You add the layers of miscommunication to the stressful travel and I just watched a bad episode of my life.
Thank goodness Haley saved the day. Between her “drama queen” boyfriend getting trapped in the house with the alarm set, to her crushing on a 14-year-old (and perhaps the best part was Alex pointing out the four-year-old boy — who was probably also drawing robots and dinosaurs — as another potential crush), she stole the show for me tonight, something she’s not done before.
OK, she didn’t steal the whole show, because it was worth watching alone for Manny’s quote: “I’m just a boy trying to bring style back to traveling.” Probably it was funnier in my house, because I had just said to Keith, “Check out Manny’s outfit,” about 30 seconds before he delivered that line.
I also felt a little bit like I was reading Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus or watching a Dr. Phil relationship special or something. Don’t get me wrong, I totally appreciated the scene when Phil talked some sense into Mitchell and Claire helped Cam see things more clearly; it was edited masterfully and was pretty funny. And the sweet moment when Jay realizes that he and Gloria were on the same page all along was great. I love that we get to see different characters pair up and interact with each other each week.
I think I just like Modern Family when it isn’t trying to go out with a bang, when it’s not leading up to a big finale or May sweeps or anything above and beyond. For me, Modern Family shines when it’s doing its every day situations at home. I want to see Mitchell and Claire “skating” in a parking lot and Phil and Luke finding “skeletons” under their house. Leave the fear of flying to the Losties.
Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on May 05, 2010 @ 22:07 EST5EDT
I enjoyed this episode. I do agree that Modern Family should stick to more stuff at the home, this episode stressed me out a bit too. But I loved the whole plot with the girls and the cute boy, that was just great.
FYI – You guys are now my sole tv blog. Just gave up on TVsquad.com tonight after their big merger earlier this week. It’s become such a terrible terrible blog. Hopefully you guys won’t go merging with AOL too.
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Trust me, we’ve got no merger plans, LOL! And thanks for reading and liking what we do here! :-)
LOL good, mergers never seem to be good for blogs anyways. You guys keep on doing the good stuff!
I agree about the mess that TV Squad has become. I found your Modern Family write-up in about 2 seconds from you RSS feed today (I TiVoed it and watched it a day later). It was already pushed off the TVS feed by all those idiotic VIDEOs.
I liked the episode–for the first time, I admired Phil, being helpful to his brother-in-law like that, with no motivation but generosity. And he was pretty competent at it, too. I was upset that Phil & Claire kissed when they reunited, but Cam & Mitchell just shared a chaste hug. That felt wrong.
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But think about Mitchell for a moment … the man is less than demonstrative, so I think a chaste hug is just about all that’s in character for him. A big smooch wouldn’t have been … stiff and uptight enough for him! ;-)