is a hilarious ABC sitcom featuring famous actors including Ed O’Neil and Julie Bowen. It involves three unique families who when are brought together, cause total chaos. Jay (Ed O’Neil) is an older man who was recently divorced, but soon after found a much younger, much hotter Latina woman named Gloria. He has trouble keeping up with the pace of his wife, and her son, Manny. Nevertheless, he puts up with Gloria, Manny and all of their outrageous Colombian traditions, which he never quite understands. Claire (Julie Bowen) is a mother of three, Jay’s daughter, and is married to Phil, a man who is sometimes stuck in his teenage years. Together they raise three very different children.
Haley, a fifteen year old high schooler is obsessed with her boyfriend Dylan, and her cell phone. She is known as the “stupid” child, because she is only concerned with social issues. Alex is thirteen and is known as a “geek” because she is constantly doing homework and is only concerned with getting straight A’s. Luke is the youngest child at age 10. Phil tries to do everything with Luke, being that Luke is the only other male in the house. Luke is very spacey and appears to have ADD, because he cannot focus on one thing for an extended period of time. Even though everyone in this family is different, they all come together at some point and share their happiness to be a part of this family.
Then, there is Mitchell and Cameron. These two males are “together” and have recently adopted a girl named Lily. Mitchell (Jay’s son) is the “man” of the house and makes the money for the three of them. However, Mitchell does not always act like a man. For instance, in the latest episode, Mitchell heard a man in Lily’s room through the baby monitor. Instead of taking action, he was too scared and told Cameron to check. It was hilarious because Cameron acts more like the woman figure in the family. He does all the household things, and acts more motherly than Mitchell does to Lily.
My favorite characters are Phil and Cameron. Phil is always trying to be “rad” and “hip” with the teens, and he is not a normal father figure. He does his own thing and is very relaxed. He leaves the consequences and being strict up to Claire, because he does not want to come across as the unfair parent, and wants his kids to like him and be his friend. Both his and Cameron’s antics always cause a hilarious riot, and they do not even have to say anything to make the show so funny. Being that Cameron is the “woman” figure in the Mitchell-Cameron relationship, it is always amusing to watch and wonder what he is going to do next. For example, in one episode Mitchell was talking loudly about his boss in the car while he was on the phone with his window open, and his boss was in the car next to him with his window open. Mitchell and Cameron reenact the scene to see if Mitchell’s boss heard him. This is one of my favorite scenes, and Cameron is too funny.
“Game Changer” was the recently aired episode of Modern Family. It was Phil’s birthday and all he wanted was an iPad (which coincidentally came out the same day of his birthday). Phil was going to wait in line at 6:00 in the morning, but Claire said she would do it since he should have off on his birthday. Her alarm went off at 5:00, and she was ready to go, but then fell asleep on the couch. She did not end up getting the iPad, and Phil was very disappointed. He went off to the batting cages, where he heard a woman on the loudspeaker call for everyone attending Phil’s party to proceed to the designated area. Of course, Phil thought this party was for him and that Claire set the whole thing up. Nevertheless, it was not for him, rather it was for a young boy named Phil. This was another upset for Phil, but indulged in the cake from the boy’s birthday party. Meanwhile, Claire needed to get an iPad for Phil, and went crazy trying to find one. She told her kids to do whatever they could to find one or find a place that had one (which was slim to none considering it was the first day they came out). Luke, being the little sneaky liar that he is, went on his father’s computer and told Phil’s friends that Phil was dying and his last dying wish was to receive an iPad. One of the friends
felt so bad, he brought over an extra. When Phil came home, he did not care about the iPad anymore, but once he saw it, he was ecstatic about it. Getting the iPad was not only funny; however, it showed how the family came together to fulfill the father’s wish. During the night, Mitchell heard a man on Lily’s baby monitor. Frightened, he jumped up and woke up Cameron to see what the noise was. Cameron ran into Lily’s room with his baseball bat, but there was no one there and Lily was not crying. The next day, Cameron realized it was the baby monitor next door, which was intercepting with Lily’s monitor. Cameron kept hearing things on the baby monitor, and had reason to believe the man was cheating on his wife. There were conversations about “staying out late,” and “working late,” etc. It was eating Cameron alive, and was almost like a soap opera for him (being that he is the woman figure of the house). Cameron tried to fix the problem, but made it worse in the end because the couple on the baby monitor thought whoever was listening was a perv. It was beyond comical, and adds to the humor of this “must-see” side-splittingly funny show.
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