Modern Family, Always there for a good laugh.

Every Wednesday night Modern Family makes me chuckle for the full 30 minutes that it airs.  The three intertwined families, Gloria and Jay Pritchard, Phil and Clair Dunphy, and Mitchel Pritchard and Cameron Tucker portray the complicated, yet hysterical lives of the modern day family. 

This Wednesday, Gloria and Jay were urged to go to parenting classes by Manny, Gloria’s 12-year-old son, in order to prepare for the birth of their child.  Jay and Gloria’s relationship is an odd yet perfectly compatible.  Gloria is about thirty years younger than Jay and is a flaming hot Columbian while Jay is a 60 year old white man with two grown children, Mitchell and Clair. 

Phil and Clair find that it is time to send their eldest daughter Hailey off to college.  They pack up all of her stuff including a box of 25 condoms, which Clair slips into Hailey’s purse to make sure that her daughter is prepared. 

Mitchell and Cam are forced this week to set up a play date with two lesbians who are the complete opposite in sexual orientation, but ironically similar in interests and characteristics.  The dynamic opposites that the two couples face make for some laughable lesbian and gay stereotype pokes.  Cam and one of the lesbian mothers through witty insults at one another throughout their play date, but in the end they realize that they are similar in one aspect, they would do anything for their children.

           This short comedy is always filled with exaggerated looks into the lives of individuals within a crazy yet relatable family.  There is never a dull or uneventful occasion within the half hour show. Modern Family does an excellent job at pulling the audience in and keeping them there.  I have never met a person who has watched an episode been disappointed.  It is simply exceptional and entertaining television.  

I leave you with some of Phil Dunphy’s life lessons which he passed on to his daughter via a leather bound book on her first day of college.  

Phil’s-osophy

If you get pulled over for speeding tell the policeman your spouse has diarrhea.

Always look a man in the eye, even if he is blind tell him, “I am looking you in the eye.”

You only get one change at a first impression. I suggest Julia Child because it is easy to do. “Save the giblets.”  

The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you if you just lower your expectations.

Take a lesson from parakeets; if you ever feel lonely just eat in front of a mirror. 

Marry someone who looks sexy while disappointed.

You can tell a lot about a person from his biography.

Watch a sunrise at least once a day.

If you are ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good mustache.