Season 3 - Episode 13
ABC (US)
I'm not really sure what it was about this episode of Modern Family that made it feel a little flat. Everything about it was absolutely fine, but for some reason it just didn't work quite right as a full episode.
First things first, it would be excruciating to be Phil Dunphy's daughter. Phil was magnificent in this episode. Him trying to justify himself and making things much worse was absolutely cringingly hilarious. Big props to Sarah Hyland and Ariel Winter for the facial expressions they pulled off during this scene, they really captured the moment. All of this happened at Claire's debate with Councillor Duane Bailey (David Cross at his smug best reprising his guest role). The debate is really well done, as was the build up to it, with a practice debate in the Dunphy living room. (The autotune remix of Phil's speech is bloody brilliant as well).
Elsewhere, Lily is a flower girl at a wedding the same day (who's wedding, we don't know, although the whole family are invited). On top of the tacky dress, she's picked up a habit of dropping the F-bomb, which Cam can't help but laughing at. Naturally, she drops one at the wedding, and for some reason the whole family burst into fits of laughter. Not sure that they would really do that at a wedding, but there we go. The C-Plot sees Jay believe that his dog Stella is suicidal, as she keeps jumping into the swimming pool. Naturally, the dog was just looking for a toy, but it got some laughs.
As I said, there wasn't really anything wrong with this episode, it just didn't live up to the potential that it had. Still a good watch, but not the best the show has done.
*** 1/2
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