Friday, November 26, 2010

Modern Family, "Mother Tucker"

Surprisingly, this episode that aired the night before Thanksgiving was not about the holiday.  It actually didn't matter to me, because the storylines they did have were brilliant.

Phil has always had a special attachment to his eldest daughter Haley's boyfriend Dylan.  Dylan is a clueless, quiet yet hilarious teenager whom Haley was cheating on with her tutor.  When Claire catches Haley making out with the tutor, she encourages Haley to break up with Dylan as soon as possible.  Phil is upset at the thought of the break-up, partially because he had been publicly dumped in high school.

When Dylan comes to the house to get his things left there, Phil feels bad and starts to hang out with him as they go guitar shopping.  Phil is definitely my favorite character on TV right behind Michael Scott on The Office.  Those 2 characters have a lot in common, and it is no wonder that this attributes to the popularity of both shows.

Manny, the 50 year old soul living in a 12 year old's body, was helping diagnose his stepfather Jay's symptoms using a Web MD type of site.  Manny's mother Gloria doesn't believe in any sort of medical attention because she was raised in Colombia and is used to treating her ailments herself.  This particular storyline wasn't the funniest the Pritchett family has had but nothing could have beaten Phil's relationship with Dylan.



I haven't even mentioned Cam and Mitchell's story yet, and their situation is where the episode title comes from.  Cam's mother (as seen above) comes to visit, and she is very inappropriately touchy with Mitchell, without meaning to be like that.  This was a very predictable way to prove that Cam is a momma's boy at heart.

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