Modern Family

Modern Family

Episode 4: Door to Door

By: Carlos Uribe

Modern Family is a show about a family that is supposedly modern.

Spoilers Ahoy!

When Modern Family is good, then it is simply a laugh riot. I am happy to say that last night's episode was such a laugh riot. Even better, all the storylines managed to be funny and somehow connected at the same time. If you're going to watch only one episode of Modern Family this season, this may be the one I recommend. Then again, we're still early in the season.

Mitchell likes things to be clean. He simply doesn't like messes. Cameron doesn't mind a mess as much, and he doesn't like to clean. You'd think the two would have an understanding. Turns out that Mitchell isn't happy having to be the guy who always cleans things up. So he refuses to clean up the latest mess Cameron made until Cameron admits he uses Mitchell. This revelation comes at the worst time possible, since an adoption person arrives just when Mitchell was making a big mess. Oh how fun!

Jay decides to help Manny go door to door to sell wrapping paper. It's a bit hard to sell the wrapping paper, so in the end Jay has to buy it all. Meanwhile Gloria has to go out to the neighborhood to look for Stella. Why? Because she kicked him outside because he kept bothering her at the kitchen. She left the gate open, so he got out. Anyways she does find the dog Stella, but looking for the dog made Cameron happy since he got to yell out “Stella!” while wearing only a muscle shirt. This wasn't as funny as the show made it out to be, but it was still pretty funny.

Going door to door is also Claire, who is looking for signatures to get a stop sign. She doesn't have much luck and is frustrated to find out when her family didn't help her collect signatures. She decides to go to the meeting regardless, and in the last minute her guilty family saves her with signatures. It's unknown if there will be a stop sign, but David Cross did an excellent guest spot that I simply just loved.

Meanwhile Luke and Phil were trying to create a video of Luke throwing the ball at Phil's head, hoping it'll then go through the basket. They don't exactly succeed, but they do get a video of Phil getting hit many times on the head with a basketball. This is good enough for them, although their a long ways from being a viral sensation (they got 78 views! Oh what am I kidding, I wish the readership of this blog was that high).

Modern Family delivered a hilarious episode. It wasn't just funny, but I liked how they managed to connect the stories not with a theme, but with an element. That element was essentially going out to the world to accomplish their goal: going door to door. It was also used rather effectively in the editing room at one point. Overall a great episode.