8/28/12
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Picks His Favorite Episode of Season Three
Even though others will tell you that our nation wants to laugh in tough times.
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For a split second, it seemed like our season four finale was going to be … serious?
Modern Family Recap: How I Prevented My Summer Vacation
The Dunphys take a brief, failed road trip.
Modern Family Recap: Skating Sad
More roller rink episodes, please!
Modern Family Recap: Jay Pritchett, Novelist
Have we never discussed how exactly Jay became filthy rich from owning a closet business?
Modern Family Recap: Clameron
The continuing adventures of the Dunphy house flippers.
Modern Family Recap: Reverse Psychiatry
The ghost of family-reunion future visits the Dunphys.
Modern Family Recap: Handball, Skyfall, and Waterfalls
The house-flipping plot returns.
Modern Family Recap: Banks Is Back
We’re past this season's two thirds mark and we're wondering if this is going anywhere, if there's an overarching thread.
Modern Family Recap: Bud Bundy, Briefly
Just keep giving us more Phil Dunphy, please.
Modern Family Recap: Bixby Forever
Valentine’s Day Eve and we open on Phil Dunphy’s alter ego — turtleneck aficionado and human Wikipedia of pickup lines.
Modern Family Recap: Stagehand Luke
The Dunphys golf, the Dunphys sing.
Modern Family Recap: F.U. Pritchett
A baby is named, patience is tested.
Modern Family Recap: Kill Kenny
Gloria has the baby in a simply great episode.
Modern Family Recap: Nude Year’s Eve
After more than a month of fairly excellent episodes closing out 2012, Modern Family stumbles into 2013 with a belated New Year’s episode.
Modern Family Recap: We Bought a House
Claire and Cam have a new career.
Modern Family Recap: Remain in Moving Vehicle
Not a momentous episode, but an inspired one.
Modern Family Recap: Ferris Bueller Takes It Off
Matthew Broderick drops by.
Modern Family Recap: Haley Raises Hell
A Dunphy daughter gets arrested.
Modern Family Recap: Puppet Show by Demand
A yard sale at the Pritchett-Delgado headquarters — what a wonderful way to get the entire dysfunctional Modern Family clan together.
Modern Family Recap: A Very Claire-y Halloween
Modern Family returns with a Halloween episode after skipping the holiday last year.
Modern Family Recap: The Not-So-Great Lukini
Step right up, haters.
Modern Family Recap: Death to Snippy
"I'm sorry, is it a vasecto-you or a vasecto-me?"
Modern Family Recap: The Kids Are All Right
Haley heads off to college. Also, a baby burrito.
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Cam and Mitch deal with the fallout from the end of last season while Gloria tries to figure out how to deal with her good news.
Modern Family Recap: Down in Calexico
“Spoiler alert.” How often do we get to use that warning for an episode of Modern Family?
Modern Family Recap: Contentious Combinations
Characters pair up in different ways, and all the bonding time leads to a ton of bickering, of course.
Modern Family Recap: Disneyland Adventures
The theme-park trip is a sitcom cliché — one that Modern Family handled with great humor.
Modern Family Recap: Vehicular Issues
This week, everyone has more transportation trouble than usual.
Modern Family Recap: Death Comes for Walt
Smiling is just Claire's coping mechanism, okay?
Modern Family Recap: Election Day
Everyone attempts to get out the vote for Claire. They fail miserably.
Modern Family Recap: Drunken Clowns
The show goes more slapstick than it has all season.
Modern Family Recap: Cool Dad
“Dad, she’s still a sweet little doll."
Modern Family Recap: Egg Donor
"This kid needs football.”
Modern Family Recap: Green-Eyed Monster
“You can kiss my wife, you can take her to bed, but you cannot make her laugh."
Modern Family Recap: Naughty Words
“You know I have two weaknesses: children cursing and old people rapping.”
Modern Family Recap: Competitive Spirit
From egg drops to sing-offs.
Modern Family Recap: Hanging on the Telephone
“See you in hell, Klaus.”
Modern Family Recap: Fast As You Can
Everyone make Christmas!
Modern Family Recap: What Would Phil Dunphy Do?
“It just tastes a little flat…I think this is a job for cumin.”
Modern Family Recap: Welcome to Relaxistan
“You have your fans. I have mine. Someday your fans are gonna work for my fans.”
Modern Family Recap: The Gift of the Vagi
"You’re the whole package — I just prefer somebody who has a package.”
Modern Family Recap: Sex and the Suburbs
Claire channels Samantha on a rare night out on 'Modern Family.'
Modern Family Recap: The Tenacity of a Puggle
"I love them because they're a different mix of breeds — just like America."
Modern Family Recap: Stop the Madness
"Do you want a princess hat?"
Modern Family Recap: How Awesome Are People?
"So awesome."
Modern Family Recap: Saddle Up
On the heels of all those Emmy wins, 'Modern Family' begins season three.
Modern Family Recap: Rocking the Boat
In the season finale, Jay gets a year older.
Modern Family Recap: Falling Down
Physical comedy gets a showcase.
Modern Family Recap: I Drink Your Milkshake
Claire and Phil switch parenting roles, and there's a puppy.
Modern Family Recap: Mommy and Me
It's Mother's Day.
Modern Family Recap: Child Custody
Mitch and Cam decide who gets Lily, and Claire and Phil lose Luke.
Modern Family Recap: The Show Must Go On
A musical goes horribly awry, but not without some fun lyrics.
Modern Family Recap: Reconcilable Differences
This week, everyone learns to try new things.
Modern Family Recap: Ta-Da!
"We don't want our bodies in these drawers where God cannot find us."
Modern Family Recap: The Wedge
Beware the psychological dangers of the wedge salad.
Modern Family Recap: Death of a Party
"Whoa, you came here in a limo? Are you rich?"
Modern Family Recap: Missed Connections
"This weekend I can't wait to go see the baby pandas at the thoo."
Modern Family Recap: Sex and Juicebox Stains
Claire and Phil learn to lock their door, while Cameron learns not to prematurely spill his juice.
Modern Family Recap: Croctopus
"It's an obsessive-compulsive thing, I've read like a hundred articles about it."
Modern Family Recap: Speed
"Bullets! A laser! A laser-falcon!"
Modern Family Recap: Men! Men! Men!
How many great episodes does it take to make up for a wobbly beginning to a second season? Three, apparently.
Modern Family Recap: Hands-on Mom
"Show me on Lily's doll where my mother touched you."
Modern Family Recap: Shoot ’Em Up
"You'd think growing up in a place full of death squads and drunken uncles, she'd learn to move a little faster."
Modern Family Recap: Alarmed
"Beep beep, you're not a man!"
Modern Family Recap: Fear and Loathing
"I'm a monogamous social drinker and Claire only sleep-hits me."
Modern Family Recap: Diversity Wars
"I don't get how one barking dog keeps you awake when you slept through cockfights and revolutions."
Modern Family Recap: It’s Not Funny
"I have always found your beard off-putting."
Modern Family Recap: Aftershocks
"It was the nineties. We'd just lost Princess Di. I was at sea.”
Modern Family Recap: Slap the Chicken, Kiss Your Lover
"You mess with us, we mess with you. That's the custom."
Modern Family Premiere Recap: Girls, Castles, and Automobiles
"It was my Vietnam, and I was in Vietnam."
It might be time for Olivia Pope to fix this.
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She got a job writing for Modern Family.
Welcome back to Al Bundy's orbit, Bud.
Alex Dunphy can stay with her sister.
Heartwarming shenanigans ahead!
Julie Bowen is freezing.
Ariel Winter, 14, has a restraining order against her mother.
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