By: Chris Pavone
Check out this week’s Modern Family recap, before I go on a hug-icidal rampage…
Phil questions his parenting skills, as he feels as invisible as Patrick Swayze inGhost, he should just tell them to get off his train…
Mitch and Cam are to George Mcfly as Lily is to Biff Tannen. And they say the SAT’s are a worthless test. For those of you who failed the big exam, Lily is a bullying her parents around… big time.
Speaking of bullies, Jay wants to clear the air with Gloria’s mother and her constant attempt to push the name Fulgencio on Jay’s little bambino. She responds to the honesty by pointing around a very large handgun at Jay, while he uses Manny and his large cross as a shield…
When Phil attempts to go on a “hug-icidal” rampage, showing his kids how to kill with kindness he completely misses, making his children’s lives a living hell.
Claire rubs “Fulgencio” all over her in order to soak up the intoxicating smell of a new baby, like a poor person using a car freshener as a piece of soap. She does this all while proving to Jay that his dire need to win over his mother-in-law, is a direct carbon copy of what Phil has been trying to do with him for years.
At the Christening, Jay attempts to gain his mother-in-law’s respect one final time by telling a wonderful story of how he met Gloria. Unfortunately, he tells how his advance was actually directed to Sonia, Gloria’s sister, which is the ember that sets the Colombian fire. Gloria is the one who escaped their village – not Sonia – and as it turns out Gloria stepped all over her sister on the way up, seemingly never looking back.
In the episode’s final moments, an homage to The Godfather is paid forward, as Phil, the baby’s godfather speaks his part of renouncing the devil, all while Luke carries out his evil plans of retaliation in retribution of Phil’s earlier failures. Luke takes out their neighbor’s beloved lemon tree for Hayley, clears the balloons out with a BB gun rifle to show his father’sPhilboard, lets rats loose at Alex’s classmates copycat party, before leaving a zebra head (and its cotton stuffing) in a former friend’s bed who humiliated him to the school for calling his teacher “mom.”
Jay may have finally won over his mother-in-law by naming his son Fulgencio Joseph Pritchett.
A Few Last Thoughts…
- Some may say that the stereotypes represented by Sonia in tonight’s episode was so far that they may be deemed offensive. I am not like most, I thought it was edgy and hilarious, highlights include: “I need some corn. Gloria, where is your garden, I will harvest some.” – Sonia … “Where’s the river?” – Sonia holding a basket of dirty laundry
- “What’s one more son in a dress?” – Jay after seeing the outfit Gloria’s mom has picked out
- “Fulgencio Umberto. The initials are F. U. Pritchett, which is exactly the way it feels right now.” – Jay
- “Today ladies.” – Lily to her daddies
Take off your fedora, and leave a comment on tonight’s episode…
