Modern Family: Egg Drop

What Happened, Yo!:

-Luke and Manny are working on containers to keep an egg safe for a school project. Parents aren't supposed to be helping, but Jay suspects Claire will be helping Luke (And Claire suggests Jay will be helping Manny), so they both start helping their kids and begin competing with one another. They both create good designs (Though not as good as the design Alex one used), but keep being competitive, so Luke and Manny (worried that they'll be caught having parental help at this rate) admit to their parents that they tricked them into doing their products, because they knew how competitive they were. Claire and Jay send them to make new products, and Claire blames Jay for making her so competitive with him, but Jay says she's always been this way and that he likes that she's a fighter.

-Meanwhile, Phil has just become a partner at a new real estate agency and is preparing a seminar for new home buyers with Hayley's help. When Claire (who is also supposed to help as a plant in the audience) drops out to work on Luke's project he gets Gloria to help instead. However Gloria and Hayley make a trip to the salon and when Gloria's car gets towed (They parked in a tow zone), they find themselves unable to get to the presentation in time, leaving Phil to have to do it by himself. The presentation goes terribly. Hayley gets Gloria to take the blame because Phil never gets mad at Gloria. This turns out to be true, so Gloria gets mad at Phil because he won't get mad at her and that's not how family should treat each other. Phil does end up yelling at Gloria, but Gloria is happy about this because it means he cares about her.


-Also meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell are meeting with a potential birth mother for their child and Cam is worried Mitch will focus on her flaws, so Mitch promises he won't, even though the candidate isn't very bright. The potential makes them perform for her, because it's important to her that the baby grows up in a musical family, but Cam gets offended when she says that Mitch is the better singer. The rest of the interview goes well and they seem to be a lock, until Cam insists on singing another song which upsets the girl and makes her decide to keep her baby.


I Like This: Egg Drop was a rather strong episode of Modern Family with pretty much every character getting in at least one great moment. I liked the idea that Jay and Claire can be very competitive with each other, and their whole storyline was full of good moments. The twist that Luke and Manny were conning their parents into doing their project for them was unexpected and pretty genius. Phil's storyline also delivered. I like how it went from being about his career to his relationship with Gloria and the way he literally put her on a pedestal was quite funny indeed. I liked the continuation of Cam and Mitchell trying to adopt a second baby, and Cam not being able to take hearing Mitchell be called the better singer added a nice curve to the proceedings.

But...: Even with the great last part of the story, Cam and Mitchell once again wind up with the weakest plot of the evening.

The Bottom Line: Three (mostly) strong plots and some interesting character dynamics lead to another solid episode of Modern Family.

Grade: Awesome! (Good)

Memorable Moments:

-Phil: "So the five keys to investing wisely in a downward real estate market are: "Keyp your cool", "Keyp Informed", "Legwork"...

-Phil: "I wanted to give them a step-by-step description of what I can do for them. Am I worried that they may just write it all down and do it themselves? Quite frankly, I hadn't thought about it until just now."

-Luke's first idea for the egg drop is a simple Egg Carton. "What if the best idea has been under my nose this whole time?"

-Mitchell: "Actually it's the opposite of a first date: You don't want to have sex, but you do want a baby."

-Prospective Mother: "It's OK to eat tuna, but not Dolphin? My theory is a fish is a fish." Mitchell: "Well, a dolphin's actually a mammal, so..". P.M: "Tomato, Tomato". Mitchell: "More, like Tomato, Cow".

-Mitchell: "Ok, now we're actually doing a song and dance".

-Gloria: "Why did you have to do your toes, too?" Hayley: "Well, there's this really cute boy at my school whose really into my feet". Gloria: "Careful, that can get really creepy fast".

-Gloria after her hail for a taxi is ignored: "You see, they don't stop because I'm latina". Hayler: "Or because that was just a yellow car".

-Claire: "You know, I made the egg that made you that made that project, so in a lot of ways that design is already mine!"

-Cam: "Yes, she was upset. But on a positive note, what I take from this experience is: I can sing!"

-Gloria: "That's when you know your family loves you, when they feel free to scream at you."

-Alex after deploying her perfect egg drop design: "Give up. You're all just playing for second".
-The end tag with Alex thinking she's having a deep conversation with Hayley, when Hayley is just talking on her cell and not even aware that Alex is awake was gold.