It’s probably too late to be posting on Wednesday’s Modern Family, but I thought I should briefly put up something (1) to say, for the record, that “Starry Night” was one of my favorite episodes yet and (2) to quote Cameron’s line (see clip above), which is still making me laugh out loud two days later.
Besides showing us a different side to Cameron, who’s usually the most socially adept of the extended clan, the episode also did well by the Dunphy family. I’ve said it before, but Phil is sort of the Michael Scott of Modern Family, and the corollary to that is that if his character never got a chance to show that he’s competent (here, as a father), he’d become a tired joke. His storyline this week provided a funny take on helicopter parenting, as Phil’s strategy of fathering without sfathering actually worked.
It also demonstrated the show’s bench strength; this week, Nolan Gould really impressed me as the dim-but-actually-not-so-dim Luke. All that and Jesse Tyler Ferguson in a dress! Can you find a flaw in this episode?
