A central conceit of Modern Family is that it is a 'documentary', and they are all aware of the cameras. All the characters give significant looks to the cameras at times (usually in disbelief at what another character is doing).

John Cleese couldn't deliver that line - in all the various UK dialects, 'whore' and 'horror' sound *completely* different. They're only homophones in American English.

Rodriguez above Winter? They're both pretty good, but the best direct comparison for me is Alex emotionally throwing herself into her mother post-therapy, and Manny into his stepdad post-Sam break up. Very similar bits of business, but I know which one of them made their moment truly moving, rather than just a sweet…

Well, their last take on the topic of transgender people involved Mr Garrison just being allowed a sex change because he says so, then devolved into basically comparing people with gender identity issues to people wanting to be dolphins - then capped it all by concluding that no matter how you change your outside you…

In real life, yes. In terms of narrative, the show would have had to tell a completely different story if she were there. It wouldn't have been about Cam and Mitch, it would have been about her, because that is how her character has been set up.

I reckon it's because the character is simply horrible. They've set it up that when she's around she makes everybody miserable, and forces Mitchell into the role of appeasing the rest of the family and settling everything down. Personally, I didn't want a character there who would make the whole thing about her, and…

I don't know - for me the biggest arsehole plot in the whole show was where Cam turned a loving gesture from his father of a wonderfully carved personalised cake-topper into something to make his fiancée feel insecure and upset about how his future father-in-law sees him, just so he could then blackmail the man he…

Wouldn't it still be just as dangerous indoors (since I'm guessing that would be at the same venue)? My cousin's wedding was outdoors at a hotel, and there was a continual safety net of an indoor wedding at the same location if it rained - but a building isn't exactly protection from fire the same way it would be from…

Personally, I always felt it was their method of 'levelling the playing field'.
Glee not only has a huge variety of styles of singer, but there's also a wide range of talent and experience levels. Cory Monteith (who was a wonderful actor, seemed to be a lovely person and a huge loss to the entertainment world) was,…

A friend of mine who is a professional singer (and gay man, so it wasn't about lust) saw her on broadway a year or two before Glee, and said she was fantastic, the best singer he's seen. In fact, she was the only member of the cast whose name he even remembered (again, this was before she was famous, and from what I…

It's usually easier for a woman to get back into shape after birth if she was in shape before it, which is part of the reason most famous women snap back comparatively quickly (the other obviously being the money and time for exercise and/or a personal trainer). This is particularly true if their core is well defined…

Then I wish I'd meet someone like you… as a straight (mostly, anyway ;-) ) female who enjoys being on both sides of the romantic gesture (and particularly gift-giving), a great many straight men don't seem to know what to do with themselves if you do something nice, or even if you offer to pay for something on a date.…

I know exactly what you mean. I've worked in more than one shop in the past and felt the same. In fact, even now when I see an unattended child I immediately try to search out a parent/guardian… hell, I even do the same with unattended pets. I once spent a long while hovering around a car park and probably looking…

I'd agree, but from what we saw the store was tiny, so where were the shop assistants? Even if she had done it herself, they can't have failed to notice her in the shop. But that's a minor quibble on my part.

I would sincerely hope that the store would be aware that a missing child (particularly one as young as Lily) is an emergency situation and not cause a problem - I mean, can you imagine the scene if Claire was stopped from leaving the store in order to make her change?

He's supposed to be nannying to save money for college, so I'd say the character is in his early twenties at most. And since Hayley's nineteen or twenty at this point, even if the character was 26 or so (which I don't think he's supposed to be), that's not exactly a giant age/maturity gap.