“We can’t get Luke a crossbow. He pokes himself in the eye every time he uses a straw.” – Gloria to Jay, about Luke’s birthday present What do you get when you cross How I Met Your Mother‘s non-linear storytelling with the action-packed Crocodile Hunter with the classic horror tale of a killer clown? This […]
I don’t know about you, but I totally related to Modern Family‘s story lines tonight. OK, maybe not the baby killer one (we only had an acquaintance threaten to feed little Owen to the lions — not a good friend), but the other two? Oh yes. I have fond yet annoying memories of my male […]
One of the things I love about Modern Family is that it’s not only quotably funny, it’s situationally funny. Like tonight, for instance — I roared with laughter through the entire cold open, but I couldn’t pick a quote from it, because it wasn’t the lines that made me laugh, it was the situations the […]
“Am I driving him to school or is he riding his burro?” – Jay to Gloria about Manny wearing his poncho to school You want to know why the ABC comedies are getting such rave reviews? Because people can relate to them. I just finished watching The Middle, celebrating the weird kid, and then Modern […]
Just so you know, I’m not saying that it isn’t. But the hype that the show’s getting, both at CliqueClack and everywhere else I’ve seen … doesn’t hype usually end in disaster, with a lot of tears and a high rate of teen pregnancy (huh?)? For starters, there’s the premise itself: the talking heads definitely add […]
I’m just going out on a limb and saying it: this was the funniest episode of Modern Family since the pilot. I’ve enjoyed every episode, don’t get me wrong, but this episode was written in the style of the pilot, meaning it left me with the inability to recover from one laugh before they got […]
Modern Family continues to be one of my favorite new shows. It balances the tongue-in-cheek with the tender, and we never, ever forget just how quirky the characters are. And they added another quirkster tonight, in the form of Shelly Long‘s guest appearance as DeDe, Claire’s and Mitchell’s mom and Jay’s ex-wife. Modern Family, how […]
