Modern Family/YMMV

• Acceptable Targets: Colombians get an interesting treatment. On one hand, Gloria is one of the most sympathetic and positively-portrayed characters on the show. On the other, all Colombians know how to spot a fake crime scene and smuggle illegal goods onto an airplane.
  • Gloria lampshades this by saying "What are we, Peruvians?"
• Crowning Music of Awesome: "In the Moonlight"
  • Cameron singing Ave Maria whilst Mitchell simultaneously attempts to kick a pigeon's ass in slow motion.
• Double Standard: There's little mention of Phil lusting after Gloria compared to Manny lusting after Haley despite being essentially similar circumstances.
• Ear Worm: "In the Moonlight" is so catchy, even Haley's grandpa ends up singing about how much Dylan wants to do her.
  • Phil getting autotuned.

"I, like a lot of men in this town, enjoy making love to my wife-ife."

• Fetish Fuel: "Halloween" features Haley switching costumes from, in order, Catgirl Cosplay, sexy nurse and finally Mother Teresa "when she was hot"and Sofia Vergara in a sexy witch costume!
  • "Manny Get Your Gun" starts off with Gloria running around (in regular attire) resulting in - ahem - real life Jiggle Physics. And later, with a gun.
  • The entirety of Gloria's conversation with Claire in "Caught in the Act", mostly because of the mix up in converations
• Flanderization: It began to look this way for Gloria. Her plots for the first three episodes of season 2 were about either her religion, a superstition of hers, or her ethnicity, and it looks like she's slipping into this.
  • Some fans are worried Mitch and Cam might be slipping into this too.
  • Depending on who you ask, any character not played by Ed O'Neill since the beginning of Season 2.
• Fridge Logic: Mitchell deliberately left Cameron's last name off of Lily's birth record, instead of giving her a hyphenated name as they'd discussed. His explanation was that he was afraid that Cameron might leave him and Lily after deciding that he couldn't handle parenthood — his name would only serve to remind Mitchell of Cameron's abandonment. This doesn't make any sense. If Cameron had walked out on Mitchell while Lily was a baby, Mitchell could have had Lily's name changed.
• Harsher in Hindsight: An episode with a joke about The Monkees aired the very day that Davy Jones died.
• Nightmare Fuel: Barkley the dog butler manequinn, who through a series of coincidences appears to be seducing and eventually marrying Jay. Gloria calls it "el diablo."
• Squick: See the Ear Worm entry.
• The Scrappy: Cam for constantly overeacting to everything, making decisions without any regard for what Mitchell wants and guilt tripping Mitchell into apologizng to him whenever he calls him out on his behavior.
• Tear Jerker: Mr. Kleezak, the grouchy neighbor whom Phil and Claire worry Luke is spending time with, telling them as he walks back to his house, "I used to be a fireman. I don't hurt kids."
  • Jay crying in the Mother's Day episode after remembering his mother. This causes the Dunphy kids to run to Claire and hug her.
  • Mitch and Cam's adoption falling through, and their subsequent reactions in "Baby on Board".
• Unfortunate Implications: Claire's old friend from work is a hard-working top executive... who has no family or intimate relationships beyond a set of lovers across the world. Valerie pities Claire/Claire envies Valerie.
  • Until about halfway through the episode, Claire thought the dynamic was the reverse. She's devastated by the epiphany that Valerie pitied her.
  • One episode plays Menstrual Menace absolutely straight, on a level that's quite shocking for the time.