The pilot episode introduces us to three family units: The traditional family, the Dunphys, mom, dad and their three kids, the older-man hot young woman and her son, the Pritchetts, and the modern style family, the gay couple, Mitchell and Cam, and their newly adopted baby Lily.
Modern Family is all about taking every day family situations to the extreme and making us laugh:
For the Dunphys it is dealing with parenting the kids: While SuperNanny would have probably chosen a different education method, Clair and Phil punish Luke by shooting him with the BB pistol, after Luke shot his sister with it.
For the Pritchetts it is dealing with a growing child, Manny, the your lover, who is dealing with a crash on the mall worker. Although he has so many female fans out there, things do not go well for Manny, "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a picture of myself as an old-time sheriff", so Gloria needs to cheer him up, and Jay tries to remember how to be a father to a teenager again.
For Mitchell and Cam it is getting used to having a baby at home and telling the rest of the family about the adoption. "The Lion King" is probably the best strategy to do so.
The pilot episode got great reviews, Mary McNamara of the LA Times commented "Just when we were thinking it couldn't be done, ABC's Modern Family has single-handedly brought the family comedy back from the dead...Modern Family is sharp, timely and fresh, complicated enough to be interesting but with a soft, sweet center". And I agree, after seeing the pilot, Modern Family is the family to be with every Wednesday night.
Some great quotes from this episode:
Gloria: We’re very different, he’s from the city, he has big big business and I come from a small village, very poor but very very beautiful. It is the number one village in all Colombia for all the, what’s the word?
Jay: Murders.
Gloria: Yes, the murders
''I'm the cool dad. That's my thing. I'm hip. I surf the web. I text. LOL: laughing out loud. OMG: Oh my God. WTF: Why the face?''
Cameron: Yes, I've gained a few extra pounds while we were expecting the baby... but that's science. You can't fight it.
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