Modern Family- Page 18

[Jon]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 4:22pm

The show also depicts husbands as clueless idiots, but that's always been acceptable.

Updated On: 10/27/12 at 04:22 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 4:28pm

That makes no sense, nygirl.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 7:04pm

Clueless husbands as a theme has been around since The Honeymooners--probably earlier. It's a tired cliche, but I think Modern Family mainly spins that cliche on its head, and does well by it. Clueless wives is a cliche that's also been prevalent in sitcoms since I Love Lucy--that's what sitcoms do, is take cliches that people know, and (the good sitcoms) switch them up.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 7:09pm

Clueless husband/controlling wife can be problematic, too. Modern Family used to walk fine lines and do okay, but not so much now imho. You see the clueless husband in commercials a lot. Bill Cosby used the trope so that he could be the funny one and Clair Huxtable the straight and sensible one.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 9:53pm

Clueless husbands have existed since the birth of drama.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:01pm

Birth of comedy, at any rate. (that's not a slight on your point, Namo, just thinking back to all the Roman comedies I know--which could basically be replaced by modern characters and language). I do think it's overused in commercials to try to sell to women and tell them they're smart, and still need this product.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:05pm

Jesus.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:11pm

He wasn't, but Joseph sure as hell was.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:21pm

My husband is totally clueless.






Just kidding. Mostly.

[blueroses]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:30pm

"Jay, have you seen my Tattoo?"

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 11:23pm

LOL

[johnasjade]

Posted: 10/27/12 at 1:07am

very nice conversation..

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/12 at 1:20am

Lol

Is number one time talk for Internet.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/27/12 at 2:04am

board was once fun
not so much ... now

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/2/12 at 10:54pm

I know there have been some complaints about the show here. If you do not like the show anymore then just don't post here. I don't like 'Glee' anymore and I ultimately just stopped posting on discussion boards about it.

I'm still going to say my weekly quote.

"I said no tomatoes!"



Updated On: 11/15/12 at 10:54 PM

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/11/12 at 8:36pm

"BRUJA!"

Updated On: 11/11/12 at 08:36 PM

[mc1227]

Posted: 11/15/12 at 6:02pm

Loved last night's episode with Ty Burrell and Matthew Broderick. So well played. That was comedic timing at it's best. With Nathan Lane coming on for his reoccuring role as Pepper, it would be great to bring back Broderick's character as a sort of Producers reunion..

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 11/15/12 at 7:07pm

I thought both Broderick and the episode were hysterical. Their big scene together had more laughs per minute than I've seen in anything in a while.

[Jon]

Posted: 11/15/12 at 7:45pm

They took one of the most tired cliches of modern sitcoms and made it seem fresh.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/15/12 at 10:15pm

If will was Jack, was Matthew Chrissy?

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/15/12 at 11:13pm

"How could we lose this?! I said we."

[sally1112]

Posted: 11/16/12 at 10:31am

"1984 was a great year for me, that's the year Footloose came out."

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/16/12 at 3:06pm

Hilarious last night!

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 11/29/12 at 11:43am

Last night's episode was good, but I did not think it was one of he greatest.

"There is not one bad photo of Haley. Even some of her mug shots are cute."

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 12/14/12 at 10:59pm

"What we did learn from 'A League of Their Own'? There's no crying in baseball. No, that Madonna is a lousy actress and so are you."

Updated On: 1/10/13 at 10:59 PM