# Modern Family 5/22 "Goodnight Gracie" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079 "2013-05-23T01:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/21 "2013-05-23T18:29:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What’s with Cam and Manny wearing matching outfits? I wondered about that too. I thought there was going to be a joke about someone mistaking them for father and son or something. Their outfits weren’t _exactly_ alike, but they were similar enough that I expected there to be some kind of payoff – especially since Cam and Manny don’t normally have scenes with just the two of them together. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/22 "2013-05-23T18:49:02Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What’s with Cam and Manny wearing matching outfits? I thought it was just meant to show how alike they both are---- both of them fit in at the retirement community almost instantly. It was perfectly suited for both Cam and Manny. Not only did they fit personality-wise, but apparently their wardrobes did, too. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/23 "2013-05-23T18:52:49Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I thought it was just meant to show how alike they both are---- both of them fit in at the retirement community almost instantly. It was perfectly suited for both Cam and Manny. Not only did they fit personality-wise, but apparently their wardrobes did, too. That’s what I was thinking. Another great scene! ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/24 "2013-05-23T18:58:20Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I thought it was just meant to show how alike they both are---- both of them fit in at the retirement community almost instantly. It was perfectly suited for both Cam and Manny. Not only did they fit personality-wise, but apparently their wardrobes did, too. I wonder if it was meant to be reminescent of those old Bartles and Jaymes ads from the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/25 "2013-05-23T19:04:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Season Finale. > > Best episode EVER. I second this motion. Ty Burell knocks it out of the park. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/26 "2013-05-23T21:56:16Z")
The scene with Claire and Phil pretending to be vacuum cleaner salespeople was great. Then Phil made Claire confess to making a mistake (“it’s part of the training”)…awesome. Also…Luke to Manny…“It’s like you’ve never heard boys talk.” ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/27 "2013-05-24T12:46:42Z")
WHO WAS WATCHING LILLY WHILE CAM AND MITCH WERE IN FLORIDA?!?! Big missed opportunity here - I can only imagine how funny she would’ve been with the old ladies…“she’s cheating!” “Lilly don’t be rude!” “Why not? You said they have nothing left to live for…” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/28 "2013-05-24T13:59:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > :rolleyes: > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > :rolleyes: Careful, your face is going to freeze like that. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/29 "2013-05-24T14:57:14Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Careful, your face is going to freeze like that. My eye doctor said I should do these exercises… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/30 "2013-05-24T14:58:35Z")
“You had an ass like a young Ann-Margret…” “Yes, that _was_ me!” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/31 "2013-05-24T15:32:41Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > WHO WAS WATCHING LILLY WHILE CAM AND MITCH WERE IN FLORIDA?!?! > > Big missed opportunity here - I can only imagine how funny she would’ve been with the old ladies…“she’s cheating!” > > “Lilly don’t be rude!” > > “Why not? You said they have nothing left to live for…” I for one did not miss Lily. Without her, Mitch and Cam can indulge in non-parental humor. We already have enough of that (parent-related humor, that is), ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/32 "2013-05-24T17:26:19Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I for one did not miss Lily. Without her, Mitch and Cam can indulge in non-parental humor. We already have enough of that (parent-related humor, that is), The show is called “Modern Family” you know. Not “Two Gay Guys” - they’ve made that show 40 or 50 times already. Heck the pilot episode revolves around Mitch and Cam adopting Lily. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/33 "2013-05-24T18:31:16Z")
“She reminds me of my abuela, with her head scarf and petty theft charges.” “I may be a simple man, but if a dog don’t baaaahk…\ Thank God - I didn’t really have a close for that dog analogy.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/34 "2013-05-24T18:45:29Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > “I may be a simple man, but if a dog don’t baaaahk…\ Thank God - I didn’t really have a close for that dog analogy.” “It is a shame… SHAME!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/35 "2013-05-24T18:51:40Z")
I didn’t get the part about her wanting her ashes thrown in the Pope’s face, though. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/36 "2013-05-24T18:59:47Z")
Probably she just didn’t like the Pope. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/37 "2013-05-24T20:55:49Z")
I didn’t think the episode was anything special. Not bad or anything, but far from the best this series is capable of. Who goes out of state for their in law’s mother’s funeral? Would’ve made a lot more sense if just Phil and the rest of the Dunphy’s went. Maybe I could see Jay going if he’d been friendly with Phil’s parents for a long time but not Gloria (and she even had reason not to want to be there!!!) Manny & Cam/Mitchell? Come on… But I’m just nitpicking. The funeral was clearly just a way to get them all off in some other locale without yet another whole family goes on vacation together plot. Is there some rule that every year they have to have a season finale set someplace other than home? It’s getting a bit trite. ---
**Author:** ![PSico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@PSico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSico)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/38 "2013-05-31T15:39:29Z")
Gracie’s story about the lighter was a pivotal point in her life. Given that she and Alex “had a special bond”, why did she withhold the story until she was dead? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/39 "2013-05-31T17:56:17Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Who goes out of state for their in law’s mother’s funeral? Would’ve made a lot more sense if just Phil and the rest of the Dunphy’s went. Maybe I could see Jay going if he’d been friendly with Phil’s parents for a long time but not Gloria (and she even had reason not to want to be there!!!) Manny & Cam/Mitchell? Come on… I thought Gloria had to be there for her ridiculously coincidental but sitcommy-conveniently scheduled court date, for which Mitchel could ridiculously coincidentally act as her attorney. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/40 "2013-05-31T21:43:14Z")
> [@PSico](#): > > Gracie’s story about the lighter was a pivotal point in her life. Given that she and Alex “had a special bond”, why did she withhold the story until she was dead? So her funeral would be less boring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079.md?page=3)