# Modern Family 5/22 "Goodnight Gracie"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079>\
**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:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/41 "2013-05-31T23:15:32Z")

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> [@corkboard](#):
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> 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.

Maybe I read things wrong, but I thought she only had to go to court because she’d wound up back in the state. If she’d stayed in california she wouldn’t have had to. I have no idea if that makes any sort of legal sense, it’s just how I thought they’d set up things in the episode.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/42 "2013-06-01T00:51:54Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> I wondered about that too. I thought there was going to be a joke about someone mistaking them for father and son or something.

Remember when they did the composite of what Cam and Gloria’s son would look like?

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-5-22-goodnight-gracie/659079/43 "2013-06-01T01:35:21Z")

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> [@TBG](#):
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> Maybe I read things wrong, but I thought she only had to go to court because she’d wound up back in the state. If she’d stayed in california she wouldn’t have had to. I have no idea if that makes any sort of legal sense, it’s just how I thought they’d set up things in the episode.

That’s how I understood it as well.

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