# Modern Family, Nov. 16, 2011 -- "After The Fire" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242 "2011-11-17T17:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/21 "2011-11-18T17:15:46Z")
I think they decided they couldn’t top last year’s Halloween episode. I loved the sleep clown bit. And if I was in Alex’s class, I’d be one of her “fans” too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/22 "2011-11-18T17:16:44Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > It was hilarious seeing him with Alex and Haley! Oh jeez, I just now got the meaning of their names (“Roots”=“Family”) :smack:. My only excuse is that I started watching the show with season 2. Don’t worry, I’ll get caught up. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/23 "2011-11-18T17:38:33Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Oh jeez, I just now got the meaning of their names (“Roots”=“Family”) :smack:. My only excuse is that I started watching the show with season 2. Don’t worry, I’ll get caught up. :smack: Holy cow, you’re right! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/24 "2011-11-18T17:51:15Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Oh jeez, I just now got the meaning of their names (“Roots”=“Family”) :smack:. I never noticed that. Tell me it’s a coincidence! The girls flipping on the screaming argument was great. Alex nerd-vamping was beautiful. I want a massage! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/25 "2011-11-18T19:47:39Z")
“You have your fans, I have mine. And in a few years your fans will be working for my fans.” ---
**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:** [November 18, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/26 "2011-11-18T19:54:07Z")
“Snicker Snackers!” Jay’s closet was the only thing standing after the fire. Loved the scene with Jay and Claire where she regresses to a little girl and curls up against him while he’s watching football. Jay doesn’t say a word until “You’re older than her.” “You pick now to say something?” Also loved: “I have three kids, at least one if which is going to college. Worst case scenario, they all go.” ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/27 "2011-11-18T21:33:41Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > "Snicker Snackers!"Also loved: “I have three kids, at least one if which is going to college. Worst case scenario, they all go.” This. I’m in college and I thought of that quote all day after hearing it ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/28 "2011-11-18T22:09:46Z")
Haley would do better becoming a stripper. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/29 "2011-11-18T22:17:57Z")
When Cam was talking about his extensive experience driving heavy machinery, he mentioned something about taking a tractor? to his high school prom, to which Mitchell said something like “That’s not the only thing that got plowed that night.” but I missed it… Anyone know what was said? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/30 "2011-11-18T22:24:06Z")
I thought Mitchell said that _nothing_ got plowed. Presumably, Cam went to the prom with a girl, who was left disappointed at the end of the night. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/31 "2011-11-18T22:31:43Z")
That would make perfect sense!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/32 "2011-11-18T23:32:13Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I thought Mitchell said that _nothing_ got plowed. Presumably, Cam went to the prom with a girl, who was left disappointed at the end of the night. > [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > That would make perfect sense!!! He said “at least something got plowed” and I assumed that Mitchell went with Cam and it was Mitchell who didn’t get plowed ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/33 "2011-11-18T23:37:57Z")
Mitchell didn’t know Cam in high school. Cam grew up on a farm in Illinois. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/34 "2011-11-18T23:53:39Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Mitchell didn’t know Cam in high school. Cam grew up on a farm in Illinois. Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/35 "2011-11-19T00:18:57Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Haley would do better becoming a stripper. Nah, she’d be better off as a trophy wife. She should start asking Gloria for some advice. (and count me in with the :smack: at never noticing “Alex” “Haley” “Alex Haley” thing) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/36 "2011-11-20T03:47:05Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > (and count me in with the :smack: at never noticing “Alex” “Haley” “Alex Haley” thing) OK, explain this to me like I’m a five year old, because I don’t understand what everyone is talking about. Yes, I know that Alexander Haley wrote “Roots,” but what’s all the connections here people are drawing? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/37 "2011-11-20T04:12:11Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Mitchell didn’t know Cam in high school. Cam grew up on a farm in Illinois. Didn’t Mitchell also go to prom (and have sex with or at least start/try to) the girl that’s married to the other red head (Little Slugger). ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/38 "2011-11-20T05:54:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > OK, explain this to me like I’m a five year old, because I don’t understand what everyone is talking about. Yes, I know that Alexander Haley wrote “Roots,” but what’s all the connections here people are drawing? As far as I can tell, the connection lies in that Alex and Haley are family members, thus they have ROOTS together? I think it’s a pretty big stretch myself, and that it’s sheer coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/39 "2011-11-20T13:17:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > OK, explain this to me like I’m a five year old, because I don’t understand what everyone is talking about. Yes, I know that Alexander Haley wrote “Roots,” but what’s all the connections here people are drawing? There are no connections. They have a kid named Alex and a kid named Haley. Alex Haley. That has to be intentional on the writers’ part. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242/40 "2011-11-21T17:33:36Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > There are no connections. They have a kid named Alex and a kid named Haley. Alex Haley. That has to be intentional on the writers’ part. As intentional as [Cameron Mitchell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593192/)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-nov-16-2011-after-the-fire/603242.md?page=3)