# Modern Family Oct. 10 episodes: "Schooled" (4.2) and "Snip" (4.3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408 "2012-10-11T12:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 11, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/21 "2012-10-11T20:30:34Z")
“OK, I feel like I’ve paddled into some deeper waters here.” “Well I _have_ been sleeping better and I feel like I have more energy…oh you’re good.” ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/22 "2012-10-11T20:50:08Z")
“We’re gonna need a bigger belt.” ---
**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:** [October 11, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/23 "2012-10-11T21:34:13Z")
Did they run these episodes out of order? Gloria looked more pregnant in “Schooled” than “Snip”, plus pretty sure she was in maternity clothes in “Schooled”. ETA: No, obviously not, with Haley away at school. Still… ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/24 "2012-10-11T23:54:32Z")
Usually Luke provides my favorite line but this time it was Jay: Re: Gloria’s pregnancy: “She’s Latina, you just have to look at her funny.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/25 "2012-10-12T00:57:32Z")
So let me get this straight. Two years ago Lily was a baby. Last year she was a walking talking three-year-old. Now she’s in _kindergarten?_ 😕 ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/26 "2012-10-12T00:59:57Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So let me get this straight. Two years ago Lily was a baby. Last year she was a walking talking three-year-old. Now she’s in _kindergarten?_ 😕 Well, some kindergarteners are still four, depending on the cut off dates, so it’s possible… ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/27 "2012-10-12T01:22:08Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So let me get this straight. Two years ago Lily was a baby. Last year she was a walking talking three-year-old. Now she’s in _kindergarten?_ 😕 Is there any reason to believe that time passes in the show at the same pace as real life? How many decades has Bart Simpson been 10 years old? And even if the kids seem to be aging at different rates, so what? The dhow might use the forms if documentary but it – unlike The Office – is not meant to actually be a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/28 "2012-10-12T02:59:52Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Usually Luke provides my favorite line but this time it was Jay: Re: Gloria’s pregnancy: “She’s Latina, you just have to look at her funny.” I don’t know - I liked Luke’s “Congratulations, you raised a parrot.” ---
**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:** [October 12, 2012, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/29 "2012-10-12T11:28:44Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Did they run these episodes out of order? Gloria looked more pregnant in “Schooled” than “Snip”, plus pretty sure she was in maternity clothes in “Schooled”. I was thinking exactly the same thing. She looked _very_ pregnant in the first ep. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/30 "2012-10-12T12:26:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Is there any reason to believe that time passes in the show at the same pace as real life? How many decades has Bart Simpson been 10 years old? > > And even if the kids seem to be aging at different rates, so what? The dhow might use the forms if documentary but it – unlike The Office – is not meant to actually be a documentary. Well yeah, I don’t really expect realism in a sit-com. I was just commenting on how Lily seems to be caught in a time warp with respect to all the other characters on the show. TV shows seem to do this with little kids quite a bit. (Remember Family Ties?) At this rate Lily will be classmates with Luke and Manny in another couple of years! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/31 "2012-10-14T13:12:00Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I agree it’s unlikely now that she’s 42, but a show like Modern Family would have a tough time hiding it, I would think. For the most part I agree. However Julie Bowen was pregnant during the filming of the first episode, and I had no idea until I read it online afterwards. (Having seen it since, it’s kind of obvious - she’s always holding washing or sitting down or standing behind things - but I think they did a great job hiding it.) ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408/32 "2012-10-14T19:18:15Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Well yeah, I don’t really expect realism in a sit-com. I was just commenting on how Lily seems to be caught in a time warp with respect to all the other characters on the show. TV shows seem to do this with little kids quite a bit. (Remember Family Ties?) At this rate Lily will be classmates with Luke and Manny in another couple of years! 😃 Considering Manny, Luke, and Alex are all within a couple of months of each other, I think they have to play fast and lose with the ages. They age them up or down in order to get maximum comedy (Luke knowing about Tequila shots and beer at college is not something that coincides with the rest of his normal naivete, for instance.) But I think Luke and Manny got bumped into eighth grade rather quickly too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-family-oct-10-episodes-schooled-4-2-and-snip-4-3/637408.md?page=1)