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S07.E22: Double-Click

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DrSpaceman73

DrSpaceman73

I started watching this episode completely expecting last week to be the first of a two part episode.  That was how it was written.  Now this week.......just dropped it, DeeDee's marriage, the rest of the train ride, a wedding in the family.  No, we don't need to see all that.  

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WhosThatGirl

WhosThatGirl

Yeah, I didn't like Joe's movie speech moments. Sometimes Joe has his cute moments, in small doses, but unlike Lily, none of his bits make me laugh. That little girl nailed her lines and jokes when they started giving them to her. She really does dry humor well, where as with Joe, they seem to be.. I don't know, going for a cutesy effect and it's not working. At least not for me. It's too cutesy cute. I can't.

If the show was ever going to go down the baby route again, I would want them to go back to Cam and Mitch adopting again. They always go back and forth on it with those two, but I would much rather see that than Haley getting pregnant. 

I don't know. I just felt this was an okay episode but I wasn't really like, "oh it's a finale episode". It was just kind of there. Okay for what it was. 

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Brandi Maxxxx

Brandi Maxxxx

I'm usually pretty forgiving with this show but this episode was a waste of time. 

Jay vs. technology: Funny for about 2 seconds.
Gloria's family thing: Did this even count as a storyline? And Joe quoting Casablanca did nothing for me.
Claire and the dance game: OK, the incompetent guy being the one to stand up for her was kind of amusing.
Phil and Luke: Phil had some decent material but the plot was a rehash of season 3's "Virgin Territory". 
Mitchell and Cameron: Uninteresting. I still like Lily though.
Haley and Andy: I could care less. I would say I couldn't care less, but I know I'll care even less next time.
Alex being ignored: I'm actually okay with these jokes but I'll admit they've been overdoing it lately.

One more thing: Luke got a girl into his bed? So who is this pathetic, lonely, desperate, desperate, desperate, desperate, desperate, desperate creature?

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needschocolate

needschocolate

3 hours ago, Brandi Maxxxx said:

Haley and Andy: I could care less. I would say I couldn't care less, but I know I'll care even less next time.

I find this comment to be so wonderful that I am definitely stealing it.   One of my pet peeves is when people say "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less" - this was a nice twist.

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seacliffsal

seacliffsal

I don't even know how the writers would have Alex so clueless about having a celebration for coming home as she has been home all year and even wanted to move back home when she didn't feel like she was fitting in at college.  Also, the celebration is going off to college, not returning home.  Yea, back in the day, didn't we all start our summer jobs the day after returning home from college?  

The boy playing Joe doesn't speak clearly enough to have a monologue.  

I don't think it's the show getting old, I think it's me getting old....the only thing I enjoyed was the 'summer family camp 2.0'.  Oh well.  Maybe after a summer hiatus both the show and me will get back to form....

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readster

readster

On 5/21/2016 at 7:11 AM, fotog said:

The double click thing was excruciating to watch. So dumb. It reminded me of late seasons of Friends, like the one when Joey was "speaking French" but couldn't copy Phoebe and was just making up garbage words. 

Oh I hated that! Even Matt LaBlac said a few years later that he hated the script saying it was too stupid even for Joey. He also talked about how it didn't make sense for the fact that Joey was going to be Les Miz and they only speak a whopping 5 lines of French and he couldn't believe that Joey needed to have a "tutor" to do it. Another thing that was a problem with Jay not doing the double click fast enough. My own wife who didn't know that did it at the same speed on our iPad and her iPhone and guess what? It worked fine because it was at the default speed to allow that. No way that Jay would have not had his work in all caps or Manny getting so upset about it. I'm also voicing my continuing hate for Joe's needing to be watch! Be his damn parent Gloria! You don't work!

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WhosThatGirl

WhosThatGirl

Yeah, I don't know why Alex expected a big celebration. One, being that she was home every other episode and also, her college is close by so it's obvious she never needed anyone's help to come back and forth from campus and home- if she had gone to a college in another state this would be different. It was really odd how everyone was like, "what are you doing here" "what a surprise" but we never heard them say anything like this when she was randomly popping in all season. It doesn't make sense. I didn't get a celebration when I came home from college my first year, nor was there much fanfare when I returned, I didn't need help getting things home and all that, I know people who went to college out of state and they obviously needed help when they returned for those various reasons. Aside from that though, the hate on Alex moments in episodes isn't funny; I still remember that episode where the Dumphy family was having such a happy silly summer and then Alex returned home early and the show made the Dumphy family angry everytime she walked into a scene. 

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mansonlamps

mansonlamps

On 5/19/2016 at 0:38 PM, Snow Apple said:

What's with Luke and his nicknames for his sisters. Pumpkin? Kitten? Makes me cringe.

 

Totally agree with this.  Plus he sounds so smarmy the way he says it.  Gross.

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readster

readster

21 minutes ago, AnnaRose said:

I guess Alex's expectations were related to her comment that Sanjay's family held a three day celebration for the return of that special little snowflake.

Times where Alex needs to get over that "special little snowflake" the same way Rueben should have moved on when Alex kept rejecting him for prom. Especially, when Alex and Sanjay were back together by then.

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Artsda

Artsda

41 minutes ago, AnnaRose said:

I guess Alex's expectations were related to her comment that Sanjay's family held a three day celebration for the return of that special little snowflake.

Which makes Alex's reaction more stupid, Sanjay went to school upstate. Stanford is like 6 hours from home, Alex is in Pasadena isn't she? She came home every other day it looked like, she was close to home. Sanjay actually had somewhere to return from, he probably didn't drive 6 hours every week to come home. 

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AnnaRose

AnnaRose

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I would like to think that Modern Family was trying to make a point about the ridiculous - everyone is a special little snowflake, everyone should get a participant trophy, every little thing has to be celebrated - thing that is so prevalent these days... but that is probably giving the writers too much credit.

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AnnaRose

AnnaRose

42 minutes ago, mansonlamps said:

I don't know, I think the writers are pretty smart on this particular show.  I think a lot of the humor it's subtle and clever.

Yeah, that is true much of the time.  Perhaps I was being a tad too cynical. ;)

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LeisureTime

LeisureTime

I'll say this for the episode: At least Phil is consistent with his views on his kids' sex lives. He's mortified by all of it, boy or girl. Also, I liked the heart of the Mitchell/Cam story, even if it was surrounded by some stupid stuff. There's no redeeming the Pritchett Closet plot, though.

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mansonlamps

mansonlamps

Yeah I hate that they even went that way with Claire.  I'm sure they wanted to give Julie Bowen more to work with, but I think that storyline is a fail.  It's like whoever had the brilliant idea to make Roz pregnant on Frasier to give the actress a meatier storyline, really poor idea.  At least on that show they realized it pretty quickly and we rarely saw the baby.  Hopefully we will see less and less of the closet business as the show progresses.

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Everleigh

Everleigh

15 hours ago, LeisureTime said:

I'll say this for the episode: At least Phil is consistent with his views on his kids' sex lives. He's mortified by all of it, boy or girl. 

I liked that too. It was nice to see him react to finding Luke with a girl the same way he reacted to learning Haley lost her virginity. He's not one of those macho "no man shall touch my daughters but my son should totally go out and get laid whenever he can" types. He just doesn't want his kids to grow up, which is actually kind of sweet. 

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readster

readster

3 hours ago, Everleigh said:

I liked that too. It was nice to see him react to finding Luke with a girl the same way he reacted to learning Haley lost her virginity. He's not one of those macho "no man shall touch my daughters but my son should totally go out and get laid whenever he can" types. He just doesn't want his kids to grow up, which is actually kind of sweet. 

I agree, I like see that portrayed on TV a lot better than having the stereotype with Mike on The Middle. Where he high fives Axl about conquest and having Brick get into dating girls, but when Sue gets involved he is ready to bring down a hellstorm of fire. Least with Phil, it seems more natural and its rare. The last time I saw something close to a normal reaction like this was on Raising Dad the old series with Bob Saget years ago. When he thought his oldest was having sex and even asked his own dad how he handled it when he had found about him and his sister. The reactions were so normal, that it was so refreshing. 

  I also like that Claire has had a better reaction to it too. She either approves or disapproves of the relationships, but at the same time she is: "Its part of life and I hope they are stupid about it." Better than super helicopter parent that Claire and Gloria are portrayed as. 

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CleoCaesar

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Phil won this episode for me. His moment with Alex in the kitchen and when he started yelling at Luke about the girl ("I knew I was angry but I didn't know why. So I just started yelling" "In a bed I paid for!" "With your grandfather watching!" "...WHAT?!?!?!" )

These days Phil wins most episodes for me. Thanks to Ty Burell's skill, Phil is the only one who seems like an actual person. The rest seem like just a collection of poorly delivered quips and mannerisms. Phil has dimension and seems real, just goofy. With the rest I get the sense that they're just rattling off lines they barely understand. Kind of like, well, Joe reciting Casablanca lines.

Manny is useless and unfunny. Jay has to be dumbed down to stupid levels (really, a successful CEO can't understand double-click?). Alex is just a punching bag (also when was she having sex at 17 or rather with who?).

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Everleigh

Everleigh

9 hours ago, CleoCaesar said:

Alex is just a punching bag (also when was she having sex at 17 or rather with who?).

She might not have meant she had sex but rather that she had a boy over. She has had a few boyfriends and she doesn't seem exactly opposed to the idea based on some of the things we've seen her say or do, so it's not entirely out of the question. And it's possible she and Sanjay have done it considering they were together for a while. 

And that's the most I want to think about any character's sex life on this show.  

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WhosThatGirl

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 Kind of like, well, Joe reciting Casablanca lines.

This moment kind of..I don't know, took me out of the episode. Listen, the little kid who plays Joe is quite cute, but cute lines that are less than 4 words is enough for now. Unlike the little actress who plays Lily- who makes me laugh all the time, I watch old reruns and I laugh and laugh sometimes just at her reactions to her parents- the little boy who plays Joe isn't that good at it. That speech at the end felt so forced and I don't know, I suppose that could have been the intention but it felt so forced that I feel like Jay would not have fallen for that. It's one thing when it's the actual movie and the movie scene but a forced speech from the movie, where the person saying the speech isn't doing a range of emotions. I really don't know why Jay burst into tears. 

Speaking of Lily, this season seemed to me have more episodes without her and that makes me kind of sad. I love Lily and her snark. 

Phil is the most consistent in this show, I too liked this callback to the episode with Haley. And also that it not only included the Luke revelation but it included an Alex revelation as well and his exact same response. 

As much as the show has drifted of course from where it started, I'm in it for the long haul. Even in the worst episodes, I still find myself laughing at something in an episode. It has it's moments. 

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qtpye

qtpye

On 5/24/2016 at 1:17 PM, AnnaRose said:

I guess Alex's expectations were related to her comment that Sanjay's family held a three day celebration for the return of that special little snowflake.

I think Sanjay goes to MIT.  This means he was on another coast and almost as far away from his family as possible in the lower 48.  I am guessing he did not get to pop in whenever he felt like it.  This would make his situation very different from Alex.  However, three days is still ridiculous.

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WhosThatGirl

WhosThatGirl

6 hours ago, Ina123 said:

The show was repeated this week. Note to writers: a long monologue by a little kid is not funny or enjoyable when you can't understand said kid.

Yeah.. It was so awkward. This little kid is cute but unlike the actress who plays Lily, he doesn't have the same screen presence she does.

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