Modern Family -- Season Finale -- "Baby on Board" -- 5/23/12
05-23-12, 07:57 PM
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Modern Family -- Season Finale -- "Baby on Board" -- 5/23/12
05-23-12, 08:26 PM
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Wow, the Spanish soap opera stuff was some of the worst stuff I've ever seen on the show. Dangerously close to jumping the shark.
05-23-12, 08:47 PM
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Yeah that Spanish soap opera stuff was la,e but I liked everything else. Some good laughs but it was heavy on the emotional stuff, that's not a bad thing.
05-23-12, 09:26 PM
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I actually liked the soap opera stuff. 
05-23-12, 10:30 PM
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This is definitely no longer the best comedy. Parks and Rec has that title to itself in my opinion. I actually prefer New Girl and Girls to this now.
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05-23-12, 11:15 PM
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I enjoyed the episode, I think partly because they let the season end on what was one of my favorite scenes of the season, I loved them going over all of the mail Luke intercepted.
05-23-12, 11:52 PM
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Have to agree. The show really slipped this season.
05-24-12, 12:36 AM
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Re: Modern Family -- Season Finale -- "Baby on Board" -- 5/23/12
As soon as Gloria started complaining about nausea, I figured she'd turn up pregnant. Is she in real life too?
Now one with flash!
05-24-12, 02:58 AM
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I thought the telenovela stuff was hilarious. But this comes from having quite a few hispanic friends who watch the stuff every day without fail.
05-24-12, 06:29 AM
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05-24-12, 07:12 AM
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Re: Modern Family -- Season Finale -- "Baby on Board" -- 5/23/12
Pregnant Gloria? That won't be as sexy... Unless you're Giantrobo.
05-24-12, 07:43 AM
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05-24-12, 09:37 AM
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I forget where the college is that Haley got into. Is it a fictional TV college that will keep her on the show?
05-24-12, 09:50 AM
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The shows quality is down and the new episodes seem really really spaced apart this year.
05-24-12, 09:55 AM
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The telenovela stuff just didn't fit in this style of show. It's like the clown stuff from earlier this season... in both cases it went too over the top for a show that's for the most part grounded in reality. A silly reality, yes, but usually plausible within the accepted personalities of the characters. As much as I love the absurdist comedy in shows like 30 Rock and Community, I just think it has no place here.
05-24-12, 10:15 AM
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The telenovela angle required you to know and understand how the real ones are in Central/South America so you get the joke that this is all a piss take on those shows. How many Americans would know? So that was the risk they took.
I thought the parents' poor handling of their daughter moving in with her BF was lamers, TBH.
I thought the parents' poor handling of their daughter moving in with her BF was lamers, TBH.
05-24-12, 10:29 AM
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Re: Modern Family -- Season Finale -- "Baby on Board" -- 5/23/12
I didn't think this was the best episode of the series, but it definitely wasn't the worse.
Personally I thought the telenova stuff was hilarious, but I didn't like how Cam and Mitch were thrown into the mix. Them possibly adopting the little boy almost felt like a plot device for the telenova jokes and that kinda annoyed me until the end.
And while I think Gloria pregnant is funny and can be used for a couple jokes - I just can't see her and Jay spending seasons 5+ raising a new born...
Personally I thought the telenova stuff was hilarious, but I didn't like how Cam and Mitch were thrown into the mix. Them possibly adopting the little boy almost felt like a plot device for the telenova jokes and that kinda annoyed me until the end.
And while I think Gloria pregnant is funny and can be used for a couple jokes - I just can't see her and Jay spending seasons 5+ raising a new born...
05-24-12, 11:05 AM
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Exactly.
I had a sense of deja vu when Alex's date showed. They keep lifting bits from the Middle. (as well as other shows, but it's really noticeable when it's your lead in.)
I really liked the tele novella bit. Great set up & pay off.
I had a sense of deja vu when Alex's date showed. They keep lifting bits from the Middle. (as well as other shows, but it's really noticeable when it's your lead in.)
I really liked the tele novella bit. Great set up & pay off.
05-24-12, 12:00 PM
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05-24-12, 12:10 PM
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I doubt they would try to write a real pregnancy into the storyline. Ed O'Neil can attest that it is a bad idea from when they tried it on Married With Children and Katey Sagal had her tragic mishap.
05-24-12, 12:23 PM
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They might pull the false alarm. I like to believe they are smart enough not to add another baby to the mix.
05-24-12, 12:35 PM
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