Episode 1 (101) – Pilot

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The episode begins at the home of Phil and Claire Dunphy and their three children Haley, Alex and Luke. Claire and Phil shout up the stairs to the children and, when Haley emerges, Claire tells her that her skirt is too short. Phil, however does not agree and tells her she can wear it. In an interview, the adults discuss how they want to stop their children making the same mistakes that they did when they were growing up and Claire concludes that “I have done our job”.

The scene shifts to the soccer pitch where Gloria Delgado-Pritchett is watching her son play Manny, along with her older partner Jay. Gloria plays the role of overenthusiastic mother on the touchline, instructing her son to try harder. Gloria and Jay are then interviewed, where Gloria discusses the differences between their backgrounds: she comes from a small village in Columbia which is “number one for murders”, while he comes from the city. Back on the pitch, Manny spots a beautiful girl riding by on a bicycle and a dispute develops on the sidelines. Gloria speaks to the father of one of the other players, who assumes that Jay is her dad.

The episode next cuts to Mitchell and Cameron, a gay couple on a plane who are returning from Vietnam having adopted a baby, Lily. The other passengers admire Lily, with the man sitting next to Mitchell commenting that Lily’s “mother must be very proud”. When Cameron walks along the gangway and sits down next to Mitchell an uneasy silence develops. In an interview the characters say that they have been together for five years and had considered asking one of their lesbian friends to help them conceive. Back on the plane, Mitchell threatens to make a speech and does so when a lady says “look at that baby with those cream puffs”, which he believes is referring to them but Lily is in fact eating cream puffs. Cameron offers to pay for the headsets of all the passengers.

Directed by Jason Winer.
Written by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd.
Originally aired on September 23, 2009.

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