Modern Family

I challenge anyone to sit down and watch an episode of Modern Family and not enjoy it. Even when some of the plot lines are not laugh-out-loud hilarious, the show has such heart and the characters so developed, I just love watching them each week.

As usual, there were three different stories for the families in "Starry Night," this time with the Dunphy's getting their own standalone, and Mitchell and Cameron splitting up with Jay and Gloria respectively for theirs.

Normally we're a big fan of unique combination of the characters and the families, but this time the Dunphy's standalone was the strongest to us. While too much physical comedy can be cheesy, some how Ty Burrell (Phil) has it down to a science between the infamous step and his entire garage scene.

In the past, we used to think of Luke as perhaps the weakest of this ridiculously talented ensemble cast of characters, but this week if anything the kid stole the show. His misunderstanding of the noise cancellation headphones was great, but his best line came after the credits with, "My mouth is asleep like at the dentist." Killed us.

And no, we don't care if plenty of other shows have done story lines about kids procrastinating school work. Sure it was a generic sitcom plot, but it was used to show a fun turn of the tables in the Dunphy household.

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IN A SEASON of quirkier than usual sitcom kids, Manny Delgado still manages to stand out.

The amorous Colombian-born middle-schooler from ABC's "Modern Family," Manny is a joy to his mother Gloria (Sofia Vergara), a puzzle to his stepfather Jay (Ed O'Neill) and played with a fearless exuberance by 11-year-old Rico Rodriguez, who, it turns out, looks taller on-screen.

Told so by a not very diplomatic visitor to the show's Burbank, Calif., set, the young actor replied, in media-savvy fashion: "Really? That's interesting."

He then stretched up a hand to demonstrate how much taller he intends to become both offscreen and on.

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Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara guested on The Tonight Show last night and killed. It turns out she’d met Jay Leno’s other guest, Gerard Butler, about two years ago when he was “like a damsel in distress at the Chateau Marmont” and had no cash on him to pay the valet. Vergara intervened and lent him $60, because she didn’t want him to go all night without extra money. [Insert audience Ahhh.] Now, she figures he owes her $300. [Insert audience cheers.] Butler noted that he had tried to pay her back once. “Oh yeah, when we were with people, and he comes [to] me, ‘Okay, here’s the 60 bucks for the other night,’” she said. “I mean, at least come with like a respectable sum of money!”

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On ABC's Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet, 38, is the flashy and affectionate Lion King-loving Cameron Tucker, who moonlights as Fizbo the clown. His longtime partner, the tightly wound and Fizbo-loathing lawyer Mitchell Pritchett, is played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 34. Together, they make up one of the most high-profile gay couples on prime time.

And like any couple, real or fictional, these two have their pet peeves with each other.

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