History Series / ModernFamily

** Gil Thorp, exploiting Phil's desperate situation in selling the house at the beginning of "Flip Flop", and rubbing Phil's nose in it—only to be in exactly that situation himself at the end.

* PityTheKidnapper: When Sonia abducts Manny in "A Tale of Three Cities", he develops StockholmSyndrome almost instantly. His flirting proves so annoying that Sonia brings her nephew home before the day is out.

* HasAType: All the Dunphy girls like dumb, dorky, yet nice men. Haley dates Dylan (who is basically a stupider version of her father) and later has feelings for and dates Andy ([[GenerationXerox who pretty much is her father]]), Alex makes out with an idiot redneck kid at the dude ranch and dates Ben, Claire's dorky and awkward co-worker, and of course Claire is married to Phil.
* HeelRealization: Jay in "Dance Dance Revelation". [[spoiler:Jay confronts the guy who took his parking spot and, when Jay berates the man, he says he probably didn't notice ''because he just had his fourteen year old dog put down and, unable to face his apartment without his only friend, he absentmindedly came to the mall to try and forget.'']]

** In "See You Next Fall", Haley talks Alex out of her [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech brutally honest]] middle-school graduation speech by admitting that she is actually very anxious about whether she'll graduate from high school with her own class or not.

--->'''Phil''': I wish I was one of those people who thrives on living a double life; [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]], Series/HannahMontana.

* ItsACostumePartyISwear: Mitchell is told by his new co-workers that dressing up for Halloween is an office tradition. He arrives at in work in a Franchise/SpiderMan costume only to discover no one else is in costume. (He later learns that the two he spoke to are the only two who ever dress up.) HilarityEnsues as he puts a suit on over the costume and then spends the rest of the day trying to get an opportunity to change out of the costume.

** Cam 's high-pitched screaming at Lily

* ScreamerPrank: In “Undeck the Halls”, Jay gets pranked by Manny twice with a screamer video:

* SexySoakedShirt: Haley and Andy get this twice in season 7. Suffice to say, the fans were [[MsFanservice very]] [[MrFanservice pleased.]]

* FetishesAreWeird: Foot fetishes are [[AcceptableTargets always portrayed as creepy and wrong.]]

* OedipusComplex: While they can manage to be civil, in general, Jay and Mitchell do ''not'' get along. This has gotten better in later episodes.
** Gloria has an Electra Complex hence why she finds Jay attractive.

* RatedMForManly:
** {{Deconstructed}} heavily in the series. All the men encompass "female stereotypes" and are very hands-on in their parenting, yet are never meant to felt emasculated because of it, rather they are praised. Mitch and Cam, for instance, demonstrate that a child doesn't need a mother to be a well-adjusted, kind, smart child. The show also enforces that fathers should be present in their children's lives, and how critical it is for the child's wellbeing.
** The role of Andy as a nanny is one of the first extremely rare cases where [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide a man in a typical woman's role]] isn't [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs.]] There has never been any jokes or subtleties implying that he is any less of a man due to his job. His job is played completely straight and he is shown to be completely capable of taking care of children, the same as any woman would.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted, as the show takes place in the Los Angeles suburbs and the seven times it's traveled for [[VacationEpisode vacation episodes]] (in Hawaii, Wyoming, Disneyland, Palm Springs, Australia, New York and Lake Tahoe), the episodes were actually filmed on location there.

If you ever put your hands on my daughter again, I will string you up by your feet, run you up the flagpole and let the birds peck out your eyes.

* OverprotectiveDad: Cameron; when Mitchell attempts to stop Lily crying by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferber_method ferberizing]] her in "Up All Night", he literally ends up wrestling Cameron to the ground to stop him nursing Lily every time she cries.

* HasTwoMommies: The student who beats Lily out for the preschool spot (see NinjaPirateRobotZombie, below), and Connor, Lily's kindergarten classmate in "Schooled."

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Happens to Phil after a horrifically awkward speech about how much he loves sex with Claire. "Some sick bastard autotuned me."

* LatinoIsBrown: The Latino members of the family, Gloria and Manny, are tanner than the rest.

* ThrowingOutTheScript: Season 2 finale has an inversion: a sincere speech [[spoiler: (Alex's mean-spirited valedictorian speech) gets thrown out in favor of a bunch of lies]].

-->'''Phil:''' Six months? But you were preg.... tically engaged by then.
-->'''Alex:''' Good save, Dad.

** Most of the "Disneyland" episode takes place at that attraction, owned by ABC's parent company. And once again a themed commercial appeared within the program, this time for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' ''World'', a new attraction in Disney World. The episode itself averts this, however, as it contains several quips about the long wait times and amount of walking involved in the park, and also pays tribute mostly to older attractions like the Dapper Dans and [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]].

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* CriticalResearchFailure: The oak Cam is intent on protecting in "When a Tree Falls"... could not more clearly be a pine.

* WomenArePrudes: [[SubvertedTrope Pleasantly subverted]], there are no "You fix this problem or we won't have sex for a month" threats in any episode as both genders have their needs and desires for love making.