History Headscratchers / ModernFamily

In "Marco Polo," the Dunphys check into a motel while their house is being treated for mold. Phil has the idea that if the family stays together, they'll bond as a family. He then lies and says the hotel is fully booked, which is how all five Dunphys end up crowded in one hotel room. Claire subsequently learns that the motel is in fact half-empty. There would be clues long before that--for instance, a half-empty parking lot or the absence of other guests. Wouldn't someone suggest another hotel? And if they want a family bonding experience, there are family members living nearby they can stay with. Mitch and Cam have an apartment upstairs. They can put the Dunphys up there.

In "Marco Polo," the Dunphys check into a motel while their house is being treated for mold. Phil the idea that if the family stays together, they'll bond as a family. He then lies and says the hotel is fully booked, which is ihow all five Dunphys end up crowded in one hotel room. Claire then learns that the motel is in fact half-empty. There would be clues long before that--for instance, a half-empty parking lot or the absence of other guests. Wouldn't someone suggest another hotel? And if they want a family bonding experience, there is close family living nearby they can stay with. Mitch and Cam have an apartment upstairs. They can put the Dunphys up there.

[[folder Why Stay in a Motel?]]

* Noticed in the middle of re-watching: In the pilot Lily is just being adopted as an infant, Jay and Gloria are recently married, Haley is 15, and Luke and Manny are 11. In season 4 Lily is 5 years old and Gloria mentions having been with Jay for 5 years, which adds up, but Luke and Manny are 14 years old and Haley is "newly legal" (18)? This would make Haley 13 and the boys 9 at the beginning of the series which supposedly was five years ago. Why does it seem like the children, minus Lily, age slower than they should? If time passed properly the boys should be 16 and Haley 20.

* In the Season 1 finale, Claire calls Phil while he's at a basketball game with Gloria, while seeing him in the background on the TV. Phil sees who is calling and declines the call, leading to part of the episode's drama. But Phil was ''at a basketball game.'' In the middle of the stands. Isn't there a perfectly good and obvious reason he wouldn't take a phone call in a stadium where it is far too noisy to carry on a phone conversation?

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* In one episode Gloria is fed up with Jay not knowing about his workers, so she convinces him to go to a birthday party. But they accidentally go to an engagement party next door. When Gloria finds out, all she can say Jay, who is busy fraternizing with people he doesn't actually know, is that he doesn't know them. Why didn't he just tell Jay that they are at the wrong party?

*** Or when Phill falls from a motorcycle and thinks he is going to die because he is “alone”.

*** This is very likely, especially because dispite what some people may think, no matter how poor a Colombian village is, they do have laundromats or washing machines. The question here is why Gloria falls for it.

*** This is very likely, especially because spite what some people may think, no matter how poor a Colombian village is, they do have laundromats or washing machines. The question here is why Gloria falls for it.

*** This is very likely, especially because spite what some people may think, no matter how poor a Colombian village is, they do have laundromats or a washing machines. The question here is why Gloria falls for it.

[[folder:Wrong party]]

[[folder:wrong party]]

** Some gun ranges will actually allow you to store your gun(s) on-site. No idea how she's hiding the expense, though.

-Phil Dunphy