Modern Family “Benched” Season 1 Episode 20

23 April 2010
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 26: Actor Ed O'N...
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I’ve gotten into the new show Modern Family because it is a very funny show. I was a big fan of Married With Children and it’s got the actor who played Al Bundy. His name is Ed O’Neill.

It’s also got the hot mom Claire and the up-and-coming hottie Haley who is their teenage daughter. The husband and father Phil is the funny court jester type of character. He’s got his sidekick which is his son Luke who is about 10 years old and seems to be pretty dumb. Their middle child Alex is fairly smart and nerdy girl.

If you’ve gotten into watching the show I won’t go into too much of the background but basically this show is about the overbearing father-in-law who is played by Ed O’Neill. He has a 10-year-old stepson from his hot trophy wife who is much younger than him and they are both from Columbia.

So the stepson Manny and the grandson Luke are both on this basketball team together. And their basketball team absolutely stinks, they are quite terrible.

The coach of their team is incredibly abusive and neither Phil nor Jay (character played by Ed O’Neill) likes the coach. The moms are of course livid and demanding that their husbands do something about this coach.

Hilarity ensues when they go to talk to the coach and he unexpectedly just up and quits because he says he doesn’t have to take this kind of abuse. And he urges them to do better in a sarcastic tone as he storms off.

Another power struggle ensues between the overbearing father-in-law Jay and the younger dad Phil who means well but is pretty goofy. Jay claims that his experience coaching football qualifies him to be the coach of this basketball team and basically edges Phil out.

The team is getting their butts kicked and they’ve only scored 4 points when Jay gets so frustrated he gives up and goes to Phil. Of course, Phil doesn’t just let him off the hook and makes him do a series of apologies which really gets under Jay’s skin but he does it.

Phil does end up coaching this bad news Bears of a basketball team and doesn’t fare much better.

The sideplot in this show involved the mommies and how their kids are getting older and don’t want them around because they are being embarrassed. Definitely a funny episode worth watching.

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