Answer: 11
"Modern Family" first aired in the United States on September 23, 2009. The two-part "Finale" was shown on April 8, 2020, for a total of eleven years, with 250 episodes.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": The End
Answer: Colombia
Gloria's home town is Colombia's murder capital. She is fiercely proud of her heritage.
From Quiz: 'Modern Family' - Glorious Gloria
Answer: A large portrait made from a photograph of the two of them
Phil always takes Claire to Fortelli's Family Style Italian Restaurant for Valentine's Day. Phil now feels he has to up the ante with Claire and suggests getting a hotel room for the evening.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - "My Funky Valentine"
Answer: That he should stop wearing bicycle shorts
While Claire was able to tell Cameron that he didn't look good in bicycle shorts, which clearly devastated him, Mitchell was a big wuss and bailed on his obligation to tell Phil that he wasn't funny. To make matters worse, Mitchell went so far as to tell Phil that he was hilarious and "this generation's Richard Pryor."
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - Season 2
Answer: Pigeon
In order to avoid getting a cold from Claire and Hayley, Luke decides to wear an space helmet. When Phil sees this, he says, "You care about germs, I've seen you kiss a pigeon on the mouth."
From Quiz: "Modern Family" Quiz #1
Answer: Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt acts as Manny's father, Javier Delgado, debuting in the episode "Up All Night". Some of Bratt's other work includes "Law & Order", "Private Practice" and multiple other roles in television and movies. Ty Burrell acts as Phil Dunphy in the show and Ed O'Neill acts as Jay Pritchett, Manny's step father. George Lopez is a noted American talk-show host and comedian.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" The 1st Season
Answer: Sal
Cam and Mitchell were in Lily's room and they were talking about diapers. Cam said he couldn't tell if Lily had gone to the bathroom because the diaper was so thick. The two then realized they needed a night out with no baby talk. They both decided to call their friend, Sal.
Sal was a party girl the guys used to hang out with before Lily came along. She bet the guys she wouldn't make out with the waitresses at the bar. Sal was played by funny woman Elizabeth Banks.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Great Expectations"
Answer: DeDe
DeDe, played by actress Shelley Long, appeared in the episode "The Incident".
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - Season 1
Answer: Desiree
Claire, Phil, and Luke are all out riding their bikes in their neighborhood. Desiree jogs by and stops to talk to Claire. Claire forgets Desiree's name until she reminds her. Claire continues to ride by Desiree, but stops when Desiree says hi to Phil. Claire clearly does not like Desiree, but still introduces her family to her. Phil asks Desiree where she lives and she tells him which house. Phil goes into great detail in describing the house to Desiree. Claire is looking Desiree up and down while Phil is talking to Desiree. Desiree seems uneasy about Phil knowing so much about her house until Phil tells her he is a realtor and his company represented her house.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "The Bicycle Thief"
Answer: Asia
We first see Mitchell and Cameron in the airport. They have just arrived home from Vietnam with their daughter. Mitchell did not inform his family that they were adopting a daughter. Mitchell did not want to hear how his family would complain and judge him. He explains this to Cameron who understood his reasons. Cameron then informs Mitchell that the family is coming over for dinner that very night.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Pilot"
Answer: Pritchett and Dunphy
Jay Pritchett, the patriarch, was played by Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy from "Married...with Children"), with wife Gloria, and stepson Manny. Jay's daughter Claire married Phil Dunphy and had three kids. Jay's son Mitchell married his partner Cameron Tucker and they adopted two children.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": The End
Answer: It makes him look like the sun
Cameron does not take kindly to this comment. Poor Cam.
From Quiz: "Modern Family"
Answer: Because she has known Jay very well for years
Gloria is utterly confident of her own attractiveness and has no false modesty. In "Tableau Vivant", the 23rd episode of season 3, she experiences a strange emotion which Cam explains to her is jealousy. Apparently Gloria has never experienced this emotion before and exclaims 'Aye! My poor sisters' - presumably a reference to the fact that her sisters have always been jealous of her looks.
From Quiz: 'Modern Family' - Glorious Gloria
Answer: David Brenner
Jay gives Gloria tickets for them to see David Brenner, whom Gloria has never heard of. Jay explains that he was on Johnny Carson a hundreds times, and Gloria asks who Johnny Carson is.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - "My Funky Valentine"
Answer: 2URN801
In order to get a speeding driver's attention, Claire decides to put up signs with the driver's license plate number all over the neighborhood with Phil's help.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" Quiz #1
Answer: Selling houses
In the episode "En Garde", Luke convinces a woman to buy a house that his father is trying to sell to her but when the woman brings her husband, Luke gets hurt running around the house and ruins the sale. Also in this episode Phil tries to test if Luke's talent is baseball.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" The 1st Season
Answer: Phil gave a Claire a bracelet.
In the beginning of the episode, we saw Phil walk up the steps. As usual he tripped on the one bad step and said he had to fix it. Phil woke up Claire and told her happy anniversary. Phil told Claire to open her present. Claire found a Viewmaster inside and Phil told her to look at the pictures. Claire saw a picture of a bracelet and asked Phil why it was there. Phil then gave Claire the bracelet as her gift.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Great Expectations"
Answer: 5K
This was mentioned in the episode "En Garde", in which Manny wins a fencing title.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - Season 1
Answer: Napa Valley
Manny's dad is taking him to Disneyland for a few days. Jay takes this opportunity to book a trip for him and Gloria to get away. Jay tells us that they would do more stuff like this if not for Manny being around. Gloria replies that Manny keeps them grounded. Later on in the episode, Manny's dad calls and cancels the trip. He tells Jay that he can't get away from the card game he is playing because the table is hot. Jay tells Manny that his dad had to cancel, but sent a limo so they all could go to Disneyland in it. Jay and Manny are starting to get used to each other and actually like each other in this episode.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "The Bicycle Thief"
Answer: Jay and Gloria
Jay and Gloria have been married for six months. Mitchell and Cameron have been together for 5 years. Phil and Claire have been married for 16 years. Jay and DeDe, Claire and Mitchell's parents were married for 35 years. The show revolves around the lives of this extended family. The show is produced to appear as a reality type show. A camera crew follows around the families and always catches them when their guard is down. In one scene Alex tells Phil and Claire that Luke's head is stuck in the banister again. Phil asks Claire where the baby oil is and she replies it is on the night stand. She didn't finish the the word stand because she realizes they are being taped and told him to go look for it.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Pilot"
Answer: Dylan Marshall
Dylan Marshall was played by Reid Ewing. The character appeared in the pilot episode and sporadically throughout the show's run. Dylan ultimately married Haley and they had twins.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": The End
Answer: Barkley
Gloria passionately dislikes Barkley, calling him 'El Diablo'. Jay eventually lends the dog to Cam and Mitch.
From Quiz: "Modern Family"
Answer: Uncle Grumpy
Luke and Manny find Uncle Grumpy in a suitcase when the family is having a yard sale. Gloria used him in the talent section she was in at the age of eighteen. Her ventroquilism skills are non existent and in the contest she froze completely. However she won anyway - indicating her body, she says 'Of course I won, imagine this at eighteen'. She has a refreshing lack of modesty.
From Quiz: 'Modern Family' - Glorious Gloria
Answer: Lily's princess castle
Barry, a reiki massage therapist, befriends Cameron and Mitchell, but much to their surprise, it turns out that he has been living in Lily's princess castle instead of in the upstairs apartment like Mitchell and Cameron had thought.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" Quiz #1
Answer: Racquetball
Cam and Jay are playing racquetball. Before the game the two accidentally back into each other and their bums touch; Cam calls it a "moon landing".
From Quiz: "Modern Family" The 1st Season
Answer: The Gunfighter
Jay had a tradition of inviting the grandchildren over to spend the night. As he opened the door, he called them stinkers and told them to get in here. Luke hugged his grandfather and told him he would never forget him. Alex had told Luke earlier that day that their grandfather was going to die. Jay was of course healthy, Alex was agitating her brother.
Jay went and got a DVD for the family to watch. He picked "The Gunfighter" for the movie. Jay took Haley's shoes so she couldn't sneak off to the party three blocks away. Gloria made Jay realize he was not being fair to Haley. He went outside to where Dylan was hiding and invited him in the house. Jay told Haley she could go to the party, but had to be back by 11:00pm. Dylan saw "The Gunfighter" on the television and wanted to eat the meal that Jay had made. Haley and Dylan stayed at Jay's house and didn't go to the party.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Great Expectations"
Answer: Elizabeth Banks
All four actresses appeared as guests in season 1, however Elizabeth Banks is the actress who played Sal.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - Season 1
Answer: Sally
The Dunphys are out riding their bikes and Phil tells Claire that Luke's still looks like a girl's bike. Claire tells Phil they will get more black tape to cover it up. The bike has black strips of tape all over it to cover all the flower decals. The bike even has a basket on it which has the number eleven on it in black tape. Phil tells the camera he is afraid Luke will be ridiculed by bullies because of the bike. We then see Jay pull up and says "Hello Sally" to Luke. Funny that Luke should be bullied by his own grandfather. Jay also says Luke looks like Little Bo Peep on his bike. Phil decides then that Luke is getting a new bike that day. This decision was news to Claire, who looks shocked when Phil said it.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "The Bicycle Thief"
Answer: Luke shoots her with a BB gun.
Alex comes in the house and tell her parents Luke shot her with the gun. Luke tells Claire and Phil it was an accident. Luke starts to cry and Claire calls him and liar and tells him to stop it. Luke stops crying, as he realizes this is not going to work with his mom. Claire told Phil when he bought Luke the gun that if he ever shot someone with it then Phil would have to shoot Luke. Claire then tells Phil that he has to shoot Luke with the gun now. The family goes back and forth on a time and finally settles for 4:15pm. Luke groans and Phil tells him, sorry, it is on the calendar now.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Pilot"
Answer: Rexford
In the last season, Mitch and Cam moved into a beautiful new house, complete with a karaoke room. They adopted a son and named him Rexford, after the street on which the house was located.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": The End
Answer: Phil
And this, by extension, meant that he was scared of Fizbo, aka Cameron. SCORPION!
From Quiz: "Modern Family"
Answer: Jay's ex-wife causes a scene
Although DeDe, Jay's ex, was the one who walked away from their marriage, she finds it hard to accept that Jay found someone else so quickly, especially someone as lovely as Gloria. DeDe stands up to make a speech, referencing Gloria's boobs and Jay's wallet. She is carried from the room, wrecking the wedding cake as she goes.
From Quiz: 'Modern Family' - Glorious Gloria
Answer: A bookshelf
Mitchell, who is not the handiest man around, reminds Jay that they once built a bookshelf together, Jays response to this is, "That was my Vietnam... and I was in Vietnam."
From Quiz: "Modern Family" Quiz #1
Answer: Drums
Cam replaces a drummer in Dylan's band who is moving to Portland in the episode "Travels with Scout". At the end of the episode, the regular isn't moving to Portland anymore and Cam has to leave the band.
From Quiz: "Modern Family" The 1st Season
Answer: Waffle Maker
Phil told us Claire was a lousy gift giver. Claire thought Phil was hard to shop for because he never asked for anything. Phil then started a long list of things he wanted. He named the watch, the speakers, and the yogurt maker as things he wanted. He said he couldn't stop listing things that he wanted.
Claire was not a great gift giver according to Phil. She gave him coupons for 5 free hugs for their anniversary. Phil tried to be excited, but he said coupons weren't for things that were usually free.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Great Expectations"
Answer: The Greensleevers
The Greensleevers kicked Cam out of the group and are now singing as The New Greensleevers. As a sidenote, Bacon in the Foreground is a band name that Phil created (this is a deleted scene from the season 1 DVD set).
From Quiz: "Modern Family" - Season 1
Answer: Palms Cycle
Phil is outside of the shop talking to Luke about the responsibility of owning a bike. Phil tells Luke to not disappoint him and his mom and take good care of the bike. Earlier in the episode, Claire tells us that Luke is not ready to own his own bike. She mentions the digital camera he ruined by taking pictures of himself underwater. Phil is walking down the street and sees what he thinks is Luke's bike unlocked sitting on a street. Phil takes Luke's bike inside in order to teach him a lesson.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "The Bicycle Thief"
Answer: Foto Fun
Manny gets Gloria and Jay to take him to the mall. Manny is there to tell Brenda how he feels about her. Manny has picked some flowers and wrote a poem for Brenda. Jay tries to save Manny from having his feelings hurt and offers Manny fifty dollars not to do it. Manny tells Jay he is eleven - what is he going to do with fifty dollars? Jay then asked Manny what he was going to do with a sixteen year old. Manny comes back a short time later and tells Gloria and Jay that Brenda has a boyfriend. He says he gave her his heart and she gave him a picture of him dressed like an old time sheriff with a mustache.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": "Pilot"
Answer: Switzerland
Alexandria Anastasia "Alex" Dunphy, played by Ariel Winter, was the often overlooked middle child and "the smart one". She gets a high-paying prestigious job but leaves it for a more philanthropic one which winds up being relocated to Switzerland.
From Quiz: "Modern Family": The End
Answer: Clive Bixby
In order to spice things up on Valentine's day, Claire decided that Phil should pretend to "pick her up" at a hotel as strangers. Phil created the charming alter ego, Clive Bixby. It was all going so well until an incident involving a dress, an elevator and public nudity changed things.
From Quiz: "Modern Family"
