Heart Broken
| "Heart Broken" | |
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| Modern Family episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Beth McCarthy-Miller |
| Written by | Danny Zuker |
| Production code | 4ARG18 |
| Original air date | February 13, 2013 |
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"Heart Broken" is the 15th episode of the fourth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 87th episode overall. It aired February 13, 2013. The episode was written by Danny Zuker and directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller.
It is the day before Valentine's Day and Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) decide to bring back their alter egos, Clive Bixby and Julianna. While they are getting ready to move on to the hotel room, Claire faints and they end up in the hospital instead. The diagnosis requires Claire to "take it easy", but that is not something she wants on this special day.
On Valentine's Day Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and Jay (Ed O'Neill) are trying to have a romantic day but the kids, and others, keep interrupting them. Manny (Rico Rodriguez) has a date with a secret admirer and comes home to change his clothes. Joe and Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) are also in the house because Claire could not baby-sit them due to her "illness".
Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) decide to do something different this year: throw a wild Valentine's Day Lonely Hearts Party to which they invite all their single friends. They wake up the next day with hangovers, not remembering what happened. While they are trying to put every piece together to understand what happened the previous night, Dylan (Reid Ewing) appears and thanks them for letting him stay with them. While they are struggling to find a way to tell him that he can not stay, Lily is the one who makes the big step and tells him.
In its original American broadcast, "Heart Broken" was watched by 10.05 million, up 0.22 from the previous episode.
"Heart Broken" received positive reviews.
Myles McNutt of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B- grade, saying that this episode didn't follow the "traditional road" of the show. ""Heart Broken" is formally nontraditional, eschewing a typical, balanced A-B-C story structure in favor of three separate stories told in sequential order, with each featuring one of the three central families."
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