My Funky Valentine
| "My Funky Valentine" | |
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Claire (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) as their alter-egos, Julianna and Clive
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Michael Spiller |
| Written by | Jerry Collins |
| Production code | 1ARG16 |
| Original air date | February 10, 2010 |
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"My Funky Valentine" is the fifteenth episode of first season of Modern Family and the fifteenth episode of the series overall. It premiered on ABC on February 10, 2010. The episode was written by Jerry Collins and directed by Michael Spiller.
In the episode, Claire and Phil meet up at a bar to celebrate Valentine's Day, and they indulge in role playing. Claire decides to take off her clothes and put on only her coat to seduce Phil but things get bad when her coat gets stuck in the escalator and everyone, including Gloria and Jay who run into them, suggest to take off her coat. Before that, Gloria and Jay were at a comedy club to watch David Brenner perform. Mitchell and Cameron try to help out Manny with a girl he likes.
"My Funky Valentine" received positive reviews from television critics.
Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) arrange their Valentine's date at their usual restaurant, but after being shocked by Dylan's (Reid Ewing) present for Haley (Sarah Hyland), they decide to spend the night at a hotel and indulge in role playing instead. Phil poses as Clive Bixby, a visiting businessman and Claire as Julianna, a local housewife. The two meet at a bar and he "picks her up", she goes to the bathroom and comes back wearing her coat with no clothes underneath. As they prepare to go upstairs she gets her coat stuck in the escalator, which she cannot take off. The situation turns worse when they begin running into a lot of acquaintances from work and school, all of whom suggest that she take the coat off.
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) break their valentine date, because Mitchell has a case that he has been working on for weeks. When his client decides to settle before Mitchell had the chance at giving one of his best speeches, he comes back home with no Valentine's spirit.
Manny (Rico Rodriguez) arrives at Mitchell and Cameron's home, since Cameron agreed to look after him. That seems to lift Mitchell a bit but it soon goes south when they see that Manny is terribly depressed because he wrote a Valentine for a girl, but someone else took the credit. They go to the restaurant where Manny had arranged for his date and confronts her about the true authorship of the poem. Mitchell then defends Manny by using the speech he was going to use from the case which makes Cameron happy. Unfortunately, the girl still likes the other boy, because he says he had the feelings, but did not know how to express them.
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