Send Out the Clowns
| "Send Out the Clowns" | |
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| Modern Family episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 18 |
| Directed by | Steven Levitan |
| Written by | Steven Levitan Jeffrey Richman Bill Wrubel |
| Production code | 3ARG16 |
| Original air date | March 14, 2012 |
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"Send Out the Clowns" is the 18th episode of the third season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 66th episode overall. It aired on March 14, 2012. The episode was written by Steven Levitan, Jeffrey Richman & Bill Wrubel and directed by Steven Levitan.
Cam (Eric Stonestreet) lost his clown mentor and he attends to his funeral along with Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and other clowns. All the clowns, including Cam, are dressed up to their clown clothes and make-up to give their mentor the final farewell. At the funeral, Cam meets his former clown partner Lewis (Bobby Cannavale) who's mad at Cam because Cam left him alone after his decision to settle down and have a family with Mitchell.
Cam and Lewis decide to reconnect again and perform a show together, much to Mitchell's dismay. Just before the performance, Cam clarifies that the performance is only a "one-time thing", something that makes Lewis mad and leads their performance to a disaster.
Meanwhile, Phil (Ty Burrell) gets ready for a big real estate opportunity. He is confident and before he leaves home he tries to teach the kids that they always have to play by the rules and everything will go just fine. Unfortunately, he bumps into his nemesis, Mitzi Roth (Ellen Barkin), who steals his new potential clients by using dirty tricks.
Phil gets back home upset and when Luke (Nolan Gould) proposes that he play dirty too, he instantly forgets his "play by the rules" rule and decides to listen to him. The trick of recording Mitzi admitting she was lying does not go really well, so Luke and Phil play the "sympathy card" at an encounter with Mitzi at the grocery store and this time it pays off.
In the meantime, Claire (Julie Bowen) decides to make a Facebook page and she is upset because Alex (Ariel Winter) and Haley (Sarah Hyland) did not accept her friend request. The girls lie that they did not get any friend request from her so Claire sends one again. The reason the girls do not want their mom as a friend on Facebook is because they do not want her to know everything they do and because they do not want her to embarrass them in front of their friends. After Claire's second request, they do not have a choice than to accept her and they use other methods to make her quit Facebook.
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