Sleeper (Modern Family)
| "Sleeper" | |
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| Modern Family episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 21 |
| Directed by | Ryan Case |
| Written by | Paul Corrigan Brad Walsh Bill Wrubel |
| Production code | 5ARG22 |
| Original air date | April 30, 2014 |
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"Sleeper" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 117th overall. It was aired on April 30, 2014. The episode was directed by Ryan Case and written by Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh & Bill Wrubel.
In the episode, the family gets ready for a family portrait after Gloria's wish to make a new one that will include Joe. Before they get at Jay's house, Claire asks Phil to wait for the repairman of the washing machine and while he promises he will be home waiting, he leaves when a discman calls him to tell him that a song he likes has been re-edited. Phil rushes to buy it while the repairman comes in his absence. Not being able to tell Claire the truth, he tells her that the repairman did not come at all. In the meantime, Luke who has to wash his black shirt, goes with Haley to the laundromat and after a sequence of events, he ends up taking a girl's black shirt instead of his. Jay's house, Gloria believes that Joe is too "white" and she cannot send a picture of him looking like that to her family so she decides to take Joe out in the sun. Joe ends up with a sunburn that Manny covers by painting Joe's face with the colors of Colombia's flag. Claire is upset with Cameron who does not want to wear Lily the clothes she is giving him while Mitchell is upset with everyone because it seems like no one notices his presence or absence, not even when everyone is ready to take the portrait picture and he is not in it.
"Sleeper" received mixed reviews from the critics.
Claire (Julie Bowen) asks Phil (Ty Burrell) to wait for the repairman of the washing machine since the rest of the family will be absent from home. Phil tells her not to worry but when he receives a call from a discman who informs him that a song (which reminisces him about his first sexual experience) has been re-edited, he rushes to the store to buy it. Coming back home and ready to listen to it, he realizes that it looks like infidelity to Claire and decides to destroy the disc. The repairman comes in his absence and Phil feels guilty about it and lies to Claire by saying that the repairman did not come. Claire believes him and calls the company to protest while Phil can not hide his guilt. Alex (Ariel Winter), who has an AP Biology essay assignment about narcolepsy, notices that her dad constantly falls asleep and knowing that this might be a sign of guilt, she forces him to tell the truth on their way to Jay's (Ed O'Neill) house.
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