Tableau Vivant (Modern Family)
| "Tableau Vivant" | |
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| Modern Family episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 23 |
| Directed by | Gail Mancuso |
| Written by | Elaine Ko Jeffrey Richman Bill Wrubel |
| Production code | 3ARG23 |
| Original air date | May 16, 2012 |
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"Tableau Vivant" is the 23rd episode of the third season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 71st episode overall. It aired on May 16, 2012. The episode was written by Elaine Ko, Jeffrey Richman and Bill Wrubel, and directed by Gail Mancuso.
At the Dunphy's house no one seems to be able to sleep, each for their own reasons. Luke (Nolan Gould) cannot wait for the hero medal he is going to receive the next day at school because he put out a fire that he started, but no one knows that part except for Manny (Rico Rodriguez). Alex (Ariel Winter) is nervous about her art project in school because she wants to impress the art teacher who after a year he does not even know her name, which is something Alex does not face often with her teachers. Meanwhile, Phil (Ty Burrell) is trying to find a way to tell his brother-in-law, Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), that he is fired from his part-time job at the real estate agency.
The next morning Phil is going to Mitch's house to tell him about his dismissal while Mitch also tries to tell him that he does not want to continue working at the estate agency. Mitch bails out and does not say anything, and Phil believes that Mitch understood what he was trying to tell him, i.e. that Mitch was fired. When Mitch appears at the agency later, Phil, having no other choice, finally tells him. When Mitch tries to leave the office, the elevator breaks down with the doors partially open, though not enough for him to fit through. He is stuck in the elevator for two hours knowing he has been fired. The idea of losing his job does not sit well with him since, as he later explains to Cam (Eric Stonestreet), he has never been fired before in his life.
Jay (Ed O'Neill) takes Gloria (Sofia Vergara) to a diner to show her that they named a sandwich there after him. When Gloria tries it, she says that she does not like it and that she is also jealous of a waitress of the Diner, Maxine (Beth Grant), because Maxine seems to know more about Jay's life than she does.
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