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Modern Family Season 4 Episode 1

Bringing Up Baby

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Aired Wednesday 9:00 PM Sep 26, 2012 on ABC

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IT'S NOT UNFUNNY, BUT...

Modern Family's Season 4 Premiere: Comfortable, Not Outstanding

By Nick Campbell, Sep 27, 2012

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It's Jay's birthday and he doesn't want any surprises. Phil decides to take Jay fishing with some of his friends, and Gloria doesn't know how to tell Jay that she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Dylan becomes a temporary member of the Dunphy family by moving in, and Mitch and Cam adopt a cat.moreless

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A amazing season starter

9.5

By modernfamily12, Nov 13, 2012

Few laughing moments but alround a great 30 mins of my life.
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season 4 episode 1

6.0

By modernfamily121, Oct 09, 2012

i think season 4 will be a great season but i dont think it was a great start to the season . i hope episode 2 will be much better
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By joekabyemela, Oct 07, 2012

i was wondering why the reviews were so negative on this episode i found it to be pretty good i laughed when Jay fell in the pond while blindfolded and i found it really sweet when gloria told Jay about it and he was really happy about it this was probably the strongest season premeire than the middle
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Horrendous episode

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By Genocideownsyo9, Sep 28, 2012

This is not the show I used to love. It's become so fast-paced, crammed with predictable jokes, and the storylines don't even wrap up smoothly. It feels more like a commercial.
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Not what it used to be

6.5

By mmmshuddup, Sep 28, 2012

So far Modern Family is off to a pretty weak start. I laughed only a few times and not very hard. Some of the Mitchell/Cam/Lily bits are just insufferable now.

What a bummer, the first two seasons of this show made me literally laugh my a** off constantly!
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Ed O'Neill	Jay Pritchett
Sofia Vergara	Gloria Delgado-Pritchett
Julie Bowen	Claire Dunphy
Ty Burrell	Phillip "Phil" Dunphy
Jesse Tyler Ferguson	Mitchell Pritchett
Eric Stonestreet	Cameron "Cam" Tucker

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Ernie Hudson	Miles	Guest Star
Chazz Palminteri	Shorty	Special Guest Star
Reid Ewing	Dylan	Recurring Role

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- Original International Air Dates:
  Canada: September 26, 2012 on Citytv
  United Kingdom: October 5, 2012 on Sky1/Sky1 HD
  Finland: February 3, 2013 on MTV3
  Czech Republic: February 12, 2013 on HBO Comedy
  Sweden: April 19, 2013 on TV4
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- Episode Title: Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 Howard Hawks film with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn about a madcap adventure with an unlikely pair who are given surprise responsibility for a pet leopard named "Baby" ...not an unplanned baby or a pet cat as in this episode.
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