Halloween

Season 2, Episode 6, Aired
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Claire, in her love for Halloween, makes the house look spooky for the trick or treaters. She wants to give each family member a role to play, but many problems come up to prevent it. Cameron hates Halloween because of a traumatic childhood experience, Mitchell had a bad day at work, and Gloria is acting weird because Jay and Manny teased her accent.moreless
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  • LOVED IT!!!

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By modernfamily120, Mar 22, 2012
    One of my favourite episodes. Everything just lined up PERFECTLY. I don't know what to say except for THAT ROCKED.

  • Halloween episode

    8.5
    "Great"
    By Lostindharma, Mar 03, 2012
    This was the first Halloween episode and it was a great one. I enjoy all episodes where the family is together. I like how Claire is really into Halloween. Kind of like she tries to do in other things, she tries to be too controlling. It's weird that it works out in the end, while not working at first. As is you didn't need any reminder, Phil gets jolted when his neighbor is going through the divorce. The way he acts it's funny but you don't feel sorry for him. I also enjoyed how Hailey thinks her costumes are not bad. I enjoyed seeing Cameron talk and talk about his past Halloween experience. It was typical Cameron. I also enjoyed Mitchell's Part. The way it was shot, it was kind of like a movie. I am glad not music was added. The best part is when he was climbing down the building. Gloria trying to speak regular English was very funny. At the end where everyone is making fun of Gloria for what she said and Jay explaining his past job was done greatly. A great Halloween episode.moreless

  • A great episode

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    By JaCkKbAuEr2424, Apr 16, 2011
    I understand I'm that reviewer on the website who complains every week about Modern Family's inability to do continuity. Sure, they do day-to-day plots and have recurring gags, specifically the step on the stairs that refuses to be fixed, but there's no story arcs to follow with characters. I was pleased to see that not only was there a occurrence of characters and ideas from a previous episode here, but that the episode it was in was fantastic. Plenty of jokes to go around here, both subtle and in-your-face, laugh-out-loud funny.

    There was a lot of plots going on here too, so it's easy to see how it some of them could've fallen flat on their faces. Claire wants the entire family to come together and create a convincing and eerie haunted house for trick-or-treaters and struggles to get everybody on the same page, Phil learns the neighbor got divorced out of the blue because he wasn't spontaneous and sexy enough, so Phil decides to do a pre-emptive strike and be spontaneous and sexy, Mitchell struggles at his new job after he makes a mistake and accidentally dresses up when nobody else does, Cameron has a haunted past involving Halloween while Jay and Gloria get in a fight over Gloria's accent and she begins using a horribly forced American accent.

    With so much going on, it's difficult to see how it worked as well as it did. And it's all a testament to the writing of the episode. There was some superb lines and scenes (my favorite has to go to Jay, who says last year, he went to Halloween as Snoop Dogg because Haley took his hat and put it backwards and told him to say it. Also, he thought Snoop Dogg was a dog detective. Amazing.) I also enjoyed Gloria's role in tonight's episode.. and the kids have been on a role as of late. People complain about them, but I find them funny.

    Yet ANOTHER great episode of Modern Family.moreless

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    By thefanof, Apr 16, 2011
    Modern Family is having a strong second season and I am actually enjoying it moreso than the first season. I like how they had another sweet family moment at the end with the kids going through with the haunted house after Claire had her meltdown. That is just the great writing you can expect from a Levitan and Lloyd show.

    I do not know what to expect from this show on a weekly basis, but I think that I can say this show has no signs of slowing down. It is going to be a staple of the comedy world for years to come.moreless

  • Best: Gloria punching Mitchell the scarecrow (and Haley's costumes)!

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    By doguineta, Apr 16, 2011
    Okay so it's Halloween, Claire's day (cause the gays have Thanksgivign and gloria has Xmas), and again we have separate storylines tghat tie in the end.

    Mitchell: Mitchell heard from 2 guys at the law firm that they dress up for Halloween and to fit in, he goes as spider.man. NBut after seeing that only those guys dressup and everyone looks down to them, he wears a sut he had in the trunk over the costume. Later, on the bathroom, whil changeing, he drops the shirt on the toilet so he attmeprs to go down and get his toehr suit form the car, but activiates the car alarms, and everone in the law firm ends looking at him. Gloria: Manny and Jay mock her accent so she tried to speak american-ly. Them she storms out of the haunted house after she used her new voice, and Jay tells her that he fell in love for her after hearing her voice and before seeing her.

    Claire: She wants to make a csuper haunted house cause Halloween is her favorite holiday. But the neighbor just broken up and can't be the scarecrow. So Mitchell ends up being him. So when everyone fails to do their duty (Cameron is busy talking about his childhood incident, Gloria speaking normal, Jay forgetting when to press the buttons etc) she storms out mad and Phil ocnforts her and they overhear the rest of the family doing it okay and scaring the crap out of the kids.

    Overall: Great Halloween episode. 9.5/10.moreless
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    • Haley: Okay, Mom, you can't have a problem with this one. I am Mother Teresa. (Haley walks in with a short white dress and a nuns cap) Claire: Are you kidding me? Haley: What? I am her back then when she was hot. Claire: I will give you $10 to go up and put more clothes on. Alex: I bet that's the first time you heard that.

    • Haley: Check it, I am a scary black cat. Claire: Honey, the only person that is scared of that is me. Go change it. Haley: To what? Claire: I don't know. One of your old costumes. Trust me, I am saving you from the entire day of guys asking you if you have a rough tongue. Haley: Ewwww.

    • Claire: What the hell is that? (Haley walks in with a revealing nurse costume) Haley: What? You told me to put on an old costume. Claire: Not from when you were eight. Are you trying to get candy or Japanese business men? Change it. Go.

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    • Original International Air Dates:
      Canada: October 27, 2010 on Citytv
      United Kingdom: November 4, 2010 on Sky1/Sky1 HD
      Australia: November 18, 2010 on Channel Ten
      Czech Republic: February 14, 2011 on HBO Comedy
      Sweden: March 18, 2011 on TV4
      Latin America: July 19, 2011 on FOX
      Finland: October 28, 2011 on MTV3

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