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'Modern Family' Recap: 'Larry's Wife'

Christianna Wiggins |
October 3, 2013 | 1:45 a.m. PDT

Staff Reporter

"Modern Family" (ABC)
"Modern Family" (ABC)

"Modern Family" keeps the good times rolling in the third installment of season five!

Phil and Claire Dunphy (Ty Burrell, Julie Bowens) have their hands full with their children, as per usual. However, Phil is especially unhelpful because he is tending to his female divorcee clients at work, who all seek his undivided attention in return for using his realtor services. 

Luckily, when Phil's charm isn't enough to keep all of his clients complacent enough to actually buy a house, Claire steps in and poses as a happy past buyer in order to appease the single women. Claire ends up saving Phil's sales, but not without adding in a big "I told you so", in a true motherly fashion. 

Meanwhile, Cameron and Mitchell (Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson) are very excited about their official engagement. The couple collectively decide to let Cam plan the entire wedding, since Cam is the more stylish of the two. 

Yet by the end of the episode, both partners realize that Cam is a little too elaborate to handle the task of wedding planning alone. Of course the two men don't become aware of this until after Mitchell gets stuck in an air vent due to anxiety-fueled cleaning, which he starts to do once he realizes he has no control over his own wedding. It also didn't help that Cam hosted a disastrous fake cat funeral, but it ultimately forced him to see that he can be a slightly overzealous at times.

Just down the street, Gloria (Sofia Vergara) wastes no time bringing a priest into her home when she becomes convinced that her infant son Joe is cursed, following his expulsion from a day care. Jay (Ed O'Neil), laughs off Gloria's suspicions and goes out with Manny (Rodriguez), but once they leave, Joe does exhibit some strangely evil behavior for a baby, such as stabbing the priest with a fork! 

Concurrently, Jay and Manny are at the movie theater when Manny makes a confession: he finds Jay to be unnecessarily hostile in almost every situation. In order to appease him, Jay attempts to keep his cool. Then he is pleasantly surprised when Manny decides to confront a man who begins to obnoxiously talk on the phone just as the movie starts. The unexpected argument between Manny and the movie goer allowed the father and stepson pair to bond. We suspect a lot more  of this growing relationship as the season continues to unfold.

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