![]() Jay being overbearing with Phil is still funny, because it’s a kind of joke Ed O’Neill is good at. ![]() That makes sense from a character perspective – they are, after all, related by nature and nurture – but it also is a reminder that the same kind of material doesn’t work as well for different performers. (*) This was an episode in which Jay, Claire and Mitchell were largely acting as the antagonists in their respective stories (Jay and Claire more than Mitchell). ![]() But then there were many more parts of the episode that made me double over with laughter, and in the balance, I’ll take that. There were parts of “Dance Dance Revelation” that made my teeth gnash: the return of the unnecessary voiceover after a stretch where the show had mostly done without it, a subplot with Claire at her most insufferable(*), the cringe-y “white on rice” joke or the predictable one about Spot being the dog’s name. A quick review of last night’s “Modern Family” coming up just as soon as I hire a hobo to traumatize my child… ![]()
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