While Gloria sees through Jay’s charade, Manny buys it – but he is confused why a nocturnal animal would eat his turtle during the day. Having accidently killed Mitchell’s childhood bird, Flyza Minelli (gotta love these pet names), and being hated for it, Jay decides to fake a raccoon crime screen. This does not go so well and the poster crashes into Manny’s turtle tank and kills Shel Turtlestein. Upset that he did not get the lead in a school play, Jay tries to cheer Manny up by hanging a motivational poster in his room. It’s going to be interesting to see how their life goes with no income, but it was sweet seeing Cam being so supportive of Mitchell’s needs and desire to be a more active father. Upset that he misses all of Lily’s milestones and frustrated with the day’s events, Mitchell quits his job. The final straw, Mitchell gets a picture message of Lily standing for the first time. Later, Mitchell’s boss orders him to come into work on Sunday as well. It gets worse when Mitchell’s boss possibly hears him talking crap while they were both stopped at the same stop light. It all comes to a head for Mitchell when a Saturday at the park to feed ducks with Lily is interrupted by a call to go into work. Mitchell is the bread winner and disciplinarian – to both Lily and Cam. Cam is the stay-at-home dad, the good cop, the fun one. Mitchell and Cam usually provide the most laughs in an episode, but this week the humor was sacrificed a bit for some character development. This is the case with “Truth Be Told.” It was a funny episode and had some great moments, but it stumbled a little along the way. It is because the show is so consistently sharp, when an episode is a little uneven, it sticks out.
FLYZA MINELLI MOVIE
The writing is tight, clever, witty, and has a lot of heart (and not in a movie of the week sort of way). Let me start by saying, Modern Family is arguably the best new show of the season.
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