Analyzing The WEIRD Relationships In Modern Family

Let’s look at the incestuous relationships in modern family.
2:43 Phil and Gloria
4:44 Manny and Haley
6:08 Manny and Sonia
8:11 Joe and Claire
9:49 Claire and Luke
11:42 Manny and Gloria
12:55 Manny and Lily
13:55 Claire, Cameron and Mitchell
14:40 Jay and Stella
#modernfamily

[@Tronn9672]

KZbin said I can’t use the “I” word anymore 🙄

[@ryujins.smile.]

😞

[@ryujins.smile.]

🙄

[@glensitoxd1603]

u shouldn’t be allowed to say anything anymore. y’all love to look too much into things

[@calumuniverse5006]

Someone had to say it though, damn

[@pettykittyfam]

Get used to censorship It sucks 🤬

[@cosmicsongbird3047]

Making a family-centric tv show and constantly writing in jokes about family members being subtly or explicitly attracted to each other is.......truly something......

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Atleast most of them aren't blood related but still a strange choice to make

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Actually when you have to say "at least" it's already fucked up 💀

[@EF-kk3vh]

@@amberwingtundrawing776lmaoooo

[@Whiteman2.0]

Well technically Poppy Marshall and Javier Delgado can date, as he is the twins Step-Great-Grandmothers-Ex-Husband or Step-Great-Uncles-Father. And considering the age difference between the Dunphy kids love interests, and jay and Gloria, I would not be surprise if they were attracted to each other.

[@iremhatipoglu9536]

It's the whole point of the show though, them being too relax

[@YourDadsUnclesFriend]

I seriously doubt that Jay would ever want a bestiality/incestuous relationship with Stella, most pet owners have a very close parent-child bond with their pets.

[@sagesixparties7217]

Well said

[@maxwellgrimsley]

Haven’t even had a chance to get a minute in yet and I see this. If this is a genuine argument they try to make istg I’ll throw my phone- 💀

[@OGseoulite]

@@maxwellgrimsleydid you throw it? 😂

[@justmarlen]

yeah that one was a bit of a stretch.

[@maxwellgrimsley]

@@OGseoulite YUP AND SCREAMED TOO

[@lilliesinthegard32]

How annoying that they have Phil be literally the perfect father and husband most of the time yet they make him disrespect his wife by ogling another woman constantly in front of her... No wonder Claire didnt like Gloria in the first few episodes, its not Glorias fault but i can see how horrible it must feel for Claire, not only her dad is dating someone around her age that in her eyes could be a gold digger, her husband is also attracted to that woman and doesnt hide it

[@luchirimoya]

Yeah, this is the part about Phil that doesn't sit right with me. They could've just removed all that Gloria oogling and he would've been a much more coherent character, considering he seems to love Claire so much.

[@justmarlen]

Phil is overrated as a character tbh

[@legopadmeamidala2879]

This kind of bothered me too, but at the same time, they explained this by pointing out Phil’s “type” being women of color.

[@jujuthethird4602]

Dont forget though gloria kissed phil

[@pau8154]

I always say it woudlve been more in character that he never noticed how hot Gloria was because he was so in love with Claire

[@koolaidman_]

The gloria and phil "oh theyre not really related" argument falls apart because their spouses are related. Imagine your husband cheating on you with your father's wife. Thats what claire would get if phil went further with his ogling, and thats so fucked up

[@barbequesauceonmytiddies]

And phil had the nerve to complain jay doesn’t like his pathetic ass when he was married to his daughter, while hitting on his wife with the subtlety of a 14 year old for a decade...

[@dylantd9189]

There's been many instances where a husband's brother and wife's sister get together... It's not that strange.

[@marianne5055]

Morally wrong sure. Still not actually incest.

[@celinuchis90]

​@@dylantd9189That's different.

[@koolaidman_]

@dylantd9189 your husband's brother marrying your sister vs your husband cheating on you with your stepmother are exactly the same thing you're so right /s

[@mummytrolls]

I think you’re right to say the Friends relationships feel incestuous. I’ve always found it weird when groups of friends all have dated or hooked up with each other at some point. It’s weird.

[@Michaela7071]

Sounds like my friend group tbh

[@Aeunax123]

@@Michaela7071same, especially throughout high school

[@lunarialoonatic]

May be weird but it happens more than you think

[@umsonhodeumanoitedeverao]

Me and my friends were like this and let me tell you it almost destroyed us, in so many ways. We literally had to get away from each other and eventually were able to rebuild a friendship but it’s not the same and thank god….incestuous groups are weird. It’s weird, having tension and flirt is normal, but if you normalise it in a whole friend group it’s bound to have problems

[@dannimays7325]

i would use the word incestuous - like at some point there has to be a line. i’m all for a friends to lovers plotline but the entire friend group? that’s fuckin nasty 🤢 like nothings off limits!

[@user-jn4oe9sb5z]

A really cute way they couldve written Joe and Claire would be having Joe be this protective brother despite Joe being a 4 year old and Claire being a grown woman who was already married for years before his birth. But no I guess the major network tv show would rather have it's 12th i----t joke

[@msd7544]

Omg this would have been so cute!!! Now I’m kinda mad this isn’t what we got. It would have been so perfect.

[@emmuzboosh]

Like the whole thing with Manny was he was a bit girl crazy but making it so he couldn’t even completely act right with his female relatives just always made his characters super creepy to me

[@justmarlen]

when that episode with Gloria’s sister came out I was done with him like wtf

[@gabriella9897]

lol when I saw the title I thought you were going to talk about the weird obsession the writers had with putting the Dunphy kids with really older partners. you already mentioned the gross Luke relationship but like why the hell was a 21 year old Hailey dating 45 year old man, the whole storyline was so damn nasty. don't even get me started on the losers they had Alex shagging up with, my girl did not deserve that. But yeah the incest jokes were so weird, I didnt realize just how many there were until you break down like this, my goodness.

[@justmarlen]

OMG YES WHAT THE HELL WAS UP WITH THAT????

[@dinahgrace8409]

I totally understand what you're saying about the relationships with older people, it is weird. But I think that's kind of the point. The whole show is about stereotypes and every single character is a complete stereotype of one kind of person. Luke is the dumb little brother who is babied, and when he gets older, he becomes the horny teenager. His relationship with older women is supposed to be a stereotype of teenage boys. In a different way, I feel like Haley's relationship with the older man is supposed to be a physical sign of her "maturing" and becoming an adult ready for adult experiences. This is also a stereotype of many young women who think that dating an older person makes them more mature. It is very weird, I just think it's supposed to be. I hope that makes sense :)

[@emmaleesmith328]

Claire being the surrogate should bit be in this list. Family being surrogates is very common and it's very clear to anyone that doesn't live under a rock that itd happen through ivf.

[@jamesng.6387]

yeah that episode rlly annoyed me tbh - it’s fine to find it strange, but everyone thinking it’d be the worst thing to ever happen is ridiculous, siblings are surrogates all the time, it’s just an alternative way to have a biological child with both parents’ DNA

[@salvadorleggs8671]

If I remember.correctly, Clair was not going to be a surrogate but and egg donor to combine with Cam's sperm. That is the creeppy part, knowign your sister procreated with your SO for Mitchell, or having a wierd son-newfew for both Clair and Mitchell, yikes.

[@demonheart13]

​@@jamesng.6387unfortunately, based on some AITA posts. Some less financially stable siblings have asked their (usual sister) to literally sleep with their husband because IVF is too expensive. And knowing the cost, it does make me wander how often that is asked. (Most memorable is a sister who initially agreed believing they were going to use IVF but when the BIL made a move and sis was agree shocked but instead revealed they tried but couldn't afford IVF so she expected them to conceive naturally, OP backed out and the family was mad at her till she revealed that sister wasn't talking about IVF. Some people are wild)

[@blackalwayspink]

@@salvadorleggs8671literally no normal person looks at it like this

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

I only remembered Manny being into Haley and thats the weirdest one bc hes technically her uncle now? And i think he acknowledges a few times and doesnt care☹️

[@ratpacks9781]

he's like 10 chill

[@hazelsingh3887]

@@ratpacks9781It continues for longer, and there’s an episode where he’s at least 16 and tricks her into kissing him.

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

@@ratpacks9781 I didn't get crushes on my new family when I was 10 but that's just me. Maybe I'm weird idk

[@victoria9535]

​@@amberwingtundrawing776there no blood related and hes 10 and even in teenage years its normal to have a crush

[@broadwaybutterfly310]

Luke & Manny never crush on each other but it's a reoccurring joke that they're like an old married couple. Even had a moment where it seems Phil (an ordained minister) accidentally married them.

[@Rye_BreadGod]

Wasnt there an episode where they were thinking about having a 4s0me together with 2 other women 😭😭

[@eslehc]

i never realized how much they entertained this joke 😬

[@whygai2744]

I think something like Joe being a little in love with Claire could've been cute, because as he's so young he doesn't understand that they're siblings and it's very common for small kids to think their admiration for someone older is a crush (many kids 'fall' for their babysitters, teachers, coaches etc. In reality they just admire and idolize them, and think that's what a crush is) but after having had so many incest jokes, it just made it very very weird. And they also went too far with it, with Joe showing maturity in the way he set up the date and understood that Phil was an 'obstacle', it's hard to imagine that he doesn't understand that Claire is, in fact, his sister.

[@Rxnnrose]

my second cousin(?) (my cousins son) was INTO MEEE for like a rlly long time. from around 2 to 12, he was INTO ME and it was SO UNCOMFORTABLE. He kept trying to touch my ass or my tits, kid was strange.

[@vincyagain]

I think Phil’s creepy’s crush is the only negative thing I would say about the series. The kids’ crushes were because they were young but Phil is a great father and husband, it doesn’t make sense. Luke being gr00med was sick. manny has so many crushes on literally every girl in his family it is so weird.

[@justmarlen]

Manny was a grown man (or in his late teens i think?) tho when he was crushing on his aunt 💀💀💀

[@yuyen011]

you forgot about cam having a crush on phil on one episode

[@Tronn9672]

I actually decided not to include that one but I do remember the episode where Jay asked Cam and Mitchell if he was “gay hot”, there was honestly so much there were some I just didn’t wanna talk about lol

[@salvadorleggs8671]

​​​@@Tronn9672hahaha came here to read this explination. Cam into Phill was kind of gross too, but yeah, a bit less incestous 🫥

[@eni6580]

You forgot about cam’s mum and Mitch, and the jokes about her being so touchy to him

[@eghinsc1512]

arrested development was NEVER scared of too much incest (/j they were very intentional with it for a reason), and of course there’s the incest episode of community which is always … fun

[@tntboomy]

Who was the incest in community

[@rosepetullz]

@@tntboomythere’s a whole episode lol, they have a disclaimer note at the end in which they call it the “incest episode” I’m pretty sure Season 6 episode 12

[@maverickREAL]

Eh, I think the Community one is different because it knows how ludicrous of a concept it is- even having that end bit. Doesn't hurt that it was almost the end of the entire series so they wouldn't really have to address the fallout, either.

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

It makes sense in Arrested Development, because that show isn't meant to be a wholesome show the way Modern Family was supposed to be.

[@ryderelison7021]

i think the point of the manny and sonia thing was like a stockholm syndrome thing, but still weird

[@AdmiralMadz3180]

Omg I can't believe I forgot how WILD this show was. Also please make more videos about Modern Family I loved this one

[@oprincesslivie02]

I never liked the Manny/ Haley or Lily/Manny jokes

[@verybestandmilkyestcow4623]

With Manny like you said in the beginning with him being young and new to the family it makes sense how he feels but like by the end of the show they've been a family for basically 10 years damn near and yet his obvious attraction and slight flirting with every female family member except well idk dede i think thats litterally it, continues until the last season fr...like its werid man

[@fernandocuauhshihuacarbaja3094]

There are more strange family relationship jokes around: Luke and Manny. In many episodes, specially the first ones, they make jokes of how Luke and Manny seem to be more like an old married couple that fight all the time than just their uncle-nephew friendship, even Lily comparing them to her fathers relationship when they fight or how it seem that Phil married them in the episodes regarding Mitch and Cam's wedding. Claire and Dylan. Although Dylan doesn't become part of the family until the last seasons, it is hinted that he feels some sexual attraction to Claire and this might be one the reasons why she wasn't confortable with the idea of him being Hayley's partner at the start until later seasons. Basically kinda the same that was done with Phil and Gloria. There was also that episode were Dylan saw Claire in her underwear. Alex and Joe. After moving on with his crush with his sister Claire, Joe had an instant crush obsession with Alex, despite knowing she is his niece. Thinking about it, Manny and Joe are pretty similar...

[@fernandocuauhshihuacarbaja3094]

We also have Gloria/Sonya with Fulgencio, their late father. As we saw in the father's day episode, Jay is pretty similar looking to Gloria's father, Fulgencio, and this might explain why both her and her sister feel attraction towards him, although non seem to realize. This might also explain why Pilar, their mother, wasn't confortable with any of them marring Jay.

[@hazelsingh3887]

I am so excited for this! Modern Family had an interesting impact on culture, but it barely has any video essays or critical discussions written about it.

[@katie5920]

Those scenes with Joe are so uncomfortable, he looks to be 3 or 4...

[@duniaghaibku]

All of this in retrospective.. just seems like a convenient excuse to sexualise Sofia Vergara, which is depressing.

[@marlofritz9355]

This made me remember that arc with George Michael in Arrested Development where he had a very big crush on his cousin Maeby

[@turnipcrazy4602]

And if my memory serves me right at the end of the show, it's revealed that Maeby might not be blood related because the mom was adopt, but then it is revealed she's related, just the grandma's or aunts child, so now they are related, but they're making out at a party and don't know it. I don't know a lot of that show is just a fever dream.

[@Kristianalexis1]

Yeah and I remember Lindsay saying that she was adopted and tries to get with Michael.

[@user-jn4oe9sb5z]

@@Kristianalexis1 That seen put me into shock. They were raised as twins since birth iirc but still tried that

[@Kristianalexis1]

@@user-jn4oe9sb5z I know. It’s still gross either way even if she was adopted

[@user-jn4oe9sb5z]

George Michael - Maeby (thought to be biological cousins; made out/kissed multiple times thinking that turned out to be related through adoption) Maeby - Annyong (niece & adopted uncle) Michael - Lindsay (adopted older sister & younger brother; raised as twins since birth and infancy) Oscar - Lucille (brother in law & sister in law; most likely fathered one of Lucille's kids) Maeby - Steve Holt (cousins) Gob - Lindsay (older brother & adopted younger sister raised as biological siblings) Gob - Amy (George Michael's uncle and ex girlfriend and Gob's fiancee) In Arrested Developments defense this was a huge aspect of the show was supposed to be seen as insane over the entire series. Modern family doing it and not really acknowledging it as insanely weird and playing it as a straight forward joke rather than for shock or gross out humor is bit off.

[@MoonMoon-cl4co]

Me and family have been starting to watch this show recently and we have been really enjoying it! So this seems like the perfect video to watch for me ^^ And I just enjoy watching your content- it’s fun! :D

[@Tronn9672]

Haha OMG thanks so much!!

[@ineedabadbleep1557]

i was SO creeped out by luke and the older woman’s relationship like I hated the whole thing

[@Marlina_mml]

The only healthy couple within the show was Gloria and Jay they were both very secure with each other with maybe one or two strange incidents rather than all of the other couples which all seemed to have toxic relationships

[@shadesslitz]

How was Cam and Mitch toxic?

[@kaycollarfeild]

​@shadesslitz i mean, I don't fully believe so but. Cam is a drama loving hypochondriac who acts out like a child. And mitch is an emotionless man who's scared if commitment and crushes dreams.

[@missjackson5725]

@@shadesslitzCam is really manipulative

[@ThatFont]

@@kaycollarfeildIn that case, they parallel each other. Kind of like Claire always saying no is similar to Jay’s behaviour.

[@DinkyPupper_]

I literally just finished binge watching this last night lmao what a small world

[@chocolxte2969]

4 months late but cam had a crush on pretty much all the Pritchetts: mitchell (duh) Claire almost having a baby together Jay because that one coal digger episode where Jay asks him if he thinks he’s attractive and cam says he would date Jay if he saw him in a gay bar (or smth) and also Phil because cam likes dominate men apparently

[@keta2222]

I personally think little kids having crushes on their cousins is really common, i didn't have one but many girls really talked about in playschool about having crush on their cousin, bc they are technically first interaction they have with opposite sex or same sex (depend on ur preference) so little affection at first is normal and almost all people grow out of it, what of course i dont like is phil and gloria one and the later things they did with manny, they really went wrong with that character. Actually gloria and manny storyline is very common, its not sexual in any sense many women project the ideal men that they think should exist onto their sons , its very common in many households sometimes it get weird sometimes it doesn't, so ig that was realistic but still little weird but ig they hanndled it nicely in later seasons.

[@dovelyy]

man too many arrows on manny

[@annaearono]

The Manny/sonia thing was a joke on Stockholm syndrome. Explained. Still weird, but had a reason

[@halbie1694]

What about Alex and Manny. Through the whole show there are a few times when Manny likes Alex, not just the train bit. Like when they go to that NBA game and Manny tries to make a move on Alex. Great video either way :)

[@elijahroberts3044]

Analyzing the weird relationship in the king of queens.

[@ZostalesZarazony]

yeah but the situation with joes crush on claire... is not far fetched fro reality, kids do that sometimes, the crush manny had on his aunt was a joke about stockholm syndrome, it wasnt serious and im pretty sure it never came up again after this one episode....

[@nanalove3819]

for Joe and Claire, the weird things for me is not that they write it, but just that they completly ignore the fact that she was her sister, like, it never mentions. I don't know, it just sounds as if they forget it...

[@fienlovesaioli13479]

Also big one, Mitchell and Cams mom, that one was really weird

[@Kristianalexis1]

I clicked on this bc although the show is hilarious, I know they’ve had Manny crush on Haley for a while and Gloria kissed Phil on the kiss cam. She treated it like no big deal but not only did you cheat on Jay, it was with his son-in-law.

[@hachikaruwobo6245]

the thing of manny liking his song aunt didn’t necessarily come out of no where(not the incest tho, the liking someone you’ve known randomly) . It happens when you’ve known someone for a while and the one random day you see the person looking really good and then you suddenly develop a liking to the person.

[@Arrait]

This is a great series people just lack media literacy,you should do How I met your mother next since they did an episode about this dynamic too but it was more silly than serious.

[@ChristianChim]

That episode where Claire looked at Luke's abs has always made me uncomfortable

[@pettykittyfam]

The first two minutes of this video got me subscribed 😂 Good job 👍

[@syntheticinfluencer]

I never got past the first couple seasons cause it kept getting worse and worse and harder to “ignore” and its just like??? Whyyyy are you exposing so many people to the idea that thats okay. 🤮

[@AJ-xc4qe]

As far as recommending shows to watch in general, those are The Villains of Valley View and Secrets of Sulphur Springs! The Villains of Valley View is honestly not only the closest thing to a decent current running live action kidcom that HASN'T gotten cancelled yet, it's a better Disney Channel sitcom than Jessie, A.N.T. Farm, Sonny With a Chance, Shake It Up, Jonas or Hannah Montana. And I like all those shows...to an extent. Varying degrees of extent but extent nonetheless. There are some things I would've done differently like writing WHEN it's neccesary for Hartley to find out the secret or the antogonists, but it's personally a relief from all the badly acted/written sitcoms from Disney or Nickelodeon that still get renewed for more seasons. Secrets of Sulphur Springs is the channel's first attempt at a drama since the early 2000s and does a great job keeping the audience's attention and keeping them guessing while not talking down to them! They may not have the same amount of shock value or hilarious jokes that Amphibia and The Owl House are famous for, but compared to so many live action kids shows from the 2020s, it's a step above the rest! It's one of the few shows for any age group that knows what it wants to be and sticks with it all the way through!

[@Tronn9672]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Tacobellcheesyrollup]

Gossip girl too!

[@honey4097]

Ok you kind of pushed it with stella and jay. He was just a dog dad 😅 its weird that you thought it was even a little incestuous. You should have replaced that with Haley and Luke. The scene where he tells her “remind me to never date you” like that was nasty and so cringe.

[@desdiorxxx]

I recently have been watching over modern family and the jokes are so weird especially between the kids and adults. Thank you for this video❤️

[@ihaterose9457]

I use to watch this show a lot when I was younger and I haven’t seen it in a long time so I don’t remember all the episodes but I remembered that this show was weird like that😭

[@dylancostello1103]

Maybe this is just me, but I think the incest jokes in Modern Family are funny. I also loved the George Michael and Maeby thing in Arrested Development. There's no harm, and there's no need to take everything so seriously.

[@GuitarGoals]

Yeah. I mean a lot of comedy is based around absurdity, and there isn't really a way to argue that incest isn't an absurd concept without looking a little odd yourself.

[@Lacy_Griffin]

Now you gotta do Arrested Development 😂

[@Alex-hp3cz]

Last episode of "community" ?¿‽

[@tommy25185]

You forgot about Manny and Luke

[@modestyrosier]

also luke and gloria

[@rosyretro8187]

dont forget dylan and claire

[@luisosmarrosalesmanuel8236]

Community please

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Community def has this but I always thought it was weird they kinda banned Shirley from dating anyone in the group. The closest she gets is Chang but Jeff couldve done something with her idk

[@borednerd5767]

I think your use of incestuous to the Friends friend group makes sense. in high school when I had a friend group who was always hooking up with each other, we called an incestuous friend group too

[@clairedowning6890]

Freud would love this show

[@Loola345]

Sigmund? Why do people always talk about him what did he do?

[@Lena-bu6zn]

@@Loola345 he was very important in psych and he had these theories about basically saying that everything you do is based off of sexual urges, and basically said that people wanna have sex with their parents which is clearly a flawed ideology.

[@alvafairchild13]

So no i won't change the name of my video but i will make another video actually exploring the thing that made you so mad in another video I respect this so much

[@sapphosgirlfriend]

what about the george michael and maybe situation in arrested development lmao

[@Prod.treybeck]

i had the tv on this show named 8 simple rules was playing. wasn't really paying close attention but what i did notice is how much weird jokes all the family members made to each other, it could possibly be worse then the family relationships in modern family.

[@alex_into_deep]

I feel like maybe the could have changed the Joe and Claire thing to be just more of Joe wanting to be more with Claire than with Phil. It could have been that he liked her more than Phil or just wanted more attention from her. The crush thing was pretty weird for a kid

[@UnlimitedRadioButNoSoap]

the numerous instances of incestuous overtones is very the-rock-eyebrow-raise-core

[@enlightenment9581]

Man sorry i’m trying to be serious but luke saying you mother and i want one night off made me laugh out loud. Idc this show is funny

[@nobodyjustacreep]

If Gloria and Phil is incest bc they are mother in law and son in law .. wouldn't Phil and Claire be incest? Bc Phil is the son in law to Claire's dad so Claire's is his sister.

[@acailoves]

no?? she's his mother in law because he's married to Claire

[@nobodyjustacreep]

​​@@acailoveshe's the one who said Phil and Gloria was incest. So I'm just asking where the line stops then.. the question was supposed to be dumb

[@acailoves]

@nobodyjustacreep ok but you're point makes zero sense at all 😭

[@nobodyjustacreep]

​@@acailovesI know it dosnt. Idk how to explain what I meant or what the "joke" was. I get it I'm dumb lol, I got a stupid way of entertaining myself

[@franciscadri3090]

yall forget that this show was designed to make you laugh when uncomfortable

[@heylolp9]

I think one reason Incestuous behavior is played off as a joke constantly is because the writers don't want even the fans to even entertain the idea of serious shipping between *blood relatives* The Crush of Lilly on Manny not withstanding Lilly is straight up adopted, by the son of Mannie's Stepdad They are in no way actually related, they're a member of the same family, so you know... don't, but The Adopted Child of your Step Uncle isn't Incest, Incest is firstly a biological term and it's about the shared genome, the horrible family dynamics that would come anyway with people who are part of the same family already in case of anything going wrong are more the problem with those 2 in particular Same with Phil and Gloria, technically it's not biologically wrong, the cluster f*ck that would be Cheating on Clair with the new wife of Clair's Father, Technically Step mother to Clair and Mother to Clair's half Brother would just be horrendous Same true also with Manny and Haley, again biologically speaking nothing wrong with that, socially speaking (near) unacceptable But then again *this is a TV show* and Incest brings cheap laughs

[@salfa_tina]

I'm surprised they didn't make Manny and Haley an item at some point. She literally went through a phase where she dated anyone (even Alex's crush)

[@jungone4387]

Whi doesn't have a crush on Gloria?

[@mightberudyguliani]

I'd argue Jay is the most well rounded, relatable character. he for the most part, always kept a level head (I haven't seen the series in awhile don't come for me).

[@LeboShu]

You forgot the wedding episode (Mitch and Cam) where they joked about Luke and Manny getting married and arguing like an old couple. Also, Jay and Rebarka 😂

[@kittycobbs3501]

While I agree with most of them I must know did you hurt yourself stretching with that surrogate one?

[@Tronn9672]

lol I love how I can so carefully articulate my reasoning, even acknowledge when I’m reaching and people still feel the need to point that out

[@user-jn4oe9sb5z]

Cam literally made edited photos imagining his baby with Claire AND Gloria. When Mitchell got weirded out saying that it would be weird having the kid say "Hi Aunt-Mommy!" when seeing Claire Cam said it would be adorable. In my opinion I don't think its weird to point out how this may elude to feelings and perceptions of incest considering it was Mitchell and thus the writers who brought it up. Also saying you "couldn't resist" making a photoshopped baby to your husband's step moms image; which would make the child Mitchell's or is def weird af. How's your hearing doing? Worrying how you missed that entire part of the episode and the segment of the video where it was said it was iffy

[@TheEnemyOfDawn]

​@@Tronn9672pot meets kettle

[@dillonsomerville4729]

I think of all the incestuous relationships in Modern Family, the Phil and Gloria one I find to be the least problematic since they aren't technically related. Gloria isn't even the biological mother of Phil's wife. If Phil was attracted to Dede, then I'd say that was weird, but since Gloria is technically Phil's step-mother-in-law, it's not that weird. Especially when Phil keeps saying how he'd never try to get with Gloria, and any time it seems like he's flirting with her, or something, it's either accidental, or something he does subconsciously. The ones with Jo are also not that problematic. It's actually very common for children to be attracted to one of, if not both of their parents. It's not like the child knows what they want, just that they feel a lot of emotions toward that parent(s), and don't have a way to express this. Overall, I never really noticed this the many times I've watched through this show. Considering it's 11 seasons long about one big family, there's bound to be a lot of incest jokes, and it only makes any impact if you look at it all at once. Unless you're looking for it, then this won't stand out, honestly, the family have probably broken more laws throughout the show, than there've been incest jokes, yet that's not something you hear get talked about.

[@lasloapollo4312]

You forget the one with Phil and Cam when Cam bought a lama. Or the least episode when Manni says he wrotes all his poems for Luke.

[@diakitty4652]

Wow I never noticed this cause I would watch this as a stupid little elementary kid and then never really thought much of the show after dropping it. I'm now a college student and coming back to see this is funny.

[@timothy-gi1rz]

i thought we were supposed to make fun of incest in a cringe inducing way like the office scot tots

[@mailyak442]

8:25 he’s… he’s A BABY

[@juliajello3558]

You missed the one episode where cam was attracted to Phil

[@inosuke2679]

Why does your voice sound so different to the Freinds video

[@NileshR12]

The Claire & Luke incident is hilarious bc she didn’t know it was until the end of the show 😂😂

[@oscarnieman4202]

Manny and Dede?

[@mbanerjee5889]

Manny's crushes are definitely weird. I think there was also an instance of Manny being attracted to Claire. (Dylan also has a crush on Claire). But I can forgive the others as just stupid jokes caused by misunderstandings rather than any real attraction. Arrested Development and Community definitely lean into the incest.

[@topaz_no_life9440]

i am so glad im not the only one weirded out by phil ooc remarks and advances towards gloria like??? the phil i know would NEVER

[@sainyacantey4108]

You didn’t even talk about some of the weird Claire and Gloria jokes and Phil liking it 💀

[@ohnokms]

surprised u think of arrested development first 1:45

[@Lena-bu6zn]

something that i always hated was that they painted phil’s character out to be a really devoted husband and he clearly really adored his wife but they also built in the storyline of him constantly checking out other women literally in front of claire’s face and the one episode where phil told that guy he went to college with that he was married to gloria instead of claire. to me it makes no sense to make a character trait in one of your characters, and then create a storyline that goes directly against what you wrote the character to be.

[@stanleywhite4404]

It’s not weird on pornhub

[@erikzherrllo6960]

I love this now do Rick and Morty

[@anthonyvasquezactor]

"Arrested Development" was another sitcom that was VERY incestuous.

[@nanalove3819]

When Joe had a crush on Claire, the whole time I was just thinking : is nobody going to point out that Claire is his sister, either to Joe or to themselves? I just seems like even they forgot that they were related... But the worst for me will always be Mitch and Cam's mum. She is sexually assaulting Mitchell and Cam is laughing as if it was funny. Who thought it was fun???

[@akritisaroj]

but thats the whole point of "MODERN" family , they all take each other for they are as an individual and not under the pretext of the label of the relation they share . its pretty given that its a weird mix of family with age gaps and relationship dynamics that are not obvious

[@salvadorleggs8671]

There was an episode where Cam y crushing on phill too.

[@cheerfulsatanist]

Hands down Eric Matthews from boy meets world. Dude went from cocky, hot. Smooth, and ladies man that new all the tips stricjsxage s crest about folling the school, teachers, Corey and Eric's parents, definitely Corey, and even in some cases Mr. Feeney! By the end though he was basically a legitimate candidate for SS and disability payments and frankly probably not even be allowed to live on his own for his own bodily safety.

[@Rye_BreadGod]

The fact that this isn’t even all of them 😭😭 there’s also the story line where Phil is helping Cam to run errands (pick up a washing machine I think?) and decides he’s done with being a pushover and Cam starts to have a crush on him 😭

[@theoverratedchannel6225]

So basically all the characters at one point had a few (or a lot of) incestuous jokes amongst each other as adoptive or step relatives. But it’s more Crazy to me how Manny has been implied to have three different incestuous relationships with some of the girls in his family. Like first it was him having crushed on Hailey when he was younger, then Lily having gained her own crush on him as they got older, and that one time he had a weird infatuation with his Literal aunt! Not even gonna mention the train episode where he misunderstood Alex wanting to get it on with “him” and his first instinct Wasn’t to tell her not to. He didn’t have an Actual thing for her at the time, not from how I saw it anyway, but it’s the fact that he didn’t refuse at that time to reject the advances that she was never going to make at him anyway. There’s also the fact that Phil has not-so-secretly thought that Gloria was more attractive than Claire on many occasions. Yes, Gloria is hot as heck, and I’m guessing Phil openly ogling her was a quicker form for the writers to show the audience that Gloria is also hot in-universe. But it’s the fact that he’s already married to Claire and has especially in the first season, ogled Gloria in front of her on many occasions. Which was abhorrent, but I’d say they at least took that out of his character as the series kept going.

[@isabellestevens7455]

your accent almost sounds jamaican?

[@sirsteve942]

there was that one episode where cam found phil attractive no?

[@dressynavi]

I think in season 5, Haley & Luke talk about dating each other at a laundromat. I had to pause & reflect on it for like ten minutes, because of how insanely inappropriate the idea is.

[@breadypie]

phil does not have a crush 😭😭