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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 6 |
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| Directed by | Scott Ellis | ||
| Written by | Abraham Higginbotham | ||
| Production code | 3ARG07 | ||
| Original air date | October 19, 2011[1] | ||
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"Go Bullfrogs!" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 54th episode overall. "Go Bullfrogs!" first aired on October 19, 2011, on ABC.[1] The episode was written by Abraham Higginbotham and was directed by Scott Ellis. It featured guest star Gilles Marini as Julian.
In the episode, Phil (Ty Burrell) takes Haley (Sarah Hyland) to his alma mater on a trip to visit colleges, Claire (Julie Bowen) persuades Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) to include her in their boys' night out. Meanwhile, Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and Jay (Ed O'Neill) are alarmed at how fast Manny (Rico Rodriguez) appears to be growing up.
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Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) has taken his daughter Haley (Sarah Hyland) to his alma mater to show her what college is like, a visit he clearly enjoys for the nostalgia. Haley is glad to spend the time with her father, but a little embarrassed by his eagerness to relive his own college days. Meanwhile, his wife Claire (Julie Bowen) is savoring the prospect of a night out on her own, since their other two children are at sleepovers with their friends. After dropping her son off at his friend's house, she turns down an invitation from the host's mother to watch Gone With The Wind with the other mothers, falsely claiming to be sick and having seen it multiple times (she hasn't in fact seen it at all).
Her father, Jay Pritchett, (Ed O'Neill), settles down reluctantly to watch a telenovela with his Colombian-born wife, Gloria Delgado (Sofía Vergara), when her son, Manny (Rico Rodriguez) takes delivery of a package and quickly runs upstairs to his room without explaining what it is. Jay begins to get absorbed in the telenovela, while Gloria begins to worry about what Manny's package might be. She is offended by Jay's suggestion that it might be pornography, and eventually is so upset she goes for a walk.
Claire joins her brother, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and his partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) for their night out. She is quickly bored with the restaurant they attend, and persuades them to take her instead to a boutique opening, where she eventually decides to leave with Julian (Gilles Marini) who came to the party with Cameron and Mitchell's friend Longinus (Kevin Daniels) because Cameron and Mitchell want to get back early to attend to their adopted daughter Lily. Likewise, Phil lets Haley accept an invitation to a party.
On their way home, Cameron and Mitchell ponder whether Claire was right when she said they had become boring, a consideration that deepens when they discover that the valet gave them keys to the wrong car and that the owners of that car apparently leads an interesting life despite apparently having a young child as well. Phil, playing darts with the young men in the bar he was eating at with Haley, finds out from her cellphone tracker that Haley is apparently at a frat party. Worrying about what might happen, he leaves in a hurry.
Mitchell and Cameron decide to use the GPS in the car to return it to its proper owners. On the way Longines, angry about being abandoned at the boutique, calls, and they learn that Julian is straight, not gay as Claire had supposed when she left with him. Upon their return the owner's wife starts attacking the car, and they are trapped inside as they cannot get it out of the driveway. Gloria returns and finds Jay on the phone with their housekeeper getting backstory on the telenovela. At that moment, Manny cries out for help from upstairs, saying he's stuck. Gloria, now prepared to concede Jay might have been right, joins her husband as they go to his room and find him hanging upside down in his closet door wearing a weighted helmet ... apparently his package was a device to make him taller.
Phil runs into the party and tears Haley away from a young man she's talking to, only to learn he's someone he once coached in whiffle ball, and his parents are nearby. Manny tells Gloria and Jay that he bought the device because a girl he was interested in liked taller boys. She reassures him he will have a lot to offer any young woman no matter how tall he is.
In response to a call from Luke for his retainer, she goes back to the sleepover, only to be caught in her lies by the other mothers, and discover that Julian is straight. Phil explains to Haley that he still wants to protect her, and won't have much more time to enjoy that aspect of being her father, after which she initiates one of the fun activities she had earlier been embarrassed about. Mitchell and Cameron return home in the badly dented car, met by the owner, who says he can see they've met his wife.
"Go Bullfrogs!" was written by Abraham Higginbotham and was directed by Scott Ellis. The episode was filmed between September 27 and October 7, 2011.[2][3] The Haley-Phil plot was originally reported by TV Guide writer William Keck.[4] Ariel Winter and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons are absent from the episode due to the fact that the kids are only required to appear in 22 episodes a season.[5]
In its original American broadcast, "Go Bullfrogs!" was viewed by an estimated 13.04 million viewers and received a 5.7 rating/14% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49.[6] This means that it was seen by 5.7% of all 18–49 years olds, and 14% of all 18–49 year olds watching television at the time of the broadcast. This marked a three-tenths drop in the ratings from the previous episode, "Hit and Run.[7][6] Despite this, the episode ranked as the highest rated show on Wednesday.[6] "Hit and Run" was the most-watched show for the week of broadcast among adults aged 18–49, beating Sunday Night Football. The episode also ranked as the twelfth most watched show among all viewers.[8]
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