Among the complete family units on this series, Jay, Manny and Gloria have the best comedic chemistry. Jay's confession to Manny was an honest and touching moment, punctuated with Jay blaming a raccoon for the permanent scratch on his car before Manny could fully admit to it. But Modern Family is nothing without some heart. The episode expertly paced out Manny's growing concerns ("But raccoons are nocturnal.") with Jay's desperate excuses ("He wanted a midnight snack.").
Manny was also able to slowly figure out that something wasn't right. Gloria, being from Columbia, knew immediately it was a fake crime scene. After accidentally electrocuting Manny's pet turtle, Jay staged the room to implicate a home-invading raccoon. The combo of Jay and Manny continued to establish itself as a great comedy duo. The two remaining storylines were really what made this such a memorable episode. Equally funny was the shift from excitement to panic the pair had as they realized what Mitchell had actually done. The first came when the two were in their separate cars "recreating a faux pas." The "shout/a little bit louder now" bit had fantastic delivery and timing and was pulled off masterfully. The storyline as a whole would have been fairly bland if not for two great sequences. When Mitchell couldn't take it anymore and he walked out on his boss, it was a fine moment, but not one that you could really connect to. We haven't really seen much of Mitchell at work - or any of the cast, really - so the stress of his job went only as deep as the generic stuff we were seeing in this episode. Mitchell was working too hard and too often at his job, missing his daughter's childhood milestones. Of the three family units, Mitchell and Cameron's storyline was the least engaging and had the fewest payoffs.
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