Write Your Own “Modern Family” Episode!
Here’s a fun game you can play at home during the boring summer television season. Just plug the characters and activities into the episode summary, and imagine away!
SUMMARY:
[CHARACTER A] challenges [CHARACTER B] to an [ACTIVITY A] competition. Meanwhile, [CHARACTER C] suspects that [CHARACTER D] doesn’t appreciate his or her [ACTIVITY B] skills. [CHARACTER E] tries to bond with [CHARACTER F] by appealing to [CHARACTER F]’s love of hyper-competitive [ACTIVITY C].
CHARACTERS:
Cam
Manny
Phil
Lily
Sofia Vergara
The Grandpa
Grendor
Helacia
Phleebs
The Bad One
Boo Radley
Cheech
ACTIVITIES:
Parcheesi
Making viral videos
Ululating
Crying
“Underwater basket-weaving”-referencing
Ritual human sacrifice
Developing physical symptoms psychosomatically
Being portrayed by actor Ty Burrell
Coercing confessions
Incorporating themes of redemption, grace, and morality through recurring images of nature and savagery in what Harold Bloom called, “Quite possibly the novel of the century”
Snorting cocaine
Impersonating Waylon Jennings
Marina Abramovic-style performance art
The “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” hoedown game
Committing heresy
Bing searching
Being called to his or her final reward and living at the right hand of God forevermore
Joining GWAR
Cancer research
Getting a mite parched and reckoning he or she will mosey on down to the juke joint for a gin fizz, of a warm afternoon
Excreting pollen
Providing hilarious and heartwarming entertainment for six fantastic seasons! Congrats to this wonderful show!!
The Tusk 
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