"Modern Family" Bixby's Back (TV Episode 2011) Poster

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Romance in the air
jotix1008 March 2012
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Valentine's Day celebrations differ from each of the three families featured in the programs. The only one thing in common is the three couples have decided to make Ibiza the restaurant they want to go to celebrate.

Claire and Phil arrive early. An older crowd is having dinner, which means it is still not the fashionable way to arrive. After being knocked by a man in a motorized cart, Claire decides this is no way to spend the evening. Instead, she excuses herself to call her husband impersonating last year's Julianna, her assumed identity from last year. After Phil catches on, he goes along with the idea of ending the night at a hotel. Their tryst turns a weird turn as Phil picks up someone else's room key card!

Mitchell and Cameron have an issue. Cam gets mad every time he calls his partner's office. Broderick, Mitch's assistant, is not too keen in putting him through to his partner. Cam and Broderick have a frank chat while on the elevator. At Ibiza they find there was no reservation for them, but seeing Jay and Gloria, they assumed their reservation was given to those other Pritcetts.

Jay and Gloria also went to Ibiza, but that is not what Jay had in mind. He wants to go back home. After all, he had prepared an elegant dinner with candlelight and violin music, which he figures it will surprise Gloria. In turn, she has another surprise for her man, something he has no idea about what he is going to get.

Chris Kock directed this episode based on the screenplay written by Dany Zuker and Elaine Ko. Another Valentine's Day theme, perhaps not as racy as the previous one of the same motif, but all the regulars do their excellent job that makes this sitcom one of the best in television.
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7/10
Upon my 437th viewing....
kikilovesyoga14 April 2023
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I should preface by saying.... I LOVE Modern Family -I cried when it ended😒 It is my go-to when I need a little comfort viewing and almost every time I re-watch I pick up on some brilliant little nuance to a joke that I'd previously missed. It takes a brilliant group of writers to create such a layered Universe. That's why I was a little shocked that I never realized the pretty big goof in this episode 'Bixby's Back' .... πŸ˜‚ In Phil and Claire's sexy role play at the hotel bar Claire masquerading as Juliana slips Phil aka Clive her room key by placing it on the bar top and invites him upstairs... He accidentally grabs the key of the woman sitting next to them at the bar who had laid her card out while digging through her purse ... This leads to Phil staging his sexy rendezvous in the wrong hotel room.... As Claire and Phil are engaging in some flirty phone play they come to realize Phil is in room 702 .....when he should be in Claire's room 226...!!! At that moment the woman from the bar walks in to find a scantily clad Phil seductively displayed on the rose petaled bed.... BUT HOW DID SHE GET IN? She should not have been able to just walk right inπŸ˜‚ Phil had her key... one would assume she grabbed the only key left on the bar...Claire's key ...which would not have worked...I suppose she could have tried the key and gotten a replacement from the front desk... but I feel like Phil would have heard her trying to get in ....??? Dangit!!!! I always thought this was such a funny 'That would only happen to Phil' moment.... but now the whole episode is ruined for me πŸ˜‚ How did that make it past all of the continuity checks and balances? πŸ˜‚ I guess the same way I've seen this episode loads of times over the years and only now thought.... 'Wait......How?!'πŸ€”πŸ˜‚
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