I have to do it. I have to start a thread for ABC's Modern Family/The Middle/Cougar Town Lineup

The little pre-opening-credits vignette yesterday with Phil Dunphy in the doctor's office was pretty funny. I don't remember word for word but they were talking about the real estate market:

[Doctor behind Dunphy, putting on a glove.]
Dunphy: Well, it's a buyer's market so if you're a seller, y'know...
Doctor: Bend over.
Dunphy: Right, so it's not great for them, but...
Doctor: No, bend over.

Modern Family is still funny, don't get me wrong

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cougar-town-ric-swartzlander-329745

Showrunner carnage continues as Cougar Town moves to TBS. This seems less contentious though.

"that's the risk you take with street eggs."

A couple of years ago, I started stopping on this occasionally, then started watching whole episodes in syndication (so all jumbled up), and I'm finally watching it from the beginning. Long way to go--I'm halfway into Season 3--but most of the time I love it. Don't know if there's a major drop-off at some point, as there usually is with long-running shows. There's not one of the 10 principals I don't like a lot, putting aside non-entity (so far) Lily. The most surprising thing is that a handful of times--Phil and Claire getting properly married for the first time in Hawaii, for instance--I think it even approaches art.

I think it held up very well over the years (spoiler: Lily becomes an entity, and joins the good cast members. A later addition, not so much). I think Manny is one character that is even better in the latter part of the series.

I have to disagree, I recently encountered a contemporary episode and thought it was utter hack, and I really liked this show at its height.

Took a long break, started up again, and am working through season 6.

I'm laughing because I was mystified by something that returned search results and evidently mystified others too: Mitchell looking at the wedding video at the end of E3, "The Cold."

The show does tail off, but there's almost always a few things that make me laugh in every episode.

One thing this show does really well is work in guest appearances from well-known people: Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin (Martin Short was pretty good too), Steve Zahn, Ray Liotta, Kelsey Grammar, Matthew Broderick, etc. Not to mention all the semi-regulars like Fred Willard and Shelly Long. (I consulted a list to jog my memory--I didn't even that was Edward Norton as the Spandau Ballet guy!)

Fred Willard was so, so enjoyable on this show.