Modern Family

One of my all-time favorite TV programs has got to be ABC’s Modern Family. For those of you who also watch it, the big news at the end of this season was Gloria’s announcement that she was pregnant. 

My prediction is that she’ll have a boy and Mitch and Cam will adopt it. If that occurs, here’s how the baby boy will be related to the rest of the characters. 

I did the math: 

Gloria will be his mother and grandmother

Jay will be his father and grandfather

Mitch will be his half-brother and father

Cam will be his brother-in-law and father

Claire will be his half-sister and aunt

Phil will be his brother-in-law and uncle

Manny will be his brother and uncle

Lily will be his niece and sister

Haley will be his niece and cousin

Alex will be his niece and cousin

Luke will be his nephew and cousin

There you go! A modern family.

What's That Called?

I really have problems remembering names of things.

I can remember numbers like crazy; with almost a savant-like ability.
The loan number to my 1979 Ford Fiesta?

33-1108-443-2

But names? nouns?
Forget it.

Case in point.

I was on the phone last night with a friend of mine and we were talking about new TV programs that we liked. (Modern Family is, by far, my favorite by the way.)

My Tivo was recording something and I said, “Oh, I keep forgetting to tell Tivo to stop recording Leopard Girl. That show really bugs me.”

“Leopard Girl?” said my friend.

“Yeah, that new show with Courtney Cox. I really don’t like it.”

(laughter) "It’s called Cougar Town!” she said.

“Oh. . . .Well, at least I got the cat-part right.”