"Modern Family" the Family that You Can't Help but Love

The Country Music Awards preempted Modern Family. I admit I am a late comer to Modern family. I figured that it was another overly sexualized comedy glamorizing all that is sexual and immoral. True Modern Family is definitely not considered the norm in the fundamentalists opinion. Truth is today if you don't accept all lifestyles you are probably going to be excluding some of your own family members. Just because you may not approve or accept the lifestyle of others doesn't give you the right to ostracize them, not if you want to continue having them in your family.

Many people will turn their backs on those whose lifestyles they don't approve of. I personally think that Modern family is not only hysterically funny but also the members are endearing and hard not to love. They truly love each other and are always in some kind of jam but manage to wade their ways through with love tolerance and acceptance of each other.

I can relate to Modern Family because our family is not considered traditionally normal either. We have a son, Uncle Mikey, who is a year younger than one of his nephews and a niece. Our family is not nearly as funny or as connected as theirs though.

Claire and Phil are the most traditionally normal couple with three kids all with completely different personalities. Hayley is the pretty air headed one while Alex is the condescending intellectual one. Claire would like to dumb down Alex and maybe put some of her brains into Hayley who she is sure is headed for boy trouble like she got into as a teenager. Phil is very insecure and always is trying to prove his masculinity. The youngest son is a typical underachieving young boy.

Gloria and Jay are about the most misfit of the couples. Gloria is a gorgeous Colombian native much younger than Jay with a young overweight but charming son named Manny. The relationship between them is hilarious and warm at the same time. Gloria's accent gets her into troubles all of the time. In a recent episode when she was feeling insecure about her accent and being made fun of by others she was asking Jay to explain to her the mistakes that she made. She had ordered a box of Jay's favorite baby cheeses for him. When they arrived it was a box of baby Jesuses. It was side-splittingly funny. Jay just rolled his eyes like, "Need I say more?"

Later Jay told her how he remembered hearing her talk in a restaurant and how he loved her accent. He loved her the minute he laid eyes on her. What man wouldn't? She went back to her normal way of speaking and felt the love that he had for her.

Mitchell and Cameron are the gay couple. Mitchell is the son of Jay and brother to Claire. They have an adopted Vietnamese baby girl named Lily. Their relationship is the funniest one of all as far as I am concerned. Cameron is my favorite actor in the show. He plays a gay man to the extreme but he is so charming and funny that you have to love him. He is dramatic and flamboyant. Mitchell tolerates his overly emotional needs. During the Halloween episode Cameron was trying to be supportive of the holiday although he had a very traumatic event in his childhood that marred Halloween for him forever. You have to see this episode if you miss any other because this is epic.

The family members muddle through each situation with love and acceptance of each other in spite of their dysfunction. It is not full of continual sexual remarks and innuendos like so many sitcoms are today and in spite of their nontraditional lifestyles they are still hysterical. I will definitely buy all of the seasons of Modern Family for my DVD collection. I think that they will make great Christmas presents too.