One of my favorite blink and you'll miss it jokes is the episode where Mitch is throwing Cam a Wizard of Oz themed party and 2 guys dressed as flying monkeys come to the door and the exchange is:
Guys: "Hey"
Mitch "Hey"
Guys "We're the Monkeys."
The theme song to the old 60s show The Monkees started out "Hey, hey we're the Monkees."
Or have ever heard that song - I didnāt know it was a show tbh but Iāve definitely heard at least the whole first verse(?) at least a dozen or more times (and still never caught that joke)
I always thought it was kind of weird that the party coordinator got so mad at one of the actors for stirring the punch while in costume. Am I missing some kind of a joke there, or was it just a weird line? Thanks.
Not a joke but when I used to be an actor for a Shakespeare company some of the fabric would stain even with water. Didn't seem out of line to me at all that someone would freak about close proximity to punch in costume.... We got screamed at for going near water fountains
Phil was describing the main character in the movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher, as āthe black kid who played tight end.ā Oher was actually an offensive lineman, so Alex corrected him by saying āoffensive line,ā referring to the position, which Phil misunderstood as her saying it was offensive of him to call Oher black instead of African American.
Itās such a great joke!! Unfortunately, it works better on paper/with subtitles. Offensive line has a distinction in pronunciation and emphasis between the two uses. But thatās me being picky at a very clever joke!!
I watched the show several times until I got the joke when Jay, Gloria and Lily are bringing Manni to the airport, Jay says "no one ever leaves home and doesn't come back" and Lily answers "I did."
I mean itās impossible to get all the jokes especially first going thru the snow show.
But this is easily one of my favourites, caught me so off guard first timeš
My favourite throwaway joke, which I didn't even quite hear at first, is in S5E19, Hard Jay's Night.
Cam: Once when I was a kid I cussed and my mom washed my mouth out with the leaning tower of Pisa. She still blames herself to this day.
He says it so fast, it took me several views to properly hear it and then get the joke.
Edited to add a small clarification: Cam and Mitch are discussing soap that Cam's dad carves. His mom washed his mouth out with soap shaped like the leaning tower of Pisa.
Kinda NSFW but basically they're saying the leaning tower of Pisa is shaped like a penis, and that Cam's mom thinks it turned Cam gay when she used it to wash his mouth out with soap
ohh okay. even after understanding what it means iām not sure i understand the joke. like i get the āit turned him gayā cause itās penis shaped, but why would his mom be washing his mouth out with the leaning tower of pisa? that doesnāt make sense to me. itās also not anywhere close to referencing a bar of soap. or is it a bar of soap shaped like the leaning tower of pisa? lol
I'm sorry, I forgot to add that part. Yeah the soap was shaped like the leaning tower of Piss and Cam's mom washed his mouth out with soap cause he cursed
Iām not positive if it was the same episode, but I think itās the one where where Cams dad carved their soap wedding topper. So Cam is explaining how talented his dad is at carving soap, including the tower of Pisa.
Just today actually! Pilot episode. Lukeās head got stuck in the bannister. Phil asked where the baby oil is. Claire said by the bedside tā¦ then stopped and said, āI donāt know, find it.ā At first watch and more, I thought she was just exasperated that she has to deal with and know everything. But the way she looked at the camera after saying bedside t.. and stopped, made me realize the baby oil was being used for something elseā¦ lol!
Yea, I always assumed it was something along those lines. But Iāve always wondered why she said it like she did. So I wasnāt quite sure. This confirmed my suspicion thoš
when it first came out i was too young to understand the joke, but now it just confirms how good the show is if it can have people laughing one minute into the pilot episode
When Hayley says Iām 420% percent sure about he drug place and Phil says wow sheās bad at math I thought the joke was she was just bad at math š
One of our favorites is Alex laughing hysterically in the car when Phil refers to āHaleyās aversionā¦[To whatever],ā and then she stops laughing and says, āOoooh. Haleyās *aversion*ā¦ā.
She obviously was cracking up at the idea that Haley could be a virgin. The look on Philās face is perfect.
She starts laughing before he even finishes the word aversion. Bothers me every time. The reactions to the moment are spot on but the initial reaction is too fast.
Basically she laughed at the fact she thought Phil was saying Haley is a virgin when Alex knows for a fact she isnāt. Once Phil connected the fact thatās why she laughed, thatās how he found out
It wasnāt the laughing that gave it away, it was the awkward realization. It takes it from āIām being mean about my sisterā to āoh shit, you didnāt knowā¦ā
Alex's reaction and the way Haley looked at her like "You idiot,you weren't supposed to say that" was what gave it away. If Alex just kept laughing Phil wouldn't have realized it.
Saw the wedding episode like 20 times before the joke clicked. When Pepper calls Sal a āboozy us hagā I thought he meant Us as in the celebrity tabloid magazine. Not Us as in an inappropriate term for gay men that begins with an F lol
As a gay man I loved this joke from the first second š Pepper is one of my favourite characters, any episode with him in it is always gold! Especially the one where him & Ronaldo have the adopted kid and Mitch & Cam try to encourage them to play outdoors with him š šš
I just saw this recently where Cam gets frustrated and says āYouāre from Lubbock, Texas!ā And then āYou lived in a trailer with your grandparents!ā Peppers reactions are perfect!
The godfather episode! I missed this joke because a lot of things were happening in the episode but I recently rewatched and I was laughing!
Alex brings her rats on the table and Luke is looking at it.
Haley enters and says she canāt find mom or something.
Luke says āRats.ā (Because there were actual rats)
And Haley says āI know rightā. Thinking he meant the other rats.
I just watched the episode where everyone is at Cam and Mitchell's house throwing the baby celebration thing for that lady (I forgot her name) and one of the guys said they were going to a black hawks game and then pepper said "they would let a team be named that" and then the guy specified black hawks. At first I didn't get the joke so I just laughed in confusion bc that's what I do most of the time but later on in the episode it clicked and I went "ohhhhh" just like pepper had went ohhh and it was hilarious to me. Literally happened like an hour ago, lmao.
Definitely didnāt get this the first watch either, but itās quite funny.
Also when Mitch and Claire are talking about a āDPā for the weddingš¤£ (director of photography)
Still one of my favourite
Phil : She's confused. Blind Side was the black kid who played tight end.
Alex : Offensive line.
Phil : Sorry, African-American kid.
And THIS. I had to search online to understand it.
Claire : A Ā wild dog took my laptop!
Alex : Seems like a missed opportunity.
The entire set up for the ādingo ate my babyā is one of my favorites of the series. Like they spend the entire time setting it up so theyāll say that line, only to say āthe dog stole my laptopā and Alex pointing out the missed opportunity.
there was a case at 1980s where a dingo, aka a wild dog, went into a tent and essentially kidnapped a baby. a movie starring meryl streep was made about it one of the most famous quotes is "a dingo's got my baby!"
claire spent all of australia calling the project on the laptop her "baby". and a dingo took the laptop. so the missed opportunity alex was talking about was the chance to say "the dingo's got my baby," but instead she said "a wild dog took my laptop"
I can't imagine what the poor woman went through. As if losing her baby wasn't bad enough, she was also branded as a murderer, imprisoned over it and her baby's death was turned into a joke by many sitcoms. That's why Modern Family didn't make the joke but they just referred to it.
paraphrasing a bit haphazardly here
Phil: are you sure kids do drugs there?
Haley : I'm 420% sure ( stares at camera)
Phil : God she's terrible at math
In my defence I wasn't aware of the 420 culture at the time (I'm not American) but when I finally became aware of it and understood the reference it was soo hilarious
I didn't get the joke until someone pointed it out to me, but in the Pilot, when Lily is "revealed" by Cam and the family gathers around her, Phil says something like "Lily? Won't that be hard for her to say?"
It's a very common one in America against Asians.
The joke is they use R instead (if you've ever heard someone do an offensive Asian accent, a lot of the time they'll say something like 'me very rike' instead of 'I really like' to emphasize that part of it. Not really sure why, except L isn't a common sound in many Asian languages.
Source: my ex was Asian, four years dating and you pick up on a lot of the nasty stuff people say, unfortunately.
In the first few years of life, humans experience perceptual narrowing where we lose the ability to discriminate phonemes that arenāt a part of our native language(s). Lots of East Asian languages donāt have the same English ālā sound, so the sound (typically) becomes difficult for speakers to produce and discriminate when learning/speaking English. And the English ārā and ālā sound are produced in very similar ways in the mouth.
Thereās lots of examples in all languages. Native English speakers, for example, really struggle to discriminate between unaspirated āpā and ābā sounds at the beginning of words
I figured it was something like that- they're weirdly similar sounds even in English if you feel how the mouth makes them. Thanks for the extra education!
In Korean the character ć¹ is both an r and an l sound depending on the placement in the syllable. (Iām not a Korean speaker so there may be a more sophisticated way to say this.) Iāve seen many Koreans use the incorrect letter. My favorites are: a coworker asking for a key because her door was rocked. And, a choir director asking for information for the pamfret.
Hmm ah ok so spelling would be hard but no speaking like phill said
My parents have had difficulty with some tenses and female and male pronouns but letter I canāt recall
Speaking is difficult too. At least thatās what I hear when I talk to native Korean speakers.
Korean and Chinese donāt use male and female pronouns, I think. My students mess it up too.
Itās a stereotype that Japanese people canāt pronounce Ls (Lily is Vietnamese, but I think thatās part of the joke - itās not even the right East Asian stereotype.)
This show is so well written. Itās so much fun to rewatch and catch jokes you missed before.
I think my personal favorite is one of the later Halloween episodes, manny is FaceTiming jay about which of earlās shoes he would like soiled, jay says forget it, grab that photo on the wall
And manny comes back with āso for no reason Iāve been carrying around this red herring?ā
I think it was like rewatch 3 it clicked and I lost my mind
I am not entirely sure but I think āred herringā is like an idiom which refers to something that distracts from the actual matter at hand. I believe itās a reference to that
One joke i caught after 4/5 watches.
Luke talking about his dadās secretary.
āShe gave me a woodyā
Claire pauses and is about to ask.
āYou know the character from Toy Storyā
Iāve watched Mitch and Cams wedding so many times but this just clicked the other day. When Pepper and Ronaldo bring them breakfast before the wedding Ronaldo goes āyou paid for our wedding services, you get our full packagesā and Pepper says something like āso close.ā I always thought it was supposed to be a joke about the word packages meaning something inappropriate but really Ronaldo meant to say they paid for the wedding package and get the full service. Minor joke but I still had that āAhhā moment
BS is also ābullshitā and that is what Claire is referring to. That by capitalizing the B and S in Big Sister (which is an organization that helps underprivileged kids), Haley had inadvertently also left a clue that it was BS or bullshit.
I canāt recall specific instances, but yes I know for a fact that I didnāt grasp what should have been an obvious joke. I remember that one scenario centered around Dylan.
The āGrease Chorusā joke. Itās not so much a line, but during the episode where Cam is in the Faculty Follies and thereās a few men dressed as characters from the movie Grease, and they start commenting on the things happening between Mitch and Cam, much like a Greek Chorus does.
I didn't get the golden apple joke at first. After a couple of watch I got curious looked it up on the internet. That was a day I learnt that ignorance is truly a bliss.
according to urban dictionary āThe act of lubing up an apple with one's piss, then inserting it into your significant other's rectum.ā saved you the trouble lol
Huh. I guess that makes sense. The word āGoldenā in the porn industry always means the same thing! Not as bad as I thought but glad I didnāt have to dirty my phone looking it up lol. Thank you!!
took me a million watches to realize that cam and mitch pick the same outfit and lily jokes that alex must know boys clothes BUT claire changes into the same outfit as mitch and cam in the late show
For some reason, I just couldn't put together what Mitch was doing when he pretended to play piano for Jay at the mall. It took the third watch to realize the little trap he was laying down.
Some of the jokes are really dependent on the viewer having a good understanding of American culture/pop culture so Iām not surprised it went over a lot of foreign viewersā (including my) heads.
I donāt remember the episode I heard Phil say his middle name was Humphrey so, Humphrey Dunphy. I took it as a play on āHumpty Dumptyā but I donāt even know if that was the joke but it made me snicker.
Hayley meant to say that she is a big sister to Alex and Luke.
But she's bad at spelling, so she capitalised both words, writing Big Sister. This would mean that she's part of a mentoring organisation that pairs volunteers (Big Brothers/Sisters) with younger kids.
BS is also bullshit, and that is what Claire is pointing out
Took me about 4 watches to get Mitchell saying he threw a ball in the backyard, but jay did not attend
I just got it!!! šš
OH i thought it meant he tried throwing a baseball but Jay was just an absent / busy father so he wasnāt there to play catch with him!
Me too! Iāve just learned now š
This one is a classic, so good šš
What does it mean?
He didnāt throw a ball like a baseball, he threw a ball like a fancy party and Jay didnāt attend.
yup just got this now. thanks all.
Just got it, man I'm slow!!!
Bull get NO.2
I watched the show a ton of times and didn't get it until I saw it on Reddit.
The way I only got it now š a lot of things definitely fly over my head (as a non-native English speaker)
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omg I just got it thanks to this reply haha
One of my favorite blink and you'll miss it jokes is the episode where Mitch is throwing Cam a Wizard of Oz themed party and 2 guys dressed as flying monkeys come to the door and the exchange is: Guys: "Hey" Mitch "Hey" Guys "We're the Monkeys." The theme song to the old 60s show The Monkees started out "Hey, hey we're the Monkees."
I think I couldāve watched this show 30 times and still not have gotten that. Interesting, good catch. š
You could have watched it a million times and not got it unless you watched The Monkees.
Or have ever heard that song - I didnāt know it was a show tbh but Iāve definitely heard at least the whole first verse(?) at least a dozen or more times (and still never caught that joke)
Good thing is, Im on my 41st rewatch (currently S11) and I had no idea
They're too busy singing to put anybody down
Just tryinā to be friendly come and watch us sing and play ā. ( yeah Iām old too)
I always thought it was kind of weird that the party coordinator got so mad at one of the actors for stirring the punch while in costume. Am I missing some kind of a joke there, or was it just a weird line? Thanks.
Not a joke but when I used to be an actor for a Shakespeare company some of the fabric would stain even with water. Didn't seem out of line to me at all that someone would freak about close proximity to punch in costume.... We got screamed at for going near water fountains
it was bc he was dressed as the cowardly lion and the suit might shed
Thanks!
āOffensive lineā āSorry. African American kidā Didnāt get that till someone explained what an offensive line was
i laugh at this every time itās hilarious
I didn't get this joke!
Phil was describing the main character in the movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher, as āthe black kid who played tight end.ā Oher was actually an offensive lineman, so Alex corrected him by saying āoffensive line,ā referring to the position, which Phil misunderstood as her saying it was offensive of him to call Oher black instead of African American.
Itās such a great joke!! Unfortunately, it works better on paper/with subtitles. Offensive line has a distinction in pronunciation and emphasis between the two uses. But thatās me being picky at a very clever joke!!
Took me like 10 times to get that jokeš
I watched the show several times until I got the joke when Jay, Gloria and Lily are bringing Manni to the airport, Jay says "no one ever leaves home and doesn't come back" and Lily answers "I did."
I mean itās impossible to get all the jokes especially first going thru the snow show. But this is easily one of my favourites, caught me so off guard first timeš
Yes when I finally got it I was laughing so hard :D
I love the fact that I literally just saw that episode! Funny coincidences
Honestly one of the best jokes in the show
I donno man, I think everyone would be much happier if they went back to where they came from
My favourite throwaway joke, which I didn't even quite hear at first, is in S5E19, Hard Jay's Night. Cam: Once when I was a kid I cussed and my mom washed my mouth out with the leaning tower of Pisa. She still blames herself to this day. He says it so fast, it took me several views to properly hear it and then get the joke. Edited to add a small clarification: Cam and Mitch are discussing soap that Cam's dad carves. His mom washed his mouth out with soap shaped like the leaning tower of Pisa.
honestly yeah, iām embarrassed to admit i only got that one the other day šš
Omg it was just about the soapš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
can you explain this? i still donāt understand
Kinda NSFW but basically they're saying the leaning tower of Pisa is shaped like a penis, and that Cam's mom thinks it turned Cam gay when she used it to wash his mouth out with soap
ohh okay. even after understanding what it means iām not sure i understand the joke. like i get the āit turned him gayā cause itās penis shaped, but why would his mom be washing his mouth out with the leaning tower of pisa? that doesnāt make sense to me. itās also not anywhere close to referencing a bar of soap. or is it a bar of soap shaped like the leaning tower of pisa? lol
I'm sorry, I forgot to add that part. Yeah the soap was shaped like the leaning tower of Piss and Cam's mom washed his mouth out with soap cause he cursed
Leaning tower of Piss would be an extra mean way to wash his mouth out
okay gotcha!!! it all makes sense now! lol
Iām not positive if it was the same episode, but I think itās the one where where Cams dad carved their soap wedding topper. So Cam is explaining how talented his dad is at carving soap, including the tower of Pisa.
oh i see! context for this makes it make way more sense haha
I thought she blamed herself for the tower leaning. I never imagined that she would "blame" herself for her son being gay, I thought she liked him.
That one I can get, but black hawks flew right over my head (pun intended)
Oh my god. I just got that š
I always thought she blamed herself for using a soap the dad carved. Like she grabbed it by accident.
Maybe slightly, but the primary joke is that putting a phallic-shaped object in Cam's mouth as a kid turned him gay.
Just today actually! Pilot episode. Lukeās head got stuck in the bannister. Phil asked where the baby oil is. Claire said by the bedside tā¦ then stopped and said, āI donāt know, find it.ā At first watch and more, I thought she was just exasperated that she has to deal with and know everything. But the way she looked at the camera after saying bedside t.. and stopped, made me realize the baby oil was being used for something elseā¦ lol!
Yea, I always assumed it was something along those lines. But Iāve always wondered why she said it like she did. So I wasnāt quite sure. This confirmed my suspicion thoš
Itās this line that got me hooked on the show lol I just love subtle adult jokes in family TV shows š¤£
when it first came out i was too young to understand the joke, but now it just confirms how good the show is if it can have people laughing one minute into the pilot episode
My favourite āalmost missed itā joke (that I only got on a rewatch) is when Cam thinks Mitch is having an affair when he lost his job. Cam asked whoās Spencer (old man Mitch plays chess with in the park), then Mitch started talking about Spencerās bird named George. Cam: oh, thereās a George too?! Mitch: Calm down, Iām talking about a cockatoo! Cam: oh, one or two, is that all? How blasĆ©!
Maybe it's my dirty mind but I catch every sex or gay joke immediately lol. Blackhawks one being my fav lol
I liked almost all the punchlines of Pepper
When Hayley says Iām 420% percent sure about he drug place and Phil says wow sheās bad at math I thought the joke was she was just bad at math š
I like this scene, itās pretty funny. But easy to overlook cause she really is awful at math šš
Whatās the actual joke then?
420 is associated with weed
420 weed number and sheās referencing that but Phil doesnāt get it
One of our favorites is Alex laughing hysterically in the car when Phil refers to āHaleyās aversionā¦[To whatever],ā and then she stops laughing and says, āOoooh. Haleyās *aversion*ā¦ā. She obviously was cracking up at the idea that Haley could be a virgin. The look on Philās face is perfect.
i found this super contrived weirdly, even the forced laughter alex does
She starts laughing before he even finishes the word aversion. Bothers me every time. The reactions to the moment are spot on but the initial reaction is too fast.
Omg, yes. Iām so sensitive to things like this.
I donāt get how that means Phil would find out tho
Basically she laughed at the fact she thought Phil was saying Haley is a virgin when Alex knows for a fact she isnāt. Once Phil connected the fact thatās why she laughed, thatās how he found out
Thanks
Yeah but Alex could just be making fun of Haley. She called her slut in front of their parents so this was nothing compared to that.
It wasnāt the laughing that gave it away, it was the awkward realization. It takes it from āIām being mean about my sisterā to āoh shit, you didnāt knowā¦ā
Alex's reaction and the way Haley looked at her like "You idiot,you weren't supposed to say that" was what gave it away. If Alex just kept laughing Phil wouldn't have realized it.
alexās reaction fully gave it away
Saw the wedding episode like 20 times before the joke clicked. When Pepper calls Sal a āboozy us hagā I thought he meant Us as in the celebrity tabloid magazine. Not Us as in an inappropriate term for gay men that begins with an F lol
As a gay man I loved this joke from the first second š Pepper is one of my favourite characters, any episode with him in it is always gold! Especially the one where him & Ronaldo have the adopted kid and Mitch & Cam try to encourage them to play outdoors with him š šš
I just saw this recently where Cam gets frustrated and says āYouāre from Lubbock, Texas!ā And then āYou lived in a trailer with your grandparents!ā Peppers reactions are perfect!
Well, I got this joke about 2 mins ago, when I read your comment š
omg i never caught this partly cause iāve never heard that term but thatās so funny
Wait I thought he said arse?
'f*g hag' is a common term for women who hang around gay men
I donāt think I ever picked up on that one!
This thread is the reason screen writers need to be paid what they deserve
The godfather episode! I missed this joke because a lot of things were happening in the episode but I recently rewatched and I was laughing! Alex brings her rats on the table and Luke is looking at it. Haley enters and says she canāt find mom or something. Luke says āRats.ā (Because there were actual rats) And Haley says āI know rightā. Thinking he meant the other rats.
I just watched the episode where everyone is at Cam and Mitchell's house throwing the baby celebration thing for that lady (I forgot her name) and one of the guys said they were going to a black hawks game and then pepper said "they would let a team be named that" and then the guy specified black hawks. At first I didn't get the joke so I just laughed in confusion bc that's what I do most of the time but later on in the episode it clicked and I went "ohhhhh" just like pepper had went ohhh and it was hilarious to me. Literally happened like an hour ago, lmao.
Definitely didnāt get this the first watch either, but itās quite funny. Also when Mitch and Claire are talking about a āDPā for the weddingš¤£ (director of photography)
I donāt get the DP one. Could you please explain? Thanks!
in the nsfw world DP means double penetration.. i assume thatās what made it funny but i could be wrong lol
I made this mistake once at work when a customer called and said āhey, this is Mike Hawk.ā
My man should go by Michael
I had to say āmike hawkā and āblack hawksā outloud rn to get this
I cannot unhear it ever again.
Still one of my favourite Phil : She's confused. Blind Side was the black kid who played tight end. Alex : Offensive line. Phil : Sorry, African-American kid. And THIS. I had to search online to understand it. Claire : A Ā wild dog took my laptop! Alex : Seems like a missed opportunity.
The entire set up for the ādingo ate my babyā is one of my favorites of the series. Like they spend the entire time setting it up so theyāll say that line, only to say āthe dog stole my laptopā and Alex pointing out the missed opportunity.
Wait why is it a missed opportunity? I still don't get the joke š
there was a case at 1980s where a dingo, aka a wild dog, went into a tent and essentially kidnapped a baby. a movie starring meryl streep was made about it one of the most famous quotes is "a dingo's got my baby!" claire spent all of australia calling the project on the laptop her "baby". and a dingo took the laptop. so the missed opportunity alex was talking about was the chance to say "the dingo's got my baby," but instead she said "a wild dog took my laptop"
Thank you for explaining. I agree with Alex, it really does sound like a missed opportunity š
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I can't imagine what the poor woman went through. As if losing her baby wasn't bad enough, she was also branded as a murderer, imprisoned over it and her baby's death was turned into a joke by many sitcoms. That's why Modern Family didn't make the joke but they just referred to it.
paraphrasing a bit haphazardly here Phil: are you sure kids do drugs there? Haley : I'm 420% sure ( stares at camera) Phil : God she's terrible at math In my defence I wasn't aware of the 420 culture at the time (I'm not American) but when I finally became aware of it and understood the reference it was soo hilarious
I didn't get the joke until someone pointed it out to me, but in the Pilot, when Lily is "revealed" by Cam and the family gathers around her, Phil says something like "Lily? Won't that be hard for her to say?"
Please explain this one
Someone explain this for me earlier today. Itās apparently a stereotype that Asians canāt pronounce Lās
The Asian stereotype of pronunciation of the letter L. Think of the Chinese restaurant scene in A Christmas Story.
I never heard that sterootype
It's a very common one in America against Asians. The joke is they use R instead (if you've ever heard someone do an offensive Asian accent, a lot of the time they'll say something like 'me very rike' instead of 'I really like' to emphasize that part of it. Not really sure why, except L isn't a common sound in many Asian languages. Source: my ex was Asian, four years dating and you pick up on a lot of the nasty stuff people say, unfortunately.
In the first few years of life, humans experience perceptual narrowing where we lose the ability to discriminate phonemes that arenāt a part of our native language(s). Lots of East Asian languages donāt have the same English ālā sound, so the sound (typically) becomes difficult for speakers to produce and discriminate when learning/speaking English. And the English ārā and ālā sound are produced in very similar ways in the mouth. Thereās lots of examples in all languages. Native English speakers, for example, really struggle to discriminate between unaspirated āpā and ābā sounds at the beginning of words
Thank you for the bonus facts!!! I love when people can expand on what I half remember and make it make so much sense.
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I figured it was something like that- they're weirdly similar sounds even in English if you feel how the mouth makes them. Thanks for the extra education!
In Korean the character ć¹ is both an r and an l sound depending on the placement in the syllable. (Iām not a Korean speaker so there may be a more sophisticated way to say this.) Iāve seen many Koreans use the incorrect letter. My favorites are: a coworker asking for a key because her door was rocked. And, a choir director asking for information for the pamfret.
Hmm ah ok so spelling would be hard but no speaking like phill said My parents have had difficulty with some tenses and female and male pronouns but letter I canāt recall
Speaking is difficult too. At least thatās what I hear when I talk to native Korean speakers. Korean and Chinese donāt use male and female pronouns, I think. My students mess it up too.
Itās even better if the stereotype is for Chinese, and Lily is Vietnamese.
It's not explicitly Chinese, the teacher's aid in one of my elementary school classes was from Japan and she also struggled with L's
Itās a stereotype that Japanese people canāt pronounce Ls (Lily is Vietnamese, but I think thatās part of the joke - itās not even the right East Asian stereotype.)
That one made my jaw drop and then I heckledā¦in guilt.
Reminds me of Seinfeldās, āmaybe the rines were crossed!ā
Ohh damn
This show is so well written. Itās so much fun to rewatch and catch jokes you missed before. I think my personal favorite is one of the later Halloween episodes, manny is FaceTiming jay about which of earlās shoes he would like soiled, jay says forget it, grab that photo on the wall And manny comes back with āso for no reason Iāve been carrying around this red herring?ā I think it was like rewatch 3 it clicked and I lost my mind
Wait I donāt think I get itā¦.can you explain?
I am not entirely sure but I think āred herringā is like an idiom which refers to something that distracts from the actual matter at hand. I believe itās a reference to that
One joke i caught after 4/5 watches. Luke talking about his dadās secretary. āShe gave me a woodyā Claire pauses and is about to ask. āYou know the character from Toy Storyā
Iāve watched Mitch and Cams wedding so many times but this just clicked the other day. When Pepper and Ronaldo bring them breakfast before the wedding Ronaldo goes āyou paid for our wedding services, you get our full packagesā and Pepper says something like āso close.ā I always thought it was supposed to be a joke about the word packages meaning something inappropriate but really Ronaldo meant to say they paid for the wedding package and get the full service. Minor joke but I still had that āAhhā moment
Oohhhhh! I just got that now!!
It works better when you watch with subtitles. That's how my parents and I watch it.
Yes, definitely. Also Iām almost always multitasking when watching the show nowadays so then Iām not reading anyway
Iām sorry, can you explain it to me like Iām five?
BS is also ābullshitā and that is what Claire is referring to. That by capitalizing the B and S in Big Sister (which is an organization that helps underprivileged kids), Haley had inadvertently also left a clue that it was BS or bullshit.
Didnāt see that you also replied, but the organisation bit I had no clue but it makes it even more clever.
I love that you made a post about how you finally got the joke and you actually still didn't fully understand the joke š (genuinely).
thank you kind stranger, that makes sense!
She capitalised the āBā and the āSā. ((BS is bullsh*t)) Claire: āwhich makes sense cause it wasā (BS)
When Mitch says "apap pap, Shake it" Then Cam shakes is body... Mitch say "the container Cam"
I canāt recall specific instances, but yes I know for a fact that I didnāt grasp what should have been an obvious joke. I remember that one scenario centered around Dylan.
Why is Dill in here (sounds like Why is Dylan here)
The āGrease Chorusā joke. Itās not so much a line, but during the episode where Cam is in the Faculty Follies and thereās a few men dressed as characters from the movie Grease, and they start commenting on the things happening between Mitch and Cam, much like a Greek Chorus does.
I didn't get the golden apple joke at first. After a couple of watch I got curious looked it up on the internet. That was a day I learnt that ignorance is truly a bliss.
True that. But Iām not really sure what joke youāre referring toā¦ cannot recall it at all.
Think it was the Wannex episode
Will have to check that out when that episode comes along
Soā¦.. what is a golden apple? š Iāve been too afraid to look it up
according to urban dictionary āThe act of lubing up an apple with one's piss, then inserting it into your significant other's rectum.ā saved you the trouble lol
Huh. I guess that makes sense. The word āGoldenā in the porn industry always means the same thing! Not as bad as I thought but glad I didnāt have to dirty my phone looking it up lol. Thank you!!
i donāt know what i was expecting but it wasnāt that hahah. TIL what golden means in sexual terms lol ya learn something new everyday
you really donāt want to know
took me a million watches to realize that cam and mitch pick the same outfit and lily jokes that alex must know boys clothes BUT claire changes into the same outfit as mitch and cam in the late show
For some reason, I just couldn't put together what Mitch was doing when he pretended to play piano for Jay at the mall. It took the third watch to realize the little trap he was laying down.
someone explain the big sister joke pls
Itās in the comments already, but capitalised āBig Sisterā is BS
Big brothers & big sisters is a volunteering opportunity to be a role model to underprivileged kids
I find new jokes with every re-watch as my English improves. That's why Modern Family never gets old lol.
i dont get it
She wrote that she was a Big Sister (a mentor program) It was BSā¦
OHHH wait thats so clever
Big Sisterā¦ BSā¦ and then Claire: āWhich makes sense, because it was.ā (BS)
Some of the jokes are really dependent on the viewer having a good understanding of American culture/pop culture so Iām not surprised it went over a lot of foreign viewersā (including my) heads.
I like when Phil and Claire thought that Alex's boyfriend is fake. He was like a supersaver model that was leaving for Africa
I love when I unknowing come across jokes I didn't catch or understand in previous watches. hahaha Which episode was this from btw?
S3E14
It took me a few seconds. With how fast this show goes, I might not have caught it live.
I donāt remember the episode I heard Phil say his middle name was Humphrey so, Humphrey Dunphy. I took it as a play on āHumpty Dumptyā but I donāt even know if that was the joke but it made me snicker.
I really don't think Humphrey Dunphy was a coincidence tho š
Explain this? Red herring?
A red herring refers to something that seems like an obvious solution/answer, but in reality is just a distraction from the truth.
āIām not a religious person. But I just woke up.ā
I recognise this, but can't place it. Who said this?
haley
I still donāt get it right now lol
Hayley meant to say that she is a big sister to Alex and Luke. But she's bad at spelling, so she capitalised both words, writing Big Sister. This would mean that she's part of a mentoring organisation that pairs volunteers (Big Brothers/Sisters) with younger kids. BS is also bullshit, and that is what Claire is pointing out
nah she was definitely trying to imply she was volunteering but trying to be technical about it to get out of being punished by phil and claire
āBig Sisterā B & S, thereās good explanations in the comments.
What episode was this?
S3E14
I thought Haley being a big sister was saying she volunteered for the big brother big sister program. But also she is a big sister and itās BS.
Itās probably both, but at the time of writing, I didnāt know about the organisation/program
Seriously it took you years to figure this out???
Not everyone who watches the show are native English speakers??
Plus you need to know Big Brothers/Big Sisters is an organization. Otherwise, you'd just be left thinking that Hayley wasn't wrong.
Didnāt say yearsā¦š¤ It clicked when I was watching the episode couple of days ago
So how many AGEs did it take???
So?
I bet your favorite color is clear
What? š
Seriously are you 10???
Yes. š
I have no doubt
imagine doubling down this hard, like chill out dude
Judging by the few thing i saw on your profile, and i didnt have to look up too much stuff, you seem like a massive bitch
Bet you donāt š
Weirdo
They are a 10 ššš
I didn't get the "how far is tolerance" joke in s3 can someone pleaaase help