Modern Family (TV Series)

When a Tree Falls (2012)

Ariel Winter: Alex Dunphy

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• Alex Dunphy : Last summer, my sister took a totally humiliating photo of me. Then she posted it to Facebook and refused to take it down. It got 873 likes. Meanwhile, there's not one embarrassing photo of Haley. Even her mug shots were cute. Today, I get my revenge. One photo of Haley, dirty, sweaty, picking up trash like a criminal. It'll be my finest moment. In a few years, I hope to have some more friends and not have time for this kind of stuff.

• Haley Dunphy : Alex, what are you doing here?

  Alex Dunphy : Learning a valuable lesson about karma and how wrong it is to take pleasure in people's embarrassment.

  Haley Dunphy : Wow. I don't know what any of that means, but you look like hell.

  [taking a picture with her phone] 

  Haley Dunphy : Say "geek."

  Alex Dunphy : No!

  Haley Dunphy : [pointing to the guy she's with]  He's a vandalizer!

  Alex Dunphy : [in testimonial interviews]  593 likes and counting.

• Alex Dunphy : I had about ten pretty bad pictures of Haley. I could have quit right there, but I'm a perfectionist. I thought, "I could do better. She could look worse."

  [as she takes pictures, she's startled by a passing car honking its horn and she drops her phone down a sewer grate] 

  Alex Dunphy : Oh, my god.

• Claire Dunphy : Haley! Hurry up! You're gonna be late. Alex, what are you doing?

  Alex Dunphy : I need to document Haley's first day on the chain gang.

  Phil Dunphy : It's not a chain gang. It's community service. And leave her alone. She feels bad enough as it is.

  Haley Dunphy : [entering]  Okay, I'm torn. On one hand, I'm like, "Ugh, I have to pick up garbage all day." And on the other hand, I'm like, "Look at me in orange."

  [Alex takes a picture] 

  Haley Dunphy : Aw, that's cute. Send that to me.

• Luke Dunphy : [Luke improvised a shiv for her]  It's really sweet of you, Luke, but there's just gonna be a bunch of drunk drivers and vandalizers who were stupid enough to get caught.

  Alex Dunphy : Or stupid enough to use the word "vandalizers".

  [blank stares] 

  Alex Dunphy : It's "vandals".

  Claire Dunphy : Oh.

  Phil Dunphy : Oh.

  Alex Dunphy : I'm so alone.

  Luke Dunphy : [roaring to scare Haley, she, Claire, and Alex jump]  They're gonna eat you alive, suburbia.