My main issue with this episode is that the Cam and Mitch subplot is lifted directly from a main plot of a season 9 episode of King of the Hill, where a woman comes to see her old house that the Jill's now live in, only to tell them she wants to die in it. This isn't the first time Modern Family has stolen from KOTH either. The entire running gag of Jay being obsessed with his dog is the same running gag that King of the Hill has been doing with Hank and Ladybird since the beginning. Mitch and Cam storylines are insufferable. All they do is bicker and whine about each other, lie to each other, and do things behind each other's back, and are astoundingly negligent parents to Lily. If the writers want me to hate them, they've done a great job.
Besides that, the weak attempt at character development for Gloria and Manny is pathetic. This is character development that should have happened in season 3-4. Manny has been turned into a caricature of himself, like most of the characters. It should not take 10 seasons of television for a character to develop. The writers have a serious problem with not being able to let these characters grow and change. At the end of every episode the characters usually learn a lesson about themselves, and yet by the next one, they've reverted back to who they were, as if they learned nothing.
All in all, the show is clearly phoning in this last season. Half the jokes are so lazy or not in character that you'd think it was written by someone who never saw the show.
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