Showing posts with label Modern Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Family. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

OUT on DVD: Modern Family the Complete Fourth Season - Top 10 Phil-isms


As cute as he is clueless, Phil Dunphy brings the laughs with every episode of Modern Family. An entire book could probably be created just from the hilarious things he says (oh wait, there’s that fantastic Phil’s-osophy book). Take a look below at the Top 10 Phil-isms.

1. “Always keep the rhythm in your feet and a little party in your shoulders.”

2. “When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like ‘Whaaat?!’”

3. “If you love something, set it free… unless it’s a tiger.”

4. “I always felt bad for people with emotionally distant fathers; it turns out I’m one of them. It’s a miracle I didn’t end up a stripper.”

5. “I’ve always said that if my son thinks of me as one of his idiot friends, I’ve succeeded as a dad.”

6. “The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you, if you just lower your expectations”

7. “Claire likes to say ‘you can be part of the problem or part of the solution.’ But, I happen to believe you can be both.”

8. “I am brave. Roller coasters? Love 'em. Scary movies? I've seen Ghostbusters like 7 times. I regularly drive through neighborhoods that have only recently been gentrified. So yeah I am pretty much not afraid of anything.”

9. “Always look people in the eye, even if they’re blind. Just say ‘I’m looking you in the eye.’”

10. “A Realtor's just a ninja in a blazer. The average burglar breaks in and leaves clues everywhere. But not me. I'm completely clueless.”



Modern Family: Season 4 will arrive in stores September 17,  courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.






Monday, May 20, 2013

The Advocate’s Summer of Love Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Each summer The Advocate celebrates the reasons to have Pride. For many, including the magazine’s June/July cover star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 2013 will be the “Summer of Love.” The Emmy-nominated Modern Family star recently sat down with The Advocate’s Jase Peeples to discuss setting a new standard for LGBT visibility on TV, growing up gay in New Mexico, and how a run-in with the law at a young age helped shape his role as Modern Family’s Mitchell.

“I feel like there are a lot of people who still aren’t comfortable with gay characters on television,” Ferguson tells The Advocate. But what I admire about our show is that it has a plethora of characters for people to attach to, and slowly those people are becoming attached to Mitchell and Cameron as well. It’s kind of like a Trojan horse. We sneak into a lot of people’s living rooms when they aren’t expecting it and maybe change some minds through the back door.”

Despite the progress that Modern Family has made in bringing gay families to the mainstream, Ferguson says he’s received complaints that the show’s gay couple isn’t a positive representation of LGBT people. “We’re always coming up against the criticism that our characters are stereotypical and don’t represent what it is to be gay,” Ferguson says. “But my argument has always been, I know so many people who are just like Mitchell and Cam, and so many people who are nothing like them. We’re representing a very specific couple in gay America and do not represent the entire gay community with those characters.”

Ferguson’s Modern Family character has become a positive pop culture icon for millions of young gay men to admire. Growing up in Albuquerque, however, Ferguson, now 37, thought any positive depictions of gays in pop culture seemed like fiction. By the time he entered high school he turned to the only representation of his sexuality he could find.

“I was caught stealing gay porn when I was 14,” Ferguson remembers with laughter in his voice. “I walked through the metal detector, the buzzers went off, and when they asked me if I had anything, I lifted up my shirt and there was [an issue of] Black Inches.” After a deep breath he strikes a more serious tone and says, “It was handled in a completely inappropriate way, with no tact from the store. They called up my parents and then showed them the nature of the material I’d stolen. I was horrified! I look back and think, How did I survive that humiliation?”

Today, however, that memory serves as a reminder that his work on Modern Family is about far more than entertainment. “[Mitchell] is a character that I play with dignity and one that I think has helped change the landscape of what it means to be gay in America right now,” he says. “Certainly, it’s provided a dialogue and a pop culture touchstone for a lot of people.”

Saturday, October 9, 2010

It Gets Better: Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet of 'Modern Family'


'Modern Family's' Cam and Mitchell for Dan Savage's 'It Gets Better' project. - via Jezebel