- Cam's sister comes to town with good news, Phil and Claire agree to skip Luke's soccer game, Gloria refuses to admit she needs glasses, and Alex thinks Jay is cheating at Words With Friends.
- When Cameron's older sister comes for a visit, he struggles to find a way to tell her about his engagement, but he's not the only one with surprising news. Meanwhile, Phil and Claire make a pact to miss Luke's soccer game until one of them can't live with the guilt; and Gloria refuses to believe she may need reading glasses.—Anonymous
- Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) would love it to stay in bed on Saturday mornings, especially since Claire now works during the week. However, Luke (Nolan Gould) has all-day soccer tournaments on Saturdays that he has to go to...so he can sit on the bench. Phil and Claire hope to talk to him and get him to say they don't have to go. Which didn't take as much arm-twisting as they expected. Claire would have felt guilty, only she had a ton of errands to do and Phil had to clean out the gutters with a device he just puts in there and it cleans them out. (He calls it the gutter-done.) He was quite proud of it. (PHIL: You know how many times you've seen me fall off this ladder? Well, now it will happen less.) The gutter robot clearner gutter-done alright. The spinning blades, meant only to get out leaves and gunk, also evicted a bird's nest from the gutter and the eggs still in it. Phil was devastated...as were Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Alex (Ariel Winter), who had to witness it.
Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) were preparing the house for Cam's sister, Pamela, to arrive from the farm. And when I say prepare, I mean get rid of any evidence the two were about to get married because Cameron suspected Pamela wouldn't take the news well at all. Particularly when Pam comes in without her trunk (of clothes, that was mean what you were thinking!) and tells the guys the little girl she used to babysit was about to have twins. Cam decided they would just say the good news was they were getting a new dryer...which still depressed Pam a bit. Of course, it would help if Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) had been on-board with the lying, as she blurted out Mitch and Cam were getting married. But Pam took it quite well, even lifting Mitchell in the air. She had no reason to be unhappy, since she had great news herself. She was engaged. (Mitch tried to lift her in the air, but you've seen what Cam looks like, so...) She was marrying Bo Johnson, who was Cam's childhood crush. Cam thought he might have been marrying Pam to get drilling rights to the land she owned, but she took quite the offense to that, saying Bo had enough land where he didn't need hers. Pam said Cameron was the one who couldn't hack it on the farm and whom everyone had to walk on eggshells near because he didn't take bad news well. And Mitchell got his first taste of what it was like to break up two siblings that could form their own tag team for the WWE.
While Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez) tried to convince Gloria (Sofía Vergara) she needed glasses by faking Jay eating rat poison and having her read the box (she couldn't), Claire was on a hot streak doing errands. In fact, she caught every possible break there was, so she still had time to make most of Luke's soccer games. (CLAIRE: It was a karmic bitch-slap.) But that turned out to be not the case. Not only was Luke playing, he was scoring goals like he was Beckham (and even got to see a Posh-Spice looking soccer player not wearing a bra, so he was having a good day). Claire apologized to Luke for missing it but got him to promise not to boast of his great game to Phil. Or that she showed up, for that matter. Phil, who was still distraught over killing those baby birds with the gutter cleaning robot, couldn't even bear to hear the word bird mentioned at all. Cameron, meanwhile, couldn't let it go that Pam thought he was the weepy one of the family, so he put everybody on the spot and demanded to know if he ever got overly-emotional, and that everybody walks on eggshells around him. (PHIL: eggshells...) Claire admitted he wouldn't react well to finding out he cancelled lunch on her last week and she met Beyoncé at the restaurant. Cam keeps it in, but Manny tells him he overuses the word 'divine.' Jay threw out the blue rotary phone Cam got him for Christmas because it made him feel like Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie (1963). (PHIL: WHY?!?) Haley didn't like his shirts with the crazy cuffs. (CAMERON: I'm sorry, could you push your boobs down because I didn't hear you.) Cameron was off to lock himself in the bathroom before Lily got her shots in. Mitchell went to comfort him, saying he may have difficulty with bad news, but everyone always wants to share good news with him because he would always appreciate it. And Pam told him the same thing. Of course, brother and sister made up.
As for Gloria, she finally relented on the glasses when Jay said he worried about her and apologized for bringing up that he can't hear. She tried on the glasses and noticed a lot of wrinkles on Jay's face she never saw before. So he would live with her eyesight, and she would live with his hearing.
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