Blasts from the Past is the twelfth episode from Season 10 of Modern Family, it aired on January 16, 2019.
Plot Summary
Phil and Claire decide to take a cycling tour through Italy before they become grandparents, and Dylan introduces them to his mom who has an interesting past. Meanwhile, Cameron and Mitchell discover some interesting reading material in Lily's room and decide to confront her about it, while Gloria and Jay discover their respective great uncles may have fought on opposing sides of a war.[1]
Main Cast
(The characters struck out do not appear in this episode)
- Jay Pritchett
- Gloria Pritchett
- Manny Delgado
- Joe Pritchett
- Claire Dunphy
- Phil Dunphy
- Haley Dunphy
Alex DunphyLuke Dunphy- Mitchell Pritchett
- Cameron Tucker
- Lily Tucker-Pritchett
Guest Starring
- Reid Ewing as Dylan
- Rachel Bay Jones as Farrah
- Josie Kaye as Gretchen
- Bryan Lillis as Gym Trainer
- London Fuller as Janice
- Sedona Fuller as Betty
Trivia
- This is Haley's 200th episode.
- Alex and Luke are absent in this episode though Alex is mentioned by Claire.
- Phil and Claire speak italian. Julie Bowen in real life is fluent in italian.
Continuity
- This episode was broadcasted exactly six years after "Party Crasher".
- With this episode, we have seen or heard at least one family member of each Haley's boyfriend. Andy's cousin called him in Double Click, Rainer's daughter showed up in The Alliance and Haley met Arvin's parents in The Escape. Dylan's nephew in She Crazy does not count as he was only mentioned.
- Dylan's stepdaughter reappear from Alone Time.
- This marks the second episode after The Alliance in which a trip to Italy is planned and the second episode after Me? Jealous? in which we see a character kissing anybody in the mouth.
- This is also the second episode in which a Pritchett Tucker practices gym after The Alliance as well as the second episode in which Manny and Gloria both share an interview scene since The Feud and the second episode since Sarge & Pea in which a parent appears on a sexy videoclip though this time it is not a regular character.
Cultural References
- Uncle Erasmus died at the Battle of the Alamo (1836)
- Great-Uncle Albero was Frida Kahlo's tango instructor and was shot at by Florence Nightingale
- Cam calls The X-Files a dumbed-down Men in Black
- Pepper admires the guy who appears on Brawny paper towels
- Claire drinks a flaming Sambuca
- Jennifer Aniston stayed at the hotel and the Little Rascals had orgies at the hotel
Reviews
- TV Fanatic gave it 3.5 / 5.0
- The AV Club gave it "B+" -- “Blast From The Past” is the kind of episode this season could use more of. Some of the stuff with Dylan’s mother doesn’t work, relying too much on hokey jokes about hippie-type mothers, but it’s largely a nice break from the overbearing, though well-handled, seriousness of previous episodes.