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Legacy is the eleventh episode from Season 11 of Modern Family, it will air on January 15, 2020.

Plot Summary

Phil pays a visit to his dad to make sure he is ok after hearing some concerning news about him. Meanwhile, Jay gives Claire and Mitch a bunch of their old childhood memorabilia that triggers them to reevaluate a long-held story about their first family vacation.[1]


Episode Description

Phil goes to visit his dad in Florida and has fun with him, by reparing a car, meeting a couple who picks them up and cutting Frank's hair. Phil asks Frank why he and Gracie did not want an another child and Frank says it is because Phil is special. Frank then dies and Phil pays him an hommage during which Claire and Mitchell who spent almost the entire episode in Jay's garage trying to prove that their dad wasn't right about everything.

Through phone, Margaret helps them to realize that Jay was a bartender who paid the others for their ideas. Meanwhile, Jay wants to initiate Joe to dogbeds sale but Joe seems to be a better sailer than him. He even manages to buy a second dog which pleases Gloria.

Gloria and Cam have both contradictory thoughts about Manny's reconciliation with his former crush and help one another Gloria with a teacher whose Cam dislikes and Cam with a rival who tries to sabotage Gloria's sale.


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 (Haley Marshall)
  • Alex Dunphy
  • Luke Dunphy
  • Mitchell Pritchett
  • Cameron Tucker
  • Lily Tucker-Pritchett
  • Dylan Marshall

Guest Starring

  • Fred Willard as Frank Dunphy
  • Marsha Kramer as Margaret
  • Paula Marshall as Beverly
  • Hayley Erin as Brenda Feldman
  • Siobhan Murphy as Fiancee
  • Todd Giebenham as Fiance
  • Melissa Greenspan as Debra
  • Eddie Alfano as Lon
  • Diego Parada as Carlos
  • Marty Ryan as Don
  • Nicole Sun as homebuyer
  • Andrew Flory as Ronald
  • Daniela Sommers Espinosa as Sue
  • Danielle Griffin as Dog Owner
  • Sheila Shaw as Freida

Trivia

  • Haley, Alex, Luke and Dylan are absent in this episode. For the three formers, it's been odd since Frank is their gramps.
    • With this, this episode has an absence reversion from Snapped in which they appeared, but Manny, Lilly and Joe did not.

Continuity

  • This episode aired exactly six years after Under Pressure.
  • Margaret's 13th episode though she is only heard.
  • Frank's 14th episode. It's also his final appearance.
  • Part of this episode revolves around a legacy, which also has been the subject of episodes Goodnight Gracie, Good Grief and Putting Down Roots.
  • Brenda returns from Pilot.
  • With this episode, every kid has been absent one time at least, during a granddad or grandmom's passing as Goodnight Gracie did not feature Lilly and as in Good Grief Manny and Joe were absent.
  • This is the third episode in which none of the Dunphy kids appear after Las Vegas and Valentine's Day 4: Twisted Sister.
  • No mention of Lorraine and Ray at all in this episode though they were Frank's new wife and stepson in Frank's Wedding.

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