Lily Tucker-Pritchett

Full Name

Lily Elizabeth Tucker-Pritchett

Also Known As

Sweet Pea, Liliana (by Gloria)
Jenny, Lucy (by Mitchell and Cameron
on sleeping meds and Dylan)
Lil, Princess, Yoko, General Tsour, Happy face emoji
(by Sal)
Linda (by Mitchell and Cameron)
Lizbo (by Cam)
Baby Girl (by Jay)

Gender

Female

Origin

January 7, 2008
Ðà Lạt, Vietnam (aged 16)

Occupation

Student

Family

Mitchell Pritchett - Adoptive Father
Cameron Tucker - Adoptive Father
Rexford Tucker-Pritchett - Adoptive Brother
Larry - Pet
Phil Dunphy - Adoptive Uncle-in-Law
Claire Dunphy - Adoptive Aunt
Jay Pritchett - Adoptive Grandfather
DeDe Pritchett † - Adoptive Grandmother
Gloria Pritchett - Adoptive Step-Grandmother
Manny Delgado - Adoptive Step-Uncle
Joe Pritchett - Adoptive Half-Uncle
Haley Marshall - Adoptive Cousin
Alex Dunphy - Adoptive Cousin
Luke Dunphy - Adoptive Cousin
George Marshall - Adoptive First Cousin once removed
Poppy Marshall - Adoptive First Cousin once removed
Dylan Marshall - Adoptive Cousin-in-law
Merle Tucker - Adoptive Grandfather
Barb Tucker - Adoptive Grandmother
Pam Tucker - Adoptive Aunt
Mauria Tucker - Adoptive Aunt
Paul Tucker - Adoptive Uncle(s)
Calhoun Johnson - Adoptive Cousin
Mr. Pritchett - Adoptive Great-grandfather
Mrs. Pritchett - Adoptive Great-grandmother

Seasons

S1 - S2 - S3 - S4 - S5 - S6 - S7 - S8 - S9 - S10 - S11

Lily Elizabeth Tucker-Pritchett is Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker's adopted Vietnamese daughter. She is the older adoptive sister of Rexford Jason Tucker-Pritchett and the co-owner of Larry.

Lily was born in Vietnam on January 7, 2008 and was adopted as a baby by Mitch and Cam in September 2009. Mitchell originally wanted to wait to tell the extended family that they had adopted Lily. However, Cameron knew that Mitchell would shy away from introducing her forever, so he plans a surprise dinner where he introduces the baby in a Lion King manner. The whole family welcome her with open arms.

Lily was cared for by a group of Vietnamese women while she was in the orphanage, which was revealed in, "Fears". It is unknown if she was cared for before this, but her parents either died or abandoned her. In "Open House of Horrors", Lily believed her birth Mom was a princess due to Mitchell telling her so, when he was very sleepy, believing she would let it go but didn't. So, Cameron and Mitch have to reveal to 3 year old Lily, that they don't know who or where her mother is.

As a baby, Lily was a constant center of attention, being the youngest of the Tucker-Pritchett family. Cameron becomes a stay-at-home Dad with Lily, while Mitchell goes to work. Lily is a sophisticated young woman.

She is at times, doing activities with both of her fathers, but remains with her father, Cam at home while Mitchell works. Cameron often dressed her up as celebrities when she was a baby, such as Diana Ross, Madonna, and Ray Charles for the purpose of taking photographs. Cameron and Mitchell attempted to practice the Ferber method on Lily but Cameron can't resist catering to her during the night. According to Cam, Lily liked the movie Scarface. Another noticeable thing about Lily is that in most episodes she appears in she is seen with "Doggy", her stuffed dog, which appears to be a Labrador. She was a quiet and peaceful baby when portrayed by infants Ella and Jaden Hiller, and does not speak for the first two seasons.

In later seasons, Lily becomes a bubbly toddler with a snarkiness she seems to get from her parents as well as her aunt Claire, who often babysits her, this was revealed in "Fulgencio". Even at a young age, Lily has shown kindness and selflessness, such as when she ran to get Joe as his pirate castle collapses ("Integrity") and when she gives her Puppy Pound toy to a homeless boy for Christmas ("The Old Man & the Tree"). Although, in "Crying Out Loud", her parents express how they have noticed Lily has not developed a sense of empathy so far, but, this may be due to the fact that she tends to display snarkiness more than empathy.

Lily is a hilarious, entertaining, and charming character with a sassy personality. In "Little Bo Bleep", Lily is heard saying the F-word multiple times in front of a congregation solely for the purpose of making her daddy laugh hysterically. Lily quickly picks up on words or phrases said by other people, including from her aunt, Claire Dunphy. In the episode "Fulgencio", Lily repeats snarky and sarcastic lines originally said by Claire, who had been spending time with her.

In Season 3 Lily is no longer played by babies Ella & Jaden Hiller, but instead by bubbly preschooler Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. She now begins to talk and becomes a full-fledged character. She is vocal about not wanting a new baby brother, but instead, a kitten named Larry which they adopt. She is shown to have some other faults typical of toddlers, such as difficulty with sharing.

She has had a petty rivalry with Luke and Manny because of this, until Joe is born in "Party Crasher".

Physical Appearance (as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons)[]

Lily has olive skin, black-brown long waist-length curly hair, and black eyes. She is bi-ethnic.

Mishaps with Lily[]

There have been several occasions in which Lily has been involved with and/or caused a problem during an episode:

The Bicycle Thief
Lily seems behind, so Mitchell "steals another child's intellectual property", as he puts it, before realizing all playdates are recorded.
Run for Your Wife
Cameron has finally convinced Mitchell to dance with Lily. But Mitchell accidentally hits Lily's head on a door jamb when he throws her up in the air. After quite a bit of fussing, more by her fathers than by herself, Mitchell and Cam finally decide to take her into the doctor. It turned out Lily was fine, but it wasn't long before the next little incident occurred.
Hawaii
During a Hawaiian vacation, Mitch and Cam get into an argument that continues when they leave the elevator – and neither of them pushes the baby carriage out with them. Luckily Gloria finds a run-away Lily on the first floor.

Planes, Trains and Cars
Mitchell and Cameron lose Lily's favorite stuffed bunny on the subway. She keeps Mitchell and Cameron up all night and they try to tell her that her bunny went to a magical land and to sleep with a different stuffed animal, which doesn't work either.
Little Bo Bleep
Lily discovers that cursing (particularly using the F-word) can elicit laughter from her Daddy, so she repeatedly drops the F-bomb as Cam and Mitch try to teach her not to say it. The episode culminates with Lily loudly shouting the F-bomb while she is a flower girl at a wedding.
Disneyland
It is revealed that Lily is a "runner", meaning that Lily will sometimes just run off, leaving her Daddy and Dad to try and look for her. Cam and Mitch try to keep her from straying from the family but it is to no avail; she dashes off at every opportunity, much faster than her Daddy and Dad can catch her. Finally, Cam resorts to putting a leash on her, though Mitchell can feel other parents judging her. Their parenting problem is solved when Jay buys Lily a pair of baby high heels, in which she has no choice but to walk her way along slowly and carefully.

Party Crasher
She is shown to be favoring Mitchell and Cam goes out of his way to win back her affection. She is accidentally injured several times in this episode by Cam.
Career Day
Lily waits up for the tooth fairy and causes Cam to accidentally leave her quite a bit more money than he planned. Cam and Mitch pull out all the stops to get it back.
The Future Dunphys
Lily announces to her parents and Gloria that she is gay because she thinks that since both of her parents are gay, she is automatically gay as well. Later in the episode, it is discovered that she says this because of her desire to be more like her parents.

Spring-a-Ding-Fling
Jay and Gloria were watching Lily. However, when Gloria’s phone breaks, they think Lily did it. She never admits she did it, Jay and Gloria were suspicious that she was lying. After a bit, Jay and Gloria deduced that Lily may have a big lying problem. She even said Joe was walking when to their prior knowledge, he couldn't. They have been trying to get him to walk because he was a little behind his age group. To their surprise, Joe did walk to Lily and she got away with it.

The Party
Lily (with the bribe of as much Soda she could drink), Luke and Manny throw a party the same night Phil and Mitch are given some gummy bears with weed/THC in them at a movie premiere from a friend. Both Claire and Gloria are out together. Leaving Manny and Luke to watch over Lily. Phil and Mitch just ate the gummy bears just as the alert from his and Claire's security system went off. Indicating that there was a fire but the alarm stopped immediately afterward so Phil thought nothing of it. Claire insists that the boys are up to no good seeing as they were so insistent on getting them out of the house. Gloria calls Manny to prove her wrong and he tells her that they burnt the cookies they were baking. Since Manny never lies to Gloria, she believed him. Luke yells at Manny that the house's oven is broken. Claire informs Gloria of this and concludes that there is a party. Claire calls Phil and he, the girls and Mitchell all go to the Dunphy house to investigate. Lily hides the kids at the party with her in one of the rooms, making sure they are quiet while the parents are in the house.

Season Summaries[]

Season 1
In "Pilot", Cameron and Mitchell bring Lily home on a plane for the first time. They announced Lily to their family, and Cameron makes big presentation for Lily using "Circle of Life" from Lion King, and the family crow around her, accepting her. In "The Bicycle Thief", Mitch and Cam take Lily to a Babies and Toddlers Club, but Mitch begins to worry when she isn't excelling at the same rate as the other kids. In "Run for Your Wife", Cam dresses up Lily to pose for as various pop icons. Mitch becomes uptight about baby proofing and then rushes to go to work. Cam makes him stay behind to dance with Lily to reduce stress. Mitch being to lift Lily up, and accidentally bangs her head. They end up going to a doctor, who tells them Lily is okay. In "Undeck the Halls", Lily experiences her first Christmas. In "Up All Night", Cam and Mitch try to sleep train Lily, while Cam finds it harder than Mitch. In "Fears", when Cam invites Lily's pediatrician over for dinner, she begins saying "Mommy". This upsets Cam, and Mitch tries to calm him down. They later find out, that when they squeeze Lily's doll, it says "Mommy", so it wasn't her first word.

Season 2
In "Caught in the Act", Lily goes on her first play-date with Jackson, due to her parents wanting to get a favor out of Jackson's mother. In "Princess Party", Lily turns 1 years old, and has a princess themed party. In "Two Monkeys and a Panda", it is revealed that Lily's birth name is Lily Tucker Pritchett, without a hyphen between her to fathers last names, making Tucker her middle name and not a joined last name. Mitchell states that he was afraid that Cam would freak out and leave them, this angers Cam and Mitchell files to get it changed. In "Someone to Watch Over Lily", Cameron and Mitchell decide that Gloria will be the one to become a guardian to Lily if anything fatal happens to them.

Season 3
In "When Good Kids Go Bad", Lily begins to show signs of aggression over sharing. When Cam and Mitch want to adopt another baby, Lily shows that she does not want a sibling, and does not want to share her dads. Cam admits he coddles her and begins to be more strict, Mitch realizes that he has sharing issues and tries to hash them out. In "Express Christmas", Lily, Mitchell and Alex go shopping for a Christmas tree. In "Little Bo Bleep", Mitch and Cam prepare Lily for a wedding, but they find out that Lily has begun to use profanity to make Cam laugh. Lily is instructed to stay mute for the entire wedding. However, when Cam begins crying at the ceremony, she uses profanity and all the wedding guests laugh. In "Disneyland", Lily begins to start running, the problem being that she begins to run away from Mitch and Cam all the time. To go to Disneyland, Mitch and Cam buy a leash to put her on to control her speed. They can feel others judging them so Jay puts her in shoes that she can barely walk in.

Season 4
In "Bringing Up Baby", Lily petitions that if she can't get a sibling yet, she wants a cat named Larry. Mitch and Cam try to adopt one but find the process is too thorough and stop. Later on, they tell the family they are thinking about adopting a cat. In "Schooled", it's Lily's first day of kindergarten. Lily gets her hair pulled by a boy and Cam stands up for her but gets in trouble for it. He and Mitch attend a meeting with the principle and the boy's parents, who turn out to be lesbians. Mitch invites them over, but Cam and Pam passively bicker. Pam and her partner decide to get their son and leave. However, Lily and Connor have locked themselves in her room because Lily doesn't want Connor to leave. Their parents give them food and let Connor stay in exchange for unlocking the door. In "The Butler's Escape", Lily and Mitchell go shopping for the first time. Mitchell has difficulties in handling Lily and the household, something that is usually Cam's expertise. In "Open House of Horrors", Mitchell reveals that he told Lily that her biological mother is a princess while they were both really tired, thinking she would forget about it. However, she didn't and demands her Halloween costume is a princess to be like her mom. Mitch later reveals to Cam what he said and they both inform Lily gently that they don't know about her mother.

In "Party Crasher", Lily proposes to Mitchell to get married. Mitch gets worried but then reads online it's a phase some children go through with their parent. However, it bothers Cam that Lily did not chose Cameron to be her fake husband. The next day, Cam has prepared a fake wedding for him and Lily and bought her a toy car, although Lily is not as into it and just wants to drive her toy car but has an accident in it that takes her to the emergency room. In "Fulgencio", Cam and Mitch become worried about Lily's attitude when she becomes snarky. Much later, they realize that Claire has been accidentally teaching her to be sarcastic and critical while driving her to dance class all week. In "The Future Dunphys", Lily tells Gloria that she is gay, they have a sit down with Mitch and Cam to talk. They figure out that Lily thinks she's gay because her daddies are so she inherits it, they inform her that her heritage is Vietnamese and that gay is a sexuality. As Mitch and Cam know pretty much nothing about Vietnamese culture, Gloria proposes they go to a Vietnamese restaurant. Lily is adamant that she hates Vietnam. When Gloria states that children should learn about their culture, otherwise they grow out of it and stick to American culture, Mitchell realizes that Lily wanted to feel more like her fathers. They hash it out and he informs her that she is very like her daddies because she caused a scene in a restaurant.

In "Career Day", Lily waits up for stuff from the tooth fairy when she loses her first tooth. They manage to give her stuff, but Cam makes a mistake: he gave her $100 instead of $5 in the middle of the night. When they fail to make Lily give the $100 back to the "tooth fairy", they enlist Haley for help. However, Lily understands that Haley is the tooth fairy and can't be tricked. Haley stops being the tooth fairy and persuades Lily by saying that it might put her on the naughty list consequently receiving no presents. At night, she puts it back under her pillow for the tooth fairy. In "Games People Play", Lily comes in first place at her gymnastics recital, and Mitch's support for her also develops into rooting for the other kids to fail, which makes both Mitch and Cam look bad.

Season 5
In "First Days", Lily attends her first day of grade school, after she's done Mitchell takes her to his work place and she pretend works the role of his assistant. In "Larry's Wife", Cam tells Lily that Larry got married and went to be with his wife, but when he turn up and Cam lies that Larry's wife died so he came back. Cam states that they should give Larry closure by throwing a funeral for his wife. In "Farm Strong", Cam realizes that people keep secrets from him that they believe he can't handle, he asks everyone to tell him secrets and Lily is among those to tell him that sometimes she fakes sleeping so that he'll stop reading to her at night and leave, which breaks him. In "The Late Show", when Alex babysits Lily so Mitch and Cam can go out, Lily questions Alex's life outside of school and homework, as she realizes she's not like Haley. In "ClosetCon '13", Cam takes Mitch and Lily to the Tucker family farm for the first time and is excited to fold them into country life, that is until Grams pays an unexpected visit, and they end up having to tell her that Cam is engaged to Mitch and Lily is their adopted daughter. In "The Big Game", Lily is in trouble at school for forcefully kissing boys at school. Gloria then lectures her. In "The Old Man & the Tree", Cameron takes Lily to a charity event where they experience the true meaning of Christmas, Cam later realizes that he misread the meaning of the event and rushes to leave. Mitch arrives and Lily gives back her present.

In "And One to Grow On", Lily begins growing an attraction to Manny. In "The Feud", Lily gets lice from school, Phil offers him the Dunphy's lice kit at the Dunphy household. As Cam prepares the kit, Phil's nemesis turns up and he decides that before she gets treatment, he can get revenge by letting Lily transfer her lice to his head. In "Spring-a-Ding-Fling", Lily lies that Joe pulled Gloria's bag down and accidentally broke her phone. They both try to convince her to tell the truth, but Lily lies that Joe can walk now and accidentally did it. Gloria and Jay are adamant that Joe can't walk yet, but Lily gets lucky in time and Joe begins to start walking as she tries to prove her lie. In "Other People's Children", Gloria and Claire take Lily dress shopping to find a dress for Cam and Mitch's wedding, in the end she chooses a dress that one would not typically wear: a Cinderella costume. Gloria and Claire try to persuade her out of it, but Mitch and Cam allow her to wear it. In "Australia", the whole family take a trip to Australia, making this Lily's first trip out of the United States. In "The Wedding (Part 1)", Lily attends her fathers wedding as their flower girl, only for it to be abruptly stopped by an approaching fire. In "The Wedding (Part 2)", the officiator, Sal, goes into labor. Phil then has to take over, to his happiness as he had been hinting at being the officiator. Mitch and Cam finally get married with both sides of the family there.

Season 6
In "Do Not Push", while taking a family portrait, Mitch and Cam discover that Lily has a very unusual smile, they accidentally make her feel undervalued and realize they need to accept what they think is imperfect because she doesn't perceive it that way. They hang an official photo up on the wall and at the end, discover her laugh is also something they don't like. In "The Cold", Lily makes friends with a class mate that Mitch sees as more intelligent than her, he tries to make them compete in order to make Lily learn from her. Later on, she figures out that Phil doctored the wedding video because he unintentionally gave everyone his cold. In "Won't You Be Our Neighbor", Mitch and Cam believe that Lily is being put under too much pressure in her class, and opt to switch from Mrs. Plank to a kinder one. When they do, they find that they got things wrong, although Lily is under pressure she is performing better than everyone in the other teachers' class. Mitch and Cam then face embarrassment in getting Lily's teacher to take her back. In "Halloween 3: AwesomeLand", Lily's school holds a costume contest for Halloween, but things go awry due to Cam not having the contest flyer so he wings it and wears a superman costume while Lily wears a Where's Waldo? costume, Cam finds out that the costume characters are supposed to be related and Lily becomes mad at Cam due to feeling neglected from him always working. Mitch informs them that a miscommunication has happened: Cam is giving her attention that she isn't seeing, and Lily forgot to give Cam the flyer. Lily apologizes to Cam.

In "Three Turkeys", Lily refuses to wear a nice dress to dinner, on top of that she's also in the stage of refusing to do other things. Mitch becomes hard on Cam for his parenting skills as Mitch has become "mean daddy" to Lily but Cam lets her do whatever she wants. Cam finally decides enough is enough and becomes harder on her. In "Haley's 21st Birthday", Lily questions Manny, Luke, and Alex on what they know about sex. Luke and Manny begin to teach her, but Alex stops them due to the inappropriate nature. Later, Lily reveals she knows how sex works, but she was testing their knowledge on it. Lily informs them of how she thinks sex works (a story involving eggs and tadpoles), leaving her cousins and step-uncle shocked. In "The Big Guns", Cam attempts to get Lily to be interested in becoming a clown as a job, but she isn't enthusiastic about it, instead of confronting Cam she decides to use Slapstick comedy until he no longer wants her to be a clown. However, he sticks it out. Mitch then confronts her about it and she reveals the truth. She lies that she'll never be a good enough clown and that it's too much pressure so she wants to stop. In "Closet? You'll Love It!", Cam attempts to over-schedule Lily on the day of her talent show so that she gets too tired and misses it because she can't sing on pitch. Mitch is disappointed by Cam's selfish intentions of not wanting to be embarrassed at the show in front of his nemesis. Cam gets over it and they all attend Lily's talent show. However, Lily becomes nervous and embarrassed when another kid can sing amazingly and they end up leaving the show before Lily can perform.

In "Spring Break", Lily goes on her first school trip away from home, Mitch becomes anxious and worried when he thinks she gave him a signal in an image sent to parents by the scout camp, and travels to where she is to find out if she's okay. It turns out, she didn't send a signal and he only ended up embarrassing her, he then has to stay and tell a scary story to the kids. In "Crying Out Loud", Mitch and Cam begin to think that Lily hasn't developed an adequate sense of empathy. Later on, Lily reveals that she didn't care about them being sick before because they always get better, however when Cam implies that one day they won't get better, Lily becomes emotional and runs to her bedroom. At night, she checks both Mitch and Cam's heartbeat and breathing and sleeps in their bed.

Season 7
In "The Day Alex Left for College", Lily has a soccer game that the entire family agreed to attend. However, Jay, Gloria, Claire, Manny and Joe try to find a way to get around it. Cam gets banished by the referee and Mitch tries to coach Lily's team but realizes he's quite bad. Cam coaches Mitch to coach the team via phone call off field and Lily's team wins. In "White Christmas", the family retreat to a cabin for Christmas. Luke and Manny try to scare Lily but she isn't phased. Until she hears noises coming from a room and finds out it isn't Luke or Manny, the noises were however, Andy Bailey and Haley kissing in a room to hide their romantic relationship. In "Playdates", Lily develops a crush on Rob, the father in the family upstairs, Cam gives her tips on flirting when he thinks it's the son in the family she is attracted to. However, he figures it out and informs her she can't date someone that much older than her and comforts her from her own embarrassment by using his own embarrassment about dating when he was younger. In "Spread Your Wings", Lily has a sleepover with her Vietnamese dance troupe, Jay arrives by the house and suggests that Mitchell makes the girls blow up air matresses to tire them out. Mitchell explains that he does't want to tire them out, he wants to be the fun Dad. However, after a series of difficult events, they draw on him while he's sleeping, and he decides he wants to take Jay's advice of tiring them out. Jay and Mitch do a series of events that completely tires them all out and has them in bed by 7:45pm.

In "Clean for a Day", Mitch has been teaching Lily to play the flute but realizes his approach was not working on Lily. Manny decides to take over and she begins excelling, Lily decides she's going to be taught by Manny and "fires" her father as her teacher. In "The Storm", Lily invites Ashley W. to her 8th birthday party, however, a storm bring the girls, Mitch and Cam to the Pritchett household. The issues is whatever Ashley W. does or doesn't like, every other girl follows along because she's popular. Mitch and Cam try to please her but she she doesn't enjoy anything. Lily finally takes a stand and lectures Ashley, she goes to the pool and invites the girls to a pool party, they all follow along. But Ashley is the only one to ask permission to also go from Mitch and Cam. In "I Don't Know How She Does It", Lily informs Mitch and Cam that they can't dance and she has been RSVP'ing to weddings not to go because she gets embarrassed by them, they respond to this by dancing bad at a wedding. In "The Cover-Up", Lily begins being afraid of things that just aren't completely safe, she refuses to learn how to ride a bike. Cam tries to forcefully teach her, but ends up getting hurt himself, he tries to hide his pain from Lily because he does't want her to be more afraid. WHen he gets home he pretends to fall in the tub and break his arm... which just makes her afraid of taking baths and showers. In "The Party", Manny and Luke are assigned to babysit Lily. Lily - with the bribe of as much Soda she could drink - Luke, and Manny, throw a party. When Claire's security system goes off she knows they're up to no good. Claire investigates and Lily hides the party-goers in a room, but the truth unfolds. In "Double Click", Mitch draws up an agreement about sharing time with Lily. As they’re both getting busier they have to compete for spending time with her.

Season 8
In "A Tale of Three Cities", Lily attends her adoptive Grandmother's funeral and receives a gift from her from her will, an oriental fan, with the message “When Cam first brought you here, I thought I’d never get used to you. I was raised to hate your kind, but seeing how happy you make my grandson, I couldn't help but come to care for you. Who else but you should inherit my beloved Oriental fan? I hope it doesn't make you homesick.”. In "A Stereotypical Day", Lily is overheard in her bedroom telling a class mate to get out of her room and calls him a “weirdo”, as Cam and Mitch find out the classmate is transgender, they assume she is transphobic. She later reveals that Tom, her class mate, made fun of a painting of her fathers looking like angels over a baby Lily, and called him a weirdo for that not because he's trans. In "Weathering Heights", when Cam takes in Dwight, his star football player, Lily attempt to sabotage his place in the Tucker-Pritchett household because she's uncomfortable with how cramped everyone now is and how much resources he's using up, Mitch and Cam figure this out and Mitch decides to kick him out, however Cam feels bad and lures Mitch into letting him stay, to Lily's disappointment. In "Halloween 4: The Revenge of Rod Skyhook", Lily has her fourth halloween dressed as Batman from the duo Batman and Robin. In "Thanksgiving Jamboree", Mitch tries to deduce Cam's secret after he tells him that he gave Fizbo away, when he forgives him quickly, he and Claire realize Cam did something worse and wants Mitch in a good mood. After they talk and they make-up, Lily brings them grilled cheese sandwiches because they looked tired, she then reveals she needed them in a good mood because she kept a chicken from the petting zoo.

In "Sarge & Pea", Lily performs at her first dance recital performance, however, although they were in the audience, Mitch and Cam missed her performance as a woman in the audience stood up to film on her device, blocking them from seeing Lily dance. Cam confronts the woman, but after hearing about her son, he comes off looking worse. In "Do You Believe in Magic", Mitch and Cam inform Haley, who they invite over to babysit Lily, that Lily had a "big-girl" moment in school, she stood up to someone who teased her in school. However, Sal comes over and brings her nanny, she offers to let her nanny babysit both Sammy and Lily, so Haley, Mitch and Cam can go out drinking with her. In "Do It Yourself", Lily hires a cleaning lady to clean her room. When Mitch and Cam send the cleaner away and instruct Lily to clean her room. Lily states that it isn't fair that they use apps to get people to do things for them but she can't. They then realize that they need to lead by example and try to stop using apps to get things done, however, they fail at DIY and Cam ends up going to the doctor. In "Heavy is the Head", Cam attempts to build Lily's school project, however Mitch is mad because Lily isn't learning and Cam is just doing it for her, Cam then has an accident continuing the project and ends up needing an MRI for a head injury.

In "Pig Moon Rising", Cam finds out Mitch lost his pig's ashes, to see if Mitch confesses, he fakes a pig moon where they need to spread the pigs ashes. Lily asks if she can bury her painting too, Cam remembers that he accidentally destroyed her painting and never told her and makes Haley re-create the painting, later, however, everyone's truths unfold and Lily becomes mad at him. In "All Things Being Equal", the women in the family take Lily out to a Women's March, they try to demonstrate feminism to her, which backfires on them when she suggests they fix a flat tire that they get while Gloria is driving. Lily, Haley and Alex, attempt to fix it, but another woman comes along and helps them, which they all see as empowering. However, trusting her backfires as when it's fixed, she just gets in Gloria's car and steals it. In "The Graduates", Mitch and Cam debate on whether or not Lily should skip a grade as her teacher informs Lily, Mitch, and Cam that she is considered as an "accelerated student". Later they go home and find things about Lily in room that make them realize she's the popular student in school, which Lily later confirms.

Season 9
In "Sex, Lies & Kickball", Lily meets Lionel, a new kid that Pepper and Ronaldo have adopted. Based on assumptions, and Lionel telling Lily she's lucky to be treated by her parents the way they do, Lily, Mitch, and Cam believe that Lionel doesn't have freedom to do what he wants. When they confront all three of them, they find out that Lionel actually feels sorry for Lily. He told her she's lucky to make her feel better, because he thinks he is treated better than her. In "Tough Love", Mitchell attempts to babysit his nephew, but there's an accidental swap when he asks Lily to take care of a 'baby'. Mitch means a doll that looks like a baby. She comforts Cal and puts the doll in the pram. When he comes back he takes the pram and leaves the house. Both have no idea of the mistake. Mitch later checks on Cal and realizes the mistake. At home, he promises Lily Disneyland if she doesn't tell Pam.

In "Daddy Issues", after getting into a fight at school, Lily takes something out of the store while they're shopping and hides it in Cam's bag. They get stopped and Lily reveals it's a prank. Mitch and Cam attempt to ground her and realize they have stuff booked and can't stay home to watch her. They meet up with Lily's teacher who reveals her fight was with a girl who tried to snap Lily's bra but found out she doesn't own one. Mitch and Cam buy Lily a training bra, they give it to her but she becomes embarrassed and asks them to leave because they did it in front of her friends. Mitch and Cam begin to leave but overhear one of the girls trying to get a boy to like her. They help her out and Lily is impressed and thankful. They bring up the idea of asking Alex to educate Lily as they aren't experts with girls. In "Mother!", Lily and Pam go back to Cam's childhood house to see Cam's parents, Cam also mentions that it's birthing season back home, so Lily gets to name her first pig... which they will then kill on Lily's 13th birthday.

Season 10
In "I Love a Parade", Lily helps Manny drive over bridges by lecturing him and putting him down, Manny realizes that her putting him down eases him into being able to drive over bridges. Later, Cam enlists Lily to help Mitch and Cam decipher if a heavily edited video of Cal doing things in different scenarios looks good. She has multiple critiques that are also quite clear to both Mitch and Cam. In "Good Grief", it is revealed that DeDe Pritchett,Jay's ex-wife and Claire and Mitchell's mother, is dead. The whole family get together for Halloween, and Jay complains that someone ate his sandwich, and Gloria believes she's being haunted by DeDe's ghost. However, it's later revealed that both things were Lily, as she states "I asked myself, what would Nana want to today? She'd want me to mess with Gloria... Also I ate Grandpa's sandwich.". In "Stuck in a Moment", Mitchell and Cam take Cal to see an outdoors mall-Santa in an effort to make this a great Christmas for him. As Lily continuously pesters them for a cell-phone for Christmas, Mitchell and Cam try to persuade Santa to tell them what Cal asked for. Later on, Cam gives Lily his phone and says if she can look after it for the rest of the day, he'll give it to her. Three seconds after handing her the phone she gets pushed by a kid in a toy car and it accidentally slips out of her hand into a big water fountain.

In "Blasts from the Past", Cameron and Mitchell are clearing out Lily's old baby things when they find a nude magazine under her pillow. Upon confrontation with her, Cam discovers it is an old magazine of Mitchell's. Jealous and upset, Cam goes to the gym. Mitch goes after him, discovering that Cam sits right in front of a window where attractive men are stretching. The two make up, admitting it's alright to simply look at attractive guys as long as they stay loyal to each other. In "We Need to Talk about Lily", Mitchell and Cameron learn that Llly's favorite vlogger, (video blogger), comes to town, and since, they have difficulties in communicating with her, they decide to introduce her to KimmyLoveandStuff. But Lily is rude and mean to her and explains to her dads that her tastes evolved and that she now likes trash metal. Cameron and Mitchell then realize that they actually tried to force her to like their things. In "SuperShowerBabyBowl", The Pritchett-Tucker family arrives at Haley's baby shower hosted in the Pritchett household. It is reveled that Lily got into a fight with a girl named Christina, Cam wanted to punish her but Mitchell thinks Christina is wrong. Mitchell receives texts that he believes are from a prisoner that he got put away, but escaped. Later, we learn that Lily borrowed Mitch's cellphone and that the threatening texts were actually from her friend Christina.

In "Red Alert", Cameron and Mitchell learn that Lily has had her first period, but can't help her properly since they've never had experience dealing with periods or the menstrual cycle. Since Claire is unavalaible, Cam sends a group text to the women in the family. Haley, Alex and Gloria try to give advice, but they don't help Lily. Manny also shows-up due to Cam's error, and is also rejected by Lily. Finally, Mitch and Cam are able to convince their daughter that they'll be her dads, no matters what she does and that they'll always here for her. In "Stand By Your Man", Claire watches Lily, she admits she's afraid of Lily, until Lily admits she thinks Claire doesn't like her but she finds Claire to be the only cool person in the family. Claire surprised by this, tries to teach her how to be cool in the way Lily thinks she is, but it backfires and both admit they are cool the way they are. In "A Year of Birthdays", as the birth of Haley and Dylan's twins approaches we take a look back at how each family member celebrated their birthdays this past year. On Lily's birthday, she says that she didn't like it, because Manny continuously mourned over a breakup. Later in the year, Haley gives birth to twins in the hospital. When the twins are taken off to another part of the hospital, Mitch and Cam decide to present them to the family in the same way Cam introduced Lily in the Pilot episode using The Lion King theme song. Lily also joins in on this, introducing their presentation.

Season 11
In "New Kids On The Block", Cam brings some at-risk students over to the house, much to Lily and Mitch's dismay. A possession of Cam's gets stolen and he believes it's one of the students. Mitch goes into the kitchen to complain about the situation with Cam but Lily has already figured out that Mitch took it. Much later, Mitch comes clean, but Cam reveals he already knew and the students are actors who were hired to get the truth out of Mitchell. In "Perfect Pairs", After a succession of weird prospective tenants for their upstairs apartment, Mitch and Cam are delighted to rent out to a gay couple who are essentially younger versions of themselves and have adopted a black daughter who is the same age as Lily. Another plus to the couple is that they pay six months rent upfront. However Mitch and Cam soon start to worry that the couple are outshining them in regards to their fitness and their cultured opinions and their attempts to keep up exhaust them. It is Lily who saves the day when she plays bridge with their daughter and cheats, causing the daughter to have a nervous breakdown since she's used to winning everything and can't handle losing to someone who had just learned the rules. The couple decide to move out to spare their daughter any more distress, even letting Mitch and Cam keep all the upfront rent.

In "Pool Party", Mitch and Cam learn that Lily is too body sensitive to go to go to a party they've been invited to. They talk to her about self-acceptance and accompany her to the party, only to discover that the pool party is actually one for gay men (they'd assumed the 'younger' people attending would be teenagers, whereas it's actually a bunch of twenty somethings). Although Lily now has no problem been seen in her swimming costume, Mitch and Cam are now anxious about being seen in only their shorts and hide out in the upstairs gym with Ronaldo, Longines and several other men who feel the same. Lily finds them and chews them out for not following their own advice. Realizing they were hypocrites, Mitch and Cam lead the guys outside in their shorts and all jump into the pool. In "The Last Halloween", Mitch and Cam feel that it's the good time for judging a festival, but they realize that Lily was at a party without an adult. When they fail to find her at the house, they come home and learn that she actually came home before them because of a boy who used her as a way to seduce one of her friends. They talk it out with her and comfort her. In "The Last Christmas", It is Christmas time, and Mitchell and Cameron are hosting everyone for Christmas dinner. The other family members try to avoid each other for different reasons. Lily asks not to be sat near to Luke because she can't handle his chewing noises. Lily expresses her violence side when Manny and Luke are at odds, Luke suggests Manny punches him to make him feel good, he does, but it doesn't, Lily suggests kicking Luke, or... jabbing him in the eye. Cam reveals big news: he's one of two finalist for the head coaching position at the university of Missouri and could start within a few months, Mitch comforts him by saying he and Lily would be willing to move to Missouri for it. Cam's mood then fluctuates in the space of 4 hours on December 31st not knowing if he's got the job. Lily and Mitchell count down to the new year while Cam moans about the job still.

In "Legacy", Cameron, Lily, Manny and Gloria go to the mall. WHile at the mall, Manny sees Brenda Fieldman again, he last saw her in the Pilot episode when he was 11. 10 yeas later, he tries again. Cam runs into one of his rivals who beat him to a prestigious teaching award and enjoys rubbing his face in that fact, until Gloria embarrasses her while trying on dresses. To return the favor, Cameron manages to sabotage a house sale that Gloria's rival realtor stole from under her nose by dressing himself, Manny and Lily up as yokels pretending to live next door. In "Spuds", Lily goes on her first date with Mitch and Cam chaperoning from a distance. Lily's date goes very well and she heads outside to have ice cream. Mitch sees Cam being emotional and consoles him about the job only to learn he didn't know he hadn't got it. Cam explains that the phone call was from their old adoption agency; their profile was accidentally reactivated and someone has chosen them to adopt their baby. They have twenty-four hours to respond, and although this is unexpected the two look at how well they've raised Lily and aren't entirely against the idea of having another child. In "Baby Steps", Mitch and Cam are trying to decide if they should accept the opportunity to adopt another baby. Lily encourages them, but reminds them they'll both be seniors by the time the kid enters high school. Mitch and Cam become offended until they realize, she's right. Cam and Mitch contemplate their ages when their baby grows up, which prompts them to talk to Gloria. They decide to adopt and late at night, Cam begins to annoy Mitch and Lily with his singing.

In "I'm Going To Miss This", Mitch and Cam have bought a new house, and although it is larger and has many new amenities, Mitch is finding it hard to say goodbye to the old house. Mitch says goodbye to the old house by playing the musical divas on his phone and dancing along as he used to do when he lived alone, only to be interrupted by Cam and Lily with big news; the baby they're adopting has been born two weeks early. The two immediately start to panic, as everything they need for the new baby is either packed away or not bought yet. As Gloria tries to find the baby car seat, Mitch and Cam enter the hospital full of nerves and wondering if they're doing the right thing. Lily reminds them they always get nervous but manage to pull themselves together when it's important, just as they arrive at the window where they get their first glimpse of the baby, a boy. Mitch, Cam and Lily get emotional at the sight of their new son and brother and hug. In "Finale Part 1/Finale Part 2", Cam is offered the head coaching position again, Lily and Mitch agree that he should take the job, Lily wants to reinvent herself in Missouri. Sal later visits and reveals she lives down the street and intends to take the two for many wild nights out while having Lily babysit her kid and pets, making Mitch feel far more positive about moving. The whole family finally go to the Dunphy household to say goodbye as Mitch, Cam, Lily and Rexford (their new son) are now really leaving. The family all huddle close for one last family picture, but once it is taken no-one wants to let go. As they all leave, each sets of parents are seeing doing what they were doing in the Pilot episode, with Mitch and Cam eating cream puffs on the plane with both of their kids (as they were with baby Lily).

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Mitchell is Lily's adoptive Dad. He cares for Lily but can at times be very caught up in his work. This improves over the course of the show and he ends up growing closer to Lily. Mitchell is less emotional than Cameron and believes that Lily's lack of empathy may have something to do with his lack of showing emotions.