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"Game Changer" is the 19th episode of the first season of ''Modern Family''. It premiered on ABC on March 31, 2010. The episode's teleplay was written by Joe Lawson & Alex Herschlag from a story by Vanessa McCarthy & Joe Lawson. It was directed by Kevin Sullivan. In the episode, it's Phil's birthday and Claire wants to buy him an Apple iPad, excited about buying a good gift for the first time. Meanwhile, Mitchell wants to toughen up, Cameron hears a neighbor's marital difficulties over the baby monitor, and Jay faces off with Manny and Gloria over chess.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Listings: Modern Family )〕 The episode received positive reviews but was criticized for excessively promoting the iPad. "Game Changer" received an 18-49 Nielsen Rating of 3.8/7. ==Plot== It is April 3 and Phil's (Ty Burrell) birthday coincides with the launch of the new Apple iPad. Being an early adopter and a technophile, Phil wants to wake up early to get in line for the product at the local Apple store. Claire (Julie Bowen) wants him to have a relaxing birthday so she takes it upon herself to wake up early and go buy the product. She does wake up early, but quickly falls back to sleep on the couch; it is not until the family wakes up and is making breakfast that she manages to sneak out of the house to get in line. However, the local store has sold out by the time she gets there, so she returns empty-handed. After being confronted by Phil, she makes it her mission to get one for the rest of the day. Phil decides to go to the batting cages to cool off and mistakenly believes a child's birthday party is for him - only adding to his unhappiness, so he eats a 'Game changer', (a pancake with bacon and golden syrup) to cheer himself up. Meanwhile, Jay (Ed O'Neill) had purchased a new chess set for Phil from a Sky Mall catalog earlier. Jay decides to challenge Manny (Rico Rodriguez) to a game of chess, not knowing that Manny is a good player. Gloria (Sofía Vergara), not wanting Jay to be his usual bad loser, told Manny to throw the game. When they get ready to go over to Phil's, Jay keeps trying to get Manny to try a child's version of chess; insulted, Manny challenges Jay to a rematch. Manny states that if he wins, he gets Jay's watch. In four moves, Manny beats Jay and takes the watch. Later, Gloria tells Jay she is also an excellent player; she lets Jay think he is better and when he believes he is on the verge of winning, she begins pouting and getting upset. Jay decides to call the game because he does not want an unhappy wife - Gloria later reveals that she would have beaten him in two moves. She says to the camera "I'm an excellent chess player, but a better wife". The night before Phil's birthday, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) heard a man's voice coming from Lily's room. Fearing a burglar, Mitchell freezes. They then discover that there was no burglar; just a signal accidentally received from a neighboring house by the baby monitor. The next day, Mitchell asks Jay to help him toughen up so that if it actually happens in the future, he can take more appropriate action. Cameron keeps listening to conversations from the baby monitor and discovers that there is some drama going on over at the neighbor's house. Learning that a misunderstanding may cause a divorce, he decides to tell the wife the truth before anything bad happens. Mitchell, attempting to help Claire with her mission to pick up an Apple iPad, gets her and himself thrown out of a line at another Apple store. Claire comes home without an iPad. However, Luke (Nolan Gould) managed to convince a man online that his father was dying and his last wish was an iPad before he passed - so the man brought a second iPad over and gave it to Luke to give to Phil. That night, during the party, she brings out the iPad to a delighted Phil. In the end, Mitchell and Cameron listen to the couple talk about how Cameron must be an angel, but Cameron quickly turns it off when the couple realizes that he may have been a creepy pervert. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Game Changer (Modern Family)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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