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"Send Out the Clowns" is the 18th episode of the third season of the American sitcom ''Modern Family'', and the series' 66th episode overall. It aired on March 14, 2012. The episode was written by Steven Levitan, Jeffrey Richman & Bill Wrubel and directed by Steven Levitan. ==Plot== Cam (Eric Stonestreet) lost his clown mentor and he attends to his funeral along with Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and other clowns. All the clowns, including Cam, are dressed up to their clown clothes and make-up to give their mentor the final farewell. At the funeral, Cam meets his former clown partner Lewis (Bobby Cannavale) who's mad at Cam because Cam left him alone after his decision to settle down and have a family with Mitchell. Cam and Lewis decide to reconnect again and perform a show together, much to Mitchell's dismay. Just before the performance, Cam clarifies that the performance is only a "one-time thing", something that makes Lewis mad and leads their performance to a disaster. Meanwhile, Phil (Ty Burrell) gets ready for a big real estate opportunity. He is confident and before he leaves home he tries to teach the kids that they always have to play by the rules and everything will go just fine. Unfortunately, he bumps into his nemesis, Mitzi Roth (Ellen Barkin), who steals his new potential clients by using dirty tricks. Phil gets back home upset and when Luke (Nolan Gould) proposes that he play dirty too, he instantly forgets his "play by the rules" rule and decides to listen to him. The trick of recording Mitzi admitting she was lying does not go really well, so Luke and Phil play the "sympathy card" at an encounter with Mitzi at the grocery store and this time it pays off. In the meantime, Claire (Julie Bowen) decides to make a Facebook page and she is upset because Alex (Ariel Winter) and Haley (Sarah Hyland) did not accept her friend request. The girls lie that they did not get any friend request from her so Claire sends one again. The reason the girls do not want their mom as a friend on Facebook is because they do not want her to know everything they do and because they do not want her to embarrass them in front of their friends. After Claire's second request, they do not have a choice than to accept her and they use other methods to make her quit Facebook. At the Pritchett house, Manny (Rico Rodriguez) invites a friend, Griffin (Dash Dobrofsky), to come over. This surprises Jay (Ed O'Neill) because Griffin is one of the school's cool kids and it is strange that Manny hangs out with him. Jay believes that Griffin wants to hang out with Manny because of him since he dropped off Manny at school on his motorcycle, something that is cool. Gloria (Sofia Vergara) does not agree with Jay since she believes Manny is capable of having cool friends. However, she realizes that ''she'' is the reason Griffin hangs out with Manny when Griffin arrives and he can not stop staring at her. Jay and Gloria try to tell Manny the truth of why Griffin hangs out with him and they are surprised to hear that Manny also hangs out with him to get closer to his sister and now that he knows that Griffin is also using him, he feels less guilty. 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「Send Out the Clowns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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