After failing year after year to scare Claire, Phil finally terrifies her with a long con so epic I can’t bear to spoil any of it for you, but just know it will probably renew your faith in lasting love and also make you want to step up your game this Halloween. But, as always with Modern Family’s Halloween specials, Phil and Claire are the real stars of the evening. Cam and Mitchell head to the West Hollywood parade for a child-free night that leaves them questioning their fatherhood skills, and Luke and Alex both get majorly dumped. Aptly titled “The Last Halloween,” the show’s final spook-tacular (sorry) bow sends Jay and Manny off to hunt down a candy bar that's serving as a surrogate for Joe while Gloria worries she’s finally old enough to look like Jay’s wife. Of course, the only Halloween episode that could possibly top Modern Family’s first, is its last. Such is the power of a near-perfect Modern Family episode. You’ll most definitely laugh, and if you have a heart, you’ll probably also cry. Haley, Alex, and Luke learn that none of them know what to do in the face of tragedy, and Lily gets busy haunting Gloria and stealing hoagies. Jay mourns his missing sandwich while Gloria battles the ghost of DeDe in the form of dozens of tiny 3D-printed sculptures of her (we love a 2018 mall culture moment). Mitch and Claire fight over their starkly different relationships to their mother.
Phil and Cam make a remarkable couple of concerned significant others, traipsing through West Hollywood traffic in an attempt to bring home some nostalgic ice cream for their spouses. Now that we’ve covered what everyone’s wearing: With DeDe’s death looming large over the holiday, everyone pairs off to grieve in their own special ways. To paint you a picture: Mitchell and Cam are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Gloria and Jay are Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Claire and Phil are a spider and her trapped fly, and the kids are a hodgepodge of half-assed young adult costumes that fall apart by the end of the grief-stricken evening - most notably, Alex is a convincing RBG for roughly one scene. Luckily, The Great Pumpkin does end up saving the day, and makes this episode one that's still worth watching - even without the great costumes.ĭressed in the best costume lineup Modern Family has ever accomplished, the Dunphy-Pritchett family must grapple with the death of Mitchell and Claire’s mom, DeDe. As all the Modern Family kids grew up, I’ll bet it was a struggle to concoct new Halloween stories. All in all, there’s not as much Halloween fun afoot in this episode as I would've liked. In fact, the only Dunphy-Pritchett family members we get to see dress up are Claire in what is presumably Gloria’s hand-me-down Wonder Woman outfit, and precious Joe as a fed-up Zeus. Meanwhile, a delayed kitchen renovation is haunting Cam and Mitchell, who sadly skip the costumes this year. The kids are all off doing completely non-Halloween-related stuff, Phil fails to trojan-horse a pumpkin, and even Claire’s office isn't interested in the horde of zombies she hired to help celebrate. At least, that’s how Phil and Claire feel in one of the saddest Modern Family Halloween episodes (second only of course to the one featuring a literal death in the family). What’s scarier than Halloween? Reaching the age where you’re expected not to care about it anymore.
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