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Bonus Video! Popeye ❤️ Bluto, Modern Family vs Schwarzenegger
🕑 Added 2022-05-29 18:10:57 +0000 UTCHello there! In this week's bonus video I've got a fun Popeye/Bluto romance (thanks to Trevor for sending that to me). Also a sneak peek at my upcoming video on Modern Family, including a very sweet speech from Jesse Tyler Ferguson, during which he gets so choked up that Debra Messing appears to give him a hug, which is one of her powers. Also, what the hell was Arnold Schwarzenegger doing, getting involved in a gay marriage lawsuit???
Backup video link: https://youtu.be/zUa1Cy6Tm4Q
Comments
Artemus
Yeah! Down with dust jackets!
murph_mobile
"I don't want to make you wait any longer than you have to." A very appropriate antepenultimate line on an episode that points towards the gay marriage season arc in Modern Family
Matt Baume
Ah geez I love this theory but according to the creators Jay is named for one of their agents and Cam is named for actor Cameron Watson. They picked the name Mitchell because it sounded "uptight." But what an unlikely coincidence to replicate all three of JCM's names! I wonder if that might've been a factor they forgot about or don't want to explain???
Jason Pagano
Matt - you're the perfect person to tell my Modern Family theory to! Tell me what you think of this: John (Jay) Pritchett is the father-in-law of Cameron and father to Mitchell. Do you suppose there's a chance these characters were named in honor of actor/director John Cameron Mitchell? I know that Shortbus came out a few years before Modern Family and there's a decent chance that some of the writers on that show, (like me), really adored and learned a lot from that amazing movie. Thoughts?
Tashlin Familiy
THANK YOU for being willing to be truthful about the scourge that is dust jackets! Too slippery, prone to tearing, all around no good from the reader’s experience!
Tashlin Familiy
True, but marriage equality had been restored in California, where the show is set, before the episode. So it was a legal same sex marriage, if not a federally recognized one.
Bob Geise-Hoefer
"The Wedding" on _Modern Family_ took place in 2014, but federal marriage equality didn't happen until 2015.
Ryan Mohr
They secretly are very close friends
Trevor
A very moving clip between Jesse and Debra. It is amazing how much change occurred between the start and end of Modern Family. Having a gay couple was a big deal at the start but was nearly passe by the end. Of course, some of those gains have eroded in recent times too. A good reminder that we can't get too comfortable. Though I enjoyed Modern Family, my favorite TV role of Jesse's was a one-season comedy on CBS called The Class. It's a 2006 CBS ensemble comedy created by David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Episodes). It also stars Andrea Anders, Jon Bernthal, Lizzy Caplan, Jason Ritter, Lucy Punch, Sam Harris, and Sean Maguire, among others. The show could have used more time to mature but Jesse in particular was uncomfortably hilarious.
