ClosetCon '13

Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Claire (Julie Bowen) are out of town because they have to attend the annual Closet Convention. While Claire seems very interested at the schedule of the convention and wants to participate in all the activities, Jay is more interested in meeting old friends, including Rita (Randee Heller), and do the pranks they used to do. Jay wants to put a skeleton in Claire's closet to scare her but because of his awkward behavior in front of her every time Rita is around, Claire believes that her dad had an affair. Claire tries to make Jay tell her the truth but they both end up making confessions, like that Jay tried to get Phil (Ty Burrell) a job in another state so he will break up with Claire, and Claire called the immigration to inform them about Gloria (Sofía Vergara).

Phil and Gloria are back home alone with the kids and they plan to go all together to a restaurant. Before they leave, Phil discovers what Jay is hiding in his secret closet; a treasure of antique model toys. He gets so excited with his discovery that he unintentionally breaks one of them, a replica of Apollo 13. They immediately cancel their reservation at the restaurant and they all try to fix the model with Phil's dad, Frank's (Fred Willard), help via Skype. In the meantime, Alex (Ariel Winter) and Haley (Sarah Hyland) fight over the pizza delivery boy that they both like, which becomes more awkward when both of their hair becomes tangled together in an model airplane propeller.

Meanwhile, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) visit Cam's home farm in Missouri. Mitch doesn't plan on settling in, but after a fight with Cam, he decides to give it a try and embrace the farm life. The problem is that Cam's grandmother (Ann Guilbert), who does not know that Cam is gay nor that he has a kid nor that he is getting married, arrives. Cam asks Mitch to pretend they are not a couple. After they all get stuck in the cellar during a tornado warning, Cam comes out to his grandmother but she does not take the news very well.

The scene where Phil tries fix the final part of the model, is a parody scene reference to the film Apollo 13, where it is necessary to provide a way for the three stranded astronauts to build a carbon dioxide filter from only the objects they have on board.