Dance Dance Revelation
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| "Dance Dance Revelation" | |
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| Modern Family episode | |
.jpg) Gloria (Sofia Vergara) joins the school dance committee that leads to Claire's (Julie Bowen) jealousy | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 10 |
| Directed by | Gail Mancuso |
| Written by | Ilana Wernick |
| Production code | 2ARG08 |
| Original air date | December 8, 2010[1] |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Dance Dance Revelation" is the tenth episode of the second season of the sitcom, Modern Family and the 34th overall. It originally aired December 8, 2010 on the ABC. The episode was written by Ilana Wernick and directed by Gail Mancuso.
The episode follows Luke and Manny having their first school dance; Jay and Phil taking them to the mall with disastrous results; Claire's happiness turns into jealousy when Gloria joins the school dance committee. Meanwhile, Cameron and Mitchell learn about Lily biting other kids at the playground.
"Dance Dance Revelation" was watched by 11.075 million viewers in the United States marking a 15% drop among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 from the previous regular original episode. The episode also received mostly positive reviews from critics. Sarah Hyland and Ariel Winter do not appear in the episode.[2]
It is the day of Luke (Nolan Gould) and Manny's (Rico Rodriguez) first school dance, which is being organized by Claire (Julie Bowen). However, the school appointed Gloria (Sofía Vergara) as co-chair. Claire has been trying to block Gloria from participating by telling her that there was enough people. Gloria comes anyway and Claire soon gets jealous when Gloria starts taking over and everyone really appreciates it and particularly because she manages to get Gus (Danny Trejo), the school's janitor, to do everything that she asks right away. Eventually, during the dance, Claire gets upset at her but after talking things out they both apologize for making the dance a competition.
Meanwhile, Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Phil (Ty Burrell) take Luke and Manny to the mall which turns disastrous. Manny and Luke get into a fight over a teal tie that Manny needed. After having lost a parking space to a person who cut them off, Phil lets a man in front of the line who takes very long, which leads Jay to get cranky over Phil. Phil pretends to go looking for socks but he ends up attacking a cologne salesman (Kevin Daniels) just for spraying him while asking.
While still waiting in line to pay, Jay sees the man that cut them off at the parking lot and wants to give him a piece of his mind to demonstrate to Luke and Manny how his tougher approach will work, but it turns out that the man had no idea that he cut them off because he is very depressed over the death of his dog "Spot", crying all over Jay. Eventually Jay sees he has been rough and apologizes to Phil.
Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) learn from a mom they know that Lily bit her son at the playground.[1] At first they deny this, because they think that they are being blamed for just being gay but they come to realize that it was true after Lily bites Cameron. They decide to look at some ways to discipline her, but Cameron is too soft and proposes to sing a song to Lily about not biting while Mitchell is fond of an idea that he got from the Internet to put pepper in her mouth. After the song, they realize that it does not work. This leads Mitchell and Cameron into a fight where Mitchell bites Cameron and tells him to "sing me a song about it". They soon come to accept that their daughter is not perfect, right after that Lily slaps Mitchell and Cameron starts laughing hysterically.
In the epilogue of the episode, it turns out that the cologne man was Longines, a friend of Cameron and Mitchell's, who turns to them for comfort. Mitchell points out that Longines had it coming because he always sprayed while asking.
Production
"Dance Dance Revelation" is the second episode written by Iiana Wernick. Wernick had previously written the first season finale, "Family Portrait". The episode was also the first episode directed by Gail Mancuso.[1]
The episode features Danny Trejo as the school janitor, Gus.[1] On October 7, 2010, William Keck of TV Guide reported that movie star Danny Trejo was set to guest star as a janitor who befriends Gloria.[3][4] The episode was originally reported by TV Guide to have Claire become friends with Gus while TV Squad reported that she was to face off with the janitor.[3][4]
