'Modern Family' Season 6 Spoilers, Plot News: Episode 18 Recap 'Spring Break'
This week on "Modern Family," Jay and Gloria agree to give up their vices, Phil learns that Luke is good at everything that he's bad at, and Haley learns the truth about what Alex has been hiding.
It's Spring Break, and Alex is checking the college admissions websites as she waits for a response. Claire encourages her to go out and have fun with Haley at a music festival. Haley is reluctant to let her sister tag along, but in the end Alex chooses to go with her.
At Cam and Mitchell's house, Mitch receives an email with pictures from Lily, who's away at sleepaway camp, and she's sending them her signal—two fingers raised, which means she's not having fun at camp. Mitch decides to bring her home right away.
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Jay offers to go with Mitch to camp so he can have a cigar, which is something that he has agreed to give up, while Gloria says that in return, she'll give up watching soap operas.
At camp, Jay wears an orange suit over his clothes so he won't smell like cigars. Mitch is ready to get Lily but then he sees her having fun. Mitch prepares to leave, but is spotted by the kids. He launches into a ghost story, but the kids mock him for it, until they see Jay in the orange suit and they run away screaming.
At the Dunphy's house, Claire is in a spring cleaning frenzy and is thinking about throwing out Phil's banjo, since his bad playing irritates her. But Luke finds the banjo and quickly learns to play it well. Phil, not wanting to be one-upped by his son, decides to teach him an acrobatic move on the trampoline as he hopes to be able to do something that his son can't. But that backfires when Luke proves to be a natural on the trampoline. Later, Phil decides to stop Luke from playing the banjo and when goes upstairs to confront him, Phil nearly blinds Luke.
At the clinic, Phil tells Luke that the only reason why he's been acting so strange is that Luke has been doing everything better than him all day, and also, he's getting old.
At the festival, Haley tries to get Alex to loosen up but she ends up getting drunk. The two get separated, and Haley calls her mother. Claire looks at Alex's computer to find clues and she learns that Alex didn't get into Harvard. Haley finds Alex and tells her that she knows about Harvard, but she shouldn't worry because she'll be fine, no matter which school she goes to.
"Modern Family" airs on Wednesdays at 9/8c on ABC.
