Modern Family (ABC)

Next week, Jay dies of a heart attack upon hearing the news and Gloria decides to let Cam and Mitchell adopt the baby. And Manny is concerned.

 

Mitch or Cam?

 

Dylan.

 

It's a very good point. I just worry that they're going to pull a Family Ties and the Jay-Gloria spawn will be born during sweeps next season and then by the beginning of the next season, will be 6-years-old.

 

I thought it was obvious that Gloria had agreed to be the surrogate.

 

I guess that's where I thought it was going as well.

 

Then why were they going to get another baby? I think the writers may twist it into a surrogate situation, my previous joking aside, but I'm not sure the direction is/was obvious.

 

Boy, that would surprise me. Why would she be talking about everything she was willing to go through raising another baby, then? She wouldn't be a mother if she were just the surrogate.

Also didn't she take the test on the way to go pick up the baby? So, if Mitch and Cam were already going the surrogate route, why were they driving to adopt a baby?

 

No, I meant that I assumed she would decide to offer up being the surrogate after finding out she was prego. She obviously didn't know she was pregnant until after the spanish soap opera drama went down at the hospital.

 

I don't understand what you're saying at all. She would decide to be the surrogate after finding out she was pregnant? So Mitch and Cam would raise Jay and Gloria's kid as their own?

 

I'm curious why adding a baby from Gloria is jumping the shark, but adding a baby for Cam & Mitchell would not be.

And with Jay saying he's glad he doesn't have to go through that again - i.e. being a dad to a baby/young kid - not to mention the age factor with him, I have no doubt the show will find some comedy in there.

Also, I know babies in the past have been a death knell for show, but on this one I don't see it being the focus of the show, which is often the problem (IMO).

 

Sorry. I shouldn't have used surrogate because, that's not what I meant.. . trying to do too much at one time. I meant that they were going to give the baby up to them as an adoption.