Modern Family
Integrity
TV Flash files “Integrity” as hour 141 of 250 in the TV Flash guide — Modern Family (2009–2020) on ABC, season 6, episode 21, aired 2015-04-29, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E21: listed hour 141 of 250 in the Modern Family guide, hour 21 of 24 in season 6. It aired 2015-04-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Knock 'Em Down” (S06E20). Next is “Patriot Games” (S06E22).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Phil and Jay run an errand together to pick up Lily's hand me down princess castle for Joe, both though are in a mood because Phil is upset that Claire won't let him buy a videogame console, and Jay thinks Gloria is letting Joe play with too many girlie items. Mitch and Cam babysit Joe and both get the itch for another baby -- that is until Joe presents to be quite the handful! Meanwhile, Gloria tries to help Haley stand up for herself at work, and Claire tries to bribe Luke's principal to give him one of the student awards this year.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Integrity sit in the Modern Family guide?
S06E21 is listed hour 141 of 250 — hour 21 of 24 in season 6, season 6 episode 21.
When did Modern Family S06E21 air?
Integrity aired 2015-04-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need all eleven seasons of Modern Family?
It ran 2009–2020 as ABC's comedy flagship. The three-household mockumentary is clear from the premiere; later years are more of the blended-family machine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Talking-head confessionals, three households, and a joke speed that made ABC's comedy wing look current again. Modern Family swept Emmys on blended-family logistics: Phil Dunphy's dad Olympics, Gloria's comic voltage, and warmth that never parked the punchlines.
2009, ABC drops a three-household mockumentary into the comedy grid and **quickly sweeps the comedy Emmys** — late-decade launch that made the network's comedy wing look current again without waiting for a nostalgia panel to explain family sitcom. Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan braid marriages, kids, and cultural collisions through talking-head confessionals: Ed O'Neill, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell's Phil Dunphy, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet. Warmth without losing joke speed. Phil…
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