Modern Family
In Your Head
TV Flash files “In Your Head” as hour 201 of 250 in the TV Flash guide — Modern Family (2009–2020) on ABC, season 9, episode 13, aired 2018-01-17, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E13: listed hour 201 of 250 in the Modern Family guide, hour 13 of 22 in season 9. It aired 2018-01-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dear Beloved Family” (S09E12). Next is “Written in the Stars” (S09E14).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Luke goes missing after a night out in a sketchy neighborhood, Manny, Phil and Gloria team up to track him down. Meanwhile, Haley is desperate to land an interview with the creator of a popular lifestyle website and interrupts Alex during one of her college classes. Alex's professor, Arvin Fennerman, then proceeds to try and give Haley a piece of his mind.
Viewer FAQ
Where does In Your Head sit in the Modern Family guide?
S09E13 is listed hour 201 of 250 — hour 13 of 22 in season 9, season 9 episode 13.
When did Modern Family S09E13 air?
In Your Head aired 2018-01-17 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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