"I Can't Get Out Of Bed Today"

It looks like we're going to get that "Alex gets mononucleosis" story sooner rather than later, based on an Instagram snap Ariel took earlier today, which I memorialized in this tweet (sorry, you're just going to have to click "Read more" to see it):

@arielwinter1 This looks like it's going to be an interesting episode, but #PoorAlex #ModernFamily pic.twitter.com/CZuKHUlMzB

— Joe D. (@noahproblem) August 19, 2016

They've only filmed a couple of episodes so far (I think this week is either the third or fourth),  so this means barring a lot of shifting we're probably going to see this episode sometime in early-to-mid October.

The downside to that is if this is going to be mostly a dramatic story (no idea on that yet, obviously) I'd rather see them hold it for November sweeps.