“Just Can't Wait To Get On The Road Again”

Well, actually, in this case, a (house)boat.

There's going to be a “Modern Family goes away on vacation” episode early this season, as the cast has been filming scenes in Lake Tahoe this past week. And it looks like the title of that episode (for now) will be “Lake Life”.

Although currently this episode is listed as the third episode of the season in SpoilerTV's database, it appears from this local (Lake Tahoe) article (which mentions the story mainly takes place on a houseboat on the lake) that it will actually be the season opener, so also look for some early episode switching this season as well (since Lake Tahoe is a summer vacation spot it would make perfect sense for this to be the season opener).

I suppose it's also possible this could turn into a two-parter with “Catch Of The Day”.

But getting back to the perpetual $64 dollar question of this blog, what does this mean for Alex?

"It's Not That Hard If You Just Turn The Key"

Happy Anniversary, again!  It's hard to believe it's been three years since I started this blog, and even harder to believe I'm still doing it (I don't exactly have a strong history at keeping projects going for long).

 Anyway, on to somewhat more important stuff:

Finally, a little bit of news about Season 9 has come out, in the form of titles for the first two episodes (actually, the first episode title was revealed last week but I missed it, then yesterday the second one was revealed).  But does either one give any hope for seeing much for Alex?

"I Should Run, On The Double"

Riddle me this, Batman - what is worse than re-running one Alex-less episode of Modern Family?

"Is It Asking Too Much"

So, you may be asking (but probably not), what are my questions for Season 9 about Alex?  Glad you asked (or didn't).  I'm not ready to answer them yet (probably when we get to September I'll guess on a few) but here's at least some of them: