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Earthquake (Modern Family)
"Earthquake" is the third episode of the second season of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) American sitcom, ''Modern Family'' and the 27th episode overall. The episode originally aired October 6, 2010. It was written by Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh and directed by Michael Spiller. It guest starred Nathan Lane as Pepper Saltzman and Vic Polizos as a plumber. In the episode, an earthquake causes Claire to be stuck in the bathroom with the plumber. Gloria interprets the natural disaster as a sign that God wants Jay to go to church while Mitchell and Cameron use it as an excuse to not attend Pepper's party. "Earthquake" received positive reviews from critics. The episode also received a nomination for Episode Comedy at the 2010 Writers Guild of America Awards, but ultimately lost. According to the Nielsen Media Research, the episode received a 4.6 rating/13% share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 receiving the same rating from the previous episode and also tied for b ...
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Modern Family
''Modern Family'' is an American family sitcom television series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for 11 seasons, from September 23, 2009, to April 8, 2020. It follows the lives of three diverse family set-ups in suburban Los Angeles, linked by patriarch Jay Pritchett. Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan conceived the series while sharing stories of their own "modern families." ''Modern Family'' employs an ensemble cast and is presented in a mockumentary style, with the characters frequently speaking directly to the camera in confessional interview segments. The series was renewed for an eleventh and final season on February 5, 2019, which premiered on September 25, 2019. The series finale aired on April 8, 2020. ''Modern Family'' was acclaimed by critics throughout its first few seasons. Its critical reception became more mixed as it progressed, but it maintained a loyal fan base throughout its 11 seasons and was ...
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Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter Workman (born January 28, 1998) is an American actress. She starred as Alex Dunphy in the ABC comedy series ''Modern Family'', for which she and her co-stars won four consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She also voiced the titular character in the Disney Junior show ''Sofia the First'' and Penny Peterson in the 2014 animated film ''Mr. Peabody and Sherman''. Early life Winter was born on January 28, 1998, the daughter of Chrisoula (''née'' Batistas) and Glenn Workman. Through her mother, she is of Greek descent, and through her father, of German descent. She is the younger sister of actors Shanelle Workman and Jimmy Workman. Career Winter obtained her first entertainment industry job in a Cool Whip commercial advertisement in 2002 when she was four years old. She had her first television role in an episode of '' Listen Up!'', and followed it with appearances in a variety of shows such as '' Freddie'', ''Monk'', ...
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ...
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Paley Center
The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York with a branch office in Los Angeles, dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. It was renamed The Paley Center for Media on June 5, 2007, to encompass emerging broadcasting technologies such as the Internet, mobile video, and podcasting, as well as to expand its role as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Locations The New York City location is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan at 25 West 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. With a growing collection of content broadcast on radio and television, the Paley Center opened a branch in 1996 in Los Angeles located at 465 ...
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Writers Guild Of America
The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers: * The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO * The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), headquartered in Los Angeles. Common activities The WGAE and WGAW negotiate contracts in unison as well as launch strike actions simultaneously. * 1960 Writers Guild of America strike * 1981 Writers Guild of America strike * 1985 Writers Guild of America strike * 1988 Writers Guild of America strike * 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike ** Effect of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike on television, a list of television shows affected by the strike Although each Guild runs independently, they perform some activities in parallel: * Writers Guild of America Awards, an annual awards show with simultaneous presentations on each coast * WGA screenwriting credit system, determines how writers' na ...
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The Old Wagon
"The Old Wagon" is the second season premiere of the American sitcom ''Modern Family'' and the 25th episode overall. It was aired on September 22, 2010. The episode was written by Bill Wrubel and was directed by Michael Spiller. The episode is also Wrubel's first credit as co-executive producer. In the episode, Phil finally agrees to sell the family's old station wagon but before doing it, he and the whole family goes for a trip down memory lane to say goodbye to it. Cameron asks Jay for help when Mitchell decides to build a life-size princess castle for Lily even though he is not very handy with the tools. Meanwhile, Gloria deals with the possibility of losing Manny to his girlfriend. "The Old Wagon" received positive reviews from critics, with Samantha Zalaznick of ''The Huffington Post'' naming the Dunphy's and Phil the best part of the episode. "The Old Wagon" also became the highest-rated sitcom of the week and for the series among adults between the ages of 18 and 49. Plot I ...
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Rico Rodriguez (actor)
Rico Rodriguez II (born July 31, 1998) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Manny Delgado on the ABC sitcom ''Modern Family'', which ran for eleven seasons from 2009 to 2020. He received several Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance. He has also appeared in numerous other television shows and movies, both as himself and other characters, before, during, and after the show's run, such as ''Epic Movie'', ''Endgame'', '' El Americano: The Movie'', and Nickelodeon's ''The Substitute'' and '' Unfiltered''. Early life Rico Rodriguez II was born in Bryan, Texas, the son of Diane and Roy Rodriguez, who owned Rodriguez Tire Service. His siblings are brothers Ray and Roy Jr., and sister Raini Rodriguez, who is an actress. He is of Mexican descent. Career At age nine, he played a character, also named Rico, in ''Cory in the House''. He later had guest appearances on the series '' 'Til Death'', '' ER'', ''iCarly'', and ''My Name is Earl''. In 2007, he appeared ...
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Church Service
A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. It often but not exclusively occurs on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing seventh-day Sabbatarianism. The church service is the gathering together of Christians to be taught the "Word of God" (the Christian Bible) and encouraged in their faith. Technically, the "church" in "church service" refers to the gathering of the faithful rather than to the building in which it takes place. In most Christian traditions, services are presided over by clergy wherever possible. Styles of service vary greatly, from the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Lutheran traditions of liturgical worship to the evangelical Protestant style, that often combines worship with teaching for the believers, which may also have an evangelistic component appealing to the non-Christians or skeptics in the congre ...
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Ed O'Neill
Edward Leonard O'Neill (born April 12, 1946) is an American actor and comedian. His roles include Al Bundy on the Fox Network sitcom '' Married... with Children'', for which he was nominated for two Golden Globes, and Jay Pritchett on the award-winning ABC sitcom ''Modern Family'', for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and won four Screen Actors Guild Awards (all four for being part of the best Ensemble in a Comedy Series). He has also appeared in the ''Wayne's World'' film series, ''Little Giants'', '' Prefontaine'', ''The Bone Collector'', and '' Sun Dogs'', and has done voice-work for the ''Wreck-It Ralph'' franchise and ''Finding Dory''. Early life O'Neill was born into an Irish-American Catholic family in Youngstown, Ohio on April 12, 1946. His mother, Ruth Ann (née Quinlan), was a homemaker and social worker, and his father, Edward Phillip O'Neill, was a steel mill worker and truck driver. O'Neill attended Ursuline High School where he played foo ...
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Sofía Vergara
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (; born July 10, 1972) is a Colombian and American actress and model. She was the highest paid actress in American television from 2013 to 2020.
''Forbes'' (August 24, 2019). Retrieved on October 16, 2020.
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Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ...
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born October 22, 1975) is an American actor. From 2009 to 2020, he portrayed Mitchell Pritchett on the sitcom ''Modern Family'', for which he earned five consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Ferguson made his Broadway debut in '' On the Town'', and was in the original Broadway cast of ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'', for which he and his ensemble cast won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Cast Ensemble. He has appeared in theatre adaptations of '' A Winter's Tale'', '' The Producers'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Spamalot'' and ''The Merchant of Venice''. For his performance in the 2016 Broadway production of ''Fully Committed'', Ferguson was awarded a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 2022 Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's ''Take Me Out (play), Take Me Out''. Ear ...
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