Preggy Gloria (Modern Family 4x01 Bringing Up The Baby Episode Review)

The Emmys are over and while Modern Family has some celebration to do for taking home the Best Comedy Award for the third time in a row, the show is back to business.

The premiere episode of the fourth season of Modern Family began a day after the events of last season's finale. Gloria just found out that she's pregnant and the best day to announce it to her husband is during his birthday. 

Although most of the characters have their own plots to fulfill, the episode focused more on Gloria and Jay - especially on how the hot Latina will tell Jay about the baby. The episode built up on that moment, however, it was done so fast I did not realize at first that Gloria just told Jay. I expected more drama or romance with a small comedic relief from Jay. But instead, the old balding daddy pour his heart out to Gloria that he's really happy about the new chapter in his life. It was quite sweet, but still.... I expected more.

Michel and Cameron are still grieving because they weren't able to get a baby. The melodramatic scenes that these couple had in the episode was quite effective, plus the two huge stuff toys scene on their car was hilarious. Classic ModFam.

On the last few miuntes of the episode, the show (or a mockumentary like this)  did something I did not expect: a flashforward. The episode jumped from Gloria being a few weeks pregnant to already having a full grown belly. She's probably five to six months preggy since she does not know the gender of her new kid. It was a good jump and totally unexpected. I guess the writers want to rush this Gloria-being-fat plot, so most probably she's giving birth on the winter finale. 

Overall, a mediocre episode from Modern Family with some extensive humor here and there. Cheers to the show for grabbing most of the awards in the Emmys, though!