When Modern Family returns to ABC on September 22 for its second season little Manny Rico Rodriguez will be front and center. Executive producers Christopher Lloyd and Steve Levitan tell TV Guide Magazine hell go on his first date�his first on-screen date, that is.
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"I dont think its his first date," says Levitan, Adds Lloyd, Its his first serious girlfriend. The irst one he really feels hes falling in love with." The story line might end up being less about Manny than it is about his mother.
"It mostly turns into a clash with Gloria," says Lloyd. "Because in the Colombian culture the bond between a mother and son is very intense, and it becomes a little bit of a competition between the girl and Gloria for Manny."
Poor Manny will face an existential crisis as he turns 12. "He realizes that hes almost forgotten to live his childhood and he tries to figure out a way to pack it all in, because hes only got one year left before hes a teenager," says Lloyd.
And it wouldnt be Modern Family without some high jinks from Phil and the Dunphy family. "Theres one [episode] where theres a chirping smoke alarm and he cant figure out which one is having the battery go wrong and it eventually drives him crazy, among other things," says Ty Burrell, whos currently shooting Episode 4. "This weeks episode Phils trying to help Jay [Ed ONeill] fix a computer, which makes him so happy since Jay is basically the real man."
In other Dunphy news, "Hayley breaks up with Dylan but its tougher on Phil than it is on Hayley so he continues seeing Dylan behind Hayleys back," teases Lloyd.
Nothing, however, prepares Phil for this: "The Dunphy kids walk in on their parents having sex," says Levitan. "Hey, it happens." Can you say awkward?
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