Modern Family Ends Its Run (No Spoilers)

The groundbreaking sitcom, Modern Family, ended it's 11 year run last week with a special on the making of the show and a final episode that lived up to the run of the series.

Not your "Ozzie and Harriet" type comedy, the show featured Ed O'Neil, who gained fame as husband Al Bundy in Married With Children, as a Jay Pritchett, a wealthy business man who marries a Columbian woman (Gloria) about the same age as his daughter.  His wife has a son whom Jay embraces, sometimes causing jealousy with his own children, son Mitch, a gay man in a committed relationship, who adopts a daughter and eventually marries his partner, and daughter Claire, a more traditional family with two daughters and a son.  Claire's husband, Phil, is something of a goof ball with a big heart.  

I was amazed at how well the actors grew into their characters over the years.  Both Claire and Phil's children, as well as Gloria's son, went from childhood into adolescence and on to young adulthood, staying into their character.  It's almost like the cast was a second family to one another.  

The show won 22 Emmy Awards.  

Modern Family was a viewing tradition for us every week