The episode begins with Manny beginning his birthday speech. The episode then goes 30 minutes earlier showing Claire hurrying everyone to get ready for the party. This soon leads to a contest between Claire and Phil with Alex and Haley riding with Phil and Luke riding with Claire. In Claire’s car, Luke asks Claire why she’s separating Phil misunderstanding Claire’s earlier statement of the two parents “separating” cars. This makes Claire angry as Luke wanted to go with Phil instead of her. She stops the car to have a talk with Luke which makes her even more sadder, but Luke makes happy after saying her route is faster than Phil’s.

In Phil’s car, while Phil tries convincing the girls the race if not a waste of time, the car’s wheels go out. After fixing it, Haley and Alex tell him that they don’t want to go to family camp. This causes Phil to cry which in turn causes Haley and Alex to cry. This takes Phil’s motivation to beat Claire, but Haley and Alex eventually motivate him to beat her.

At the mall, Mitchell and Cameron are looking for a present for Manny. While there, Cameron stops to help an elderly man named Donald (Norman Lloyd) convince a girl to take him back. Cameron is initially delighted to help before realizing Donald is an adulterer. Cameron and Mitchell soon have a fight about Mitchell before Mitchell performs a flash mob with his co-workers to “Free Your Mind”. Mitchell initially thinks Cameron will be happy, but Cameron becomes angry that he didn’t participate. They soon have another fight in their car.

In the Pritchett house, Gloria and Jay have a fight over Gloria losing everything and currently losing her keys. Jay initially beliefs he’s right before finding the keys in his pockets, but instead of confronting Gloria he puts the keys in her purse. Meanwhile Manny becomes depressed after Jay informs him he never truly acted like a kid. He tries to live his life as a kid before the party with prank calls and mixing soda’s. He then opens his old Christmas present (a flotation device) and putting it in a pool. A furious Gloria angry at Manny not wanting to go the party shoots the flotation device with a BB gun Jay gave him. In the car, Jay finally tells Gloria the truth making her furious. Soon after the three families almost crash into each other in front of the restaurant. The scene then goes to Manny finishing his speech saying that he has enough time to act like a kid.

“Manny Get Your Gun” is the eighth episode of the second season of the sitcom, Modern Family and the 32nd overall. It originally aired November 17, 2010 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The episode was written by Danny Zucker, from a story by Modern Family’s co-creator, Christopher Lloyd.

All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License