Ed O'Neill credited as playing...
Jay Pritchett
- Jay Pritchett: Why do we choose partners so different from ourselves? It's not fate or chance or cliches like, 'the heart wants what the heart wants'. We choose our partners because they represent the unfinished business from our childhood. And we choose them because they manifest the qualities we wish we had. In doing so, in choosing such a challenging partner and working to give them what they need, we chart a course for our own growth.
- Jay Pritchett: That's it! I'm out! What the hell are we doing? Dancing around, telling secrets like girls at a slumber party. I can just imagine my old man with his buddies sitting in their lawn chairs, laughing their asses off that I missed a whole day of football 'cause I'm trying to get in touch with my emotions. These guys didn't do that crap. These were men! His best friend Tommy Ryan lost half a finger in a sheet metal press. Waited until his shift ended to go to the hospital. I broke my collar bone in a football game. There was Dad up in the stands giving me the old, "Be tough". So I played two more downs before I passed out. My date, Mary Jo Klumsky, left the senior dance with another guy. Broke my heart. 2 a.m. at the kitchen table, my old man's telling me, "Eat the sandwich and forget about her". Feelings!
- [Chuckles]
- Jay Pritchett: I didn't even cry at his funeral. You believe that? The guy was my whole world. Not a tear. Everybody looking at me like... like I didn't love him. But he knew!
- [Sniffs, voice cracks]
- Jay Pritchett: He had to know, right?
- Gloria Delgado-Pritchett: [Rushes over to hug Jay] Of course he did.
- Jay Pritchett: Son of a bitch. That felt good, getting that out.
- Phil Dunphy: Wow.
- Claire Dunphy: I know. They just won therapy.