Modern Family season 5, episode 8 “ClosetCon ’13” just finished airing on ABC, revealing some interesting family secrets. Now you can read our recap and discuss the story line with fellow fans.

Here are the highlights from Modern Family season 5, episode 8 “ClosetCon ’13”:

• Jay gets annoyed when his hotel reservation gets lost for ClosetCon. While Jay just wants to stick to the bar during the convention, Claire is actually excited.
• Cam, Mitch, and Lily go to Missouri to visit the Tucker Family Farm, where Mitch is once again dealing with an overly touchy-feely Barb. Cam jumps right back into helping out on the farm and Lily enjoys hearing Cam’s pig call. Which is apparently the loudest pig call in the county.
• Phil, Gloria, and the kids meet up to go out for dinner. Hayley and Alex argue over a pizza guy who they apparently both have a crush on. Phil is filled with joy to find that Jay forgot to lock his toy/model closet. That is until he breaks Jay’s Apollo 13 spacecraft model.
• When Claire see’s Jay “flirting” with another woman named Rita she wonders if he ever cheated on her mom when they were together. Jay’s actually planning to prank Claire since it’s her first ClosetCon.
• Back at the farm, Cam gets upset when he thinks Mitch isn’t taking the trip seriously.
• As the girls continue to argue about the pizza guy, Gloria tells them it should be “sisters before misters.” As they argue, they manage to get both their hair stuck in an airplane model.
• When Cam’s grandmother drops by to visit, it’s revealed that the family never told her about his sexuality. Cam doesn’t know how to break it to Mitch, so he introduces Mitch to Gram as Bud, their new farm hand.
• When Claire overhears Jay and Rita talking about the deal they had 20 years ago, she assumes it was an affair. But actually Jay tried to stop Claire from marrying Phil.
• Mitch wants to leave after the incident with Gram, but the tornado warning goes off and they’re stuck at the farm.
• Gram, Barb, Mitch, Cam, and Lily take refuge in the basement. At first Mitch doesn’t want to play along with Cam’s tale but agrees to go along. When Gram tells Cam she wants a grandbaby, he breaks down and tells her the truth. She responds, “Then I know why God sent us this tornado.”
• Phil, Manny, and Luke make a video call to Frank for help fixing the model.
• Gloria gets the girls to make up by threatening to cut their hair.
• At night, Claire asks Jay about Rita. He thinks she’s talking about Phil when she’s actually asking about an affair. She’s furious to find out that he was responsible for Rita offering Phil a job in Texas to try and split them up. But Jay reminds her of the call that immigration got about Gloria when they started dating. Clearly, Claire and Jay have more in common than they’d like to admit.
• The family celebrates when Phil successfully fixes the Apollo 13 spacecraft model. Baby Joe rejoices by setting off the airplane model and sending it right into Phil’s face, which knocks him out.

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