Busted by your kids while having sex?
This week “Modern Family,” one of the BEST shows on TV, hysterically addressed parents getting busted by their kids while doing the dirty.
Their three kids were planning to surprise their parents (Phil and Claire) with breakfast in bed for their anniversary. Instead the kids’ retinas were scorched off by the site of their parents’ amorous (and what appeared to be standing up) love making.
The kids freak. Claire and Phil freak (although Phil stops to eat the dumped breakfast off the floor). Claire and Phil lock themselves in their bedroom to decide what to do now: Do they discuss it with the kids? Do they joke about it to lighten the mood? Do they ignore that it happen? (Claire is extra sensitive to the issue because she witnessed her own parents having sex when she was a child and they never even addressed it.)
Meanwhile the kids are downstairs discussing how they DON’T want to discuss it!! The final scene is just perfect. You have to watch it. It is the second link I have. (They didn’t have the actual busted scene or I would have posted it too! I do have a link below where you can watch the entire show. )
There is another screwball comedy issue going on in the show: Claire’s stepmother (the super hot Gloria) accidentally sent Claire a rude email about how she doesn’t want to help with the school bake sale because Claire is such a control freak. She comes to the house to apologize not realizing Claire is upset about the interrupted sex not the bake sale. You need to know this so the first scene makes sense.)
(I couldn’t get the stupid Fancast player to load so you have to click on the links to watch. Bummer I know. But tried for 30 minutes to make it load right, and it wouldn’t. Sorry.)
Caught in the Act – the full episode – If you are truly blowing off work or if the baby is napping!
For some of the best lines in the show – including clueless son’s Luke’s explanation of what sex is.
I think this is a pretty common occurrence. You don’t always lock the door. Sometimes it just happens. You can also be walked in on other places. My girlfriend told me the other day her little guy found them in the shower together. (Think nothing of it. Daddy’s just washing mommy’s hair.) Michael and I were interrupted a couple of times by knocks on the door. (Go away. Come back later.) I think we were only walked in on once by Walsh as I remember, but the kids were very little and wouldn’t have figured it out. Now we definitely have to be more cautious.
Have you ever been walked in on? What are your precautions? Does a “loud” lock (ie the show) just traumatize the kids because then they totally know! (This could apply to radios, TVs, sound machines or any other masking item that actually just may tip them off.) I remember somebody told us on the blog they had a door sign that said “Marriage in progress.” Gross! (Sorry whoever it was!)
Did you watch this episode of “Modern Family?” What did you think?
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125 comments Add your comment
Ed Zachary
January 21st, 2011
2:57 pm
We never had that problem as after #2 came along, the sex stopped altogether.
Maybe I Don't Understand
January 21st, 2011
2:57 pm
As a life-long Southerner, raised Baptist by a mother and father, meaning a traditional household, I’m actually more bothered by violence than sex. For some reason, we here in America seem to think that sex is something bad that should be hidden, but violence is okay. If you want an example, go and watch a documentary about movies getting a rating from the MPAA. I don’t want to name the movie, because I don’t want anyone thinking I’m trying to peddle the film. But the movie lays out in plain terms that, especially if you show a woman enjoying an erotic moment, the movie will get a terrible rating. Violence is much lower on the list than sex.
Ezra
January 21st, 2011
3:11 pm
These days a “pat and a promise” is more gratifying than the act.
dcb
January 21st, 2011
3:13 pm
I did watch the show and thought it hilarious. Definitely a great acting job by the three kids in the “discussion” scene. But then I’m 70 and don’t have to worry about anyone walking in on my wife and me anymore. And when the topic of sex and off-color stories and jokes come up in casual conversation with my three kids (ages 41, 40, and 38) we can laugh at it now like I certainly wouldn’t have during their formative years. So maybe I “just don’t understand the situation”. One thing is for sure – that program wouldn’t have been able to shown on tv back in “my day.” And most of us at the age of the show’s children wouldn’t have the faintest idea of what it was about anyway. Now with all the filth, sex-related tv programming, and profanity in conversation that has become commonplace, I thought the show was a true comic relief done in great taste.
gb
January 21st, 2011
3:18 pm
got busted by the 2yr old while she was…oral…..just las weekend!
mom2alex&max
January 21st, 2011
3:19 pm
To Maybe: I don’t disagree, but while I am most certainly talking to my kids in age appropriate ways to sex, I certainly do not want them to hear me, see me, or even think about me having sex with their father. Cuz if an image of my parents having sex comes into my mind, it will reduce my sex drive to SUB-ZERO.
Roekest
January 21st, 2011
3:26 pm
Jay: And where was your father when all this happened?
Luke: He was right behind her.
Classic!
smh
January 21st, 2011
3:32 pm
This topic illustrates one of the many reasons I don’t watch the show. I don’t find it entertaining. Yes, I realize I’m in the minority. I’m okay with that too.
jarvis
January 21st, 2011
3:32 pm
Good blog and comments today.
Very funny on all fronts.
Never had it happen thank God cause my six-year-old daughter is smart, inquisitive, and completely lacking of a filter. God only knows what she would ask, and where the story would be told by her.
jarvis
January 21st, 2011
3:43 pm
smh…I think you and I have one thing in common, but prolly not for the same reasons.
I don’t watch the show because I don’t find the writing very smart usually. That said, the clips above though were good. I may give it another shot.
Roswell Jeff
January 21st, 2011
3:54 pm
Great topic today! Things were getting a little too “ho hum” around here. Just yesterday, I was wondering when Theresa might do a topic on sex or her boobs. We needed something a little light-hearted amongst all of this gloomy winter weather.
Thanks! It brightened my day!
jarvis
January 21st, 2011
3:58 pm
What’s this about Boob Blogs?
I’m all in!
Tiger Ochocinco Mellencamp
January 21st, 2011
4:11 pm
sign me up too.
Maybe I Don't Understand
January 21st, 2011
4:12 pm
mom2 – Agreed. All I’m saying is that I feel our society places a taboo on sex that is not inherent in our views on violence.
Tiger Ochocinco Mellencamp
January 21st, 2011
4:18 pm
best quote ever….
If you suck on a *** the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the *** off with an axe it will be PG. ~Jack Nicholson
Dante
January 21st, 2011
4:40 pm
I think every kid has, at one point or another, walked in on his parent. I did in elementary school (I knew they were having sex, but that’s about it) and my wife actually walked in on her parents in high school. Heck, I can remember a playground discussion in 4th or 5th grade about who had walked in on his parents. Normally, however, we knew not to walk into my parents’ room–they were a bit, uh, noisy.
Perhaps the strangest occurrence, for me, was walking in on my younger brother when he was in high school. I had come home from college and was hanging out with friends when we decided to go back to my parents’ place to drink beer/play PS2. Guess who was also using the “romper room?”
catlady
January 21st, 2011
4:46 pm
Never happened when the kids were little. All I will say about that.
Eon Rodeo
January 21st, 2011
4:48 pm
@ jarvis
Just so you know, Bob Loblaw may have been a character on Arrested Development, but I can personally attest it was a joke name used by Canadian kids at least as far back as the early-’70s based on the huge Loblaws supermarket chain up there.
jarvis
January 21st, 2011
5:35 pm
Eon….didn’t know the Canadian thing, but I knew it was an old name recycled by the show.
He was Bob Loblaw Attorney at Law :-).
donnie
January 21st, 2011
7:04 pm
My wife was being very loud and our son started banging on the door wanting to know what was wrong with Mommy!
Robin
January 22nd, 2011
10:45 am
I so enjoyed this blog today. SO funny!!!! Love it!
copperkeeper
January 22nd, 2011
1:01 pm
There are several potential problems in this situation
1) You DON’T want the kids walking in on you during…
2) As a parent, you want to keep the door open, so that you will hear the kids if need be…
3) As soon as it becomes evident that things are moving in that direction, who wants to get up and shut and lock the door?
We solved all three problems by installing what my brother came to refer to as the ‘Lurch Rope’. A rope next to the bed that looked like an old fashioned bell-pull for a butler. It was connected through the attic to the door, which was held open by a magnet, but was spring loaded to shut and lock. When my wife pulled the rope, I knew it was funtime Friday…or Wednesday…or Monday…….
momof3
January 24th, 2011
6:10 am
My favorite blog topic since I began reading Momania a year or so ago.
We’ve been caught more than a few times. Most often the door is locked and the youngest wants to know why he can’t get in our bedroom. Even so, the kids know that “mommy-daddy time” is very important to us, and they seem completely grossed out by it.
Earl "Unbannable" Waters
January 24th, 2011
8:39 am
“I am unapproving comments and my next step is to ban you. Consider yourself warned.”
Cynthia Tucka, much?
There are some quite interesting ways around this. A bit over-dramatic, I might add.
^_^
tracey
January 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
We got caught once. It was embarrassing, but not fatal