'Modern Family' recap: A Family Affair

Tonight's episode welcomed back two favorite characters from last season: Shelley Long's DeDe Pritchett -- mom to Claire and Mitchell and ex-wife to Jay, and Cam's beloved alter ego Fizbo the Clown. Shelley Long plays the former Pritchett matriarch pretty perfect -- with a smidge of crazy, a dash passive aggressiveness, and a whole lot of acid-tongued wit. Her banter with Claire felt like real mother/daughter bickering, minus the unrelenting sexual undertones of course. DeDe did not arrive empty handed, however. She came toting a shaggy-haired, slightly rough-around-the-edges Matt Dillon as Claire's not-so-bright, limo-driving ex-boyfriend, Robbie. While Dillon didn't have a whole lot to do tonight, it was fun to see him pop up in this random role, and of course to see him make out with Shelley Long! The big question of the night was who was DeDe there to screw (metaphorically for her family, literally for Robbie I guess) – Claire, Mitchell or Jay.

Member of never miss a Super Bowl club dies

Recently featured in a Visa commercial , a member of the four-man “Never miss a Super Bowl” club has died. Bob Cook, a fan of this team, had attended 44 of the last 45 Super Bowls. A year ago Bob Cook guaranteed a Packers appearance in Texas for Super Bowl XLV, and he was right.
The rest of his prediction - that he would attend the game as he had every Super Bowl before - unfortunately did not come true.

Cook died Thursday after being hospitalized with a blood infection - an ailment that did not stop him from watching the Packers triumph on TV from a Milwaukee-area hospital.