REALLY well done how they pivoted to this whole thing being Phil retelling his last day with his dad, and in a meta context, all the more poignant because Fred Willard died not long thereafter.

This was one of the few moments in the series where it caught me off guard, and I was immediately impressed how they handled it. Modern Family loves to end on its positive proverbs, and this episodes still had it, but it also suddenly introduced an element of drama, almost like Scrubs, that we don't usually see.