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Election Day

‘Election Day’

Season 3, Episode 19 -  Aired April 11, 2012

The whole family rallies around to help Claire on Election Day: Mitch and Cam ride around in a "Claire-mobile", the Dunphy house turns into a phone bank, and Phil volunteers to collect elderly citizens and drive them to the polls.

Quote from Phil

Phil: No, she feels great. Um, her spirits are high. The whole family's high. There's your headline.

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Quote from Jay

Gloria: What happened back there?
Jay: Line was too long. I couldn't wait.
Gloria: I've seen you wait 45 minutes in line for sherbet!
Jay: Well, I happen to like sherbet, okay? That place I take you has the greatest sherbet on the West Coast. They got lime sherbet, they got coconut sherbet.
Gloria: Why are we talking about sherbet?
Manny: He's clearly changing the subject.
Jay: Why aren't you in school?
Manny: He's doing it again.

Quote from Gloria

Gloria: Manny's right. You're being very ardilla.
Jay: "Ardilla"?
Gloria: Yeah, you know, the- The one that- That-
Jay: Rabbit? I was being rabbit-y?
Gloria: No, another one with the cheeks and the tail and-
Jay: Chipmunk? Possum?
Manny: Okay, obviously she means squirrel. You were being squirrely then, you're being squirrely now.
Jay: Better than being a rat.
Gloria: Manny, give us a minute.
Manny: Oh, sure. I served him up on a silver platter.

Quote from Jay

Jay: [aside to camera] Actually, I don't know how she took it, 'cause I wasn't there. We dated a few weeks, then after we, you know, I slipped out of her house before she woke up and never called her again. Put my pants on in her yard, put the car in neutral, let it roll down the driveway, lights off. Hey, I can't talk about this anymore.

Quote from Gloria

Gloria: So because of this woman, you didn't vote for your daughter? It's Claire! We need her to win! I don't want to be around when something that tight comes unraveled.

Quote from Phil

Phil: Climb aboard the Dunphy Express. Next stop: democracy.
Walt: What? No, no-
Phil: Please don't go. I won't do that anymore. I promise.

Quote from Phil

Walt: What the hell's wrong with her? She sounds drunk!
Phil: It's a tooth thing.
Walt: [beeping] Uh-oh.
Phil: What's wrong?
Walt: Oh, I'm almost out of air. Oh, boy.
Phil: Is that serious?
Walt: Is oxygen serious?
Phil: You know what? I lost a ton of time getting your glasses. I'm just gonna drop you at home. You can get your air. I can drive other people.
Walt: I don't have any more tanks at home.
Phil: Why? That seems like bad planning.
Walt: Well, I forgot to order them. My pills make me forget things. Oh, shoot! I gotta take my pill!
Phil: Please tell me you have it with you.
Walt: Of course I do, but I have to take 'em with food. Don't I?
Phil: Are you asking me?
Walt: Uh, yes! I do take them with food! Ooh. I don't feel so well.
Phil: Okay, I'll get you whatever you want! I'll get you the air, I'll get you the food.
Walt: Then I'll vote for your drunk wife.
Phil: That is not her drunk voice!

Quote from Phil

Phil: Councilwoman Dunphy, how do you respond to allegations that you look super sexy in your new suit?
Claire: Uh, I haven't been elected yet.

Quote from Haley

Claire: All right, everybody, come on! Do you know what you're doing, kids? You guys are manning the phone banks. Alex, you're in charge of that.
Haley: Wh- Why is she in charge? And what's- What's a phone bank?
Alex: That's why.

Quote from Luke

Phil: I will be driving 50 of our finest senior citizens to the polls, assuming, of course, that they remember that I'm coming for them. Where you at?
Luke: [chuckles] High-five. Old people occasionally forget things.

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