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Thunk in the Trunk

‘Thunk in the Trunk’

Season 7, Episode 13 -  Aired February 17, 2016

Phil starts to feel like an underappreciated "house husband" as Claire's new job has her acting like an "alpha male" boss. Jay gets jealous when he sees people ogling a life-size cardboard cutout of Gloria. Meanwhile, Mitchell feels Cameron is being irrational when he starts snooping on the trio of house guests who are renting the unit upstairs.

Quote from Manny

Parker: Hey, Delgado, thank your mom for my new screen saver.
Manny: Will do, Parker. And speaking of two-dimensional women who know a thing or two about sauce, stop by Flanagan's and say hi to your mom for me.

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Quote from Jay

Jay: I know you were bothered by that cutout.
Manny: But every teenager gets teased, and you have to rise above it, so...
Jay: Your mother's in the trunk.
Manny: What?
Jay: I couldn't stand the ogling and the selfies, so I stole it. For both our sakes. We're in this together.
Manny: How? I didn't steal it.
Jay: Oh, I see where this is going. You complain and complain, I make the problem go away, and you had nothing to do with it.
Manny: I didn't ask for this. I didn't ask for any of this.
Jay: Let's not turn on each other. It'll make us sloppy.

Quote from Phil

Phil: [aside to camera] Sitting with all those gals, I thought, "Wow, this is an insane amount of perfume. And also, am I on my way to becoming an invisible housewife?" No way. There'd be signs, right?

Quote from Claire

Phil: Hey, stranger. Been keeping dinner warm for ya.
Claire: Oh, that's nice. I had a steak at the club. But I wouldn't knock a scotch out of your hands.
Phil: Sure thing. Hey, is now an okay time to go over this list of house stuff?
Claire: Mm-hmm. Let's see. Don't care, don't care, call a guy, don't care.
Phil: Guess who got the big listing on Westmount today.
Claire: Oh, that's great, sweetie. It'll keep you busy.

Quote from Gloria

Gloria: What the hell? Somebody stole my cutout.
Jay: Stolen? Damn it! Well, there's no point in replacing it because it's just gonna get stolen again.
Gloria: I can't replace it. It took two weeks just to get the mechanical arm working right. Oh, wait till I catch this rat. I'm going to make him regret that he was ever- Hey, Jay, turn the heater on. I can hear Manny's teeth chattering.

Quote from Claire

Claire: Phil, I'm late for an appointment with a client. Can you do me a favor?
Phil: If it's to put flowers in the bathroom, I already did.
Claire: Oh, I hadn't noticed.
Phil: Not surprised.

Quote from Phil

Claire: Okay, I was supposed to get this client a bottle of scotch. I haven't had time to do it myself. So can you pick one up and bring it down to the office?
Phil: Whatever you need. I have to go out for a haircut anyway.
Claire: Great.
Phil: Except I got a haircut yesterday.

Quote from Gloria

Phil: Excuse me, Gloria. Apparently, I don't know how to keep a kitchen clean.
Gloria: What is that?
Phil: Oh, it's just a little hush-up gift from my powerful wife who thinks she can take me for granted. And I'll just hover after her like a little puppy dog.
Gloria: You have to stop putting up with it. They don't mean to ignore you, but it will only get worse. One time when I had just married Jay, I spent a whole day cooking his favorite dinner.
Phil: Beef Wellington and a baked potato with all the fixin's?
Gloria: Yes. And then when he got home, he barely noticed what I had made. So I took the emerald pendant that he had bought me for the three past dinners that he had missed and I threw it at his head. I told him I don't need fancy things. I need the respect.
Phil: Isn't that an emerald pendant?
Gloria: It made its way back to me. But the point is that you have to make a statement. You have to give back the hoverboard.

Quote from Cameron

Cameron: Okay, Mitchell, what if they're a part of some weird cult? Remember that "20/20" we watched where they infiltrated the ritual ceremony and Elizabeth Vargas had to almost sacrifice a squirrel?
Lily: [entering] I went through the bag they dumped in the trash. Oh, hi...
Mitchell: Now you're involving our daughter?
Cameron: I don't know what she's talking about.

Quote from Cameron

Cameron: What are these creepy things? If these dolls could talk...
Mitchell: They'd tell you I dropped one and then their head came off.
Cameron: Well, you have to put it back.
Mitchell: Maybe they won't notice one of them's missing.
Cameron: Yeah, this seems like a casual interest.

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