Gloria (
Sofía Vergara) and Manny (
Rico Rodriguez) go to pick up Jay (
Ed O'Neill) from his workplace to take him to a restaurant for lunch. While there one of Jay's employees, Jack (Bryan Krasher), lets Manny handle a
forklift which he drives into the wall. Because of the incident, Jay fires Jack, much to Manny's anger and dismay. Meanwhile, Jay tries to figure out what anniversary Gloria is celebrating today, because she celebrates everything, including their first fight. Jay thinks he has figured what they are celebrating, and therefore where he is to meet Gloria despite Manny's efforts to
blackmail Jay into hiring Jack again. Jay maintains that he will not hire Jack back because he almost "hurt [his] kid." Manny, touched by Jay calling him his kid, tells him the real location of the date. At the Dunphy house, Claire (
Julie Bowen) and Haley (
Sarah Hyland) get sick and have to stay home. The two initially bond, but soon Dylan (
Reid Ewing) calls Haley, making Claire angry. After Dylan hangs up, Claire tries to convince Haley to break up with Dylan and start going out with David a much brighter kid that Claire prefers (albeit without mentioning either name), using one of the useless male characters on
All My Children as an example. Unfortunately, Haley thinks Claire is talking about herself and Phil (
Ty Burrell). With Claire sick, Phil takes care of her jobs while trying to find an annoying smoke detector that keeps beeping. Seeing this as a sign he is not man, Phil tries his best to find the smoke detector, to do all of Claire's jobs, and to get his clients back, failing at everything. Soon after replacing the batteries in all the new smoke detectors, Phil uses his old cheerleading
baton to destroy a couple of the smoke detectors. He soon realizes that Luke (
Nolan Gould) had left the old smoke detectors in the attic last year, and they were the ones that were chirping. In the meantime, Cameron (
Eric Stonestreet) takes Lily to act in a commercial for a children's furniture store, against Mitchell's (
Jesse Tyler Ferguson) decision. Adult actors perform voice over for Lily and another Asian child, using stereotypical dubbed-Japanese accents. Mitchell arrives at the studio and confronts Cameron, pointing out that the commercial is racist because it exploits Lily's Asianness and not her acting ability. Cameron initially denies the charge, but then the director brings in the SaveZilla (
Godzilla) monster. Cameron asks the director (Darren Dupree Washington) to tone down the stereotypical accents, but the director refuses, saying that it is a satire. Cameron takes Lily away, but not before choosing the wrong Asian child first. ==Production==