The Alliance

The AllianceSeason 8 Episode 9 title [via spoilertv This may be an episode. spoilertv is the only source to mention this.] is the eighth episode from Season 8 of Modern Family, it has aired on November 30, 2016.
==Plot Summary==
Haley's plan for a fun-filled girl's day with Rainer Shine's teen daughter may be a little more angst-filled than expected. Meanwhile, Luke finds himself in a compromising position with a widow at the club (played by Joely Fisher) and unwittingly helps his grandfather, Jay, with the latter’s petition. At the Pritchett-Tucker home, it is revealed that Gloria, Phil and Cam have formed a secret alliance to ensure their respective "mistakes" are concealed from their judgemental spouses. However, their plan threatens to be derailed when Mitchell starts suspecting something isn't right.http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/11/modern-family-episode-808-alliance.html
==Episode Description==
Haley has to chaperone Rainer's teenage daughter, where she learns a lesson about parenting rebellious children.
Jay creates a petition to re-allow smoking cigars in the country club. Luke, meanwhile, still works for him and earns some tips. He befriends a widow who try but fail to seduce him, and Jay sees this as an opportunity for Luke to help him get a signature on the petition.
Phil, Gloria and Cameron has formed an alliance against their spouses to secretly resolve one another’s issues before they are discovered by a Pritchett. They hide a reindeer Phil bought for Christmas, get rid of the Russian brothers who are squatting in the apartment above Cam and Mitch’s, and find Stella's electric collar that Gloria put on her against Jay’s wish.
But Mitchell discovers the truth when Manny says that Gloria had gone out to buy some orange juice but did not return home with any, something that Phil and Cameron had suspiciously done that morning too.
As Jay, Claire, and Mitchell express their disappointment at their spouses who betrayed them, they punish their spouses by voting where to spend the annual family vacation without them (as only the adults can vote), and choose to spend their vacation in Italy.
Phil, Gloria, and Cam put on a sad front when it is revealed that they are the ones who actually planned to go to Italy, and manipulated their spouses into thinking the same.
==Main Cast==
(The characters striked out do not appear in this episode)
* Jay Pritchett
* Gloria Pritchett
* Manny Delgado
* Joe Pritchett
* Claire Dunphy
* Phil Dunphy
* Haley Dunphy
* Alex Dunphy
* Luke Dunphy
* Mitchell Pritchett
* Cameron Tucker
* Lily Tucker-Pritchett
==Guest Starring==
*Nathan Fillion as Rainer Shine
*Joely Fisher as Maggie Braithwaite
*Brianna Askins as April Shine
*Kasey Mahaffy as Dom
*Leonid A. Mandel as Serge
*David Piggott as Minsk
*Alex Weber as Kevin
*Rahnuma Panthaky as Josie
==Trivia==
*Lily does not appear in this episode.
* This marks Josie's first appearance.
==Continuity==
==Cultural References==
*Manny wants to go to Edgar Allan Poe's birthplace in Boston, although there isn't anything there except a brass plaque.
*Luke wears Kicks, and in a fairly blatant piece of product placement the camera even pans down to show them on the screen.
==References==
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