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Mitchell finds himself in a difficult position. He has recently gotten laid off after his company made some budget cuts, and he has not told Cam for a month. After being mistaken for having an affair, Mitchell comes clean to Cam, who suggests that he treat his period of unemployment as a break.
However, that plan falls through when Charlie sees how much at-ease Mitch is with his life. Mitchell finally tries to get another job after Jay tells him to, observing that his son is experiencing a mid-life crisis and convincing Mitch that he would only feel better when he starts working again.
Jay is Mitchell's father. Jay was a tough father growing up and took a while to accept that his son is gay even though it was apparently obvious in childhood. This and the fact that Mitch is closer to his mother, has led him to very much want to appeal to Jay.
Mitch says that he had to come out to him three times " Fifteen Percent ". It is stated in " The Kiss " that Mitchell has had a hard time showing affection because Jay remained emotionally reserved while they were growing up. Jay has recognized his mistakes with his son and has tried to reflect better understanding with his stepson, Manny. Despite Mitchell's complaints, he learned patience in dealing with his father and strength in acceptance. Claire is Mitchell's older sister, whom he is close to.
Though they had different personalities growing up, Claire enjoys how much she has in common with her brother. They share similar hobbies, such as exercise, craft-making, figure-skating and persnickety habits with high standards for their families and themselves. Claire and Mitchell once got into a small fight where Claire stated that Mitchell was a Mommy's Boy as he is closest to DeDe and always does everything for her. Mitchell also states that she's a Daddy's Girl as she says the word "Daddy" instead of "Dad", both these statements are actually true as Claire doesn't get along with her mother and Mitchell doesn't get along with his father very well.
In " En Garde ", it is revealed that Claire and Mitchell formed an ice-skating team when they were younger. Claire quit before a major competition, losing Mitchell's chance to impress their father.
After Claire reveals she did it to protect Mitchell from humiliation, Mitchell confesses that he has always hated the sport but still participated because they didn't hate each other as brother and sister when they were ice skating. But the two couples are really regretting it in the morning and try to tell each other that they changed their minds. Mitchell and Claire finally decide to definitely to not do it even though they love each other very much. DeDe is Mitchell's mother.
She is implied to be very close to Mitchell that when DeDe attempts to rectify her reputation with the family, she asks her "beautfiul boy" for help " The Incident ". Cameron says that even a fish in nature that swims around with its babies in its mouth and would still consider Mitchell and DeDe's relationship as messed up. And needless to say, DeDe always goes to Mitchell first when she visits as he always does things for her. Claire has once referred to him as a Mommy's Boy.
Lily is Mitchell's adopted daughter. Lily was born in in Vietnam. Mitchell is very committed in raising his daughter properly but is often distracted by work, missing a several milestones of her growing, which drives Mitchell to quit his job in " Truth Be Told ".
Lily would display quick wit in " The Big Guns " which leads Mitchell to conclude she would make a good lawyer. Gloria is Mitchell's step-mother. Mitchell often asks Gloria's help in babysitting as she adores Lily. In " Moon Landing ", Gloria seeks Mitchell's legal advice for hitting a car. After Gloria becomes offended that Mitchell insinuates that she may be a bad driver, she storms out but comes back later apologizing, after she crashes into a cupcake sign.
In " Goodnight Gracie , he helps her again to settle her case in Florida. In " After the Fire ", Mitchell reveals that they have grown closer after spending more time together and Gloria tells Claire that she prefers Mitchell over her. Phil is Mitchell's brother-in-law. They don't have very much in common and don't always have scenes with each other. In " Strangers on a Treadmill ", Mitchell makes a deal with Claire and tries to tell Phil that his jokes are unfunny, but is unable to go through with it after seeing Phil's sad face.
In " Tableau Vivant ", Phil fires Mitchell from the volunteer job he does at his real estate agency before Mitchell gets stuck inside an elevator. In " Diamond in the Rough ", Claire and Cam try their hand at flipping a house. Phil and Mitchell, however think they are setting themselves for failure and fight over who will be the bad guy and tell them this.
In " Goodnight Gracie ", Phil's mother Grace dies and Mitchell goes to Florida with the rest of the family for the funeral. Haley is Mitchell's Niece. In " Express Christmas ", while they go to buy a Christmas tree with Lily, discover that they have a lot of similar interests, including hatred of shopping.
In " Lifetime Supply ", Mitchell feels undermined by Cam's achievements and opens up to Alex who agrees with him, saying she feels the same way with her intellectually inferior siblings. This makes Mitchell realize that he was acting like a year-old girl and apologizes to Cam. In " Yard Sale ", Mitchell, together with Claire and Cam try to make Alex understand that her boyfriend, Michael, is gay, but she doesn't believe it.
Mitchell and Cameron frequently mentions their friends, some of which have peculiar names including Pepper Saltzman, Longinus, Jamarcus, L'Michael, Jeoux pronounced like "Joe" , couples including Steven and Stefan, and Anders and Cooper. Sal first appears in " Great Expectations ", where it is implied that the three used to be very close before the couple adopted Lily, during which Cam says Sal is basically their "baby".
She is seen to have some sort of hilarious rivalry with Lily because of this. Mitchell and Cameron serve as best men at Sal's wedding in " Best Men ". She tries to officiate their wedding in " The Wedding Part 2 " while heavily pregnant but her water breaks before she could start.
Pepper is one of Mitch's and Cam's close friends, whom the latter used to date. Pepper is known for throwing themed brunches which the guests eventually grew tired of after they become too much work. Here, she gives Alex a bit of dating advice, now that she's "finally interesting" and might have a boyfriend. On kissing the object of her affection, Haley advises that she "better get on it, or he'll think you're a lesbian.
Everyone needs a good kiss and a hug sometimes. Gloria can do no wrong. Seriously, this woman gets better and better. Here, Gloria acts as the voice of reason to her emotionally closed-off husband after he gives a less-than-enthusiastic "Thanks" to Phil for fixing his printer: "Wake up, dummy!
This is what we're talking about! This guy has been working all day like an imbecile for you! Meanwhile, in the very same episode, Phil and Claire sneak off to a hotel once again to explore some moderate kink and role-playing!!!
It's all packaged in family-friendly innuendo, but it's quite clear that these couples have sex lives. Not so for Mitch and Cam. Mitch and Cam do not get to have sex. Or attempt to, only to be thwarted by circumstance , like the other characters. They spent that particular episode getting drunk and dyeing cats pink.
They later try to take a page out of Phil and Claire's romantic playbook with a date at a hotel bar, though it abruptly ends there. But why? With the exception of more niche programs or shows locked behind premium cable pay walls like "Orange Is the New Black," "Queer as Folk" and "Six Feet Under," there is a shocking degree of silence on the sex lives of gay characters.
And when gay characters do serve as the centerpiece of a show, they are often completely celibate. Cam and Mitch are an integral part of the fictional family, but they don't get to share in the sexual charge or the schmaltzy innuendo that the show's other couples deal in. Five seasons into the series, it would seem only natural for the ever-present cameras following this family around to have caught the couple -- at least once!
Such a non-event could easily be played for laughs, as are so many of the show's other sexual high jinks.
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