Gloria spends the episode snapping at trick-or-treaters while Jay battles a sudden crisis of confidence. After failing to flirt his way out of a speeding ticket, Jay worries he is losing his looks and growing too old.
After going way too far the previous year and traumatizing the neighborhood children (and Phil), Claire is strictly ordered to keep her Halloween "kid-friendly".
Cam's desperate attempts to find a costume that shows off his new slim physique, only to end up in a bulky father-daughter costume with Lily. [S4E5] Open House of Horrors
Lily insists on being a princess for the second year in a row. It is revealed that Mitchell once told a tired white lie to Lily, claiming her biological mother was "a princess in a faraway land".
Phil's line back to Claire about her scaring people: "You literally scared a little saliva and a little urine out of a man." Cam's desperate attempts to find a costume that
Originally airing on October 24, 2012, this episode perfectly blends the show's signature quick-witted chaos with genuinely sweet, developing family milestones.
Gloria walking around a Halloween party dressed as an alien, providing plenty of cheeky nods to her status as a Colombian immigrant. Phil's line back to Claire about her scaring
Gloria is pregnant and her raging hormones make her incredibly short-tempered, though she refuses to admit it.