Modern Family: parents' guide

Played for laughs: slapstick, toy-gun shootouts, a shoving match in a flashback, and jokes about prison gangs and crime. A teen accidentally knocks over a police officer while resisting arrest.

Regular mild cursing such as damn, hell, crap, bitch and bastard, and frequent use of God's name. A toddler says the f-word about seven times in one episode, bleeped, and the finale has another bleeped f-word. Some insensitive remarks are played for comedy.

Frequent sexual innuendo, and married couples caught in suggestive moments, sometimes in underwear. A man hints at a threesome, a mother helps her teen get birth control, and a later season has an unplanned pregnancy. A teen's hospital gown falls open in one gag.

Adults drink wine, cocktails and Scotch, and one person gets drunk. A teen is arrested for underage drinking, a woman admits to eating a marijuana edible, and a character is loopy on opiates before surgery.

Nothing frightening. Grief arrives late in the run, when Claire and Mitchell's mother dies in season 10 and Phil's father dies in season 11, both handled with warmth and humor.