“Ignorance is bliss” was likely the encompassing thought that prevailed Mitchell Pritchett’s brain when he unexpectedly discovers an underlying misunderstanding with an estranged and failed romantic affiliation. In the episode “Lake Life” of the television show, “Modern Family”, the protagonistic family decides to enjoy a picturesque vacation for the sake of tying intimate relations, and ends up with the classic trope of their plans going haywire on a full eclipse which includes Mitchell Pritchett, an openly homosexual character, that concedes into a fateful encounter with Scotty, a childhood friend he had unsuccessfully advanced on, one of which he had assumed was straight. To his dismay, he learns that Scotty had relayed some miscommunication