Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) takes Haley (Sarah Hyland) to his alma mater to show her what college is like, a visit he clearly enjoys for the nostalgia.
Haley is glad to spend the time with her father, but a little embarrassed by his eagerness to relive his own college days.
Meanwhile, his wife Claire (Julie Bowen) savors the prospect of a night out on her own, since their other two children are at sleepovers with their friends.
Phil runs into the party and tears Haley away from a young man she's talking to, only to learn he's someone he once coached in whiffle ball, and his parents are nearby.
Jay (Ed O'Neill) settles down reluctantly to watch a telenovela with Gloria (Sofía Vergara), when Manny (Rico Rodriguez) takes delivery of a package and quickly runs upstairs to his room without explaining what it is.
Gloria, now prepared to concede Jay might have been right, joins her husband as they go to his room and find him hanging upside down in his closet door wearing a weighted helmet ... apparently his package was a device to make him taller.
Manny tells Gloria and Jay that he bought the device because a girl he was interested in liked taller boys.
Claire joins Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) for their night out.
At the end of the episode, Claire, in response to a call from Luke for his retainer, goes back to the sleepover, only to be caught in her lies by the other mothers, and discover that Julian is straight and not gay as she thought; Phil explains to Haley that he still wants to protect her, and will not have much more time to enjoy that aspect of being her father; Mitchell and Cameron return home in the badly dented car, met by the owner, who says he can see they have met his wife.
[5] "Hit and Run" was the most-watched show for the week of broadcast among adults aged 18–49, beating Sunday Night Football.