Phil (Ty Burrell) and Claire (Julie Bowen) arrange their Valentine's date at their usual restaurant, but after being shocked by Dylan's (Reid Ewing) present for Haley (Sarah Hyland), they decide to spend the night at a hotel and indulge in some role playing instead.

When his client decides to settle before Mitchell has the opportunity to give one of his best speeches, he comes back home frustrated and with no Valentine's spirit.

That seems to lift Mitchell a bit but it soon goes south when they see that Manny is terribly depressed because he wrote a Valentine poem for a girl, but another classmate took the credit.

Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria (Sofía Vergara) go to a comedy club at the hotel where David Brenner is performing.

The next morning Phil calls Claire to discuss the previous night's romantic escapades at the hotel, not realizing that she's driving the kids to school and they can all hear what he is saying on the minivan's speakerphone.

In its original American broadcast, "My Funky Valentine" was viewed by 9.84 million viewers with a Nielsen rating of 4.2/11, matching with the previous rating high from "Fifteen Percent" and the pilot episode and helping it come second in its timeslot after American Idol, and making it the most viewed episode on ABC Comedy Wednesday helping ABC come third for the night after CBS and FOX.

Robert Canning from IGN gave the episode an 8.6 saying it was "Great" and "the three storylines from "My Funky Valentine" had a lot of laughs.

Club gave the episode an A− saying that "It may not be the freshest idea in the world, but I haven't laughed this hard at a sitcom in a long time."