[1] Picking up where the last season left off, Haley (Sarah Hyland) and Claire (Julie Bowen) attempt to stop Andy (Adam DeVine) from proposing to Beth (Laura Ashley Samuels).
In the meantime, Alex (Ariel Winter) is still dating Sanjay Patel (Suraj Partha) but they have decided to end their relationship when going back to school.
He becomes more obsessed with the hobby which begins to concern Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) after Cam learns that Mitchell gave Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) a ketchup packet for dinner.
Before the episode, it was announced that the show was recasting Joe, the son of Jay and Gloria, who has been played by Pierce Wallace for the previous two seasons.
He said "“Summer Lovin'” works because of its ability to succinctly sum up several of the loose ends it had established from last season" and closed his review by stating that the show "is a veteran in the entertainment dugout.
[9] Mark Trammell of TVEquals.com also enjoyed the episode, stating "The show remains as sharp and funny as ever, and if the whole “fat Andy” thing was a bit unfortunate, timing-wise, it was hardly enough to derail the whole process".
[11] Lisa Fernandez of Next Projection was mixed on the episode, praising Mitch's plot, saying "it′s a hoot watching his dad and Cam try to pull him out of the spiral", while criticizing Haley and Andy's because "in the end it leads to the same thing they had before this storyline started".