[1] The episode features the first appearance of Javier, Manny's biological father and Gloria's first husband, portrayed by Benjamin Bratt.
Gloria (Sofía Vergara) is less than pleased with Jay's (Ed O'Neill) reaction to the arrival of Javier (Benjamin Bratt), Manny's (Rico Rodriguez) infamously unreliable dad.
While suffering from the pain, Luke (Nolan Gould) takes advantage to confess to breaking the glass coffee table which cost the Dunphys their hired help when he blamed it on her (and who was deported as jobless).
He plans on taking advantage of the guilt Claire feels for flirting with the firemen but it is short-lived, as she discovers the very attractive patients a couple of rooms down that Phil visited while in the hospital.
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) have a harder time than Lily as they attempt to sleep train her.
[1] The episode was later put in for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Ty Burrell.
[6] Chris "Boomer" Beachum and Rob Licuria of the "Los Angeles Times" said that Ty Burrell with this episode had the second biggest chance of winning the Emmy Award after Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family.