Spoiler Alert.
Claire's college reunion is coming up, and she doesn't really want Phil to come with her. Luckily for her, Phil has a bowling tournament with Jay and his friends and can't make it. At the reunion, Claire reconnects with an old classmate she used call 'Tater' (guest star David Faustino) and an old professor she used to date.
When Phil gets kicked off the bowling team, he decides to surprise Claire at the reunion. They end up going for drinks at her professor's house, and a small part of Claire can't help wondering how her life would have turned out if she had stayed with Professor Cooke (guest star Maxwell Caulfield). But when his depressed, unbalanced wife shows up, Claire remembers how lucky she is to have Phil.
Meanwhile, Mitch and Cameron are getting ready to host an Oscar party. Cameron wants to take pictures of Lily dressed up as different Hollywood starlets, but six hours into the photo shoot, she gets cranky, and they decide to replace her with baby Joe. Lily 'helps' by gluing Joe's headdress to his hair, and Cam and Mitch have to find a way to fix it before Gloria finds out. Their Oscar party goes well -- a little too well, maybe, because they wake up and discover that they somehow promised Dylan, Haley's delinquent on-and-off boyfriend, that he could move in with them.
At the Pritchett household, Manny is depressed because he's failed three singing auditions in a row. Gloria asks Jay to take Manny shopping to cheer him up. Manny takes so long trying on clothes that Jay is worried he'll be late for his big bowling tournament -- so instead of driving Manny home from the mall, he gives him a fifty dollar bill and puts him on a city bus. But then he feels bad and drives up alongside the bus, and tells Manny that he is a great singer...he just needs more practice singing in public. He tells Manny to start singing right then. Manny belts out the first few lines of Frank Sinatra's 'That's Life,' and finally overcomes his fears.
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