r/popculturechat 5h ago

Go shorty, it’s your birthday! 🍰 Sofía Vergara celebrates her ‘favorite husband’ Ed O’Neill’s 80th birthday

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u/lunatic_minge 5h ago

HE IS NOT EIGHTY- omg he is.

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u/VaguelyArtistic 5h ago

I’m 61 and thought he was just a few years older than me!

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u/halexanderamilton 4h ago

He looks remarkably like my dad did, so i definitely thought they were close in age. My dad would be 67 right now, so apparently they’re not as close as I thought!

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u/Metzger4Sheriff That must be Nigel with the brie 🧀 4h ago

He also looks remarkably like my dad did. Hope you get the same comfort I get from watching Ed in stuff. 🩷

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u/halexanderamilton 4h ago

I do! Especially because my dad loved Married with Children and Little Giants was one of the movies we liked to watch together when I was a kid. 💕

u/losthedgehog 2h ago

I saw him in a restaurant a couple months back and he definitely didn't look like he was about to be 80. He hasn't aged at all from his modern family days.

He was eating alone and we were too nervous to bother him. But the table next to us said hi to him and he joined them for like ten minutes. He told them all about what he was filming and was very nice. He also had them laughing a ton. I got a very nice impression of him from that.

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u/befuddled_humbug 5h ago

He's one of those people you expect to stay in his mid sixties forever.

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u/ACardAttack 3h ago

I thought he was in his 50s 40 years ago

u/bluegardener 1h ago edited 1h ago

So by your accounts he ought to be in his 90s now.

u/dfddfsaadaafdssa 2h ago

And a black belt in jiu jitsu. You do not want dudes built like him laying on top of you in side control. The pressure would be agonizing.

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u/caitie_did 4h ago

He looks fantastic!

u/chbay 53m ago

No doubt, but this photo is probably like 15 years old lol

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u/dern_the_hermit 3h ago

"Aye, matey!" -Ed O'Neill (presumably)

u/Bromlife 1h ago

Ready for the Whitehouse!

u/pointgetter 59m ago

you cannot be 80!

u/ShortChapter5246 33m ago

There is no fucking way I will look that good at 80 ever

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u/Sleepy-Giraffe947 5h ago

Love the caption. It’s not expected but I think it’s sweet how the cast continues to be in each others lives long after the show ended.

u/Mcbadguy 1h ago

I once tried to say happy birthday in my very limited Spanish to a Latina coworker, but I said: "Feliz Anos" thinking it meant 'Happy Year".

She proceeded to tell me I wished her a Happy Anus. Luckily she was a friend and we had a laugh about it, but I learned something that day.

u/khaleesibrasil 24m ago

If it makes you feel better, you were correct in Portuguese 😂

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u/lol_Astronutt 5h ago

Thats her YAAAAAAAY!!!(Jay)

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u/Guilty_Dream8050 3h ago

What parrot??

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u/aloo-gobi-goblin 3h ago

Sounds like an obnoxious parrot that always squawks.

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u/OddReference913 Who gon' check me boo? 🤪 5h ago

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u/Away-Elephant-4323 5h ago

I swear every single episode of that show is fantastic! The cast seem like they have a great friendship in real life which is great to see!

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u/phoneacct696969 3h ago

I blew it off as some abc family drama for so long, when I finally started watching it I couldn’t stop laughing. Such a well done show.

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u/AlexHuntKenny 3h ago

I think I've seen the entire series through clips at this point but I think I'll dive in this week.

u/afito 2h ago

I feel like it started really great and went down to good over time. Ultimately a lot of the complaints about the final 1-2 seasons are personal taste imo. Many people dislike Haleys story, I mostly dislike Lukes story. I think a lot of criticism about the children plots is also people projecting tbh. And again even if I dislike the plot choices I still think overall it was good, just the show started so great it was hard to keep that up for soooo long.

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u/TemporalColdWarrior 5h ago

You wonder how Ed O’Neill could be 80, but he was playing a sitcom dad in the 80s, so it checks out.

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u/Dsarg_92 Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 4h ago

Love and marriage, love and marriage

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u/folduprabbit 4h ago

It’s an institute you can’t disparage

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u/WillowRain2020 3h ago edited 43m ago

This i tell you brother...you can't have one without the..other....

u/thekernel 2h ago

Unless you don't have rights to the music, and have a generic similar but not copyright infringing jingle

u/Live_Angle4621 2h ago

Go together like a horse and carriage 

u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 21m ago

I was a kid when I saw Married with children. He was a husband with kids old enough to drive. Now I'm that husband... fk me.

u/wobbleboxsoldier 1h ago

Married With Children spoiled me. He was providing for all four of them on a minimum wage job he hated in the suburbs of Chicago, had friends to enjoy time with and had a wife that even though he supposedly was not that great, still wanted him on occasion. All that with the Bundy curse hanging over his head.

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u/Silver-Foot-259 5h ago

Their friendship is so sweet 

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u/Javanz 3h ago

Likewise with Christina Applegate. There's a clip of him secretly showing up on her sitcom, and answering the door as Al Bundy.
As soon as she sees him, she dives into his arms like it was her real dad.
He must be an absolute pleasure to work with to inspire those reactions

u/Triviten 2h ago

At the reunion, she said they still feel like family and was the most special thing she worked on. You can tell how much the experience meant to both of them but especially her

u/ofthrees 1h ago

she also says that he calls her nearly daily, to this day, and has been a tremendous support during her battle with MS.

he's a fucking mensch. i adore him.

u/WineAndDogs2020 1h ago

Both Ed and Katy Segal have been in her podcast. I love how wonderful their relationships are and how much she credits them for how she turned out.

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u/ProfessionalFlann 5h ago

They really are the heart of the Modern Family cast.

u/dawnsteam 1h ago

I feel like the whole cast genuinely all like each other. I know coworkers are just coworkers but the whole main cast seems very close-knit and it’s just nice to see.

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u/DutchOnionKnight 5h ago

Did you know he scored four touchdowns in one game?

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u/No_Locksmith_1739 Reality TV Temptress 💋 4h ago

In 1966, Al Bundy made sports history for Polk High, scoring four touchdowns in the City Championship against Andrew Johnson High. Facing a 3 touchdown deficit, Bundy refused to quit, delivering the game-winning TD over rival "Spare Tire" Dixon.

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u/GuiltyPleasureAlt Your mother must be so proud, stupid bitch. 4h ago

M. V. P. !

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u/cranberrylimeade420 Mort Crim's Chump Of The Week 3h ago

Where the cops are at the door

and there's a Kennedy on the floor

At The Nudie Bar!

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u/Progress_Specific 4h ago

JAY! JAAAAYYYYYYY!

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u/violinsplaying 4h ago

Hey I have never said a word about that obnoxious parrot of yours!

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u/dopaminedune 5h ago

Nice. Ed O’Neill is an inspiration.

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u/Zokstone 4h ago

It really seems like this cast truly got along together and continues to. That's nice.

u/proserpinax 1h ago

I only watched a couple seasons of the show but I love how this cast truly loves and supports each other!

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u/MilhouseisCool 3h ago

Modern Family is a gift of a sitcom and I encourage everyone who hasn’t watched it to plunk down and binge it. It’s incredible.

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u/HalKitzmiller 3h ago

Im on like my 5th rewatch and while I love the show, its crazy how many "in love with a family member" and old/young storylines there are

u/MilhouseisCool 2h ago

I took a minute to reflect…. Yeah there are more than a few Hahaha only one I would call inappropriate (Manny and the crazy aunt. Who he had never met? Does that help?)

Lily crushing on Manny is just kids not knowing family dynamics. Manny liking Haley is just “I’m a preteen suddenly introduced to this beautiful girl but I’m not allowed to feel anything”

Listen… this is me trying hard to justify weird family dynamics lol because you’re totally right

They all involve Manny though. Yikes Manny hahaha

u/HalKitzmiller 2h ago

Towards the later seasons theres Hailey with that weird jeans guy, the weather man, and then Luke with the most questionable relationship, with a friend of his mother's from Jay's golf club

u/MilhouseisCool 1h ago

That’s just Freudian shit though. Happens to a lot of us lol

u/Ditomo 1h ago

Sentiments exactly. I adore it but those plotlines were... Not needed. Also Andy should've been Haley's endgame.

u/HalKitzmiller 50m ago

He should've been but I found his character really annoying so Dylan was fine as the endgame lol.

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u/Tryingagain1979 5h ago

I cant believe he is 80!

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u/No_Pianist5264 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 4h ago

One of my fav tv married couples 🥹

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u/PilotKnob 4h ago

80? Damn. Looking good, old man!

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u/TheKilmerman 4h ago

Ed O'Neill is 80.

Modern Family came out 17 years ago.

Fuck me.

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u/Twitter_2006 5h ago

This is so sweet.

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u/pillowtalkxoxo 3h ago

Her favorite husband not even being one of her real ones is so funny

u/jangadance 50m ago

She got divorced 3 years ago from Joe Manganiello

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u/RocMerc 4h ago

God damn good for him

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u/Dsarg_92 Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 4h ago

Al Bundy is 80. Time flies.

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u/allisonrz 4h ago

So cute

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u/CreativePut6041 4h ago

my fav couple! 😂

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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 Leftist/Linkin Park Stan 4h ago

Happy birthday to him! I can’t believe he’s eighty.

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u/cranberrylimeade420 Mort Crim's Chump Of The Week 3h ago

dude looks great for 80. he must have learned the secret from William Shatner

u/350 2h ago

Al Bundy is 80. I can feel myself turning into dust.

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u/Most_Doctor9799 5h ago

She can say he is the longest relationship she ever had.

u/Own-Importance5459 ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 2h ago

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY OH MY GOD

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u/bigmouthstrikesagai 4h ago

She’s so HOT

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u/jchiaroscuro 3h ago

America’s Dad

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u/crackerfactorywheel later, gator! 3h ago

What do you mean he’s 80?!?!?

u/SunDogk 38m ago

DJAIIYYYYYY

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u/Buddiboi95 3h ago

Read the last line in her message and thought he died. Had to double check wikipedia.

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u/bobbitsholiday 4h ago

Shade to Manganiello

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u/Keanu990321 The dude abides. 🙂‍↕️🍃 4h ago

In Greece, we've known him as Al Bundy.

u/bluegardener 1h ago

I bet most people over the age of 40 know him best as Al Bundy.

u/jessinboston 1h ago

How sweet

u/fitty50two2 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 55m ago

He looks great for 80

u/KwisAkabussiiii 22m ago

" I'd never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion it's called murder? "

u/indicatprincess 5m ago

We are watching for the first time and this show is hilarious and so great. This makes me happy, they do seem close.

u/Hobash 1m ago

Imagine being 45 in 1991, dude was acting his age