Claire Affection Threat Level: Barely Tolerant

Valentine's Day continues receding further and further into the past, and yet Phil (Ty Burrell) is still working off all the horniness Claire (Julie Bowen) threw at him on that special occasion. In last night's episode, Claire and Phil came together long enough for him to give her a rocket-ship analogy regarding Haley (Sarah Hyland) and her sudden practice of treating Claire like a fellow human being -- almost as a peer; once Claire had acknowledged in their interview that he had, in fact, come up with it, the two went along their separate ways for the rest of the episode, and both seemed the happier for it, as usual.