Fall Guide to Good TV: Modern Family

Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC

This offbeat half-hour mockumentary looks at the extended family of patriarch Jay, played by Married With Children’s Ed O’Neill. Much of the humor is supplied by Jay’s uptight son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Mitchell’s flamboyant partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) with their “sports-guy chest bump” and prepared speech for anyone who dares judge their adoption of a young Vietnamese girl.