Modern Family's going to kill a significant character

They aren't saying who.

Rico Rodriguez's father died recently. It would be cruel to make him play a bereaved son.

They won't kill any of the children. What does "significant character" mean, anyway? Does it mean not one of the main cast? Jay's ex-wife (Shelley Long)? Phil's father (Fred Willard)?

Phil being devastated by his wife's death wouldn't be funny. Claire would cope better with Phil's death. Mitch and Cam seem mostly annoyed with each other so one of them dying would be kind of a relief.

Doesn't Luke do stupid things that might kill him?

This will be the 10th and last season of the show. Couldn't the death of a child devastate the family and cause its final disintegration? Would be an awfully grim ending.

They'll all so bourgeois. Phil must be an amazing realtor. It's been pointed out that the women on the show are all unemployed, but Claire's gone back to work. Cam somehow became a football coach, and Manny somehow became a football player.

But, if you want to help stop global warming, stop working so much. Quit buying so much. Consumer capitalism is destroying the planet. Value free time over material possessions.

The Soviet Union didn't have a glut of consumer products. People there lived in small apartments; rent was set at 10% of income. But they had six weeks vacation a year, they retired at 55, they worked about 30 hours a week and when they were at work, they didn't work very hard. If we all lived that way we wouldn't be in a period of mass extinction.