Author: Laura Bradley / Source: HWD
This post contains spoilers for Modern Family Season 10, Episode 5, “Good Grief.”
Rest in peace, DeDe Pritchett. On Wednesday night, Modern Family finally revealed the character death it’s been teasing since last month. The unlucky winner?
Shelley Long’s DeDe, who is Jay’s ex-wife and Claire and Mitchell’s mother. As the Dunphy family found out this week, DeDe died in her sleep during a trip with her women’s group to Greenland.Last month, Modern Family co-creator Christopher Lloyd teased that the long-running ABC comedy would kill off a “significant character,” leaving fans to guess who that might be. Many theorists pointed to Stella, the family’s French bulldog. Instead, apparently, it’s DeDe, who has only appeared on the long-running series eight times total—far less frequently than Stella. Then again, overstating the significance of a character death is not exactly a new gambit in television; The Simpsons fans might recall when the show spent months hyping up the death of a so-called major figure on the show, only to find out that the person in question was . . . Krusty the Clown’s father.
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