"Sleeper" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 117th overall. It was aired on April 30, 2014. The episode was directed by Ryan Case and written by Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh & Bill Wrubel. In the episode, the family gets ready for the first family portrait to include Joe. Phil promises Claire that he will wait at the house for a washing machine repairman, but lies that he did not arrive when actually Phil left on a crazy errand. Haley joins Luke at a laundromat to wash his black shirt for the photo, but he ends up leaving with some girl's black shirt instead. Gloria believes that Joe may be too "white" for her family so she takes him in the sun before the photo, leading to a bad sunburn and a worse solution from Manny. Claire is upset with Cameron for not using the clothes she gave Lily, while Mitchell is upset when no one notices his presence or absence, not even when they pose for the portrait picture without him. "Sleeper" received mixed reviews from the critics. Plot Claire (Julie Bowen) asks Phil (Ty Burrell) to wait for the repairman of the washing machine since the rest of the family will be absent from home. Phil tells her not to worry but when he receives a call from a discman who informs him that a song (which reminisces him about his first sexual experience) has been re-edited, he rushes to the store to buy it. Coming back home and ready to listen to it, he realizes that it looks like infidelity to Claire and decides to destroy the disc. The repairman comes in his absence and Phil feels guilty about it and lies to Claire by saying that the repairman did not come. Claire believes him and calls the company to protest while Phil can not hide his guilt. Alex (Ariel Winter), who has an AP Biology essay assignment about narcolepsy, notices that her dad constantly falls asleep and knowing that this might be a sign of guilt, she forces him to tell the truth on their way to Jay's (Ed O'Neill) house. Meanwhile, Luke's (Nolan Gould) black shirt needs to be washed as Gloria (Sofía Vergara) decides to organize a new family portrait since Joe's birth. He and Haley (Sarah Hyland) go to the laundromat where