Julie Bowen’s Claire Dunphy, for example, is certainly a TV mom that parented with an iron fist, having to wrangle not only her three kids but her often goofy husband, but it all came with love.

It’s hard to imagine Modern Family’s Claire Dunphy as anyone ... On the show’s first season, she guest-starred as Denise, the ex-girlfriend of Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell).