Modern Family S4 E9 - When a Tree Falls (Cut Reaction)
Added 2025-08-13 17:05:01 +0000 UTCMitch and Cam try to save an old tree in the park; Jay takes Manny to a kid's Olympics-themed birthday party; Gloria and Claire have an eventful shopping trip.
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I think if no one was around then the tree would still make a noise. Sure, we didn鈥檛 hear it. But it still happened. The five senses humans share aren鈥檛 the end all/be all of the universe. If we鈥檙e basing whether or not something happened purely on our sense of it, then the tree never fell in the first place. We didn鈥檛 see it fall. How do we know?
MattEff
2025-08-24 05:11:25 +0000 UTCNeither did we 馃槀 The recording device doesn鈥檛 prove sound was heard, it just proves that pressure waves hit the microphone. The device converts the waves into an electrical signal, which you only experience as sound when you play it back. It doesn鈥檛 prove that sound exists without perception. Take all recording/listening devices out the equation, there is nothing to pick up those sound waves. I don鈥檛 know the correct answer, but I think that鈥檚 the beauty of the thought experiment.
Damon Richmond
2025-08-15 11:15:04 +0000 UTCDidn't expect this episode to start with 5 minutes of Damo & Nick's Philosophical Hour! Personally I'd say that if a tree falls and there's no one around to hear it, it very much does make a sound. Cause if you'd put an unmanned camera on there and replayed the footage afterwards, surely you'd be able to hear a sound, right? As a chart/pop music stats anorak, I was a little bugged by Phil's (otherwise quite witty) cassingle remark. Cassingles were a very late-80s/early-90s thing and wouldn't have been around yet for Olivia Newton-John's 'Physical' from 1981. (Needless to say, I shall write a strongly worded letter to the episode writers responsible.)
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2025-08-14 23:31:56 +0000 UTC
