Australia

Sobre Australia

"Australia" é o 20º episódio da quinta temporada da sitcom americana Modern Family, e o 116º da série no total. Foi ao ar em 23 de abril de 2014. O episódio foi escrito por Elaine Ko & Danny Zuker e dirigido por Steven Levitan. O episódio é notável por sua inclusão de marcos e pontos de interesse australianos. Cada personagem no episódio explora a Austrália à sua maneira e encontra atitudes em evolução e crescimento pessoal ao encontrar obstáculos inesperados durante sua visita. O episódio obteve 9,59 milhões de visualizações em sua primeira transmissão e recebeu críticas mistas.

Visão geral

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Notable quotes

“Distance is the continual theme and has been one of the main conditioning factors in Australian history. She was distant and dependent, a continent swinging on a long chain in antipodean darkness.”
— Marjorie Barnard, A History of Australia (1962)
“[At the time of Federation] Most Australians were still strangers in a new land. The land was only half won.”
— Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won (1980)
“I have just finished writing a full-sized novel; title, Such is Life; scenery, and northern Vic.; temper, democratic; bias, offensively Australian.”
— Joseph Furphy, self-introduction to , published in The Bulletin (4 April 1897). Quoted in Iris Murdoch, (1962), ch. 9
“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
— Douglas William Jerrold, "A Land of Plenty", The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (1859)
“Surely what the Americans have done by war, Australians can bring about in peace.”
— Sir Henry Parkes, Tenterfield Oration (24 October 1889)
“Australia began her political history as a crouching serf kept in subjection by the whip of a ruffian gaoler, and her progress, so far, consists merely in a change of masters.”
— The Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 416 (21 January 1888)

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