stepson's

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011

Each family member is treated with respect, but each is also tweaked and given some funny business to play, from O'Neill's sitcom-pro chagrin at his stepson's romantic notions, to Bowen and Burell's method of dealing with a misused BB gun, to Ferguson's flustered reactions to Stonestreet's flamboyance.

Finally, ABC gives us a 'Modern Family' we can relate to 2009

Mr. Allen's "Honeymoon Motel," a formaldehyde-scented two-door farce in which a middle-age satyr (Steve Guttenberg) runs off with his stepson's much younger bride-to-be (Ari Graynor), is an outright embarrassment, not merely because of the what-was-he-thinking plot but because of the wearisomely tired jokes, one of which is recycled from "Annie Hall" and the rest of which could have been.

You Hear the One About the Hunchback? Terry Teachout 2011

This might be you and your stepson's wife, it might be your partner and his son.

Problem solved 2011

Here, the father of the groom runs off from the temple with his stepson's bride in the same dramatic way Dustin Hoffman ran off with Katherine Ross in The Graduate.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Relatively Speaking: Three One-Act Comedies at the Brooks Atkinson Theater Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011