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Lily Tucker-Pritchett

Lily Elizabeth Tucker-Pritchett is Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker 's adopted Vietnamese daughter. She is the older adoptive sister of Rexford Jason Tucker-Pritchett and the co-owner of Larry .

Lily was born in Vietnam on January 7, 2008 and was adopted as a baby by Mitch and Cam in September 2009. Mitchell originally wanted to wait to tell the extended family that they had adopted Lily. However, Cameron knew that Mitchell would shy away from introducing her forever, so he plans a surprise dinner where he introduces the baby in a Lion King manner. The whole family welcome her with open arms.

Lily was cared for by a group of Vietnamese women while she was in the orphanage, which was revealed in, " Fears ". It is unknown if she was cared for before this, but her parents either died or abandoned her. In " Open House of Horrors ", Lily believed her birth Mom was a princess due to Mitchell telling her so, when he was very sleepy, believing she would let it go but didn't. So, Cameron and Mitch have to reveal to 3 year old Lily, that they don't know who or where her mother is.

As a baby, Lily was a constant center of attention, being the youngest of the Tucker-Pritchett family. Cameron becomes a stay-at-home Dad with Lily, while Mitchell goes to work. Lily is a sophisticated young woman.

She is at times, doing activities with both of her fathers, but remains with her father, Cam at home while Mitchell works. Cameron often dressed her up as celebrities when she was a baby, such as Diana Ross, Madonna, and Ray Charles for the purpose of taking photographs. Cameron and Mitchell attempted to practice the Ferber method on Lily but Cameron can't resist catering to her during the night. According to Cam, Lily liked the movie Scarface. Another noticeable thing about Lily is that in most episodes she appears in she is seen with "Doggy", her stuffed dog, which appears to be a Labrador. She was a quiet and peaceful baby when portrayed by infants Ella and Jaden Hiller, and does not speak for the first two seasons.

In later seasons, Lily becomes a bubbly toddler with a snarkiness she seems to get from her parents as well as her aunt Claire, who often babysits her, this was revealed in " Fulgencio ". Even at a young age, Lily has shown kindness and selflessness, such as when she ran to get Joe as his pirate castle collapses (" Integrity ") and when she gives her Puppy Pound toy to a homeless boy for Christmas (" The Old Man & the Tree "). Although, in " Crying Out Loud ", her parents express how they have noticed Lily has not developed a sense of empathy so far, but, this may be due to the fact that she tends to display snarkiness more than empathy.

Lily is a hilarious, entertaining, and charming character with a sassy personality. In " Little Bo Bleep ", Lily is heard saying the F-word multiple times in front of a congregation solely for the purpose of making her daddy laugh hysterically. Lily quickly picks up on words or phrases said by other people, including from her aunt, Claire Dunphy. In the episode " Fulgencio ", Lily repeats snarky and sarcastic lines originally said by Claire, who had been spending time with her.

In Season 3 Lily is no longer played by babies Ella & Jaden Hiller , but instead by bubbly preschooler Aubrey Anderson-Emmons . She now begins to talk and becomes a full-fledged character. She is vocal about not wanting a new baby brother, but instead, a kitten named Larry which they adopt. She is shown to have some other faults typical of toddlers, such as difficulty with sharing.

She has had a petty rivalry with Luke and Manny because of this, until Joe is born in " Party Crasher ".

• 1 Physical Appearance (as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons)
• 2 Mishaps with Lily
• 3 Season Summaries
• 4.1.1 Mitchell
• 4.1.2 Cameron
• 4.1.4 Gloria
• 4.1.5 Claire
• 4.1.7 Haley
• 4.1.8 Alex Dunphy
• 4.1.9 Luke Dunphy
• 4.1.11 Manny
• 4.2 Love Interests
• 7 Appearances (played by Aubrey Anderson Emmons)

Physical Appearance (as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons ) [ ]

Lily has olive skin, black-brown long waist-length curly hair, and black eyes. She is bi-ethnic.

Mishaps with Lily [ ]

There have been several occasions in which Lily has been involved with and/or caused a problem during an episode:

The Bicycle Thief Lily seems behind, so Mitchell "steals another child's intellectual property", as he puts it, before realizing all playdates are recorded. Run for Your Wife Cameron has finally convinced Mitchell to dance with Lily. But Mitchell accidentally hits Lily's head on a door jamb when he throws her up in the air. After quite a bit of fussing, more by her fathers than by herself, Mitchell and Cam finally decide to take her into the doctor. It turned out Lily was fine, but it wasn't long before the next little incident occurred. Hawaii During a Hawaiian vacation, Mitch and Cam get into an argument that continues when they leave the elevator – and neither of them pushes the baby carriage out with them. Luckily Gloria finds a run-away Lily on the first floor.

Planes, Trains and Cars Mitchell and Cameron lose Lily's favorite stuffed bunny on the subway. She keeps Mitchell and Cameron up all night and they try to tell her that her bunny went to a magical land and to sleep with a different stuffed animal, which doesn't work either. Little Bo Bleep Lily discovers that cursing (particularly using the F-word) can elicit laughter from her Daddy, so she repeatedly drops the F-bomb as Cam and Mitch try to teach her not to say it. The episode culminates with Lily loudly shouting the F-bomb while she is a flower girl at a wedding. Disneyland It is revealed that Lily is a "runner", meaning that Lily will sometimes just run off, leaving her Daddy and Dad to try and look for her. Cam and Mitch try to keep her from straying from the family but it is to no avail; she dashes off at every opportunity, much faster than her Daddy and Dad can catch her. Finally, Cam resorts to putting a leash on her, though Mitchell can feel other parents judging her. Their parenting problem is solved when Jay buys Lily a pair of baby high heels, in which she has no choice but to walk her way along slowly and carefully.

Party Crasher She is shown to be favoring Mitchell and Cam goes out of his way to win back her affection. She is accidentally injured several times in this episode by Cam. Career Day Lily waits up for the tooth fairy and causes Cam to accidentally leave her quite a bit more money than he planned. Cam and Mitch pull out all the stops to get it back. The Future Dunphys Lily announces to her parents and Gloria that she is gay because she thinks that since both of her parents are gay, she is automatically gay as well. Later in the episode, it is discovered that she says this because of her desire to be more like her parents.

Spring-a-Ding-Fling Jay and Gloria were watching Lily. However, when Gloria’s phone breaks, they think Lily did it. She never admits she did it, Jay and Gloria were suspicious that she was lying. After a bit, Jay and Gloria deduced that Lily may have a big lying problem. She even said Joe was walking when to their prior knowledge, he couldn't. They have been trying to get him to walk because he was a little behind his age group. To their surprise, Joe did walk to Lily and she got away with it.

The Party Lily (with the bribe of as much Soda she could drink), Luke and Manny throw a party the same night Phil and Mitch are given some gummy bears with weed/THC in them at a movie premiere from a friend. Both Claire and Gloria are out together. Leaving Manny and Luke to watch over Lily. Phil and Mitch just ate the gummy bears just as the alert from his and Claire's security system went off. Indicating that there was a fire but the alarm stopped immediately afterward so Phil thought nothing of it. Claire insists that the boys are up to no good seeing as they were so insistent on getting them out of the house. Gloria calls Manny to prove her wrong and he tells her that they burnt the cookies they were baking. Since Manny never lies to Gloria, she believed him. Luke yells at Manny that the house's oven is broken. Claire informs Gloria of this and concludes that there is a party. Claire calls Phil and he, the girls and Mitchell all go to the Dunphy house to investigate. Lily hides the kids at the party with her in one of the rooms, making sure they are quiet while the parents are in the house.

Season Summaries [ ]

Relationships [ ], mitchell [ ].

Mitchell is Lily's adoptive Dad. He cares for Lily but can at times be very caught up in his work. This improves over the course of the show and he ends up growing closer to Lily. Mitchell is less emotional than Cameron and believes that Lily's lack of empathy may have something to do with his lack of showing emotions.

Relationships description goes here.

Cameron [ ]

Cameron is Lily's adoptive Daddy. He is the more emotional father, and when they first adopt Lily, is a stay-at-home dad. He cares for Lily too, and opposite of Mitchell, can be overly dramatic.

Jay is Lily's adoptive Grandfather. When Cameron and Mitchell first adopted her, he disapproved, as he thought that two dads couldn’t raise a baby together. His attitude towards her soon changed with the rest of the family’s help. He is a very loving grandfather towards her, especially in the earlier seasons, where he even calls her ‘baby girl’.

Gloria is Lily's adoptive Step-Grandmother. She cares a lot for Lily, and is eager to take care of her in the earlier seasons. She often expresses that she wishes Lily were her daughter. In the later seasons they are rarely seen together as a duo.

Season 2 : In " Someone to Watch Over Lily ", Gloria babysits Lily for the day, as Mitchell and Cameron is about to choose guardians for Lily if something were to happen to them. Gloria ends up shopping with Lily, and gets Lily’s ears pierced, much to her parent’s disapproval. At the end of the episode, Cameron and Mitchell still chooses Gloria and Jay as Lily’s guardians. Gloria seemed to be very excited, even wishing that something would happen to Cameron and Mitchell so she could get Lily as her daughter.

Claire is Lily's adoptive aunt, as she is Mitchell's sister. It is said that Lily gets her sassy attitude from Claire due to the fact that Claire spends a lot of time with her, often picking her up from school or watching her when her daddies are busy.

Season 6 : In " Connection Lost ", Lily behaves indignantly towards Claire after Haley babysat her the night before and confided in her about a fight with Claire. Lily is shown to take Haley's side, calling Claire "mean" and refusing to pass the iPad to Mitchell when Claire calls. In " Crying Out Loud ", Lily cries out that she doesn't want to live with her Aunt Claire when she thinks that her daddies are going to die.

Season 10 : In " Stand By Your Man ", Lily seems to have grown a new admiration for Claire when she expresses that Claire is the only cool one in the family. Lily seems to look up to Claire, even when Claire admits that she isn’t all that cool.

Phil is Lily's adoptive Uncle, stemming from Phil being married to Mitchell's sister, Claire.

Haley is Lily's adoptive cousin, stemming from Haley being Mitchell's niece as Haley's mother is Claire, Mitchell's sister.

Alex Dunphy [ ]

Alex is Lily’s adoptive cousin, stemming from Alex being Mitchell's niece as Alex's mother is Claire, Mitchell's sister.

Season 1 : The two do not interact, although in " Pilot ", Alex seems happy when she meets baby Lily for the first time.

Season 2 : Alex and Lily do not interact at all in this season.

Season 3 : In the first episode of the season (" Dude Ranch "), Alex is seen taking care of Lily. Alex is pushing Lily on a swing and gets annoyed when Lily keeps kicking her. Alex has her first kiss in front of Lily, who laughs and says, “You kissed a boy!”, much to Alex's embarrassment who reiterates "The boy kissed me". In " Express Christmas ", Alex goes tree shopping with Mitchell and Lily.

Season 4 : In " Arrested ", Alex takes care of Lily when they go to the hospital after Luke suffers an allergic reaction from Cam's soy bacon. She seems to be protective of Lily as she turns her around and covers her eyes when Luke walks in with the front of his hospital gown undone. She also puts her arm out to protect Lily when Cam almost crashes the car near the end of the episode. Alex and Haley babysit Lily in " New Year's Eve " but do their job poorly as they lock her outside without even knowing, and don’t notice when she puts on Claire's clothes and makeup. At one point, Lily asks them if anyone's watching her.

Season 5 : Alex is seen with her arm around Lily in " Farm Strong ". In " The Late Show ", Alex babysits Lily and tries to read her Little Women , but Lily reacts by saying how she hates it and asks to play dolls with her instead. When Mitch and Cam come out wearing the same outfit and ask the girls for their opinion, Alex says that boy clothes aren’t really her thing, to which Lily replies, “Really?” while looking at her up and down. Haley and Alex take care of Lily in " Australia ", and go souvenir shopping with her.<tabber>

Luke Dunphy [ ]

Luke is Lily's adoptive cousin, stemming from Luke being Mitchell’s nephew as Luke’s mother is Claire, Mitchell’s sister.

Luke and Lily have evidently been friends with Lily for more time than Joe and Lily have been friends. Luke along with Manny has been known to try and trick Lily which usually fails as Lily is able to make their plan fall apart before it starts as Luke is usually the one who lets Manny down. In " White Christmas ", Manny and Luke try to make Lily believe that a boy used to live in the house they spend Christmas in and was locked in there and died in there. Manny and Luke give Lily a note, but as Luke wrote the note, Lily says that the scariest thing about the note is that it was written with bad English.

Luke first speaks to Lily in When Good Kids Go Bad when she pushes him away from her father while shouting “My daddy!” to which he replies “This isn’t over”. He grows jealous of Lily for stealing his limelight as the “cute one” of the family ( Virgin Territory ) and sets a trap with cookies that would lead to her getting into trouble. In the episode Punkin Chunkin Luke tells his dad that “anything is better than watching Lily chew” and is relieved that he does not have to sit next to her when the family come over. Near the end of the episode he says that he wants to test out how the catapult works on a human and calls for Lily. In Aunt Mommy Luke describes Lily as “A mess” and “A disaster of a human being”.

In Arrested Luke is clearly annoyed that Lily has to stay with him in the hospital. He torments her in Party Crasher by calling her “The most beautiful sight of all” mockingly and she tells him to go away. At the end of the episode both are seen to be jealous of their new baby half uncle after the family swoon over him. Luke puts his arm around Lily and says “We’ll talk”. In A Slight at the Opera Luke is seen hitting golf balls at Lily and telling her to keep her mouth open. In The Wow Factor Luke tells Mitchell that Lily has no emotion in her eyes. In Flip Flop the family all have their attention on Luke so Lily butts in and says “I know my ABCs!”. Luke is clearly annoyed and says “I guess things weren’t about you for a second”.

In Haley's 21st Birthday Lily is being babysat by her cousins and goes around asking her them where babies come from. Luke, who is now a teenager begins telling her using her stuffed toys to demonstrate but is interrupted by Manny.

In Summer Lovin' , we see the pair hi-fiving each other. In White Christmas the family stay in a cabin and Luke and Manny torment Lily by making up a story about the forgotten boy who has been locked away in the secret room. She doesn’t believe them and calls them idiots. Luke writes a note pretending to be the forgotten boy and gives it to her and she says that the scariest thing about it is that he spells like a 2 year old. In The Party Luke and Manny babysit Lily and decide to throw a party. They bribe Lily with soda and she hides the guests in Luke's room.

Joe was born in Season 4's " Party Crasher " extending Lily's adoptive family. Joe becomes Lily's new friend to toy and then play with, they got along very badly until Lily found a fondness to Joe as a friend.

Manny is Lily's adoptive step-uncle, stemming from Mitchell's father, Jay, marrying Gloria, who is Manny's mother

Love Interests [ ]

Patrik: Pre-school crush.

Rob: Canadian man who temporarily lived in the apartment upstairs, with his wife Carol and son, Monte. Originally, Cam thought she had a crush on Monte, who is around the same age as her, and gives her flirting advice. But when Lily flirts with Rob instead of Monte, Cam secretly tells her to stop, but she won’t. Monte later feels homesick, and so he, Rob and Carol return to Canada.

Randy: Randy is in Lily’s class in High school, he is a year older than her but as Lily skipped a grade she is in his grade. They go on a date, which Lily’s dads help her prepare for.

• Though Lily is Vietnamese, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is actually of Korean heritage.
• Lily may have been named after Cam's family pig, as revealed in the episode " Leap Day ", though Cam does not confirm this. However, in a later episode, it was confirmed by Mitchell, who says "Still no shame I see for tricking me into naming our daughter after bacon".
• She sometimes leverages on being adopted as a way to get what she wants.
• She likes metal music, something that thoroughly disturbs her parents.
• In her earlier years in the show, she'd mostly look at the camera.

Lily did not speak in the first two seasons as she was a baby.

Season 2 Lily did not speak in the first two seasons as she was a baby.

“Lily :"I said I wasn't gonna cry"

Manny :"And You're not"

Lily :"Yeah, it's called strength"

From : I Love a Parade

Appearances (played by Aubrey Anderson Emmons) [ ]

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Gallery [ ]

• 1 Haley Marshall
• 2 Gloria Pritchett
• 3 Alex Dunphy

Character Biography

Lily Tucker-Pritchett (note the hyphen) may have been born in Vietnam, but her home is with her two loving adoptive dads, Mitchell and Cameron . These two big monkeys fell in love with this little panda the moment they met her, as did the rest of the family.

Lily's first word was "mommy," which is, of course, every gay dad's worst nightmare. Nowadays, Lily is talking up a storm. She was saying things like "I hate the baby" in response to the plans her dads once had to adopt a little boy. She finks on Cameron whenever he pulls her out of school to go shopping. Lily exclaims, "We bought matchy hats." She also swears up a storm as a flower girl at a wedding. Kids say the darndest things, don't they?

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